Category Archives: Shutterfly

Photo Books!

Just wanted to share a link to yesterday’s post on my scrapbooking site:

My Photo Book Ideas PLUS Free Greeting Cards.

I know many of you are not scrapbookers, but you still might enjoy looking at the photo books :). Enjoy!

What Do You Do With Your Photos?

I’ll get back to the title question in a sec, but first check out this photo of my sister, her boyfriend and my adorable baby – it  makes me happy :)!

I still have lots of great photos from the trip to post, but I’m super tired tonight so I will be heading to bed early!

I thought I’d share some questions my friend Sara emailed me earlier today. I met Sara through my scrapbooking blog over 3 years ago and we still keep in touch! Lots of people have asked me one or more of the questions below, so I asked her if I could share my answers with everyone. Keep in mind: this is just how I’m doing things at the moment :).

How do you organize the pictures that you’ve taken?

I organize my photos in folders by year and then by month inside the year folder. Special trips or events with a large amount of photos get a separate folder inside the main folder.

What do you do with them?

Right now, since I’m not scrapbooking much, I am trying to blog about a lot things I will want to put in scrapbooks in the future. This way, I will have a record of some of my favorite photos and some journaling to go with them. It also helps keep my friends and family up-to-date.

From time to time I am also making Shutterfly photo books of specific trips or events.

At the end of each year I have also been making a Shutterfly book with my favorite photos from that year.

Do you print any??

I mainly print photos for gifts for other people these days, and I usually print a set for myself too for future projects. When I was scrapbooking a lot, I would only print photos as needed for projects, because I would just print them at home on my photo printer. Now that my printer has gotten old, we let the ink run out and didn’t buy more. I have gotten used to just uploading photos and ordering prints online to pick up at CVS, Target or Walmart. I guess we will get a new photo printer at some point and I will go back to my old method (that makes it easy to print out digital scrapbook papers too).

What kind of scrapping projects do you have?

I always have multiple ongoing projects!! I don’t think I will ever be “caught up” but that’s OK. I have some large 12×12 scrapbooks that get new pages added little by little. When I have time, I like to sit down and make a whole mini scrapbook over the course of a day or two. I make lots of “scrappy” gifts for others. But right now 99.9% of my scrapbooking is photo books because that’s what I have time for.

Hope this helps!!  So… what do YOU do with your photos??

A New Photo Book

I recently got our latest photo book in the mail from Shutterfly. It has all my favorite photos from 2009. I didn’t have the time or energy to make it all pretty and “scrappy” as in the past, so I used the storyboard tool to just add all of the photos and text – easy! For 2010 I hope to go back to the digital scrapbook style I have used in the past, at least for some of the pages. Anyway, if you want to check out the book, click the image below (some pages and/or words have been removed for privacy). Enjoy!

~Win a Shutterfly Photo Book!~

Just wanted to let you know that there is a celebration going on at my Scrapbook Ideas site, and Shutterfly has contributed FOUR 12×12 Photo Books as prizes!! I LOVE these books!!! You just HAVE to check it out, it’s so easy to enter :)!!!

Click here to see all the details on the celebration at Scrapbook Ideas!

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