Not anything exciting or important to blog about today so I thought I’d share some more layouts that I’ve done recently. The first 3 are for Shimelle’s class and the last two for the Got Sketch class.
Category: Scrapbooking
Organising Photos
Seems to me I spend a LOT of time organising my photos. Much as I love digital photography things were much easier before. You take photos, take film to camera shop to be developed, pick up photos and place in photo albums – all done easy as pie!
Now that I need photos both for my blog and to scrapbook, things are a bit more complicated.
Once I take the photos I download them into i-photo on the Mac. I usually do this daily. I then flag the photos I want to print or put on my blog, and upload any for the blog to Flickr.
Once in Flickr they need to be labelled, tagged and placed into sets – usually I’ll do this every couple of weeks.
Photos to be scrapbooked are uploaded to Snapfish and printed at the end of every month. If I need any in between I can print them on my Selphi. When the photos arrive I place them into these albums – organised by seaons. For those of you familiar with Stacy Julians‘ Library of Memories system – this is what I use.
From here I can select photos to scrapbook. After a while I will move some of the photos into the drawers (in my case a Creative Memories organiser) – sorted by Us, People we love, Places we go and Things we do – the same systems as my scrapbook albums.
As I’m doing LOM again this year I’ve been going through both my binders and drawers and removing those photos I am NEVER going to scrapbook (like those old fat photos!) :-).
Must run…looks like I still have some work to do…
Been scrapping….
Well, after going through a bit of scrapbook slump the last few weeks I think I’m finally over it. I’ve been watching some video chats over on Renee Pearson’s website this week and have managed to get some layouts done while listening.
The first few I did I had actually made up as kits to do last June for my girls weekend away.
The next one was based on a layout by Gretchen.
The following is for Shimelle’s class. I love how it turned out… so much so I used the same idea twice today. Just look at these two little angels….
The following isn’t actually blurry but I’m too lazy to go and re-photograph it :-).
Create : Something from almost nothing
Okay, my fellow scrapbookers. Hands up those of us who have a BIG stash of scrapbooking supplies?
Lots of paper? Yep!
More ribbon than you know what do with? Yep!
Hundreds of yummy coloured buttons and flowers? Yep!
Millions of brads you never get around to using? Most definitely!
If you’re like me and do have quite a stash you might be interested in joining me in Shimelle‘s new class Something from almost nothing. But don’t delay, class starts tomorrow….