Creating a System to get scrapbook albums completed – Step 3: Tape

Posted by admin on July 17, 2010

The process is: TRIM, TOSS, TAPE, TELL.

Step 3: Tape

If you have completed steps 1 and 2 and come to a Super Saturday or sit down to scrapbook on your own you will be able to quickly complete your pages. This step involves getting out more supplies than the other steps so I like to have a larger chunk of time to work. Ready?

Open your album to your next blank page.

Open your Power Sort Box and dump the pictures off of the top Guide onto your blank page. Now this is the part that throws everyone, you have 10 seconds to arrange them how you want to. Go! Every time I demonstrate this and say, “Okay, you have 10 seconds to get them where you want them,” I get a laugh, or an, “Are you kidding me?” remark. Point being, even if it takes more than 10 seconds to arrange them on the page don’t let it take more than a minute. Your kids aren’t going to look at their albums and say, “Mom, why did you put that picture at the top and not on the left.” They don’t care, they just love seeing the pictures. We waste time worrying about the layout, ask everyone at the table what they think, then move things around 5 or 6 more times. Just get them to fit on the page in a somewhat appealing layout and make sure you leave room for journaling (telling the story behind the pictures).

Once you have them arranged you can pick a paper for the background and find any stickers or embellishments you want to use. Tape the pictures down one at a time on the decorative paper or on the page itself, then add your stickers or other embellishments.

By arranging the pictures first, allowing room to tell the story, then picking the paper and embellishments you keep the focus on the pictures instead of the decorations.

Since you have all your supplies out I suggest saving the journaling for a quiet time later, and just keep taping.

Repeat the process. Take out the next Guide/page in your Power Layout Box, dump onto your next blank page and you have 10 seconds to get them where you want them.

To view a video of this step go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/CMCDebT#p/a/u/0/E-PMpf1r8Ng

Your Photo Solutions Friend,

Debbie Troutt