printed photo books OR printed pages?

[kristalund]

Do you print individual pages (put in page protectors and 3 ring albums)

OR

do you print photo books?

[HavaDrPepper]

Both!

Individual prints for me that I put in page protectors in Creative Memories albums. Persnickety Prints is my choice for printing.

Photo books for the books I do for my cousin. I do have a couple photo books I did for myself as well. An ABC book about my town I did in 2012 as an 8x8 from Shutterfly. I documented COVID and put those layouts in an 10x10 book from Shutterfly. The 8x8 is soft cover and the 10x10 is hard cover.

[allyanne]

Photobooks. I can't stand managing heavy 3-ring binders. I have a MILLION of them from my paper scrapping days and I kind of hate them. I have a dream of remaking them all so I can print them as nimble little photobooks, but that will probably never happen.

[knittingbec]

Photobooks! I love the unbulkiness of them Although I have been thinking about printing Halloween, Christmas, etc as single pages to put in binder albums to bring out at that time of year and be able to add to as years go on

[nesser1981]

99% of the time photobooks.

I do individual pages for my "All about me" album and all of 2005 are in loose pages, that was the first year that I scrapped digitally.


Here's 2006 - August 2024

[kristalund]

Originally Posted by allyanne

Photobooks. I can't stand managing heavy 3-ring binders. I have a MILLION of them from my paper scrapping days and I kind of hate them. I have a dream of remaking them all so I can print them as nimble little photobooks, but that will probably never happen.

My friend took photos of her paper layouts and printed them in a photobook. She threw the layouts away afterwards
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_m6QnLxDi0/?img_index=1

A few years ago I went thru my paper LOs and asked my family if they wanted them. I started scrapbooking before I had kids so I scrapped them and their kids.
My 3 ring albums take up SO much space and unfortunately they are not displayed nicely. They are in a bin in the garage and the top shelf of DD1/s closet.

[kristalund]

Originally Posted by nesser1981

99% of the time photobooks.

Looks so clean and neat- love!

[kristalund]

Originally Posted by knittingbec

Photobooks! I love the unbulkiness of them Although I have been thinking about printing Halloween, Christmas, etc as single pages to put in binder albums to bring out at that time of year and be able to add to as years go on

I like that idea. I have a photo board by our front door and change out photos with each season. I started a Halloween 4x6 album.

[nesser1981]

I'd love to do move 2000-2004 into photobooks, I've considered it, but anytime prior to digital I cut the photos with those funky shaped scissors. It would take forever to scan and fix all those. Just those few years take so much much space on my shelf.

Eventually I think I may go through and just reprint 2005 into a photobook, but I lost a handful of the layouts over the years with harddrive crashes, etc, so I'd have to scan those. But this is totally on my "dream" list of things to do.

Originally Posted by allyanne

Photobooks. I can't stand managing heavy 3-ring binders. I have a MILLION of them from my paper scrapping days and I kind of hate them. I have a dream of remaking them all so I can print them as nimble little photobooks, but that will probably never happen.

[allyanne]

Originally Posted by nesser1981

I'd love to do move 2000-2004 into photobooks, I've considered it, but anytime prior to digital I cut the photos with those funky shaped scissors. It would take forever to scan and fix all those. Just those few years take so much much space on my shelf.

Eventually I think I may go through and just reprint 2005 into a photobook, but I lost a handful of the layouts over the years with harddrive crashes, etc, so I'd have to scan those. But this is totally on my "dream" list of things to do.

Do you have negatives you could scan? I remember the funky scissors days all too well! Thankfully, I have the negatives for most of those photos and most of them are scanned in. But I see how that could slow a person down.

[Brendazzle]

I love photobooks forever and always. Shutterfly's unlimited pages promo is a budget-saver because I'm a bit more prolific a scrapper than I think I am

I have one 6x8 binder album that houses one Thankful 30, soon-to-be-three Decembers, and soon-to-be my first October. But it's so expensive to print and I still don't have dividers to separate the different years/projects.

[nesser1981]

Originally Posted by allyanne

Do you have negatives you could scan? I remember the funky scissors days all too well! Thankfully, I have the negatives for most of those photos and most of them are scanned in. But I see how that could slow a person down.

I do, but I had one of those advantix cameras, so all the negatives are in canisters. I've been eyeing one of those scanners that will scan those types.

[HavaDrPepper]

Originally Posted by knittingbec

Photobooks! I love the unbulkiness of them Although I have been thinking about printing Halloween, Christmas, etc as single pages to put in binder albums to bring out at that time of year and be able to add to as years go on

When my dad passed away in 2016, because I had both paper layouts and digital layouts in Creative Memories albums, I was able to pull out some of ones about him and put both the paper and digital layouts in another album cover for the funeral home visitation. Then after it was all over, I put them back in the original albums.

And, at one time, I had used some templates I had for each month. They had a single photo. I picked one of my favorite photos that represented the month to make the layouts. I then printed them individually. I got a 12x12 frame and put them in there. Each month, I would put the current month's layout on display. All 12 layouts fit in the frame so it was handy to change them out.

To me those are 2 reasons that individual prints are nice.

[HavaDrPepper]

Originally Posted by nesser1981

I do, but I had one of those advantix cameras, so all the negatives are in canisters. I've been eyeing one of those scanners that will scan those types.

I have 1 roll of advantix film and don't remember what is on it! I have yet to find someone locally that can scan them. I haven't checked any of the scanning services lately to see if they do them.

I want to know what is on that film!!!

[laurabobaura]

mostly 8x8 prints because I don't scrap chronologically but doing books is so much more affordable.