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chrisjenkins
Stylin' SIS (127)
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# Posted: 13 Jul 2007 20:42
i came into the game of scrapbooking a little late. i didn't start doing it til my son was born and he is my youngest. I have 7yrs of kid and family pics before that in boxes and what-not.
Have an easy way of getting through it all? i don't feel motivated to scrap the older pics so I just keep scrapping recent ones.
thanks for any advice.
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chicscrapper
Style Maven (604)
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# Posted: 13 Jul 2007 21:16
Don't bog yourself down worrying about them. Enjoy scrapping what you feel like. :) I look back a little at a time, and if I feel like pulling something out, I do. You don't have to scrap every picture that you take. Just your favorites. :)
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sallyhanna
Supreme SIS (10315)
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# Posted: 13 Jul 2007 21:57
I'm in the same boat as you!
I choose to ignore all those years of photos, at least for the time being!
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MistyD
Style Addict (1137)
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# Posted: 13 Jul 2007 23:31
I find myself doing that too. For my first child I scrapped all his baby stuff but I was SO tired of baby stuff by the time I had my 2nd (2 years apart) that I have barely touched his baby stuff and do a lot of his recent picts instead. And I want to do an album of my great-grandparents but they were SO special to me that I'm SO intimidated and I freeze up when I even THINK of doing a page on them. It has to be PERFECT because it's just so special. I'm of the - scrap-what-you-feel persuasion too. Cause really - scrapping is mostly for us whether we want to admit it or not - so do what you love!
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ceneedawn
Style Addict (1241)
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# Posted: 13 Jul 2007 23:45
i find that i go back & forth from recent to older. i'll grab a stack of the older stuff & sift through it & i find that stories come to mind that i suddenly am anxious to tell...so i grab my notebook & jot down my thoughts so that they don't disappear again. the older stuff becomes appealing to me because it's about the story & not about just getting through the boxes of photos that i have. it's also hard in our digital age to be in love w/ the quality of those older photos...so i remind myself to love the memory & the story...that's what my kids care about anyway!
Don't bog yourself down worrying about them
but in reality...this is the best advice...don't stress over it...just have fun w/ the memories!!!
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Bonafyde
Haute SISter (900)
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# Posted: 14 Jul 2007 00:04
I only started to scrap my pictures when my 1st born was much older and now I have another baby boy and you know what? I have not scrapped my 1st's baby pics yet and I haven't completed a whole first album for the second...I tend to scrap what moves me...I'm way selfish in this being a hobby I do to please me and not to meet any quotas...the problem with BS Pics is that most of them are taken without thought to composition so the pics are often less than inspiring...KWIM?
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willedit
Style Maven (581)
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2007 16:07
I go through my "old" pictures and find something that speaks to me--something that I have a strong memory of so I can journal it; or just a plain, old good photo. Recently, I went back to '91 for a layout.
Pick the ones that inspire you to scrap--the rest? Well, that's what regular old photo albums are for :D
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tanya_williams
SISter Elle (1893)
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# Posted: 17 Jul 2007 18:31
Same here....I go through my old pics and if something jumps out at me or jogs a great memory, I pull that pic and go at it.
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prairieWillow
Supreme SIS (15622)
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# Posted: 18 Jul 2007 10:49
Definately just go with what gets your creative juices flowing.
I have a hard time doing "event" pix, like birthdays, holidays, family gatherings. I don't know why, but I do.
But the only way I get through them is to look at all of the pix from that event, pick out the best 4-6 and go from there.
You can always put the others in a regular album.
good luck!!
deanna
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kihaku
Style Addict (1442)
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# Posted: 18 Jul 2007 10:52
i do a system..
1 new - anything withint he last 6 months
1 old - anything withint the last 3 years but not wihtin the last 6 motnhs
1 ancient - anything older than 3 years
1 special project - ie themeded albums et c(wedding etc)
so i always match 1 new layout by doing 1 of the other 3.... that ways i dont get bogged down but i do get some of the other phtoos scrapped, and you'd be amazed how quickly you get through stuff like that..
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solitaryheron
SISter Elle (1873)
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# Posted: 18 Jul 2007 12:21
My advice - don't get bogged down with all the old photos. I have much more fun scrapping the present!
I recently put my into some cute albums that hold 3 photos per page and put a caption near the photo if I remembered a detail about it. I did them by year or event (depending on how many pics I had), but you can do them however you like. So, for me, at least they are put away and should I choose to scrap them in the future, great. If not, oh well.
Good luck!!
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