Take an interactive tour through my newly labelled scrapbook albums on Flickr (click here). 


I've sold all my CTMH albums and moved almost all my 12x12s to American Crafts D-Ring albums.  This enables me to more easily mix page size as the pages/posts don't have to be removed to insert the different sized extra pages.

See previous post about spine labels.

I've been meaning to update the spine labels on my scrapbook albums for a while. I had an idea to use metal rimmed circle tags (in the Ali Edwards style) but needed a 1" punch which I didn't have.

So today I borrowed a punch (thanks B) and started the process of re-labeling them so they coordinated.

Green albums are family:1 and family:2; pink are ig:1 and ig:2, blue are jg:1 and jg:2, purple will be kg:1 and kg:2.

Even though the albums aren't all the same style (in fact ig:1 is a cool photo album) I think they look much more "coordinated" and the differences aren't so obvious as they were before.

Comments? Do you like? Do I spend too much time reorganizing? Lol....

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Photos taken by K and J with the Fisher Price toy digital camera.
Click on picture for larger version (and to read journaling).

From Studio M

The second layout from the Yesterday & Today album. Click the picture for the larger version.

I'm taking the Ali Edwards Yesterday & Today course over at www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com. I haven't taken one of their courses for a while because I don't like the fact that you don't have access to materials after you've finished, but this course was pretty tempting and came with a lot of digital elements by Ali (well worth the cost of the course itself). And even though I've been in the scrapbooking doldrums lately and haven't scrapped anything for a while (2 1/2 months!), I signed up for it anyway.

[In fact I bailed on the Jessica Sprague "Beautiful" album course that I was enrolled in and didn't complete any of the layouts. So now that's 2 courses I'm behind in, I still have the Type + Writer course to complete too :( So I didn't hold out too much hope of completing this course]

I have to say I've been impressed with Ali's course so far. Ali's emphasis is on documenting now, forget getting your craft room ready (Bonnie!) or scanning in all your photos, or scrapbooking chronologically, or..., or... Ali's stresses that you can document your memories now. It doesn't matter if they are random or planned, it doesn't matter if you have photos or not, it doesn't matter if it's just a short story and not a whole layout, she has a very "just do it" attitude. She emphasizes documenting in words and pictures. Not necessarily journaling everything (although you can) but if you're more comfortable with lists or stickers then "just do it".

So here are the first layouts from this album. I can't promise that I'll keep up with this but it's looking good at week 3 of 13.

From Studio M