[Jen D]

Originally Posted by dugarner

I am just constantly torn between the bound books at Shutterfly (I like the way they look, DH likes the sleek feel and the lightness when we have to pack and move!) and printing my own pages and loading them in albums again.

Aaargh! At $1.99 a page, that would come out to just about the same as a Shutterfly book (not counting shipping) when you add in materials and page protectors.

What should I do??? I love the thinness and the professional look of the books, but I am a semi-professional in the printing industry, and without a doubt, I get a book printed with a typo that I can't fix, and I lose sleep over it. With an album, I could pull that page out and re-print it.

Pros? Cons? Anyone gone exclusively bound books, then back to traditional scrapbooks? Advice is greatly appreciated! I am a strictly chronological and event scrapper, so that's not really an issue. Meaning, I don't need the flexibility of going back and filling in a spot, when it's done, it's done. BUT . . .

The reason I don't do shutterfly is because my kids love going through the albums and if they tore a page I would LOSE IT! In a traditional album they are protected =)

I buy my American Hertiage albums at Hobby lobby when they are 50% off... so I only spend 10.00 on a 12X12 album. Then the page protectors I also buy on sale and I get 50 of those for 5.00. That usually is enough for my yearly family album.

I use shutterfly for gift albums but I was a paper scrapper and I just love the traditional scrapbook album.

Just my two cents =)