scrapbooking 101 choosing an album
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- This is the 2nd video in my scrapbooking 101 series. Today we talk about the different options available for scrapbook albums. Please not that these albums can be found in most sizes including 6"x6", 8"x8", 8.5"x11" and 12"x12" as well as others.
Think about the shelf space you have before purchasing an album. If space is tight an 8.5"x11" or 8"x8" album might be a better choice.
The typical types of scrapbooks are:
Post bound albums are the most common album, they typically come with 10 page protectos to hold 20 layouts but you can buy spacers and more page protectors for these. These are best for people who want 50 layouts or less in a book because the more spacers you add the more wobbly the book can become. I used this type of book for a couple years until i found the D-Ring. I had to more all the pages from one of these books to a D-Ring after the book fell apart with too much use. I consider it a lighter duty option. The pros is that there is no gap between pages for a seamless viewing experience.
D-Ring (3 ring binder) I prefer a 12"x12" D Ring album by We R Memory Keepers but it does take up more space, the album closed is 12.5"x15"x3.5" and I fill one every year. Also the rings create a gap between pages meaning a 2 page spread will have a gap between them. I does not bother me. I also like that I can use 12x12 or 8.5"x11" pages in these and it is easy to rearrange the pages.
Strap Hinge albums are more compact than D-Ring but not a common to find, You will not have a gap between page layouts. These albums are more difficult to rearrange pages or add more pages but they are a sturdy, quality choice for larger books and they are easier to hold and look though than the D-Ring.
Spiral bound This type of book will appeal to art journalers or those who like to work directly on the page. I like this choise for kids too. They are typically less expensive to buy and the cardstock is included so it will save money down the road. The downsides to this is that you can't add pages and the book becomes too thick for the spine as more photos are added.
What album do you use? Let me know in the comments!
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You are so much fun to watch, listen to and learn from!
I used the 12x12 from Creative Memories for a long time but now I love making my own mini's. Totally loving this series of videos! Thank you so much for all the ideas!!
Thank you for the info on albums very helpful, aww you where a cute baby and you still are!! Thanks for sharing Lindsay!!! Hugs Liz x
I just found you....what a hoot! You are almost getting me back into my craft room...which is stocked so well....but a little voice says.."walk away"as I approach my cricket.....overwhelmed....so if I keep watching you I bet I will sit down and take the plunge again..going to watch another video..bye bye
I have several ongoing scrap book projects, i.e., Christmas, birthdays, vacations, heritage, which I keep updated yearly. I have used the post bound albums but changed them to the Snapload converters, which allow room for a lot more pages. I now consider myself more of a paper crafter than scrapbooker, however. I love making mini albums (for myself and gifts) and love to try out every unusual project I see on You Tube. Recently finished a paper cake, with the cake wedges made out of triangle boxes. Turned out great, but now discover there is a template available for it. Guess I do everything the hard way. Love your videos - trying to learn the basics of watercolors from you. Lots of fun.
Hi, my favorite albums are the CM's 12x12. I took a trip to Hawaii many yrs ago. It was to visit my bff who's hubby was stationed there. I got the pic developed right away, and looked thru all the maps and such I had saved. Then made a wonderful album that I look at often. I am.so glad I did, as my bff passed away way too soon. So now I can remember her silliness, and love I. All those pix. Plus it was my dream trip... I also made both of my son's "This is Your Life" albums. Following them for. Birth thru their 20's
Th a was over 20 years ago and they are still standing up thru the frequent handling etc. I start making mini books a few years ago for individual events or people. (Ie: my grandson Masons first year, for his other Nana). I have been on the lookout for similar styled albums. But haven't found any. Thanks for your basics of scrapbooking series. Jess
I am enjoying this series and taking notes.
Love this series Lindsay. Thank you so much for sharing all your ideas with us. I recently joined a scappers club and I will share this with them as well. I'm actually working on a scrap book for my Mom's 90th birthday. And, for sure, the worst part is the photos. I am only in the photo picking stage at this point and making them into jpeg's. It is a lot of work but I am sure it will all be worth it in the end. Can't wait for the next video!! THX
I use 12x12 post bound and D-ring albums, I prefer the post bound albums, because they take up less space. I purchased some 8x8 post bound albums to make special occasion albums, but haven't used them yet.
That is the cutest dress. Wanna see the whole thing.
August
2017 and I am loving your tutorial. Thanks heaps.
Just bought a WR Memory Keepers ring album after being very disappointed with a Project Life album. Doing an 8x8" recipe album. The WRMK album is fantastic! Great quality just like you said. Thanks for the info
I like the series so far and am hoping that this will motivate me to get back to Scrapbooking again. We have moved twice in 2 years, and setting up supplies and emptying boxes has been a chore. I am a perfectionist, so that is not helping me any either. But, thanks for the series. I am looking forward to future videos.
Hi, Lindsay, I have been just wondering how to start scrapbooking.Your video is really great!Hope to start soon!
I love my We R Memory Keepers 12x12 D-ring album! I'm trying pocket scrapbooking and I love that I can also add my regular 12x12 scrapbook pages to it, too. I also found the page protectors from Close To My Heart fits them perfectly. :)
I started out with 12x12 and would just stare at a page and it would take me forever. I'm a card and mini album maker, so 12x12 just felt overwhelming. Then I discovered 8x8 and digital scrapbooking. Love the size and can zip through a bunch of photos and pages! My sister is like a professional scrapbooker and loves 12x12. She has trouble "shrinking down" to make cards! LOL When my late husband died of brain cancer, my sister asked for photos and memories. She sent me two 12x12 scrapbooks of our life together and one of just our time after his diagnosis. I sat for literally hours and looked and cried. I have them forever!
I am sorry for your loss. I am glad your sister able to gather so many photos of your husband and preserve them in a book. I think the scrapbooking and anything artsy is wonderful therapy. Take care.
thefrugalcrafter .
You are so sweet! Thank you. My sister took some photos, the little bit of journaling I gave her and made these stunning pages for me. "I have them forever" is the most important part of my previous post! Keep a journal with fond memories, tender and/or difficult moments, your favorite quotes, and information about all your photos. I have a journal I kept during the last 6 months and I asked him silly things, serious things, and things that were not important at all at the time but became important in those scrapbooks.
JensCreationStation I, too, kept a scrapbook of my brother's journey with a brain tumor. Like your husband, my brother died. I am so glad I documented that time.
My daughter has a genetic disease. I will be lucky if she sees 30. That is one reason why photos are so important to me. Thank you for sharing. I collect silly quotes from my kids. thank you for the tips
Jesse b I am so sorry to hear that Jesse b, I can't even imagine:(
Target had the We R Memory Keeper Albums for $19.99, but I found one at Tuesday Morning (if you have one) for $7.00 (What a bargain!) You are right about the size--I have no shelf that will accommodate them. I like the strap albums that Creative Memories sold, but they are out of business. You can find them on Ebay or at thrift stores (sometimes). I expecially like the D ring albums because you can move the pages around so quickly!
Thank you so much....a lot of information....you have beautiful pictures....TFS
thank you:)
Thanks for the shopping tips! Simply awesome!
Love the D-ring by far. Can get lots of pages and embellishments in there.
That D ring is a good idea ...I'm having to do a part 2 album..because I've run out of space....TFS😀
I use 12x12 D ring albums. They are much sturdier than the post bound albums that I used to use. I've never tried the We RMemoryKeepers albums, but I will give them a try. Thank you Lindsay. Take care, Kim :)
Love my D ring albums for personal use. I wait for them to go on sale at Hobby Lobby at 50% off. I also scrap some pages and use photo sleeves for the extras that I don't want to scrap ala project life. I use the post albums when I make gift albums for friends and family.
There are so many kinds of scrapbooks. I like to make my own and the smallest I made was a matchbook size. I took a real matchbook apart and used it as a template. It was really tiny. Lol Thanks
I have an 8.5x11 album for my travel scrapbook/journal. I love it.
I love the Creative Memory albums and supplies...
I was a quilter and swore I would never scrap, but then my daughter invited me to a Saturday get together and that was my first exposure to scrapping and criketing. I would never again return to quilting. Then I was invited by a friend and gallery owner to do a travel water color class. So guess what! My scrapping is gathering dust and cobwebs... not to mention that Creative Memories went belly up. I bought some extra stuff when I heard they were applying for bankruptcy. What's the first thing to go when the economy sucks? Certainly NOT feeding your family. So that's what happened to scrapping. Now you should see how my "art studio" has overwhelmed one end of my large kitchen table. It's a hoot. But I still have my beautiful basement studio for scrapping and quilting. Oh... and before that there was stained glass. I have an inactive studio full of old flux and beautiful glass. I'm a mess. My latest hobby is free though. Watching tons of youtube videos. I could spend hours on my couch with my laptop overheating on my lap. Keeps me warm in winter though.
I had a huge container of pictures of my kids and grandkids, wedding, etc... and I won't go in to what happened to them, but suffice it to say, they're gone. My point is...make duplicates when you can and keep the copies in a safe and secure location.
Strap hinge albums and pages are still available - not hard to find. If looking for CM style, Ahni & Zoe by CM still offers them in a variety of colors. And for folks wanting to incorporate more flexibility to those strap hinge albums, there are side and top loading full 12 x12 pages as well as protector/pages that will hold 4x6 pics kinda like Project Life style that so many manufacturers make for d-rings and post bound. Both CTMH and Ahni & Zoe by CM make the full page protectors to fit in strap hinge. I recently saw that Heritage Makers will soon be offering strap hinge albums. I called them but their is a quality issue delaying their debut so... Shop the other companies still.
thanks for the info! Are you a Ahni & Zoe demo? If so feel free to share your contact info here so others can order from you;)
thefrugalcrafter . I am an Ahni & Zoe by Creative Memories rep (in Fairfax, Virginia). We are still selling some previously-retired CM albums & pages, and of course the new Ahni & Zoe. www.ahniandzoe.com/MarianneVakiener
oh thanks so very much, i just printed pics and i use plastic sheets and i just bind them in rings, i dont use many 3D emblishments so its ok to lie them
I will need to find out how to take my photos in my computer, make a collage and do the file thing you talked about and print out the collage for gifts for the 'grown' children. They would be smaller and light weight and easier for their children to flip thru. TFS
This was so helpful !! Thank you ! im starting my first scrapbook (im thinking of a travel theme) and i think ill start with spiral bound =)
Hobby Lobby carries 3 straphindge albums & has refills for them. I've been told the refills fit Creative Memories albums. They also sell posts for postbound albums, one package has posts that are maybe 1" long. I would think it'd be better to replace the small ones with 1 big post.
I also use the D-ring Albums made by We R Memory Keepers. I didn't like the "post-type" - I found that even when you added the "extenders" to make the albums hold more photos, it made the album less sturdy, and it would "wobble" around. What I do is this: Very frequently, I go to joann.com and find the leather (it may be faux leather; I'm not sure) 12"x12" albums. As I said, I check there frequently, because when those particular albums go on sale, the "good colors" sell out quickly. The albums go on sale for 40% off every once in a while, but they go on sale for 50% off only 2 or 3 times a year. THOSE are the sales I wait for. Also, be sure to get the "leather" ones, because their other ones that are about $10.00 less by "We R Memory Keepers" in price are covered in paper, which is - why, I'm guessing, why"The Frugal Crafter" had trouble with the two of them she bought. Also, she is absolutely right about the "We R Memory Keepers" albums being long (wide, deep?) - anyway, about 15 inches, and you need to have shelves that are deep enough to hold them without them hanging over the edge of the shelf. My husband turned our Guest Room into a Craft Room for me, but we didn't think about making the shelves deep enough. The first time I removed an album from the shelf, it left a space where all of the white shelf paint came off and the bare wood showed thru. So I definitely recommend the "We R Memory Keepers" Leather 12"x12" album for it's sturdiness and roominess. Just be sure that your shelf for your albums are big enough. Oh, one more tip: When the albums are on sale at joann.com for 50% off, I also look for a Free Shipping Coupon that can be used online. I go to Google and type in "online coupons" or "online coupons + Free Shipping". You usually have to buy a certain amount - $49.00 or something similar - to use the online coupon. But you can't do much better than getting a quality album for 50% off without having to pay shipping. Also, I have noticed when I've gone to joann.com, they often have a Free Shipping Offer, for instance: "Free Shipping with $99 Purchase". Then, I'll still check out the "online coupon websites", and find that they have a "Free Shipping with $49 Purchase" - which is a much better deal than the deal on the website. So good luck, Ladies - this was an excellent video on albums, wasn't it? :)
I made a Disneyworld album in a beautiful Disney castle album, but it was post bound. Ugh. Such a pain expanding it.i moved to the WeRMemoryKeepers 3 ring books after that. So much easier to deal with. I do wish they had all the pretty options, but I'd pay money to never have to deal with posts again!
I only use creative memories 12 x 12 albums. I love them and will never switch to anything else.
Thank you so much!!! I want to start scrapbooking and planned to sign up with Archiver's but then they closed their stores, bummer. I love this series. Wish I could scrapbook along with you in person XO
that might be an excuse to do a google hangout, We have a tablet with a camera in it and I wonder if that would work, it would be cool to have a like crop!Linda DeChow
thefrugalcrafter . I do have Skype on my computer, but have never used it. I think I could learn...this would be a great excuse to.
Thanks so much. I am really enjoying this scrapbooking series. Pls can you confirm if the refill pockets for a d-ring and strap hinge are interchangeable or are they uniquely used for each other? I am interested in buying the stampin up 8x8 project life pocket refills but my 8x8 albums are all strap hinged style bound.
no, the d-ring and post bound are interchangeable. The strap hinge have to metal slots on the edge of the pages, let me see if Westrim still makes them...I did a search and hobby lobby has them and they are 50% off right now! shop.hobbylobby.com/products/12-x-12-strap-hinge-refill-pages-529644/ the sale probably ends tonight but they are online! Close to my hear has them too at 25 pages for $20 Hobby lobby has a 10 pack for $3.50, good luck!
you look so lovely in this video! I just love the dress/top :)
Hi Lindsay, thanks so much for making this video. I am downsizing to get ready to move to Europe and reducing the amount of layouts I have. Though I have a few more pages to complete do you have any recommendations for large D ring binders that can accommodate about 110 pages?
Thata a lot of pages for an album. I've liked the WeR memory keepers ones but it's been a while since I purchased one. I dont think it will hold that many pages tho. The project life albums I tried were not good quality. Those are the only D-ring ones I know of.
hi lindsay anything released by david bowie, my favourite albums. seriously though, doesnt the type of album you buy depend on what your scrapbooking?
I've been using post bound forever. I have some converted to those strappy things, can't remember what they are called. I just bought my first big d ring. I really like it s far.
I'm getting ll of my pictures out of boxes and drawers and putting them into albums for my children and grandchildren. I've bought the snapon converters but my albums are still getting too thick to be stable. What is the largest ring size album you have found? I'm scrapping the same as you, including 12x12 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, pocket pages of all styles and even making my own sizes from page protectors. I love this eclectic style because all of one size becomes boring to me. Love your videos .... Craft on!
I have settled on the WeR Memory Keepers ones, I put a year in a binder, it is about 3" thick. Pioneer used to make a thinker one, about 4" but when that was maxed out I had to tape the rings together so they would not pull apart and spill the pages everywhere. I'd get the WeR ones and get a new one when you fill one up, pretty colors too!
thefrugalcrafter . Thank you for your reply. I may just get two albums for each of my children. My son is 42 and my daughter is 38 so i have lots of photos and memorabilia that I am going crazy sorting out and deciding what to scrap!
Hello!
I recently bought a blank vintage scrapbook from Savers (a thrift store) to capture memories of the adventures my boyfriend, his daughter, and I get up to. In the back it is marked as having been made in Italy under a signature "H??e Luvra". It's not a super clear signature. The scrapbook is bound like a book, and each thick page of cardstock has a thin leaf of paper bound to the front of it on one side. Is the thin paper like a page protector? Am I supposed to do anything with it?
I think you put your photos behind it so the plastic covers the photos
I'm looking at buying the 12" x 12" We R Memory Keepers album. What size size rings is yours? I'm frustrated because so far, I'm not finding ring size on the web listings - not even on the We R Memory Keepers site. Your rings look about 3". Any suggestions as to best place to order that has complete product information?
I'd guess 3"
I have watched all of your scrapbooking videos as I am looking for ideas on how to store concert tickets and bits and pieces collected during various holidays. A couple of days ago I bought the Vaessen Creative A4 Journal Stamp Book - 64 Pages from Hochanda with the intention of using it as a scrapbook but now I'm not sure I made the right choice. I'm thinking of getting into stamping so maybe I was thinking of combining the two, I'm not sure :-/
I dont know that book but I'm sure it will work. Give it a try. Use photo corners to attach things you are unsure about so they wont be damaged or use clear envelopes to tip them into a book. Stamping is a lot of fun in scrapbooks! Just play, its the only way you will know what you like!
@@thefrugalcrafter Thanks Lindsay :-) I'm also on the look out for ideas on how to display my family history which I have been researching since 2004 so I have tons of info and pictures that are still on my computer.
Hochanda is a craft channel here in the UK that I have just started watching. I got fed up with Create and Craft always banging on about Tattered Lace dies and card making. Hochanda seems to do a lot of different crafts and they do not interrupt the guests unlike C and C.
thanks for the help
I use 12 x 12 and 8 x 8 top load post bound albums but I really like the D ring you showed it would hold digi pages so nicely I think. I do a lot of digital scrapbook pages i have videos of some of them on my channel. I get them printed in 12 x 12 size at scrapbooksplease dot com I usually print them in matt and wait for sales when they do them for 99 cents a page I've really like this place and the quality of their prints, 8 x 8 size I will print at home. I have also made DVD albums with my digital scrapbooks see the videos on my page that's kind of what it would look like on a DVD that could be played in any DVD player which is another option to save space.
Scrapbooks please has a offer on their page of a free 8 x 8 and also will send you a free sample of their paper so you can feel the paper
and see the quality before you order a large number of prints. I'm not affiliated with this company I just have used it a lot and like the quality of their prints.
Dare2bme71 thanks! I forgot about them, I used to use their free software "Scrapbook Flair" when I did my first digi pages:)
QUESTION: Do you have any ideas for storing leaflets and books bought on various trips please? Thanks.
Make a pocket on the layout and put the brochures in.
@@thefrugalcrafter Great, thanks :-) A while back I bought a a kit that had a large and small note book along with highlighter and gel pens that I might be able to use for a memory book. I have been sorting out through loads of stuff the last few days and have come across programmes from shows I have been to as well as booklets from many trips I have done over the years. I wanted to avoid buying more stuff as I thought these would do the job.
Very helpful information! Thanks! I do have a question for you. It seems everyone is making really dimensional pages these days. How do you put all that bulk into an album? I have made a total of 4 layouts LOL All bulky, but I planned on putting those in frames. So how would you put the bulk into albums? Obviously you can't put them all in frames LOL There's not enough wall space! TFS Hugs ~ Pat
sometimes you need to trim down the page to fit, put it in a page protector and see! I have lumpy pages in my books ad they are fine;)
I like to trim the edge of my 12 x 12 sheet to 11 3/4". They fit into the page protector so much better with bulky embellishments and tags.
Thank you both!
I am begining to think that you are a evil siren of crafts yet another thing I just want to try.... my other half is burried under "craft items" for texture, sticking, gluing..... you know those things you just cant bare to recycle. My postman thinks im some strange shopping addict due to delivering so many packages from abroad, in my endless search for beads, and lets not mention the second hand ebay stamp collection. The little craft shop knows me by sight and my debit card, oh yes and there is the art shop, I cant get in with my scooter or wheelchair so the manager brilliantly does avpavement service. A year ago I was a crafter here and there, doing my artwork cards and the odd bit of quilling in between going to my university lectures.... today after watching every one of your videos religiously I have tried more crafts than ks healthy (and if I could fit a mini kiln or glass torch in my tiny flat without fear ov burning the house down a few more). Thank all thst is crafty in this world that papermart are not global (I am getting better at Internet resource searches though ... poor postman). I am back to finishing my degree in october after having a year out for health reasons but am not sure under which project my notes are stashed, and am considering doing my final psych research project on craft addiction!
Lindsay you are fabulous amazing and inspirational but my hamster is worried every time I watch your channel that I may end up making hamster accessories .... loom knitted hats addapted make great hamster sunggle houses ! So on to scrapbooking.... anyone in the uk can you tell me the best place for scrapbooking materials that wont put me in bigger debt than my student loans?
With crafty painty gluey hugs Lindz x
hahaha:) I think you can use your current supplies to scrap with, you just need photos and an album with page protectors, I'm sure you have everything else;)
+thefrugalcrafter I seriously dont think with your influence I can ever have enough supplies lol.... but your right it is the albums and page wallets that I need, ive seen memory keepers on create and craft but at those prices the hamster an I would be homeless! I am sooooooo jealous of your country it doesnt charge you through the nose to be creative, one of the best uk stamp suppliers is clarity stamps, and Barbra Gray comes up with beautiful and sometimes crazy new ways to use them ... so after watching her either on create and craft or on youtube (and the blog too ... I would recommend her to your viewers who like stamping and gelli plates as she comes up with some very effective techniques) you end up loving the images she produces and want a go buy the stamps (which are amazing quality for clear stamps you can do a lot more with them than normal clear ones) cost us nearly £20 per set of 3 to 5. Its earth shattering on my budget lol so hooray for your frugality, but just you wait till ask a crafter comes back ... the list of questions is ever growing ....
Three cheers for the Lindsay the frugal crafter... hip hip horay, hip hip horay, hip hip horay as us brits say x
I have all different sizes and types of scrapbooks, none of them are filled.:( I think that I started feeling over whelmed with trying to fill a 12x12 page when I first started. I have bought the smaller ones also. I think I am just addicted to buying the products. So many pretty papers and embellishments, when you see the supply's in the stores you have ideas, when you get home the items are put away and you forget you have them because you didn't have time or take time to do the project when it was on your mind. I need to start pulling it all out again and get busy. Thank you for this series, maybe now I will. :) hugs
Nice try, Linds - you're not sucking me into this one! LOL!! My kids are all grown and now it's their job to document their lives!! I presented them with a shoe box of photos!! Child abuse - I know!!
are you sure because you did watch the video....
Would your favorite d ring album be sturdy enough for my special needs daughter to not destroy? She is 15 in body and about 6 in mind. She LOVES pictures. They mean a lot to her and bring her joy but the covers end up falling off. She has the pages in a drawer. They weren't scrapbooked. Id really love to be able to give her an album that would stay in tact. I want to scrapbook a separate album
How about photographing your pages and printing copies at 8"x8" and putting them in a post bound 8x8 album. The smaller size and lighter pages would be more durable and you do not have to worry about the originals getting damaged;)
Thank you! Great idea.
ok first let me say...Please don't judge...I have a ton of supplies and I have never scrapbooked...I literally have a how dresser draw full of stickers...I know but really I think most people who craft have way more stuff than they will ever use...ok here is my question, I have a friend who is having a baby (yea) she is not "crafty"...I would love to buy her a album and put already made sheet in it for her just to add photos to. its her first child (they really didn't think they could have one!!) so I want to do this for her...how would one go about doing one that is generic enough so she could add Radom photos? thanks
I have done this before, I will share one I made in a video, stay tuned!
thefrugalcrafter . thanks so much!!!!
I think that a terrific gift for a non-crafty friend.
Love your earrings ~ did you make them?🐱
no, my niece did, they were a present, I love them too!
Have you ever used Overstock to purchase a scrapbook?
***** I never have
Thank you so much :)
My scrapbook is full and I think I need a new one
Caffeine over load?
lol your hair