[jgreene]

I am not a scrapbooker, but I am a mom and therefore need to find a way to organize photos of the family! I have tons of photographs, negatives and now digital images on my computer. Does anyone have any tips for managing them in the easiest, least time-consuming way possible? Should I throw a lot of pictures away? Is there a simple scrapbooking system that looks good (and is archival), but that requires minimal work? I love the way fancy scrapbooks look, but I do not have the time to create them....

[covenantcrafts]

Originally Posted by jgreene

I am not a scrapbooker, but I am a mom and therefore need to find a way to organize photos of the family! I have tons of photographs, negatives and now digital images on my computer. Does anyone have any tips for managing them in the easiest, least time-consuming way possible? Should I throw a lot of pictures away? Is there a simple scrapbooking system that looks good (and is archival), but that requires minimal work? I love the way fancy scrapbooks look, but I do not have the time to create them....

Hi you can get quick and easy scrapbook pages from TLC (Topline creations). You can see them here: http://www.topline-creations.com/covenantcrafts Follow the links for shop, kits, quik pages.
Rebecca

[heritagemom]

As one of the original founding members of a secret organization called "Mothers Against Scrapbooking" (hehehe) I was SOOOO excited when I found Heritage Makers. It allowed me to sit down at my computer, upload my own photographs, write my own words and POOF publish a book about my soon to graduate daughter in a matter of hours and for LESS than $50.00. It came out SOOOOO cute. If you have a lot of photos and memories you want to save and share, then this is the ONLY way to do it and enjoy them while you are still eating with your own TEETH!!

www.yourlifepreserver.com

I KNOW you'll love this!

[shoescrapper]

The ladies are correct there are so many kits out there and all you do is buy them and sometimes cut out these things and just glue them and you have a page done.

[senecker]

my sister decided to boycot scrapbooking and she buys "plastic?' pages that have slots to drop pictures in the pockets. They also have a little strip to journal about the pictures. Then she can just put them in an album and be done in minutes.

[TW1080]

Originally Posted by jgreene

I am not a scrapbooker, but I am a mom and therefore need to find a way to organize photos of the family! I have tons of photographs, negatives and now digital images on my computer. Does anyone have any tips for managing them in the easiest, least time-consuming way possible? Should I throw a lot of pictures away? Is there a simple scrapbooking system that looks good (and is archival), but that requires minimal work? I love the way fancy scrapbooks look, but I do not have the time to create them....

OurStory.com is a fairly new site, or at least it's new to me lol, and it looks like a great concept, and I believe you can order printed books. Craft stores sell books that are premade...all you have to do is slap your pics on the page and write a blurb, and voila! I also like the kits...not the cheapo ones that come from the stores, but ones like the kits that lisa bearnson creates (lisabearnson.com). As far as storage, I use a 3 ring binder with negative sleeves for my negatives, and I use photo boxes to "file" photos until I can get to them. There are a LOT of systems out there though... I like the products at archivalmethods.com