Another get-to-know-you poll: ALBUMS!!

What albums have you completed? Working on? Size, Type?

In two years i've only completed my wedding album, 1 baby album, and 2 family albums (for myself), all 12x12 strap-hinge. I've also done 4 gift albums; three 5x7 baby brag books, and one 8x10.

I've recently started exploring the world of Top Loading albums and look forward to scrapping out of order.

In my 3 1/2 yrs, I have completed over 16 albums. Mostly 12x12, but two 8.5x11, one 8x10, one 6x6 and five 5x7.

I have done my ds' baby book, a two volume heritage album for my father, my wedding album, Sweet Sixteen album for dd, yearly, I make an album for my parents (so they can see what the grandkids have been up to), the 6x6 is a book for dd from her trip to China.

I have ongoing ministry albums (dh is a pastor) and family albums.

I use 12x12 post bound (top loading). I NEED the freedom of working out of order.

I've finished 2 12x12 annuals and an 8x11 gift album.

I don't think I've ever counted my albums. There are plenty. I have tried several different types and sizes of albums, but my favorite are the 8 1/2 X 11 and 5X7 three ring binder style.

I did a neat album of all Mary Engelbreit style pages with my daughter's (she's 4 1/2) witty sayings on the pages in place of the Mary type sayings. That's one of my favorites. I also keep separate albums for travel, Disney, and Christmas.

Melissa

that's a cute idea melissa!! and 4.5 year olds sure do have a lot of witty sayings. they only get 'wittier' at 5.5 [that's how old my dd is].

i have completed: 4 12 by 12 albums, one 8.5 by 11 gift album, one 5 by 7 gift album and i am currently working on: 4 12by12 [one for each of my kiddoes, one family and one christmas], one 8.5 [my portrait album]. i have been using cm albums but i am signing on with ctmh so i suppose i better switch to their top loading!! working in order isn't really much of an issue to me as i am pretty compulsive about staying in order. altho, i have been reading stacy julian's book simple scrapbooks and i think i may try some of her non-chronological ideas! it goes against my nature but they look fun.

I don't think I'll ever be "finished" with an album! I work in 8.5x11 3-ring albums, so I'm always adding/rearranging, it seems! I have one that's pretty full, though, and another about 1/2 full. They're 2-inch d-rings, so they hold quite a few pages! They're both just ongoing family albums, including all the girls' baby stuff, which I may separate out later. I don't know how I"d ever work in a post-bound album--actually, that's the first kind I ever bought and I took it back because I couldn't handle the pressure of having to work in order! LOL

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I have 5 completed albums, hoping to add two more real soon. I have a Disney album, 3 chronological family albums, and just redid my wedding album in an archivally safe album. These are all 12x12 strap hinge albums. I have plans to do 2 sweetheart 5x7 albums for DS and his GF before Valentine's day. Just have to get the albums!!

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~~**MAC**~~

I've "completed" about 6 family albums in 8.5x11, although every time I think they're done I find more pictures.

I'm currently working on a 12x12 family album, 12x12 heritage album (I inherited 11 years of family photos last fall), a 12x12 holiday album and an 8.5x11 garden album.

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~Nora~

Hi All!

I have just recently been bitten by the scrapbook bug... last Oct. '99. I went to a Creative Memories class and the rush was on I have gotten my sister and best friend scrapping as well!

I am working on an 12X12 strap hinge album for my immediate family... I have notice large gaps in the picture taking. During remodeling, moving, etc... I didn't realize how much I missed having on film until I sat down and organized the pics I have But, on the positive side, my family has been gracious enough to dig thru their albums and let me make copies of candids that I don't have

I am looking forward to new ideas and friends online!

Becky

Well, I use mainly CM 12x12 albums and have completed 4 Family Albums, one Hungary album, and one Alburquerque/Hawaii album. The only non-CM 12x12 album that I have done is a 8x10 Dalee Zoo ABC Album, that isn't quite finished because I need to find more animals!

I have three children and plan on doing school albums for them as well as baby albums, but I need to find more hours in my day! My oldest is 9 yers old and in third grade, and my youngest are 5 1/2 year old twins in Kindergarten.

I work chronologically, so I not having a toploading album isn't a big deal. I like the CM quality, but would like to see the CTMH (Renée, I can't wait until you get started ) albums.

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Denise *Ü*

[This message has been edited by OHDenise (edited 01-19-2001).]

I scrap 8.5X11 three ring binder and love it, wouldn't use anyting else. The only time I've made a 12X12 page was for the CK World of Memories contest cause the idea wouldn't fit on one 8.5 page with the one photo I wanted to feature!

I've done maybe 10 binders full of scrapbook pages. I do a back to school, Christmas and Storyland theme album....the rest are in roughly, and I mean very roughly, alpha order.

Wendy

denise...i should be up and running very soon now!! i can't wait, although i am sure that i will be spending all my profits on more CTMH supplies!! heh heh...at least i won't feel as guilty about my spending any more!

Well that *is* a question Lupe!

I am using the 12x12 format although I have done one 8.5x11 one of my son's toddler years.

I have tried almost all the types of albums except CTMH which I hoping to get soon! Right now I am doing CM and Pioneer.....not too happy with the Pioneer album but top loading is great!!

As for how many albums....hmmmm. 4 for Derrek, 2 family, 6 gift albums, 5 for Marissa (yikes!) and 1 of me as a child.I think that's all!

Tam

I use toploading for my actual completed albums, although the only albums I can say that I've ever finished are two different gift albums. My own albums are jam-packed with layouts, only they aren't complete in my mind until I've scrapped all the photos that need to go into a particular album. I scrap WAY out of order - sometimes I work on heritage pages, I've got a baby album 3/4s done, another baby album of my dd's second year, another of our family for each year, another that will be military layouts for my dh, etc.

Hmmm... how many have I completed? LOL

Well, I have five albums sitting on my bookcase at present. All three of them have at least one page that needs to be finished! I think I have something against finishing anything...it's soooo, FINAL!

I am close to really finishing my 6th album. It's of this last year. I need to finish Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

I currently use 12 x 12 albums. I prefer to use the CTMH album! I love its high quality. For my son's first album I made it 8 1/2 x 11.

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Ü Samara Ü

• 8 pages in January
  
• 8 pages in 2001
  

Well I am new to this - and I got interested because of a CM consultant:

So: I have a CM 12x12 book that I am doing my high school stuff in (transfering out of a magnetic albumn)

I have a CM 12x12 waiting for me to be brave enough to do my wedding

and I have a Pioneer 12x12 top loading post bound - that I am doing current stuff in - and I have to say I like the top loading the best - I absouletly am having an awful time with trying to scrap the pages in 'order'. Plus scanning the pages without taking them out of the book is almost impossible (our home office just isn't that big)

I never thought about what I have accomplished until I saw this post. I used to be a CM consultant when I started scrapbooking in '96, then life got too crazy. I still scrapbook and love all of it.

I have FINISHED the following CM 12x12
High SChool (me)
Wedding / Honeymoon
Wedding Proofs
Family album vol I
Vacations 96-2000

I have given these as gifts:
Father in laws 50th birthday
Mom Vol I and II
Birdgids Baby Shower (no pictures only layouts)
5x7 Grandma's Brag Book (mom and in-law)

These are ongoing
Jake's First Year
Christmas Memories
Our Friends

I am looking forward to meeting new online friends!
jenn

I absolutely love my CM albums, even though I do sometimes wallpaper my pages and stray from the CM style. I use 12x12, but have yet to finish any. I scrap out of order, but in different albums! I am currently trying to finish my son's baby book (which I am ending with his first birthday) and I am also working on his next album, which I think will carry us through preschool. Since he is my family, that is also my family album. I am working on 2 5x7 abc albums, and I am using the Westrim denim ones for that. I am finishing (just need some pics) an 8x11 gift album for the grandparents, and I am power planning a heritage album for my mom's side of the family. Oh, and a Christmas album starting with my son's first Christmas. I think I got them all, LOL!! Also, for those that like top-loading and still like CM, Westrim makes top-loading page protectors that fit in CM strap-hinge albums!!

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Jen
Single mom of Braden
4-7-99
Toddlers make scrapping fun!!

I also am guilty of finishing nothing...seems like my albums are always work in progress and if I had to scap in order, it would kill me.

I am currently working on the following albums in 8.5 x 11 - three ring size:

2 kids albums - one for each of my boys
Wedding album
Album for our last vacation
My album

Would like to try out 12 x 12 for the family albums I promised myself I would start this year.

Well, I have about 10 unfinished albuns... Does that count? I don't think they will be ever finished, I always want to change something...

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Sandra Regina Mendes Dieterle

Renee,
Yes, you may spend a lot of your profit on more product, but that's why DOTS Dollars are so wonderful; the higher your sales, the more free stuff you can buy for yourself! You may not need to spend your profit on merchandise since you can spend DOTS dollars on almost anything. :-)
(Not like I have room to talk, since I always end up buying more than I should even using DOTS dollars!)
Getting back to the posted question, I love my 12x12 Leather CTMH album. I have always worked with post-hinge, but the leather smells SOOOOO wonderful. Like the wonderful smell of a new pair of leather boots or shoes; my third favorite thing to buy after stamps and scrapping supplies, LOL!

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Bonnie Moe
Independent Close to My Heart® Consultant
Rochester, MN
http://members.aol.com/ctmhbonnie/index.html

Right now I am working on several albums..all seem to be 12x12 post bound

1. wedding album
2. Isabella's hospital book
3. William's hospital book
4. twins' ABC book
5. letters to my first born book
6. ABC book for Melanie (my neice- it will be her first birthday present)
7. will start soon- the riegel-green coffeetable family book

also I have about 14 little 4x6 albums to do up as presents to the people who are coming to my kids' christening in April. I am going to do up the pages and then give them each a small box of photo splints so that when we send them pictures they can just add them into the brag books. =)

Gosh I have alot of work to do huh?!

Kelly

Well I have only completed and working on two others.

I like to use the 8.5x11 they are the right size for me know.

I have finsihed my honeymoon
and am currently working on

1. holidays and happenings of last year
2. My wedding

that's it for now

Great Question!!!

Erin

Hi I have :
12x12
1. My Wedding - Done
2. My Family - Done
3. My Pets - Done
4. Four albums for my son - Done
5. My Travels - In Progress
6. My Husbands Family (not finished)
7. My Family (not finished)

5x7
Four completed for family of my son

Hi I have :
12x12
1. My Wedding - Done
2. My Family - Done
3. My Pets - Done
4. Four albums for my son - Done
5. My Travels - In Progress
6. My Husbands Family (not finished)
7. My Family (not finished)

I have been scrapping for 4+ years.
5x7
Four completed for family of my son

Right now I've got 5 albums going.
1. our family album(12 x 12 straphinge)
2. Joshua's album (8.5 x 11 3-ring)
3. Zachery's album (8.5 x 11 3-ring)
4. A brother's album (12 x 12 straphinge)
5. ABC album (8.5 x 11 3-ring)

I've just about filled the boys albums and I'm getting ready to get started on another for each of them. In the past 2 years since I've started I've also....well I'm not going to go so far as to say they're finished. Some are projects I've finished for now until the creative juices start to flow again These albums include
1. Family album (finished 12 x 12)
2. Steve & Sue's Wedding (finished 12 x 12)
3. Christmas album (add to it every year 8x11)
4. Camping album (almost full 8x11)
5. Family album (8x11 quit adding to it when I started doing 12x 12 for family)

I have only been doing this for a year...but I have lots of works in progress!
Family album (8 X 11)
Wedding album (12 X 12)
ABC for nephew (8 X 11)--this one is actually finished)
yearly letters to my nephew (10 X 10)
yearly letters to my niece (10 X 10).....For these I am using the 5X7 prints I receive from their parents...when they give me a new one I take the old out of the frame and scrapbook it an album and write a letter to them...
My childhood album (12 X 12)..just started.
My trip to Spain (12x12...I think, this is still in the planning stages...especially when I need to find an inexpensive way to change my slides to prints.....
Erika

"I second that!!"

Lupster,

In the past 2 years ( I have lost time with the move/relocation)

I have completed: 2 Wedding CM 12x12
1 Dogs Album CM 8x11
1 Vacation CM 12x12
1 Baby brag book 5x7

Now working on Vacation 2 but CTMH and looking forward too working out of order!!

Lauren

[This message has been edited by Lauren (edited 03-03-2001).]

Well, I have been using CM albums, but am looking at possibly switiching to top-loading.

So far I have finished:
Heritage 12x15
DD 1st year book 12x12
Baby shower book 5x7
60th B-day book 5x7

I am working on:
DD 2nd year
DS 1st year
Christmas Album

There are also many other albums I would love to start, but not enough time, energy or $ to do that yet!
Maureen