what did you do..........

[arimacias]

with your printed pictures once you went digital?
i have BOXES!
my plan of attack is to buy 3-up books and put them in there by year?
any other ideas?
what did you do????

[Serenoa]

No help here - mine are all still in drawers and boxes. I do have the very old family heritage ones in a fire safe.

[anxela]

You could scrap hybrid in a very digital way. Do everything digi, print out, and add your photos. I actually didn't have many photos, but if I did, that's what I would do. Or just the 3-up albums, like you suggested.

[HeatherPrins]

if i have them digitally, i chuck them. If they are from film then i have them stored in Creative memories Storage boxes (holds 500 photos). I may still scan some to use on pages now and again, like me as a kid, etc.

[SharLamb]

We paid the big bucks to have our professionally digitized. But I am loathe to part with them, so they are in acid-free boxes for our children and grandchildren to have to deal with.

[geekgirl415]

Funny you ask this- i just got back from a scrapbook weekend where I took care of this little problem. I did what you mentioned- got all my 1990-1999 photos in one 12x12 album- the only digi I did was titles- and they were a 4x6 photo size only. I bought a gazillion packs of page protectors with 4x6 pockets and just put the GOOD photos in, trashing a lot of the duplicate/bad photos. I'm happy to say I got most of that decade done!

2000-2008 will be my next Scrapbook Weekend project. There's a lot more photos. 2009 is when I went digi, so none of those photos are printed out.

For the 3x5 photos, i used 12x12 cardstock and adhered them on the page and slipped in them in a regular 12x12 protector. I wrote a few captions, but that's it. Nothing but the photos. Which is unusual for me - i was known for completing 3 pages a day vs the 30 my girlfriends would do! (i don't miss that at all!)

Here are the links to the products i used and store my photos in:
MemoryDock photo storage: Memory Dock Photo Dock
4x6 page protectors for 12x12 album : We R Memory Keepers - Page Protectors - Three 4 x 6 Two 6 x 4 One 12 x 2 - Fits 12 x 12 Three Ring Albums
and American Crafts - 12 x 12 Page Protectors with 4 x 6 Photo Pockets - 10 Sheets

[rj77]

Originally Posted by SharLamb

We paid the big bucks to have our professionally digitized. But I am loathe to part with them, so they are in acid-free boxes for our children and grandchildren to have to deal with.

This just made me laugh! That's been my mom's approach, too.

If it were me, I'd probably just put them in the divided page protectors or something similar, then if you want to scan them in, eventually, they'd be ready for you.

[anke]

that's it, you need to scan them all in, which will take forever! I still have a ton flying around too. Just putting them into those sleeves is a great idea.

[LauraBean]

I have never done any scrapping but digital, but even when I started scrapping I didn't stop printing 4 x 6 photos for regular, slide-em-in-the-pocket photo albums. I don't print every photo by far, and I don't scrap every photo, but I do get prints and have them in albums. It just works for us!

[JesseEdwards]

hehehe!!! mine are still in boxes, with my mom close behind me telling me I need to do paper scrap them. um. No. I would rather scan them and do them digitally. When that will happen, I have no idea.

[jesshunt]

I still print some every month and put them in albums - I LOVE sitting down and going through them. I have a few nice looking albums that I keep the most recent photos in and put out on the coffee table, then they eventually get rotated into big 12x12 American Craft albums with the 12x12 sized page protectors for 4x6 photos.

My older pictures (pre-family) are going to be gathered up and stored away Library Of Memories-style I think - still trying to figure all of that out

[suzanne]

Funny to see this thread as I started a similar one too: http://www.designerdigitals.com/digi...-thinking.html

I have boxes of photos from film I need to do something with too and the 6 up albums are what I'm thinking about for both the film and the digital photos.

[cheska99]

I took Library of Memories, Stacy Julian's class at Big Picture Scrapbooking and used her systme about 90% to organize all my printed photos. When I want to scrap them, I scan 'em.

[kaleidoscope]

Uh..... I paper scrap ALL my pics... it's the digital ones that are a problem. LOL It's like that commercial where they sit on your memory stick never to see the light of day. ROFL This year I need to sit down and download and organize them into folders then have dh burn them onto a cd til I'm ready to get them printed.

[MeEmMom]

I was so good at paper scrapping until my second dd was born. I have everything from the time I met my husband until my second dd (1998-2003) completed (with the exception of 2001 -- for some reason that year just got away from me!) Then I got too busy for a couple of years with two little dd's. Then I got a new digital camera and wanted to get started scrapbooking again. I tried to print them and continue with the paper scrapping, but it was almost impossible to find the time and room for all of the paper mess with two little ones running around. I was always a computer geek, so I started looking toward digital to find a way to catch up and to use my digital photos. That's when I found DD. Since then (2007-present) I am fairly up-to-date, but I am still missing about 3 years (plus that mysterious 2001!) that are all printed photos. Right now they are organized in CM boxes, but I am trying to decide what to do with them. I think that I will either scan them and do digi LO's or a hybrid (mostly digi with the photos added).

[GoingtotheSun]

I was so interested to read this thread since I just spent an afternoon a couple days ago going through all my pre-digital photos (they are in photo boxes). I sent copies of ones that I really want to scrap off to ScanCafe - there were too many for me to scan all myself and I know if I go that route, they'll never get done (I hate scanning stuff!) Anyway, I've been trying to decide what to do with the rest - leave them in the boxes or go through them and throw out the bad (there's a lot of those) and put the rest in albums, etc. I have such a hard time just tossing things, but I have to admit that these photos aren't exactly doing anyone any good where they are now - in the closet! : )