The thought of me losing all my digital photographs fills me with dread. It happened when we moved house. I lost the hard drive where I stored all of our holiday photos. I turned our house and the garage upside down and then blamed my Adam & my Mum for putting it somewhere and losing it. It was upsetting but not as bad as it could have been as luckily, I had uploaded a lot of photos onto private albums on Facebook. Interestingly enough, when my Mum was packing our house contents to be shipped to us…she found it! I apologised to everyone.
A few years ago, I printed all of our motocross weekend photos and put them into albums. Plain boring albums. They went into a cupboard and haven’t been looked at since. Photos are taken to be shared, to remind us of previous events, whether those are holidays, meals, parties or weekends away. I have been reading the scrapbooking blogs from A Beautiful Mess. They are just lush! I love how their memories are captured and shared creatively.
I decided to give it a try with the photos Adam and I have taken up to now while we have been in Alabama. It took quite some time to gather our photographs from numerous social media sites and create a plan for the scrapbook. I made a plan because the page protectors that I bought could display photographs in different sizes.
– 1 photo 4″ x 4″
– 2 photos 2″ x 4″
– 4 photos 2″ x 2″
I bought the page protectors from Joann’s because I had a total discount coupon and scrapbooking supplies were already on 50% off anyway. I bought a simple small album too but didn’t buy any paper/stickers as I already had loads at home.
Once all the photographs had been resized and printed, I cut them out and started to insert them into the album. I then decided to make sure each photo had some sort of background so I had to take them all out again to resize and stick to a background. I’m not sure that my book is really a scrapbook, maybe more of a photo book as I haven’t done many pages where there aren’t any photographs. I haven’t done much writing in it either. I have stamped some images, written a few odd words and stickered some photographs. I still need to print a photo for the front cover but up to now I’m really pleased with how it has turned out.
Next time, I think I will try to do more pages or sections that don’t have photographs to make it look more creative maybe?! I like the ones on the Beautiful Mess site so I think I’m going to have a good scout through their images to see if I can adapt them to suit me.
Finding pics on the computer, in different folders, multiple copies, click click click, then the printing?! So exhausting! My hat’s off to you 😉
Yes! It did take some time but I feel like it’s worth it now that it is all done 🙂
I like that you printed different sized photos, it’s really attractive. I always print photos because I’m old fashioned haha, they’re just nice to look at and a great back up, but I do only do 6×4″ in normal albums!
I’ve done 6 x 4 normal albums before too! I was quite surprised at the selection of pages available for scrapbooks – I really like how the different sized photos work together! They did take ages to trim though :-0
I used to make photo books out of my favourite pics at the end of each year. Must start doing it again – you’ve inspired me:)
That sounds like a great idea 🙂 I’m pleased that I’ve inspired you… you should definitely share them on your blog if you get chance!
This looks great! I bet you will look back in a couple of years and be so grateful for all of the time and effort 🙂
Thanks 🙂 I like having the album out too so I can just pick it up whenever! I love printed photos!
I’ve had all mine printed into photo books since H was born. They hardly take up any space and I wait til they’re on special offer. Not as cute as yours tho! 😀
It’s such a nice way to display photos isn’t it? I love going through albums with my parents… I’m not sure what the next generation will of if we don’t print them all :-0