what do you do with old layouts?

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by marlathrall

I would totally just recape the ones that totally bother you. I mean, you want to think about the wonderful memories when you view a page and not how you wish you would have scrapped it differently.

In some way, the way you scrapped those LOs is a memory in itself. A memory of your scrapbooking beginnings. I think that's precious too. :-) My memory is very visually oriented - when I see a photo, I can remember my feelings at the time I made it, and also some details that I'd otherwise forget. Same with kits - they tend to trigger my memories as well.

[scrapsandsass]

OMG... it is so funny you posted this because I was just going through old CDs yesterday with my DD and we were howling with laughter over some of our old LOs from when we first discovered digi-scrapping. I will have to dig them back out and post a couple even though I'm mortified at how awful they are.

It is the same with any hobby though. At my local scrapbook store today, the owner was telling me about how she looks back at her old cards and projects and is horrified about them now.

Total evolution.

The nice thing about digital is that you *can* go back and create a whole new layout now just for the heck of it because it isn't like paper scrapping where you have to reprint a photo and use new supplies.

[MandaT]

I usually print into books, so I'm don't go back & redo LO's. It's too expensive to reprint the book just because I don't like it. I almost hate my 1st DD's 1st year book...lots of beveling & shadows, it's super ugly, but it is what it is.

[KateD]

A little over a year ago I started redoing some of my older pages, but I realized a few months ago that I really don't want to redo them. This finally sank in when I started printing my layouts and I couldn't decide whether to print the original layout or the redo. Yes, some of my early layouts look pretty sad, but I like most of them because I did the layout for a challenge or a creative team or something else that I want to remember. The only ones that I'm redoing now are ones that really don't tell a story. If the page doesn't have journaling, I'm at least adding journaling before I print. Oh, and I have added drop shadows to some of my layouts before I printed them. I'm not even doing that anymore. They are what they are - and I scrap for the memories, not the artistic value of the layout.

[SeattleSheri]

I've printed all of my layouts, the good, bad and ugly I definitely re-scrap photos though. I don't think of it as re-scrapping the page necessarily, just showcasing the memory in a different way.

[rach3975]

I wouldn't rescrap them, and I'll explain why in a minute. But what really matters is how you feel about the pages. If you love those photos but can't enjoy looking at them because of the layout quality, then maybe you should re-do them.

Both my photography and digiscrapping skills have improved so much since I began 7 years ago. But I have so many photos and memories I haven't gotten into our books at all yet; I want to spend my scrapping time on those. I don't re-scrap photos unless there's a good reason beyond not liking the LO. The few photos I've scrapped more than once have generally been for "looking back" pages--so I may have scrapped a photo of someone's 1st birthday years ago for a page about their birthday and then do it again now for a page comparing all 3 of my kids at age 1.

When I look back at my earliest albums, there are plenty of pages that would make me cringe if I compared them to my current pages. But they're well journaled and help me remember our life then, so I'm happy enough with them. It's fun to look back and see where I started from as a scrapper. My family isn't evaluating my scrapping skills, and I think the quality difference would be more noticable if I re-scrapped a few pages and mixed pages from my current skill level with my 7-year old pages.

And just for fun, here are a few of my oldest digi pages. Designers have come a long way since 2004, too!

[TheHybridMess]

The only thing I wouldn't do is throw out an old page. But if I have a new idea or a diffrent angle or something to add then I'll do it. There's no plan to redo all the pages/photos I paper scrapped but if the muse hits I'll follow.

It occured to me that this hobby is all about me. The bonus is that Niki will have a pretty well documented life but I do this because I want to do it. My way - so if I land up with 4 pages with the same pics, so what!!

I'd say if there's a page you want to redo, do it.