wvasweetness
10-07-2009, 11:10 PM
My mission over the past year has been to scan in as many family photos as possible - photos from both sides of my family AND my DH's. I've spent lots of time with grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc. collecting photos to scan and sitting with people to document who is in each photo, when and where it was taken, etc.
I finally finished my 12-month long project this past weekend and I now have hundreds (thousands!) of photos scanned and documented. I got them all backed up and have started sorting them according to pics I want to keep vs. pics I want to scrap. I have pics ranging from my childhood to pics of my great-great-granparents.
I'd really like to get started - I figure if I scrap about 2 pages per week from these old photos, I will have 100 pages finished by this time next year. But today while I was sorting through pics, I realized that I've never scrapped an old photo. Heck, the "oldest" pic I've ever scrapped was from 2006! LOL! While I've pumped out a lot of LOs since then, they've all been new/current pics.
To be honest, I don't really like LOs that look "antique." So now I'm kind of lost on even getting started on scrapping these pics. I don't think I'll have a problem scrapping my childhood pics, but the older pics are what I'm stumped on.
I've been going through galleries and bookmarking inspiration pages, but am looking for any other tips/advice. Kit suggestions, any LOs that might serve as inspiration, photo treatment suggestions, etc...
Spanx girls! :p
I finally finished my 12-month long project this past weekend and I now have hundreds (thousands!) of photos scanned and documented. I got them all backed up and have started sorting them according to pics I want to keep vs. pics I want to scrap. I have pics ranging from my childhood to pics of my great-great-granparents.
I'd really like to get started - I figure if I scrap about 2 pages per week from these old photos, I will have 100 pages finished by this time next year. But today while I was sorting through pics, I realized that I've never scrapped an old photo. Heck, the "oldest" pic I've ever scrapped was from 2006! LOL! While I've pumped out a lot of LOs since then, they've all been new/current pics.
To be honest, I don't really like LOs that look "antique." So now I'm kind of lost on even getting started on scrapping these pics. I don't think I'll have a problem scrapping my childhood pics, but the older pics are what I'm stumped on.
I've been going through galleries and bookmarking inspiration pages, but am looking for any other tips/advice. Kit suggestions, any LOs that might serve as inspiration, photo treatment suggestions, etc...
Spanx girls! :p