The pictures I have chosen today are a bit odd, I admit. However, I took them to use as backgrounds and cut outs for my son's digital album. Everything matches the photos! I love his little clothes, and this is a way for me to still "keep" them digitally, once he outgrows them.
Just imagine these with photos over top of them in a Christmas layout. I can use them as borders, backgrounds, mats, "stickers", really you can do so much more than you can with a traditional album as far as coordinating your embellishments on a page.
Find the bib odd? Well, it looked great as a background for Christmas! I have to say that when I ordered my son's album yesterday and it was nearly $250. after shipping and tax, I gulped big time! It was a 12x12. Here is a tip, if you do an album, just order an 11x8.5 .It isn't that much smaller, but the price difference is phenomenal! I have always made that size, and now I plan on going back to it. Example, I ordered this size a few weeks ago and it cost me around $150. And the smaller and cheaper size even had 8 more pages in it!
So, I figured out how much I would have spent on a traditional album with nearly the same amount of pages. (You can only fit 80 in a traditional album compared to topping out at 100 in a digital.) The price was considerably lower for a 12x12 album using the original materials, (album, pages, protectors) however I didn't add the price of paper, stickers, adhesives and photo processing. I'm thinking that would have changed things!
So here is where we are with my insane hobby. I am working on my son's first birthday pages in a brand new book. That means I'm one month behind for him. He has 2 digital albums already ordered and a 12x12 traditional album with his professional pictures and little mementos (like hair clippings) in it. This album is 52 pages. Sadly, in my daughter's album, I am working on her birthday, which is in May. I went to a scrapbooking night and was only able to do maybe 2 pages because I have gotten so used to working with the digital albums that I found it hard to do the traditional! Uh OH! Have no fear, I'm not giving traditional scrapbooking up! It is completely different, so it's a challenge. But I like a challenge!
Scrap Happy!
