Do you scrap? I've got a question!

[lfeikert]

We've had ALOT of snow/cold days here lately and I've actually had time to go through all the pictures that I haven't touched since my DS2 was born! I'm so excited to be scrapping again, but I've got a question. What do you do with all the pictures you don't scrap? I've got a ton of pictures and they are just filed in a box. Do you put them in regular photo albums? Do they make some sort of photo file boxes or something to put them in. I'm just curious about what any of you do with all those extra pictures!

Thanks!

 

[teacups]

Ok. If you are really insane (like me) and have a ton of time on your hands (NOT like me) here is a great idea... if it's your style.

I buy a perfectly square black frame, must be about 36 inches or so. (Thats just my taste, you can get whatever shape).
I take the pictures, cut around the subject, and make a collage. I glue them down touching and overlapping so NO BACKGROUND shows. Upside down is fare, too! It's a really fun look when you get done. But, it does take a while. Well worth it to me. You can get about 200 pictures displayed in one frame! It really turns out to be more like ART than a framed picture. People who visit my house and see it will literally stand there for 10 minutes looking at it! I LOVE IT!

 

[lfeikert]

That's a great idea! I love it. That way they are not just stuck in a box on a shelf somewhere. When I was a kid, I used to sit and cut out pictures from magazines and then make a collage just for fun so this would be right up my alley! I'm teacher so that could be one of my summer projects! Now that I've finally organized all my pictures, something like this won't take so long.

Any other ideas

 

[lovetoscrap]

When I first started scrapping DH was very nervous about me cutting up our photos so we made a deal--I could only scrap the doubles! So I have albums of every photo ever taken since our kids were born (until we switched to digital about 5 years ago).

I just use albums from Walmart that hold three photos per "page" in the plastic sleeve. They are easy to store and were reasonably priced when I bought them (we were poor). Since we are now all digital we just have all our photos saved on discs. I really want one of those new digital photo frames to be able to display them.

 

[JoyG]

I must have more than a thousand photos of my boys and I've realized there is no way I can scrap them all. I've decided to just do a "greatest hits" album and just scrapbook unique or special events.

The rest of the photos are meticulously cataloged in photo boxes with tabs that describe the date, event, and people involved.

 

[lfeikert]

The rest of the photos are meticulously cataloged in photo boxes with tabs that describe the date, event, and people involved.

I just scrap events and things like that, too. I only end up using about 6 or 7 pictures from Christmas, birthdays, etc. and am left with about 30! The photo boxes is what I think I'm looking for. Where do you get them and are they really expensive?

 

[soccerchick]

I must have more than a thousand photos of my boys and I've realized there is no way I can scrap them all. I've decided to just do a "greatest hits" album and just scrapbook unique or special events.

The rest of the photos are meticulously cataloged in photo boxes with tabs that describe the date, event, and people involved.

I do that, but NOT meticulously

There is a scrapping forum here ~ it's a subforum under Creative Community. Go check it out!

 

[JoyG]

I just scrap events and things like that, too. I only end up using about 6 or 7 pictures from Christmas, birthdays, etc. and am left with about 30! The photo boxes is what I think I'm looking for. Where do you get them and are they really expensive?

The photoboxes I use are from Target. They are clear, plastic and look like a Rubbermaid container. They have green snap lids. They are from the Home Logic/ Craft Zone line.

For the dividers, I use large white index cards. I take two index cards and staple them together perpendicularly. That gives me a large enough space to write all the info I want on the top tab. Each photo box ends up being divided into at least 30 different sections.

I also use an index card to label the front of the box with the years it covers and "main events" contained.

eta: I think they're about $5 each.

 

[JoyG]

I do that, but NOT meticulously

Well, we'll see if it stays meticulous.

I got tired of not being able to find pictures so I took a weekend to organize and label them all. Now the challenge will be to be as meticulous with the new ones coming in.