So many 1 photo challenges

Will viewing it as part of a two page spread help? I have done at least three challenge pages so far as part of a two page spread (specifically my DYD album that I'm desperately trying to finish). Maybe pick one standout photo from an event/trip to do the challenge with and then make a companion/facing page for your album that has the rest of the photos?

 

Do you have a smart phone? You could take random snapshots to use. I do that a lot.
Or try and use your favorite photos from events to showcase them?

 

I have one that is going to be 1 photo on the left to meet the Blind Scrap challenge. But I'm making a companion that will have lots more photos for the other side.

And don't worry. There are still 22 days of challenges left!

 

I am totally the same way... I use a crow bar to jam as many pictures as possible onto each page, so the one photo pages make me stop as think a lot more! Rather than consider it a throw away page though, maybe there is something that you could capture that would be in addition to an event or vacation... like, maybe a cover for your vacation book? Or a current even you want to remember? Like the passing of Prince or George Michael, or the election? Those are the things I'm thinking about doing. Hope this helps!

 

I have to confess that this is one of the reasons I didn't do MOC. I only pocket scrap and many challenges don't provide enough flexibility. Maybe the whole point of the MOC is to push me to do something I don't normally do but right now I don't have time to create pages I won't use or will have to reconfigure. I'm not being at all critical - it's a great event, just doesn't work for me right now.

 

Just add more to your page after you submit it for the challenge.

 

That's exactly what I do. Nothing says you can't change it after it's posted! I do it all the time, because a one-photo page is just a waste of space!

 

^^^^^me too I actually create the page with the other pictures in mind and add them later.

 

See why this community is so awesome? I love all these solutions!

 

^^ditto^^

 

For most BIG events I like to highlight one photo that really sums things up or captures the moment - then have a second page with more photos when I have them.

To be honest, I now do a lot of pages with just one photo to capture the little things my kids do - things I want to hold on to, remember, because they are growing up so fast. We have the regular birthday parties and vacations and such, but it is the little things I forget, so I don't feel one photo pages are a waste at all @QuiltyMom , they help me remember who my kids are right now, in this moment. And a little random photo that I snap with my phone really brings it all home for me - but everyone is different. I used to feel the same way, that I need to get as many pics in as possible on each page. I guess my style has just changed. Now I put the stacks of pics in a photo album or pocket page (less work) then make scrapbook pages with just special ones I really like. life moves on.

I hope you find a system that works for you!

If not - I second the idea of saving it per challenge instructions - then adding more to make it what you want later - nothing wrong with that at all.

 

GASP!!

 

I have difficulty with 1 photo pages too. I love cramming as many as I can on to the page. I do single pages and a lot of two page spreads, and then at the end of each month I scrap any extras on an extras page.
BUT I have had so many little stories lately that there are too many for my extras page. Like a single photo of my son asleep again, or eating again, or look a potato, or my daughter doing some random thing that I don't really have a big story to tell, or any story at all. Stories that don't need a full page, but I still want to include them.

Solution for me - I print my pages when I can and put them in albums, so I just started to include pocket pages here and there and I scrap cute 6x4 / 3x4 pages with my little stories on them. Usually they only have 1 photo, and it means I can do those 1 photo pages for challenges, whether I scrap a full 12x12 and crop it smaller later or just do the 6x4 to start with. The only hurdle then was that they didn't all match, eeep! But now I like them being all different and I can fit 8 little stories on a page with the pocket pages I found.

This is one that I made for a blog template challenge before I started doing the pocket pages, and later I decided I would shrink it to 6x4.


Solution for you - Even with a vacation page, you could do a 6x4 / 3x2 (if the challenge allows it) with one photo, and then make a bunch of them with the other photos and the same kit(s) to put all on one page to look like a pocket page. That way you have a beautiful 12x12 pocket page, but you have done each bit separately for 1 photo challenges.

Hope you can find a way to be at peace with 1 photo pages. It took me a long time, but I finally feel good about them, lol!
And sorry for talking so much, bahaha!!

 

I take soooo many photos, and I try my best to scrap them all. I'm a retired photojournalist, so it's built into me. To me it's telling a story of all the moments that took place during the event. I don't want to miss anything!

But I do like the idea of highlighting a photo, too. One (very large! hee hee) photo can speak volumes.

Haha! I know. Sacrilegious, eh?

 

Well, when you print almost every page you make, it starts to translate into wasted $$. Not much per page perhaps, but through out a book, yeah, it adds up.

 

I also have a hard time scrapping 1 photo layouts! I take so many photos, and usually rely on the photos to help tell the story. Everyone has some great suggestions!

Another one, use the one photo challenges for the cover or title page for an album. This can work really well for travel books. Chose one photo that is your favorite from the trip, and use it to create the cover/title for that album! Good luck!!! If I can do it, you can do it!!!

 

Thanks ladies for all the great ideas. I, too, have problems with the 1 photo pages but without the MOC #9 restrictions of having to keep it to 1/4 of the page, it would be easier for me since I like larger photos. I also tend to be "wordy" - loving to tell the story and often one photo works well for that.