How to scrap "official" photos

[MazdaUK]

I've got a pile of "official" school photos - big individual ones which were on display but have been superseded, small ones of nephews and nieces, and "whole form/orchestra" ones that are mostly still in their plastic

the question is, how best to scrap them? I don't really want to put in the cardboard frames (as that will make the pages really bulky), but the school years in question are already dealt with in the boys' albums. As these are expensive pics I'd like to save them somewhere they can be looked at, but how to mount them (what sort of papers etc.) journalling and all, I'm a blank I don't want to draw on the pics themselves, or I could ring my child in the group.

Has anyone done an album/page like this they could share? any suggestions?

TIA

 

[Spinning]

basically what I did with my daughter's k-5th I just mattted them and slapped them down on a matching card stock and with chip board letters I put the grade. They are the last pages in her 5th grade scrap book. I plan to do the same for middle school.
For all those sports pictures....pretty much the same thing...I didn't do anything creative....

 

[piratesmate]

Why not just make a separate book with this type of photo? For journaling maybe just make it "highlights" of that year focusing more on your memories than a recounting of events. Since those years were already covered, it might be really nice to have a book where you can literally see how much they've grown from year to year side by side instead of incrementally. (Make sense?)

As for papers, I'd be tempted to just use stuff that coordinates throughout the entire book since this isn't event-driven...like a CM Power Pallete but I probably wouldn't go to the expense of using an actual[/] kit.

For the large group shots, how about using a small "frame" over the photo singling out your sons? Like a Sizzix slide mount kind of thing. If you're going to have these pages in page protectors you could just put the frame on the protector so it isn't stuck to the actual page. ...Or even some sort of arrow to point to them.

I'm just tossing out ideas here. I doubt I'll ever get to the point where I actually do the ones of my kids, but I know I'd enjoy looking at a book like that.

 

[LindaBabe]

I second the 'special book' idea - I'd definitely leave off the cardboard frames, make all the cardstock the same color through out. Maybe cut a rectangle in the page and mount the photo under it, so it looks framed? Then just put on the year - grade - school - teacher or whatever under it. You could make a ring or some other shape to put around your child in group photos. (THis works for team photos too.)

 

[MazdaUK]

Great ideas, thanks all Now I just need to choose a book......

 

[PamCo88]

What I have done for the group photos is call out all of the kids we can remember below. Also to make a big deal of DS I attached a big arrow outside of the picture that points to him in the photo (but not attached to the Pic). So far this is just pre-K....

 

[Fran98765]

I have a separate album for all those professional pics we've taken, school photos, soccer pics, and so on. I do not scrap them, it's a plain photo album. I do add a paper with the date taken as well. They are in chronological order, starting from when DH and I got first pics taken.

However, I do scan in those photos as well and have digitally scrapped several of them. The layouts will go into my regular yearly albums, in chronological order.

 

[JohnsonsLoveDisney]

I am having this issue too!

I have a bunch of prof photos of me when i was little mostly 10x13's and a ton of 8x10's of me, the girls, family ones etc.

I am going to start a prof photo album. I am getting a 12x15 from CM since it will fit the 10x13s. And put them all in there. But I am not scrapping them with embellies or lots of papers.

I scrapped photos from the same times in their books already. I just have so many extras sitting in a box. and no room on my walls.

 

[MazdaUK]

I have the wall issue to - my sister has it worse having 4 kids!

 

[JohnsonsLoveDisney]

Well I guess we could get bigger houses with more walls.

I just started putting my faves up and thats it. and change them out with the seasons. I try to get some good shots in halloween costumes, individuals at school time, and christmas time. and i put a family picture up on the wall every year. Its fun to see how everyone has changed. And I dont have to try and remember what we wore last year.