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I have a weird question. I am currently going through all my mags
looking for ideas and to get inspired. And it occurs to me that a lot
of the layouts I'm seeing can't possibly have all the pictures the
person took in the layout especially the birthday/christmas pages with
only 1 to 2 pics.
In other words take my ds's first birthday, I took pictures of EVERYONE
at the party intending to crop EVERYONE on the page(s) for his
birthday. But I do this for every holiday. I'm thinking this may get a
bit boring for others to look at. While it's neat to see how we change
over time, I'm just imagining looking at page after page of the whole
family on every page and in my head it seems boring. Does this make
sense?
I have the same dilemma with last years Christmas because we had 3
Christmas', one his fam, one her fam and one our fam, all with enough
pics for a layout each. (Yes, they're all "our" fam, but we didn't get
his fam and my fam together and then we opened "our" gifts to each other
and to ds at home :)
The reason I'm asking this question is that I've typically been a one
layout per event scrapper.
So: 1. how do you ladies do your layouts as far as people in the pics. For
example, for my son's bday would you crop EVERYONE on one layout? Or do
a layout with just the best pictures of him? This was a typical first
birthday and I have lots of "cake" pictures lots of pics of him with
fam, lots of pics of him by himself. Or would you do 2-3 layouts, maybe
one cake, one presents, one people?
And Christmas, would you do 3 layouts (i.e. his, hers and ours) or just
pick the best pics from all and do one layout?
I know that I wouldn't do it "wrong" no matter how I did it, but I'd
like to know how you all pick your pics for layouts (assuming all pics
are "good.")
I'm not actively scrapbooking at the moment but would like all of you to
know that I really enjoy your layouts and I've almost come to the point
of sweeping everything off my craft table and working on my pics. I
think reading and posting to this website will be the best thing to happen to
my mem albums! |
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-I am by no means an authority on this. I sort of scrap what the
spirit moves me toward. For example: I may scrap five or six layouts
about Christmas cause we did so much with so many different people
that I want to remember, yet I may only do one page about my birthday
if there are only 2 or three pictures I really like and put the other
photos in just a regular album to save.
My SIL is totally different. She says, "I know the magazines tell me
to just pick out the best and use them, but I just can't leave any
pictures behind."
I'm interested in how the rest of the group answers you, cause I would
like to know what their consensus is as well. -I'm not an expert or anything, but here is what I did.
For my daughter's 1st birthday, I did several pages because I had so many
great pictures. I have so many would-be photographers in the family that
when they get together I end up with way more pictures than I can possibly
use. For example, I had 54 blk & wts that I picked the best 7 from.
One of the layouts was of her and her presents, one of her 1st piece of
cake, one of her and her special people, one of her formal portraits, and
the black and white pictures I entered into our birthday contest. With the
exception of the blk & wht's, I kept the Winnie the Pooh theme on each page,
but picked colours to match. Here are two of the layouts- I didn't scan and
post them all.
http://www.trilogentech.com/rcs/bday/MmmCake.jpg
http://www.trilogentech.com/rcs/bday/Gwynethis1.jpg
black & white layout from the contest:
http://www.geocities.com/eiknip/I.jpg
I also took these pictures at the birthday, but didn't do the layout as a
birthday page.
http://www.trilogentech.com/rcs/kids/baby/CousinsPrettyinPink.jpg
Her 1st steps happened on her birthday and I didn't really make anything
birthday about it. It is just in the journaling card.
http://www.trilogentech.com/rcs/kids/baby/It'sAsEasyAs123.jpg - I always let the photos dictate how many layouts/pages
I do. I don't use every photo, but I use the majority of them. I leave
out the repeats and the unclear ones, etc. Then I start grouping them
according to the activities or themes. That's when I discover how
many pages I'll be doing. (We always have three Christmases. Each
one is special and unique. I'd never leave one out.) |
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