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Karah

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Karah
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.... for 2007 layouts. Ay yi yi. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO far behind.

BUT if you need any books, they are 50% right now through Wed - plus free shipping on $30 orders - PLUS I found another $5 off coupon if you submit a photo to their summer something or other (the coupon pops up after you submit your photo). AND if you order through ebates.com, it's another 8% cash back on your total purchase! So it was a really great deal.

Now to get back to work on the 2008 books..... I should have those done in about 3 years .... :helpy
 
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Oh man! That is a really good deal! I sure wish I had a book ready to go! No way I can get one done by Wednesday.... unless I don't work for a few days. :) I order all of my books through them. The last one I ordered was 50% off too! Maybe they're going to do that more often or lower their rates. that would be fabulous!
 
It will be so good to have it in your hands Karah!!! Love seeing books printed!
 
i've been mentally debating this for the past few weeks myself. i would love to hear opinions...

can't decide whether i want to
(a) go back, put my layouts in order, finalize a year and then print it in a bound book

or

(b) keeping scrapping all kinds of random as far as order goes, print the pages individually as i get to it and stick them in page-protector type albums.

i LOVE the idea of the hardbound books. love the look love the feel. love

the drawback for me is... well drawbackS.... i'm not sure i have a single year done as of yet for as long as i've been scrapping, i'm not sure what to do with the loose stuff i want to be able to stick in there that i don't just want to digitally scan in, and the cost.

what do you guys do? we know karah prints! ;)

and karah, sounds like you got a great deal on those!! shutterfly is great because they'll let you stack promotions like that! once christmas i got 5 books for a total of $15 or something rediculous like that. they were 8x8's but still. good stuff! and i've always liked their quality. never had any issues that weren't my own fault.
 
RebeccaH said:
the drawback for me is... well drawbackS.... i'm not sure i have a single year done as of yet for as long as i've been scrapping, i'm not sure what to do with the loose stuff i want to be able to stick in there that i don't just want to digitally scan in, and the cost.

what do you guys do? we know karah prints! ;)
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I am loving project life as that is taking care of those bits and pieces loose stuff that you want to keep and I also get my layouts printed into shutterfly books at the end of each year. But I don't do year books (ie 2010 etc) because I don't scrap cronologically, nor do I want to wait 30 years before I scrap a whole year, so I just print the layouts that I do each year into a shutterfly book. So cronologically they are all over the place but I have noticed that no one who looks through them cares about that, they are more interested in what a particular page is about, so it works for me. It is also a good way to look back and see how my skills/tastes have changed in my scrapping.
 
Karah, you might be a few years behind, but your albums are always AMAZING. Do you still have that blog post where you shared your organization method for the books? I think everyone would love to see it.

Rebecca, I'm with you on the chronology thing. It makes it tough. I think that's why I'm with Kaye in why I enjoy PL. It covers the chronological aspects and then I feel more free to do whatever I want for my digi pages.
 
lmccandless said:
Karah, you might be a few years behind, but your albums are always AMAZING. Do you still have that blog post where you shared your organization method for the books? I think everyone would love to see it.
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yes yes, would love some organizational HELP. :helpy
 
I am like you, Rebecca, I do not have one single year where there are no holes as far as pages that I want to do. I am slowly but surely working that way though. But, because of that, I use the D-ring American Crafts albums so that I can stick my pages in where they belong chronologically. I do plan on printing my P365 into a photobook though, since the pages all look the same and they mostly capture snippets of our days and not necessarily the stories.
 
The books I have printed with layouts have not been chronological. I would love to do it by year, but that is not going to happen, I am just not that organized anymore. However the past two years in a row I have created a year in review album and had it printed as a photo book. And this year I am doing P365.
 
Love this thread because I am constantly going back & forth on how to print/store/put together albums. I actually haven't printed any pages in about 6 months because I got frustrated with this. I was printing them & putting them into albums starting from 2006 when my son was born. I found 8x8 albums where I could add the pages in using page protectors as I made them or if I needed to stick in a new layout but I find it so hard to scrap chronologically all the time.

Great shutterfly deals! I have printed 2 photos books for my son from them. One was an A to Z book I made (I think I used one of their templates for both to make it easy).
 
I am with so many of you that do not scrap in order. I wish I could pull together a book for a year, but I am always afraid something would be missing. I love the look and feel of hardbound books, but not the finality of it, ya know? Maybe next year when I attempt to do Project Life (With the new goodies from Designs by Lili of course) I will make a book of those. :)
 
LOL - I come from a history of paper scrapping Creative Memories albums where that's just what you DID. Everyone scrapped chronologically. Maybe a few people put together a separate Christmas or vacation album, but for the most part you went year by year. So I just still scrap that way! And I'm SO glad I do. I love being able to go back and look through time periods or know where some particular picture/layout is because I know the general time frame it was taken.

That being said, I don't scrap exclusively chronologically - I just don't print my albums until I have that 1/2 year of layouts done (I do two books per year). I actually have a very organized scrap system. I had a blog post on it but then I lost my blog so I'll re-create it and will set up a new post with it! Hopefully it will help some of you who are wanting to make chronological albums :)
 
Karah said:
LOL - I come from a history of paper scrapping Creative Memories albums where that's just what you DID. Everyone scrapped chronologically. Maybe a few people put together a separate Christmas or vacation album, but for the most part you went year by year. So I just still scrap that way! And I'm SO glad I do. I love being able to go back and look through time periods or know where some particular picture/layout is because I know the general time frame it was taken.

That being said, I don't scrap exclusively chronologically - I just don't print my albums until I have that 1/2 year of layouts done (I do two books per year). I actually have a very organized scrap system. I had a blog post on it but then I lost my blog so I'll re-create it and will set up a new post with it! Hopefully it will help some of you who are wanting to make chronological albums :)
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I don't necessarily scrap my LO's in chronological order, but the thought of printing them any other way just rocks my OCD world! LOL! I have a first year album completed for Noah, (and one half way finished for Brady), but I haven't printed it yet, because I'm afraid that I've missed something that I will really want in there! KWIM?

I love the idea of (18 years from now) being able to look back over my boys lives, from the beginning. I'd love to hear your organizational secrets, Karah! Let us know when you get that post finished!!
 
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