Snow

Well, since winter has decided to return, I thought I would post this double page spread I created in January.

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Albums

So I was thinking recently about how crazy it is that I have thousands and thousands of images of the kiddos, yet no albums. I have them very neatly organized and keyworded in Lightroom, so I can easily find anything that I'm looking for, but I thought that it might be nice to actually have prints.

At first, my plan was to batch process my favorites out as 4x6's and order prints to put into an album, but I thought that was a little boring. Then I started perusing Scrap Orchard and Two Peas in a Bucket (thanks to my friend Marilyn) and thought... wow... there are so many things I could do with my images.

Enter Little. My test subject.

This is a two page spread for my first album. I plan on documenting every month and journaling on some of the pages to capture memories. For anyone interested, this is the Happy Tails kit from Ziggle Designs.


You wanna know the funny thing? Years ago, I would spend time with a few of my friends that were really into scrapbooking... they had ALL of the gadgets and supplies... and I would say, "wouldn't it be cool if all of these components were digital and you could just lay them out in Photoshop and print on demand? You could also re-use the papers and elements." I thought it was a little much to have an entire room dedicated to all of that stuff, but I would have no problem dedicating a hard drive to such an endeavor. Anyway, I was ahead of my time, but thankfully others had the same idea and now digital scrapbooking has become ubiquitious. Warning: you may be seeing more of these layouts in the future.

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