Filling in the Missing Years in Your Albums

Would you like to just 'catch up' on a year or two you've not got around to scrapping?

Over the past few years, I've been investigating options for how to make it easier to finish scrapbooking some projects and fill in the gaps in my albums.

Scrapbook Pages

I love scrapbooking and making pages from scratch, but even scrapbooking over 100 layouts a year there's still years I haven't documented yet. It takes about an hour for me to make a page so an album takes 30+ hours to create!

Project Life App

I love making quick pages in the app, but I wanted to have a bit more flexibility than a grid. Plus, here in Australia, I didn't have access to the printing either

Templates

Templates are great for when you have the photos and journalling ready to go and wanted to get creative. You just add your photos and follow the placement guides for embellishments, journalling and titles. It's a little less time-intensive, but I'd still spend at least half and hour working on a page. Which is totally fine, but it didn't help me catch up any faster!

Photo Albums

At the other end of the spectrum, I tried just printing photos and popping them in albums. It certainly was quicker to put photos in an album than to scrapbook them, but I still had the issue that some photos were horizontal and some vertical. Should I be writing on the back of these photos? What about telling the story of these photos? Plus I filled up those big fat photo albums in no time!

Photobooks

Photobooks made it simple to get photos printed, but it could still take almost as long to choose photos and create a photobook as it did to actually scrapbook individual pages! Oops!

The Solution

I was still looking for an easier way to create finished albums that had space for journalling and the scrapbooked look. So I combined Photoshop Elements auto-curate features with Shutterfly Make my Book to get my book finished in just an hour! I love ending up with finished projects instead of nagging to-dos!

A couple of years ago, I started using this new system. First, I finished my 2016 Family Yearbook in a fraction of the time it would have usually taken me. Then I went ahead and finally finished my December Daily Project from 2009! It was such a relief to have those projects done and just look at Matthew's face! It was so worth it!

I was so excited to make finishing books a reality for more people, so I gathered up what I've learnt creating these projects into bite-size videos and created Simple Family Yearbook.

I've put my tried, tested and simplified process into this affordable, 5-step class.

But then I realized, it's not enough to just have the class, so I've also added a group coaching call inside our private Facebook group each month to help you if you get stuck.

What if you could take the folders of untouched photos and turn them into finished albums on the shelf?

You can do it! Come and join me in Simple Family Yearbook today.

See you in class!

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