Album recommendations?

[rochelle789]

For those of you who print individual pages, can you recommend a good album to use? I print 8x8 and if possible, I'd like all of my albums to look uniform (I have a little OCD going on - LOL).

I have a huge stack of printed LOs, and no nice albums to put them in. Everytime I go to the craft store, I'm at a loss.

Any thoughts? Whaddya like?

[ColleenSwerb]

Personally, I'm obsessed with the American Crafts albums. They come in different finishes and different colors. I plan on implementing Stacy Julien's Library of Memories and use the customizable ones in various colors for each different album category.

ETA: I just realized they don't make in the leather or customizable. Only corduroy.

[Libby Pritchett]

Well when I was a paper scrapper, I used 12x12 3ing binders from Michaels. But now I print my 8x8 pages and put them in cute little albums that I got from Hobby Lobby. I can NOT think of the brand name right now, but they're postbound albums. I usually wait til HL has their 50% off sale and buy 2 or 3 at that time. They hold a ton of pages though (like probably 50-60 layouts each?). They look nice on the shelf, and they're pretty good quality too.

[juliemarie]

I've been wanting these by We R Memory keepers ever since I saw them on Maegan's blog.

[lhaslem]

Originally Posted by juliemarie

I've been wanting these by We R Memory keepers ever since I saw them on Maegan's blog.

these do look awesome...i love how she's organized them all

[BrattyMeg]

I have a bunch of MarcellK fabric ones from Target like this but in brown and 8x8
HERE

[rochelle789]

Originally Posted by juliemarie

I've been wanting these by We R Memory keepers ever since I saw them on Maegan's blog.

Looking at her albums all in a row like that just makes me happy. LOL!

[rochelle789]

Originally Posted by BrodoNY0123

Personally, I'm obsessed with the American Crafts albums. They come in different finishes and different colors. I plan on implementing Stacy Julien's Library of Memories and use the customizable ones in various colors for each different album category.

ETA: I just realized they don't make in the leather or customizable. Only corduroy.

I've read about Stacy Julian's method and it sounds really good. I should do more reading about it because I can't remember all of her categories.

[ColleenSwerb]

I'm totally in love with Stacy and not afraid to admit it

The categories are People We Love, Places We Go, Things We Do, and All About Us. And for kids, she adds a school album called School of Life where she scraps 5 pages for each school year.

[rochelle789]

Originally Posted by BrodoNY0123

I'm totally in love with Stacy and not afraid to admit it

The categories are People We Love, Places We Go, Things We Do, and All About Us. And for kids, she adds a school album called School of Life where she scraps 5 pages for each school year.

I was just reading about her system and since I scrap my kids for the most part, I'd barely have anything in most of those categories. She must be a scrapping machine. I still haven't scrapped the page about my 4 year old meeting her sister for the first time at the hospital, and the baby is 6 months old now! I can't even imagine filling up a "People we Love" book, or a "Places We Go" book.

One book called "People, Places and Things We Love" is more my pace. LOL!

[Jennilyn]

I have 2 sets of 3 canvas albums from K & Co. both bought on eBay.

[ColleenSwerb]

If you read The Big Picture, you'll understand why she has those categories.

She's PASSIONATE about making sure we scrapbook about not just our children and all the things they do. They don't just want to know when they lost their first tooth, they want to know about their favorites aunts and uncles, the kid down the street they rides bikes with everyday after school, etc etc. They want to know about the big vacations, but also the favorite little ice cream shoppe downtown that you take them to as a special treat. You know?

If you implement the library of memories, I guarantee you'll find other people you love, other places you go, and things that you do that you'll want to scrapbook.

[Aggie Aviso]

Love me some Stacy too.
I have five American Crafts Albums (The modern ones) which are 8x8

[rochelle789]

Originally Posted by BrodoNY0123

If you read The Big Picture, you'll understand why she has those categories.

She's PASSIONATE about making sure we scrapbook about not just our children and all the things they do. They don't just want to know when they lost their first tooth, they want to know about their favorites aunts and uncles, the kid down the street they rides bikes with everyday after school, etc etc. They want to know about the big vacations, but also the favorite little ice cream shoppe downtown that you take them to as a special treat. You know?

If you implement the library of memories, I guarantee you'll find other people you love, other places you go, and things that you do that you'll want to scrapbook.

I actually have The Big Picture and I love it! I do scrap quite a bit about those things (I'm a story scrapper), but I guess I figured they'd just go in a book about my daughter since they're the places she goes and the people she loves. Now that I think about it, most of what I scrap is the little stuff, the day-to-day stuff that Stacy and CZ and all those other people talk about. I probably just need to rethink how I categorize what I'm already scrapping....if that makes sense.

OK, now to decide on some nice albums....

[rochelle789]

Originally Posted by Aggie Aviso

Love me some Stacy too.
I have five American Crafts Albums (The modern ones) which are 8x8

Thanks! I'm going to check into these.

[mrs_jb]

I'm another Stacy Julian fan and I love her system. I also have the American Craft's albums and they are fantastic. I have a bunch of the 8x8 modern ones that you can customize and I also have some 6x6's that I want to do as theme albums.

I agree that when I first read The Big Picture, I thought I would never need all those categories, but the more I look at things from her perspective and really try to focus more on scrapping every day life, the more I see that I want to have those categories too!