power me up!

Not to get ahead of myself, but I started to use the new power sort layouts for the vaca we took last November. I had just skipped over it completely in my daughter's album because I was getting too far behind. I love the power layouts! The guides you use stay flat, while having a pile of pages tends to curve. I also think pictures stay in place a lot better on the power sort guides. They tend to shift and slide when just laid out on pages. I have been using the power sort method for years, without the box. I just lay my pics out on pages instead. It's really nice to have the box there to keep them in. It keeps them from getting dusty (that is a problem I have had!) and it should keep them from shifting so that my pictures won't end up getting bent from sliding off the page when I move it. So, I'm really making headway! I'm cropping my pictures as I put them in the box, so i should just need to decorate and be done! If only it were that easy!

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Planning my pages

Ok, now that I realized that I wanted to have the album to show at my daughter's birthday party, I have been working on getting it done. First, I had to find all of the envelopes of pictures. Then I had to put them into order. Next, I had to write down little notes to myself on the envelopes, such as "don't forget the Easter 8x10!" So that when I'm actually scrapping those pages, I can remember. My next step is to lay out the pictures on pages. Sometimes, I actually sketch little boxes on scrap paper. The little boxes stand for a page, and I have them in twos, just like an open page spread.I then write what I am going to put on each page in the boxes, that way I can make doubly sure that I haven't planned incorrectly! Finally, I'm able to scrapbook!
I have only completed a half of a page! So, I'd better get going!

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