We do put the pictures on disk but I think it's nice to have them printed and in a book to look at. How do you do yours?
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I scrapped their first year, and after that only holidays and special occasions. But blogging counts too, right? :)
I do digital scrapbooking. That way when I take tons and tons of pics of just everyday things, which I have thousands of, I can put like 10 -15 pics on a page and it looks good. oh and you can print out your blog into a book there are some companies that are starting to do that.
I don't. I take pictures. When they get married, they get a box (or disc) of pictures. If they want scrapbooks, they can make their own dang scrapbooks. (Can you tell I really don't care for scrapbooking?!)
By blog is my scrapbook and journal. I've seen those books that you can print from your blog. I think it's called blurp.com and they looked awesome! Paper scrapbooking takes too long for me...even with the cool machines. Want our Cricut? Name your price and it's yours!
We make "Year in Review" DVD's that include the video and pictures from that year. So its like a video slideshow/home movie experience. They are fun, but time consuming... And I'm actually a bit behind there.
Besides that we do save the digital picture files. And blogging of course. I don't do the printed scrapbook thing.
I was JUST telling Leif (before I read your post) "Some women scrapbook, but I BLOG!" Our scrapbooks will be our printed blogs. I do, however, keep artwork in a three ring binder.
I have a software program for digital scrapbooking. There are tons of images and cut-outs or whatever you want to put on it. It has templates that you can just pull up, plop in your pictures, and then you're done. You can add, delete, rearrange, design and everything....but my favorite part, if I don't like what I've done, I don't have to worry about losing the picture that I just cut-up. You can print the page and it looks just a cute as the paper scrapbooking...and it doesn't cost you a penny extra for all the notions. Depending on what you do with it, you can do a quick page, or really spend a lot of time developing the perfect look. There's tons of fonts too for captions and journaling.
I just print them out one page at a time on a color printer. I can use my own personal printer at home, but laser printers give a better quality. I would suggest using a heavier paper (like card stock) because the colors don't soak the page as much, but the cost would then be whatever it costs you to print the pages. When I was in Utah, I used Colleen's color laser printer and it worked fabulously. I used my own ink jet printer a for a couple, and the colors weren't quite right, but I think that's because you can never tell if you're low on a particular color or not, and it's just a cheap printer. Really, if you have access to a color laser (like if Kevin does at work or something) you can find a way to get it printed pretty cheap.
I made each of my kids a baby scrapbook that ended when they turned two. After that I only added school pictures, and scrapbook pages they have made in the back of their book. I did a family scrapbook after that, but since then have gone to making DVDs and putting the pictures in photo albums. The boys love watching the DVDs. Anyway, that is how we do it here.
Brayden has a book of his first year. Caleb has never seen his baby pics (before the digital camera) and Dillon's are all on the computer. Sigh.
I'm not even to the point that I can start to worry about it right now. I'm trying to get into simple digital scrapbooking, but I still never get around to it. My blog is my journal/scrapbook and that's as good as it gets.
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