I know this has been asked before but....

[rainydays]

How the heck do you ladies print off your albums..chronocologically? random? what? I need serious help....I started digital in december of 2007 and have yet to get 1 album printed...now I am going to print thru shutterfly, that at least I have decided, and last night i went thru Lo's...604 of them...i need to resave in the correct size, but i honestly have NO idea what to put in each album....ack...this is stressing me out!!! Help

[Jennilyn]

I just print them and stick them in my albums...no order at all since I don't scrap chronologically. Why do you have to resize your layouts?

[ColleenSwerb]

First of all, you gotta stop stressing. Printing ANYTHING is awesome, and your loved ones will LOVE seeing your LO's in print in a cool book.

Having said that, there's no right or wrong way to print. I don't scrap chronologically, so I would never print a book in chronological order either.
But there are also TONS of ladies who think I'm a lunatic for doing it that way

604 lo's is a LOT to try and manage in 1 shot. What about doing a "Favorites Vol. 1". Just go through and pick out some of your most favorite layouts about anything and everything. Then you'll have a book full of the ones you LOVE, and it might make the next book a little easier.

[HeatherKS]

I print individual lo's instead of books since I don't scrap in order. That way I can go back to the kids' individual books and put them in the correct order but I'm not stressing about how far behind I am. lol Works for me.

[Kjersti]

Great question. I haven't printed anything yet and don't know if I should print 12X12's or make a book.

[rainydays]

I think i want to make the books...now i am not too sure, LOL, maybe printing out each LO would be better..ack....

think I might try the fav's book like Col suggested....

[MandaT]

I might be atypical, but I print in 10x10 books, chronologically.

My kids' books go from Birthdate to birthday. So far I have printed 2 books this way, I have 2 more kids' books to print & a family book which spans from 2006-2009 (I don't have anything printed from that time as far as family stuff). I also have my wedding book I need to print.

I will probably continue to print in books, definately in order for my kids' books, but not sure how I will handle the ''family''/my book.

If I had lots of LO's I would definately think that Col's idea would work awesome, especially if I hadn't printed any of them.

[carriesmom]

I have albums for each member of the family and I print individual LOs and put them in each album in a random order. I will eventually have some additional albums for other things too. I have bound books of a Boston Trip and my December Daily. They are chornological.

[rochelle789]

I also don't scrap in order, and therefore don't print whole books at once. I scrap in 12x12, but print in 8x8, so with printing individual pages there is no resizing. Each of my daughters have 2 albums (so far), I have an album, we have a family fun/all about us album, and I think I'm going to put all my holiday/celebration LOs into an album. That's the beauty of individual printing - you can always change things up if you don't like how they're organized.

Good luck deciding what'll work best for you!

[MamaBee]

I have yet to print any layouts that weren't for a set theme... my bound books have all been, Project 365, vacations, wedding, etc. I've decided since I'm all over the place on the pages I scrap and may want to go back and either redo a page in 2009 or do another take of a favorite photo, that I'm going to print pages separately and put them in an album. I love the look of bound books though...

[Nettio]

I don't scrap chronologically either so I print individual pages that go into American Crafts albums. My albums are set up based on Stacy Julian's Library of Memories system. I've got four main albums: Us, People, Places, Things. The pages within the albums are divided into sections, some based on theme, some chronologically, depending on the topic. I love having the freedom to move pages around so I can't see myself printing books unless it was for a specific project.

[scrappingsimply]

Originally Posted by rainydays

How the heck do you ladies print off your albums..chronocologically? random? what? I need serious help....I started digital in december of 2007 and have yet to get 1 album printed...now I am going to print thru shutterfly, that at least I have decided, and last night i went thru Lo's...604 of them...i need to resave in the correct size, but i honestly have NO idea what to put in each album....ack...this is stressing me out!!! Help

I just saw on PersnicketyPrints facebook page, that they are running a 25% off special until wed. march 10th. so 12x12's would be only $1.49. I think that is the cheapest I have seen on pro photo paper. I just put in my order.
coupon code: crystal

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by HeatherKS

I print individual lo's instead of books since I don't scrap in order. That way I can go back to the kids' individual books and put them in the correct order but I'm not stressing about how far behind I am. lol Works for me.

Same here. I like to put them in chronological order when I finish the year, but I don't like going that long with nothing printed.

[mummytothree]

I don't print albums I print single page LO's, but still I scrap randomly and that's how I stick them in my 3 ring binders....just randomly!!! My kids don't care...they just love looking at all the pages!!!!

[nonnie]

Holy Cow - your suppose to print these things????

[ColleenSwerb]

Amanda, where do you get your 10x10 books done?

[sarahbhb]

I haven't printed anything..mainly because I want to get a custom font from Darcy and redo a lot of the journaling (a lot of it I want to add some details that I didn't feel comfortable posting online). Then my plan is to sort my pages by year and see what I want to print...I know I have some photos that I've done multiple layouts with so I need to figure out which is my favorite. Since I paper scrapped and didn't do that chronologically either I'll probably print individual layouts for the years that I have paper scrapping for...and then maybe look at getting books done for the years I don't have paper scrapped layouts.

[Stacey42]

I print at random and I scrap at random. But I have done a couple of books. Those books are arranged chronologically with the layouts I had at the time. I also have albums, one for each boy, one for me, one for family & one for random stuff. Their pages are chronological and often duplicates of some of what are in the books.

I figure by the time the boys are 10 I can probably safely print up a book of their first 7 years & not feel like anything has been left out. They are 6 & 7 now I have pretty much run through their infancy & toddler years. Now I am mostly in the pre-k years.

But the layouts I had printed recently were the first in almost 2 years, apart from a book I made for my dad's 70th birthday