Request for Memory Keeping Q & A

Who do you use for your website help?

I'd love to know how you pick and choose which photos to scrapbook? I find myself printing every single photo I take and becoming overwhelmed. Do you also have just photo albums for some photos?

Thnks
Marisa

My scrapbooking style has always been on the very linear and simple side. However I have always been a fan of the more free form styles of scrapbooking...I especially love the mini books of seemingly found objects with varying sizes and mediums. Over the years I have tried to replicate the feel of those books but it always seems TOO organized and put together.

My question is: What is your one piece of advice for getting from linear and simple to creative and different?

Organizing, always about Organization...
hi Ali! My favorite Topic is Organization. I've been trying to Organize my whole life, and realized that it is all about keeping organized instead of spending time trying to do it once & again. But I know you are pretty organized, so any tip you can give us in this particular issue would be simple GREAT!
Thank you for keep on chatting..
xoxo

I was wondering what is the major difference between Apple iPhoto and Aperture? What are the avantages of Aperture over iPhoto? Thanks.

How do you choose which layouts to put in whose album?

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Thanks for the opportunity to ask questions.
I looked at the album of Simon, there are about 48 lay-outs in them: how many lay-outs do you make a year? How much time do you need to make one lay-out? How much time do you need to gather all the supplies, and more important how much time do you take to decide which supplies you'll be using? Can you still make that many lay-outs, since Anna is born?
I also follow your PL, thanks for sharing this every week, with us: do you keep extra stuff of everyday that not make it into PL? Or are the stuff in PL the only things you keep? Have you, like I have, extra boxes filled with stuff, that possibly will never leave these boxes again? What is your strategy in keeping, or storing stuff? Photos and stories you can easily store in a computer, but what about all the others things, clothing tags, birthday cards, arts from the kids, school stuff, magazines, folders of things you bought... Do you keep that kind of stuff extra, of is it in PL or in the trash? When you keep that kind of things, how much space does it take? For me I'm keeping way to much and there are boxes, and boxes and boxes...
Thanks for all your answers.

Hi,
How much time do you spend, weekly on making layouts?

When doing your layouts do you start with photos, layout or the story? And do you print your pictures for several layouts at a time or just photos for the layout you are working on?

Hi Ali,
Can you please tell us how you organize your digital scrapbooking papers, templates, etc? Do you print a hard copy and keep it in a notebook and then reference it on the computer? I am struggling to figure out how to use different elements from different manufacturers. THANKS so much for sharing your insight :-)

Hi Ali,

I have been scrappbooking with Creative Memories for the last 18 years. With our very large family, my philosophy has developed into "done is better than perfect, done is better than creative". With the birth of identical twins 10 months ago, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with what to do with albums for twins. I have started their 12 X 12's albums but have kept them "identical" for the first four months. It has been very difficult to tell many of the pictures apart and I feared if I didn't get going, I might just keep putting it off. Any thoughts as to how to work with albums for twins?

How do you like your Brother sewing machine? You mentioned ordering one like Mary Ann Moss' from Dispate from LA.

Hi Ali,
the journaling in your PL: do you first make a rough draft, or do you write straight on the journaling cards?

wondering what pens you use to write on photos and if they are archival safe---or if that matters anymore??

Hi Ali,

I'd just like to know how you build a page...do you place the photos first and then decide on paper and embellishments? How do you decide the look and feel you want the page to have? Do you just pull different embellishments until you get the ones you like?

Thanks so much!

I would love for you to make a class (like your On the Road) based on your Technique Tuesday journaling class from last year. Or just a general class with journaling techniques and prompts and getting us thinking in new ways about our writing.

I am so inspired by how you scrapbook and I think you have really helped me to find my "scrapbook groove". With two little boys (4 and 2), I don't have a bunch of extra time but I want to get get everything down so I don't forget. I have been looking at digital scrapbooking and hybrid scrapbooking and have played around a bit with some of your brushes and other digital elements and I love how they are turning out.

I recently purchased your Today You Album from Designer Digitals, it says it is Shutterfly ready, when I look on Shutterfly I don't see how where I need to go to publish my own photobook without using the templates supplied. Thanks!!

This is such a great opportunity and I don't know what to ask!

How do you organize your supplies? Color, manufacturer, "kit" whether premade or assembled yourself....