...I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo!
Ah yes, Vanilla Ice, we are defiantly on a roll but you don’t have to go solo, because I’m here dancing, singing and scrapping with you all!
Today we are going to take a look at yet another solution for those piles of photos and ephemera that we have been talking about all week.
Sometimes we just have to face the fact…there is no time, and yet you still want to do something with your photos instead of them sitting sadly in boxes and bags! The solution is to use a photo album and as little or as much embellishment as you have time for.
But that’s not scrapbooking I hear you murmur…aahhh, but it is. I am recording memories through pictures and a few words and adding something fancy into the mix (You know that “stash” we all have LOL).
First up, let’s take a look at the photos I had from my Mum’s 70th birthday party. Believe me when I tell you this party was huge and there were a lot of photos from the night.
Because we had handmade all the
invitations,
And all the mini book party
favours,
And a memento of thoughts &
best wishes from all the guests,
and boogied till 4.00am in the morning
We were, well, worn out! When
the hundreds of photos came back from being printed, along with other people’s
photos of the night, we had a mountain of work ahead of us and I could feel a
little of the joy slipping away (never a good thing). And that’s when I made the
decision to put the best 200 photos into a 2 up album and be done. I added some
coordinating papers and journaling and I also burnt a DVD of all the photos and
scrapped the cover to match. Guess what…my mum loved it.
Note: The silver haired George
Clooney look-a-like standing with my mum in the photo above is not my dad;
he is a tenor that sang my mum’s favourite song to her on the night. He was
very popular with the female guests!! (his name is Mark, but we all call him George LOL) I have also employed this
solution to our holiday photos (there are always so many – photos, not
holidays!!). In the examples below I have just used the photos in the albums.
These albums do not contain ephemera. This really is the quickest type of
scrapbooking and it has been a great relief to go back and get all those boxed
up photos into albums for everyone to share. In my Taree & Port Maquarie
album I just scrapped the opening page like a layout and then slipped all my
photos in. I used a portion of the last page to journal some brief memories of
the trip.
Once my album was done I was
also motivated to make a layout to go into our “people we love” album. This was
the first time we had all met baby William so that was the memory I wanted to
scrap and a one page layout was all I needed to do.
My sister also used the same
method for one of her family holidays to Bali. In this album she used a lot of
patterned papers and rub-ons to make each page look more like a scrapbook
layout. That’s the beauty of this method of scrapbooking, you can do as little
or as much as you want.
Note: My sister and I picked those albums up dirt cheap on a throw out table. We knew we would find a use for them and between us we took all they had. I have not seen them since but I see many similar albums around.
No matter how time poor you
are, photo albums really do help you move through those piles of photos waiting
to be scrapped. And that just frees me up to get all fancy with the photos I really want to play with! More problem solving tomorrow…
"Deadly when I play a dope melody, anything less than the best is a felony..."
