Hello, scrapping friends! It’s Polly Monica here with an important public service announcement and reminder for you to print your layouts!
As DSD is coming to an end, I want to remind you of the importance of printing the layouts that you have spent so much time and energy creating.
I try to print my layouts (at least) twice a year. These times fall on scrapbooking weekends, DSD in the fall and iNSD in the spring, since they are serve as a great reminder. I just put this on my agenda for the week along with scrapping new pages, shopping and playing along with the games and challenges in the forum.
This is also a great time to print your layouts because many printing services, especially those that cater to digital scrapbookers, have sales at this time.
Printing your layouts makes this hobby that we all love seem more real. It puts something tangible in the hands of the digital scrapbooker. I love the tactile experience of placing my printed layouts in an album.
There are several options to choose from when it comes to printing layouts. You can have them printed into a hard or softbound book, of varying sizes, or you can have individual layouts printed and put into page protectors in albums. This is the option that I use and love!
I print my pocket scrapbooking pages, which really serve as my family’s yearbook, on 12×12 pages. I print my other layouts in an 8×8 size. Many scrapbookers are even going to printing at a 10×10 size, which is a great size!
Here’s a photo of my scrapbook albums on a bookshelf in my living room:
As a digital scrapbooker, it can be easy to let our layouts accumulate on our hard drives. But let’s not do this…let’s get them printed and put in books or albums.
There’s nothing that warms my heart more than seeing my children sitting on the couch together looking through the scrapbooks I have created.
It brings me such joy to share this with my family and friends and it reminds me WHY I scrapbook.
So if you haven’t printed your layouts yet, I’m here to challenge you do to so…I promise you won’t regret it!
Donna P. says
I print quite often, but I know some scrappers who have never printed a layout – EVER! That is just wrong!