Top Loader or Hinge

[LisaB]

Which one do you like the best I was thinking about buying a hinge one

 

[PoohBearLovinMama]

I have several strap hinge albums but I recently switched to over to top loading. Now, I'll never go back to strap hinge, lol. I love the flexibility of being able to move my pages around and not having to go in chornological order in my scrapping.

 

[Honeybehr1]

I have one strap and the rest are top loading. The strap one has a day trip to a water park in it. I like how it came out but I dont like the strap at all. SO I gave that album to my niece who went with us.

I have one smaller CM album that I have had for a while - purple limited edition one, that I have yet to use. I am not one for planning out my pages that well. I like to do the whole trip and then put them in order. I find if I limit myself to having to know what order to scrap in, my pages lack creativity.

 

[Lisa]

I always use CM hinge albums.

I always wallpaper my pages, so what I do is the pages, arrange them in the order I want it in the album then adhere the the album page.

 

[phantom728]

I always use top loading because sometimes I don't scrap in order, so like the flexibility.

 

[TPCShauna]

I only use CM albums which are a strap system. My pages tend to be heavy and I don't like the way they fall out of top loading albums.

Like Lisa said above, I usually wallpaper so I can do my pages and then put them in order. Of course, I do a lot of page pre-planning so I can make sure the pages are in order as I'm going along but that is because I am a crazy, perfectionist scrapper.

Good luck with your decision!

 

[Amyg]

For the past 9 years I only used CM hinge strap albums, the quality is hard to beat. On my recent Disney trip I bought two top loads and love how easy they are to switch around! Although the quality is not of the CM standard, I will probably be buying more of these.

 

[Spinning]

I love my top loading albums. I like being able to move them around.
AmyG you should look at this Album; http://www.accentalbums.com/index.html
They are really nice, I would rank them up there with CM any time. I started with CM and will admit I love the covers and the way they looked and expanded from the outside. But I just couldn't cope with the inserts and their page protectors. So I went on a search for the perfect album for me.....When I found these I feel in love! They expand great, have a nice sturdy spine, 3 post and wonderful thick page protectors. I just had a few embossed...oh my! They turned out great!
This lady is wonderful to deal with. Quick turn around too!

 

[bskts4bj]

Toploading all the way . . . . .

Brenda

 

[pppiglet]

Toploading here too!

 

[Amyg]

I love my top loading albums. I like being able to move them around.
AmyG you should look at this Album; http://www.accentalbums.com/index.html
They are really nice, I would rank them up there with CM any time. I started with CM and will admit I love the covers and the way they looked and expanded from the outside. But I just couldn't cope with the inserts and their page protectors. So I went on a search for the perfect album for me.....When I found these I feel in love! They expand great, have a nice sturdy spine, 3 post and wonderful thick page protectors. I just had a few embossed...oh my! They turned out great!
This lady is wonderful to deal with. Quick turn around too!

Thanks for the link!

 

[Davids-Coco]

Total CM junkie (okay, consultant too,,, but only for the discount!) I have two top loaders from disney. They just aren't my favorites though... I consider changing those albums often.

 

[JandJ]

I've used both top loader and CM albums. I like top loader albums for everyday stuff, but you cannot beat the quality of CM albums. For "big" events (like our wedding, honeymoon, anniversary cruise, etc.) I wouldn't use anything but CM!

I've done a chronological yearly album every year since 1999, and now I'm going back and doing decade albums for the years prior, and for those I will use top loader because they're a lot cheaper and the variety in colors and materials is fun. I used to use CM exclusively but it's just gotten too expensive.