Organization Question?

[MamaCrush]

How do you all store your "albums in process?" For example, I'm working on DS's baby book (he's only 4 ), and I'm working on DD's baby book (she's only 2!), and I'm working on another misc. album. So I'm looking for ways to store and keep safe my albums in progress.

For example, my baby books are CM, so I keep the empty pages yet to be done in the box that comes with it, along with the album itself. I like to keep my finished pages separate since I like to refer back and admire them as I go! Right now they're sitting loose ontop of the box, but I believe they're in peril from my kids' curiosity, dust, wear and tear, etc. My LS has plexiglass stacking paper trays for $4.98 each, and I thought maybe having. But since I probably would need 2 trays (to-be-done & already done pages) for most projects, it could get a bit pricey.

Any other ideas??

 

[wtpclc]

Maybe I'm cluless here, but if they're finished why aren't they in the albums? The safest place would be right in the album with page protectors. Then it's even easier to refer back to them when you want.

I like to work on my pages when they're in the abum anyway. I've heard a couple of horror stories of people who have done the back of a page upside down. Yikes! JMHO.

 

[FantasticDisFamily]

That was what I was thinking too...finished pages belong in the album.

I seem to have nothing but books in progress and when I'm not working on them they are on the shelf. When I am actively working on them I pull them out and take them into my work area. Since I do post bound I immediately slide the finished page into the page protector and if it isn't already "bound" in I slide it into the back. Then when I'm at a stopping point or finish a series I take the spine apart and add the new pages.

Deb

 

[Disneyland_emily]

Personally I have 2 nice shoeboxes that hold the pages waiting for computer journaling/accents

and 2- waiting to be booked

I do binders with page protectors and I have having to move them all around so I do wait till I have all of the event or most of the event done (for say trips) before i try to binder them as I have this bad habit of bindering them without being done and well they never get done in the books


-em

 

[TN Traveler]

I like post bound albums so when I started scrapbooking seriously 3 yrs ago, I would fill the pages for the sheets that were already in the album and then take apart, add finished pages, put together, take apart etc. Well, after a while the binders started wearing and tearing and falling apart. Now, what I do is add 2 extra packs of sheets to the album at one time, then I slide the finished sheet into the proper page protector. Also I have a box that one of my albums came in so I keep my 12 x 12 paper in it and when I finish a page I put it in order upside down in another box that one of my albums came in. This way I keep my finished pages in order, I'm not going back and forth opening and closing the binders of my albums in process and it keeps things nice and neat. May not be the best way to do things, but it works for me. One of my girlfriends has her entire dinning room dedicated to her scrapping. Pages in process are spread out on her table and then flipped over and put in order in a stack until she's ready to add to her album. It works for her but I don't can't do that b/c I don't have a seperate dinning room from our eating area. You have to find out what works best for YOU!
Have fun!

 

[MamaCrush]

Thank you all for your thoughs. TNTraveler-- I too have concerns over the wear and tear of my albums and prefer to keep them separate until I'm pretty well caught up with the book. I use CM albums so it's not as simple as slipping a page into a protector or inserting into a binder, unfortunately. Thanks to all!

 

[Spinning]

WIth my CM books I work right out of the book. I am too scattered to take them out. Tried it once and ended up putting something on the back of one page that should have been on the back of anohter (I need order! LOL) so for the most part I use top loading now. I put my finished pages in the book and if I need to move them around I can

 

[sconnell]

Ok, another CM person here. I have two of the open binding albums that I work out of. I keep them stocked with refill pages and work from the back. Well, kind of upside down and backward. (A lot like me!) This keeps my new pages clean and straight and pages I'm working on are easy to get to. My scrapbooking has to be totally pack and go, so this works great for taking to crops. (The only real time I have to scrap.)
Also, I tend to work on a page and then move on and come back to it a couple of times for little embelishments and journaling.
Right now, most of my DD's baby book is still in the "carry-around book" When I know I'm done with a section, I transfer it to the permanent book. It keeps her really nice album from being scratched or some other horrible thing from happening to it. I don't worry so much about the carry around albums, because I don't plan to use them for anything else.

 

[Alice28]

I use CM albums as well, and I know they are pricey and not the easiest to load pages in and out of. However, I work right in my book& the nice thing about CM albums is that they take abuse pretty well. They are easy to clean, and don't tear or rip easily. I would be very concerned about not keeping completed pages in albums....when I am done with a page, I whip a page protector on right away to reduce the chance of damage.

 

[diznygirl]

Another Cmer here. You could always order another gift box to keep those pages in. Or as other have noted, put them in the coverset and put the coverset on a shelf. You don't have to put the spine on right away.