Since I started scrapbooking using the Creative Memories approach (back in 1996/1997), I have a bunch of scrapbooks that are chronologically organized by year. I also have some that are organized by theme such as school, portraits, vacations, and Christmas. I have condensed all of these into about 25 scrapbooks.
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The scrapbooks you've just seen are all completed and reside in a bookcase in my family room. I also have some scrapbooks in progress in my studio.
These are 6" x 6" albums that will be given as gifts. Most of them are mini school albums destined to go to grandparents and godparents.
And, finally there are my Library of Memories albums which are all organized by topics and color coded as taught in the class. Currently, I'm using 8" x 8" We R Memory Keepers post-bound linen scrapbooks.
Each topic group will share the same color scrapbook. For example, all of the pictures about my immediate family will go into black albums and labeled "All About Us". Within each album are section title pages for each of my family members and a title page for layouts that include two or more of us. So, there is a section with just pages that focus on me and another section with photos that focus on our pet and so on. As a section grows and gets too large to fit in this particular album, I'll create a new black album to house just that one section. The new black album will be have the title of the section such as "Pets".
I also changed the way I organized my photos, based upon the Library of Memories class. Stacy Julian has a two-part system that feeds into the scrapbooks. The first part consists of traditional photo-sleeve albums that are organized by yearly seasons. So, you would have all of your Spring 2008 photos in one album, Summer 2008 photos in another album, etc.
Because Winter rolls over into the next year, I decided to split my albums into quarters instead of seasons. For example, one album will have Jan - Mar 2008. Then the next album will have Apr - Jun 2008, etc. Stacy has so many pictures per season that one album is needed to hold one season. However, that's not the case for me. I have several years housed in one book. I have Jan - Mar 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, and 2008 in one album with each year marked and divided within. Also, to make it easier to put each album back after using it, all of the albums are numbered sequentially as well.
I wanted to make some cute tag labels to go on the spines of my photo albums (like the ones on my completed scrapbooks.) I didn't want to go with the same scallop tag so I created these tags
The Crystal Effects makes the chipboard numbers look like glass.
I did all of this work but the tags don't fit on the spines well. So, I've got to think about how to solve this problem.
The second part of the photo system cosists of drawers of photos filed by topics which match the broad topics of the albums. I have my categories in JetMax drawer cubes.
JetMax makes a cube that has four drawers in one. These were on clearance at Target and they were all sold out by the time I decided to get one. So, instead I have these that have two drawers and a large basket.
Here's a look inside the "Things We Do"drawer which is further subdivided.
I still need to move the rest of my pictures either into the albums or drawers. The rest of my loose photos are in these four boxes (by Creative Memories and other companies).
And, finally I have a bunch of negatives that I need to sort and file.
5 comments:
I wanted to add your blog as one of my favorite sites. Your recent post just shows why. I love your organization! I can't wait to see how you organize all of your supplies because I'm still trying to make sense of mine.
Thanks Joy I'm glad I am able to help somehow.
WOW...you really did it...almost by the book too...I'm glad for you.
I have an engraving machine for those CM albums...just come on over I'll show you how it works and you can custom imprint your own.
Lisa, that's very generous of you to offer. I may take you up on this one day. Thanks!
i can totally see how you took on stacy's way of organizing your albums and photos! this all looks so good!
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