You may even want to already crop those photos to a certain standard size. This way you have a stack of photos ready to be scrapbooked. That just takes hours! Choose, edit (if you choose to do so) and print those photos in batches, either on your own printer or send them out to be printed. No more searching through all your photos on your hard drive to find that specific photo you want to scrapbook. Photos are the central focus on most scrapbook pages. This works bottleneck well with specific albums, like your vacation albums, baby albums and wedding albums. Instead, create a scrapbooking “assembly line” by batching the individual steps of your creative process. You can imagine that having to choose a photo to scrapbook, choosing a layout and color scheme for every single page you’re making is completely time-consuming. Batch your tasksīy far the best use of your time is to batch your scrapbooking tasks. In this case, focus your efforts on trying to overcome your scrapbooking insecurities. This could be because you don’t have much confidence in your choices.

Instead, you may discover that every step in the process takes a long time. It is possible your scrapbooking process doesn’t have a clear bottleneck. Perhaps resizing your photos takes hours and hours? Try scrapping just a standard size photo from now on. This will show the step that is your bottleneck and where you can save some time. Also document how long each step of the process takes. Do you reach for products first or photos? Or do you start with the journaling? Or the title? Write down the order in which you proceed. One way to find out is to document your process: Sit down and make a layout the way you normally would. What part of the documenting process just sucks away that precious scrapbooking time? And everybody has their own “ bottleneck” in that scrapbooking process. Determine what takes you the longest in scrapbookingĮverybody has their own way of scrapbooking. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could perhaps make them a little faster? What can you do to get more scrapbooking done in the time you have?ĭetermine what takes you the longest in scrapbooking.īatch your tasks (print and layout photos, choose colors and supplies). So many photos and memories to document, so little time! Unfortunately, you just don’t have unlimited time to make your precious scrapbook pages.

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