Yes, there is more! These are more tips and tricks and FAQs. (continued from Part1, Part 2, and Part 3)
1. You'll notice on most of my pages, I have my own handwriting on there. How do I do that? Well I don't write it out and scan it in. What a pain! I used a website called www.fontifier.com I printed out their sheet, filled in my letters and scanned and sent it back to them. They created the font, I previewed it and if I was satisfied, I paid the $9 for it. Yes, folks. $9. To preserve your handwriting for all future generations, but without all the crooked lines, squeezing words in at the bottom, misspelled words. It's amazing. I use it on almost every page as I think it's important that my kids see my handwriting, its just one more piece of me. And I love hearing people ask, "How did you do that?!"
2. What about printing? You do all this work, then what? I don't print mine at home, but I know a lot of scrappers make their pages 8x8 and print at home. I like 12x12 because I'm usually trying to fit a lot of stuff on my pages (I have a photo-taking problem). If you like the look of traditional scrapbooks with the page protectors and such, I highly recommend printing with Scrapbooks to Share. They have the best prices I've ever found and a very quick turnaround. And really high quality, which is most important. If you're not married to traditional books, you might consider a hard bound photo book. You can go to any major photo printing site and find photo books and prices. I use ArtsCow to print mine, but there are plenty of other options out there. I've starting doing mine in yearly books, so 2009 was bound in one book for our family album (12x12) and a book for R's album (8x8). Cheap and easy. You do have to wait until the year is over to get it printed, which makes it hard to showcase more recent pages, so if that is important to you, you can print them as you go (Shipping is a flat rate with Scrapbooks to share, so I usually did 20-30 at a time) and put them in a traditional album.
3. Don't forget that you can print the same page as many times as you want! For our family album, I make a page for say, Christmas. I put all the family-oriented pictures of the festivities, journal the important stuff, and save. Then, I simply swap out a few of the pictures for pictures focused on R, change the journaling a little for her, save and I have her page with about 1/4 of the work. Same thing for B. And even better if you can use the exact same page for each album. I save a lot of time and money by doing my pages that way, and I don't feel guilty for leaving out important things that happen in the family/kids' albums simply because I don't want to make a page more than once.
Another great tip: Behind on baby albums? Make 1, swap colors/photos/info and you have as many as you need without all the work of starting from scratch. I was making B's baby album before he was born (copied from R's album), changed it a little, made it pink and gave it as a gift to my friend for her new baby girl.
That's all I can think of for now. Maybe a part 5? We'll see...
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