Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Ahhhhh....it's done!


I had the BEST weekend! I spent 4 days with 22 wonderful friends at a retreat center in Wisconsin. We laughed (a lot), ate, talked, swapped cards & did many stamping and scrapbooking projects. Several weeks before the retreat, I knew I needed to come up with one project to work on this weekend so that I would feel like I accomplished something. I really wanted to scrapbook our Alaska trip, but felt like with 3,000 pictures, the project was far too big. I decided I needed to simplify the project & not worry about doing books and books full of 12x12 layouts. I spent days looking at various stores and finally found some wonderful acid-free picture albums at Target that you just slide the pictures in the slots ~ so I bought 4 of them. Then I researched the best price and quality of developing my digital prints so I printed about 1,000 of my pictures. I organized all the photos in order and slid them into the right spots. Then I worked on journaling all the places we went and things we saw. I also found out lots and lots of facts about each city we visited to include in the albums. Finally, I gathered all my scrapbooking supplies, paper, stamps & ink that I wanted to use. After several weeks of preparation, I was ready to go!

It took many, many hours at the retreat, but because I planned ahead, I actually finished all 4 albums. They aren't award winning pages at all ~ I basically only did journaling blocks, titles and picture mats. However, they are done so now we can sit down and enjoy the pictures with friends and family. I will go back and do some full 12x12 layouts of this trip with some of the fabulous shots we got, but now I won't feel stressed out about scrapbooking so many pictures & IT'S DONE!
Scrapbooking Tip: It's very easy to get overwhelmed with the hundrends of pictures you have laying around. Make your projects manageable and you will get a lot more done!

6 comments:

Jenn said...

Kendra you are so awesome!!! Your books are awsome!!! You so deserve the most productive award!!! FABULOUS!!!

kribss said...

way to go kendra!

Anonymous said...

Great job! What a relief for you.

Anonymous said...

I love these scrapbooks! You were able to scrap soooo many more pics using these books with the preset photo slots! And, you still managed to achieve the unique look of scrapbooking through your journal inserts and stamped/embellished inserts! Great stuff!

Anonymous said...

are those creative memories books? they look like the new preset albums CM offers.
way to go!
mah-velous!
:::totally!:::

Debbi T said...

You were just a crazed woman, Kendra.....but you did Zappy proud and "got 'er done"...LOL.....

They're AWESOME books!!

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