Creating a System to get scrapbook albums completed – Step 2: Toss

Posted by admin on July 11, 2010

To review the process is: TRIM, TOSS, TAPE, TELL.

So you have a stack of 150-200 pictures in front of you that you have trimmed/cropped to make your subject the focus, now what?

I will do my best to explain in words, but be sure to check out the video link at the end for a visual aide!

This is another step that doesn’t involve getting all of your supplies out, all you need is a Power Layout Box and Guides. (If you don’t have a Power Layout Box you can use loose scrapbook pages or the cardboard inserts that come with the refill pages and page protectors.)

Arrange the Power Layout Guides/pages out in front of you. You can spread them out on a table or even in a semi-circle around you on the floor.

Take your stack of pictures and start tossing them onto the Guides by event. Do not think of the Guides as pages in your scrapbook, just as a sorting tool. You are trying to get all your pictures that go together back together in case they got separated during the trimming process.

When I do my fall pictures they get tossed onto the Guides something like this:
Pictures from trip to the pumpkin farm on one Guide, pumpkin carving pictures on one Guide, Trick-or-Treating, Thanksgiving, visiting Santa, making Christmas cookies, putting up the Christmas lights, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, trip to play in the snow, etc.

Continue tossing onto Guides until you’ve gone through the entire stack of pictures.

Next take a look to see if you have any Guides that only have one or two pictures, see if you can combine them with another group. You may also end up making a miscellaneous group that has all the random pictures that you can’t bear to leave out, but that don’t really fit in anywhere else.

Finish this step by stacking up the Guides in chronological order so that the first event from the stack of pictures is on top. If you have a misc. page put it on the bottom of the stack. Place the stack of Guides into your Power Layout Box and you are done with Step 2: Toss and ready to attack Step 3: Tape.

To see a video demonstration of Step 2: Toss go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTs8w3MpmE