B&MB's question of the week 11/3

[BernardandMissBianca]

OK new question! Thanks NED for the inspiration!

Would you redo or have you redone your first layouts?

I'm torn, I really don't like my first layouts and they look nothing like the ones I do now but I kind of like seeing where I came from.
The problem is that the pages are in my WDW 2004 album which btw I am stilllllll working on. And they don't really mesh with the other pages.

Do I tear them apart and redo them or leave them alone?

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

I've been wrestling with the same question. For now, I've decided to leave them. However, I have noted how I could take them apart if I wished...well, most of it, anyway, LOL. I used so much darn glue it's not even funny.

I think I'm finding a place where I like them, 'cause they were my first. Of course I make sure I point out that fact to anyone who sees them LOL, but I think they have "character", so to speak.

I think the idea of watching the progression is neat...maybe you could add some journaling to the journaling to specify they were your first. Something very post-modern about that.

NED

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Journaling what the heck is journaling? LOL I'm a terrible writer so I don't journal much. I'm trying to get DH to do it but he's not home very much so pinning him down is tough. I do however get key phrases into the title.

I'm in the same place, I like seeing how I've grown in my scrapping but being that they are in an on going album it doesn't flow right. Maybe I should make new copies of the photos and do it over that way but put the others some where else. Yes? No?

 

[New England Eeyore]

I wouldn't redo my early layouts. I definitely like seeing how I have evolved. I used rubber cement on my very first album so I know it won't last forever but I'm planning to scan in the layouts - one of these days.

I just finished my WDW 2004 album and since I did it over the course of 2 years I noticed a big change in style from the earlier pages to the last, but I think that adds to the charm.

One question to ask yourself - if you redo the early pages, does that mean it's going to take even longer to finish the album? At a certain point you might just want to say, get it done and move on.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

.... get it done and move on.

I've been top that point for a while now. I think I have about 15 pages left and then it will be complete. That is my goal for this month.

 

[hopemax]

I don't think I could. It took me 7 years to finish my honeymoon album in the first place. I am much faster now, but still...21 rolls of film. And I don't think my layouts are that bad, although I was a big fan of cutting my photos into shapes...circles, hearts, stars, Christmas trees (it was a Christmas honeymoon). You can tell about 2/3 into it, I figured out what I was doing. The main reason why I would is my honeymoon album is my only 8.5" x 11" album, the rest is all 12 x 12. But it would be a lot of work, even to just get the photos reprinted.

 

[jennyL]

My firts album was for my DH and my Engagement. I made an album, of pictures of us together. Its a small CM 7x7 and I used very little matting and tons of stickers and stuff. Its really plain compared to my new albums but I'm not going to change it. It kindof reminds me of where I started and it seems that each one of my albums has something funny about it. Like whatever I'm really into at the moment is on so many pages. Oh well I think its all part of the process and I like to see the changes.

 

[azgal81]

I probably won't redo my first albums I have too much 'current' stuff to scrap!

 

[Lisa]

Like many others, I like to see the progression. I wouldn't go back and redo an album, however that being said, I do want to redo my mother's 70th birthday party album into a CM Storybook. Mom loves the 7 x 7 album I did for her but I love the new Storybooks and a big event like that is nice to put into one.

Buffy, journal in your handwriting. It will mean so much to the kids when they are older.

 

[Davids-Coco]

I won't because I like to see how far I have come!

 

[laura&fam]

My first scrapbook is pictures glued (maybe with rubber cement) on typing paper with writing with a black marker - nothing else. That was when I was 16. I'm considerably older now so there is no way I would be able to redo all of my first stuff. Besides it is fun to see what I did in high school even if it is bad.

 

[latharia]

I am not planning on redoing any of my LOs ... they show how I have changed over time, and the early ones have some great stories in my own handwriting, I'd hate to lose that!

 

[PoohBearLovinMama]

I'm like everyone else, I like to see the progression. And really, I just have too much I want to scrap to go back and redo stuff.

That being, my first album was Brooklynn's baby album and I still love it. Probably because I see that cute, sweet little face smiling up at me and I don't want to change a thing. Also, even though it's not my style at all anymore, I still made some darn cute pages. LOL!

 

[klmall]

Even though I really squirm when I look back at those albums from 1990 and especially at one from 1997 where I went shape-cutting-crazy, I won't re-do these albums. Somewhere in one of the scrapbooking magazines I read that you should leave the pages alone because they reflect your thinking and your style then just as the clothing, cars and hair-dos show the times. Like Buffy and Lisa said, I need to journal and it should be in my handwriting. If I ever get time and that could be in the next two years or so when I retire, I will journal. Re-doing entirely would be endless! I still have the last couple of years to catch up on as well as to re-do my wedding album from the formal portrait version.

OT - What really gets me though is how the perfect sticker or paper or quote comes out just after I have finished an album I'm not big on elaborate pages and I use my own pictures and supplement with just the right embellishment so if I am short on pictures or information or whatever and there's nothing online to adapt I get really frustrated. Yep! Never fails! A month after I finish that trip album a beautful background paper or sticker set appears for sale that would have been purrrrrrfect......Hmmmm!

 

[hopemax]

ep! Never fails! A month after I finish that trip album a beautful background paper or sticker set appears for sale that would have been purrrrrrfect......Hmmmm!

I have this problem with swap stuff....I look high and low for something, and it's nowhere to be found. Then when I go shopping for the next swap, all I find is stuff that would have been beautiful for the previous swaps.

 

[laura&fam]

Yep! Never fails! A month after I finish that trip album a beautful background paper or sticker set appears for sale that would have been purrrrrrfect......Hmmmm!

This happened to me so I made that "perfect page" and donated it to a local charity for a craft sale. It made me a little jealous because it looked better than my album, but I took a picture and figured someone would have an awesome page.

 

[MazdaUK]

I wouldn't change anything. I've only been scrapping a year so none of my albums is any one style - I've only just summoned the courage to try the "whole page covered" look (as opposed to classic CM with lots of space between pics), maybe because if I love a sheet of paper I want it on LOADS of pages Anyway, I've still not reached DS(13)'s 4th birthday in his book and DS(7) is nagging me to do some pics of him (which is why I'm having a break with the Disney album), You wouldn't go back and replace the photos with up to date ones, so leave the pages!