Scrapbooking Layouts: Nov & Dec 2008
Our “Family 2008″ album is now complete!
And now I can safely say that I’m caught up to a year ago as far as regular family photos go. I’m also mostly caught up on the kids’ school albums, but still needing to “fill in the blanks” as far as their birthday albums go. I’ve even recently discovered that my Family 2006 album is missing a title page (how did that happen!?), so I must go back sometime to put a little something together.
Here are pics of the two (traditionally) scrapbooked layouts:
November 2008:
December 2008:
One thing I feel like I’m really getting the hang of is doing 2-page layouts in a style such that each page could stand alone by itself, but also coordinates well with the one beside it. I definitely recommend using this technique if you have photos from, say, two separate events but are devoting a 2-page spread per month or something like that.
What’s Next?
Well, I did decide to go ahead and digitally scrapbook all of our 2009 Family photos. It not only saves me the money of buying a new scrapbook (I’m a keener on Creative Memories’ beautiful but expensive albums), it saves me sitting up at craft tables for hours and sticking by my usual laptop instead. This fits in much better with my current chronic-pain-filled life (that I’m still adjusting to…). Digital scrapbooking is one of the many activities I have managed to learn to do with one hand on the mouse, the laptop on a little table beside me, and the rest of me on the couch. And then there’s always the option of printing out the digital layouts and slipping them into 12×12 albums later down the road if I’d like to.
The only thing from 2009 that I will be scrapbooking (and have started already) is the pictures that go into my specialty albums: the kids’ birthdays and school pictures as well as Christmas. Time to get back to work on those soon (I really haven’t been scrapbooking all that much these days: even the two layouts in this post were done quite a number of weeks ago).
Happy scrapping and stay tuned to see more new hand-stamped cards and new digital layouts soon! 
April 08 2010 09:21 pm | family and pics and scrappy / stampy
