For those pictures you want in the album but aren't really that great, I do a flip chart style page. Journaling can be done on the other side of the photos. I did one of these for my daughter's baby shower gift opening. I didn't want page after page of her opening gifts. So, I did a flip chart. On the opposing page I printed out a list in order of the pictures of the gifts and from whom. So if someone wanted to look at all of them they could or just where they want or skip it entirely.

This is a quick way to get alot of pictures into your album.

Use photo save tape. Lay the photo where you want it when it is down (not flipped up). Then leaving the top edge in place, flip the photo up. The top edge is now the bottom. Place a strip of tape there. I normally just eyeball these and have a line or ruler on the side to keep me from getting too crooked. I hope this explains it.

I did do one where I took apart a $1 photo album and taped the photo (sheet) protector. These are nice because some have that line where you write something about the photo and you don't have to worry about the tape being photo safe either.

Here's a link to an example of flipping photos: http://www.scrapbook.com/scrapbook_layouts/showphoto.php/photo/118377/cat/500/page/1