finished pages

[blhdvm]

What do you do with your pages once they are finished?

[Denise Gormish]

I mostly have them printed into Shutterfly books but I also have single pages framed and hung up in the house.

[Elena]

Printed at Shutterfly... at least that's my intention!

[digigrandma]

I print at Shutterfly and occasionally I print at home and frame to hang on the wall.

[anke]

I have done a few books if they are theme specific but everyday life I just have printed and put into individual albums for us and the kids

[dugarner]

Every layout I've done has gone into a Shutterfly book. I only scrap chronologically (meaning the pictures I do have a chronological place in a scrapbook), so every page has a place. I don't have any unfinished pages, and I'm only a week behind. (But you didn't ask for me to pat myself on my back for catching up! )

[Amson]

I print mostly at home 8 * 8 and put into albums. If the price of phtobooks in Australia was a little better, I'd probably print more books.

[maureenreynolds]

I said other since I do a combo of all three! I only started 2 years ago, and most of my original pages are still on the computer. I may be happy with just a dvd slide show with many of those. We'll see.

[KerryMac]

I'm right there with Maureen! I've done 1 book, printed out some pages, saved some to my computer. But that's totally reflective of me anyway

[rj77]

I love to print mine out. My 8 1/2 x 11 I just do at home. I send off my 12x12s. And try to wait patiently until I can look at them in real life (off my computer screen!). I used to worry about everything being done chronologically, and now I just do what I feel like, when I feel like it.

[roxygirl78]

all of the above! I print books if I have a theme or purpose, I print individually sometimes and I save them all on my computer but sometimes some of the pages are forgetten !

[Kayleigh]

I print at shutterfly & upload as i scrap along to cut down time once it comes down to printing time. Then i store the PSD's on a hard drive.

[earlofoxford]

For most of my pages, I have them printed and put them in albums. For special things like vacations, I have an album of layouts printed, usually at Blurb.

[ValerieP]

I started by printing the pages off at Costco, but then Shutterfly offered a book and I absolutely loved the pages in a book, so I more than likely wont ever print any more unless they are in a book! Which means that I really want all of the ones I did previous to be in books, so I have to go back and decide what will go where and then just wait for sales!

[echogirl]

I'm an all of the above as well kinda girl.

Sarah..here's a pat because that is amazing. (I'm totally not a chronological scrapper though so I'm envious!)

[Jaycee]

I print some at home in 8 x8 format and put into albums. My daughter frames some I do of her son. A lot are on the computer, and a lot are unfinished (I wish I could be like you Sarah, but I'm a 'here and there' kind of scrapper!
Have lots of travel albums and have decided to give Shutterfly a go even though I am Australia where they don't print. Hope that works for me. (any other Aussies tried printing at Shutterfly in USA ?)

[cstaff]

Only done one SF book... print pages that I make for my mother (12x12 that I print on my home printer) but many are just on the computer still... many ideas begun that I frequently purge... no rhyme or reason...

[Blesus]

I mostly print at home as soon as I finish a LO as my ds pours over his scrapbooks often. I did order prints on several occasions. Would love to complete a SF book, but I'm all over the place with my project list

[blhdvm]

Thanks for all the input!! I have done a couple of shutterfly books and had a few pages printed.

Sarah - I commend you (and aspire to be you!) I was a chronological scrapper for a LONG time and then had a long dry spell and am quite behind! Now I find myself scrapping whatever strikes me fancy! I think I like this better, but it does make printing books a lillte more difficult.

[deanie]

I have lots of shutterfly books on my shelf, mostly of trips or special occasions. The individual pages of the grandchildren are still sitting on my computer waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Yes, Sarah, I wish I had been smart enough to think through the 2 page thing cause it bothers me when they don't coordinate! Soon we'll have five GC-I don't think I can do a book about each one, so in 2011, just one big family book!

[susiecw]

My pages are always done with a Shutterfly book in mind.

[kathleen.summers]

About two weeks after I started digi scrapping, I learned about Shutterfly photo books and made a hardbound 8x8 book (using Katie's Year In Review templates to make the pages) and I was hooked! It was so much more gratifying than paper scrapping because I was actually getting albums DONE and I love the hard bound books. I'm just getting ready to have my 5th Shutterfly book printed.

[muddygirl]

Have lots of travel albums and have decided to give Shutterfly a go even though I am Australia where they don't print. Hope that works for me. (any other Aussies tried printing at Shutterfly in USA ?)

Jaycee,

I have had 3 books, Calendars and last years christmas cards all done with Shutterfly. A lady where I work saw my books and loved them and I helped her make a photobook of her daughter's wedding and so far we have ordered 4 copies of it. There is no problem having them sent to Australia. The postage is a little high, and I did question them once because they don't combine postage (eg. One calendar postage was $7.99. I ordered 7, and my postage was 7 x $7.99, even though they were all in the same box). When I questioned it, they gave me an extra 20% off my order of about $200. They do take 2-3 weeks, and seem to come through New Zealand, but if you wait for the sales, and the dollar to be good against the greenback, you can offest the postage costs a bit.

Totally worth it though. I LOVE them and wouldn't change now. Ages ago, I got a book from Snapfish and another from Momento, but the quality of them is no where near as good as Shutterfly, and Momento was much more expensive.

Don't be scard to order from the USA. Its only postage afterall

[hawsumb]

I've printed most of my pages at either Persnickety Prints or Scrapping Simply at 8x8. I scrap too randomly to put anything into a book. The only Shutterfly book I've done was for one specific vacation, but most of the time my vacations just go into my albums.

[sawdust]

I print at home 8 x 8 and put in albums. Would love to Shutterfly, but can't do the cost right now!

[cheska99]

I'm explaining my "other" response: mostly I leave them on my computer. A few I print out to give away. I really want to do a Shutterfly book but for no doubt wrong reasons, I'm really intimidated about ordering one.

[katie34]

I have found that I LOVE the printed books. I can not stand to have my layouts any way but chronologically-so I am TRYING to catch up. I would love to get to scrap what we did today, TODAY to catch all those little moments. So, printing in a book is the goal, but because I do not have most of my chrono books totally finished the pages are all sitting on my computer.

[dorah]

Most of mine are still on the computer but are all organized to be in bound books. I have to date 4 8x8 and one 7x9 Shutterfly books and one blurb book. I did the blurb book in soft cover and find that even though it is only 7x7 I love it so my plan is to print more through them. Just waiting on the funds to match my imagination. And of course I have the current books I am making for this year.
And then there is the never ending heritage albums. Which may end up getting ordered as individual pages until I can get everything I want done and organized.
But even in the computer, I still go in and look through the books. Sometimes it helps to inspire me to work on them again.
In fact, after Steph's Just Finish It challenge I went through one for my nephew and added more pages and then liked them so well I went back and redid most of the ones I had already finished and now I just love the book. Sometimes there's something to be said for not being in to big a hurry to finish a project.

[mymalloryboys]

I have a folder with all of my LO's ready to be printed - I just keep spending all of my money on digi supplies - I have got to save and get my pages printed. I want to try shutterfly - but I am worried about the pages not matching and being side by side - does that bother anyone else?

[hawsumb]

Originally Posted by mymalloryboys

I have a folder with all of my LO's ready to be printed - I just keep spending all of my money on digi supplies - I have got to save and get my pages printed. I want to try shutterfly - but I am worried about the pages not matching and being side by side - does that bother anyone else?

Have you seen Liz Tamanaha's photobook project? She put a layout on one side and then a corresponding full-bleed picture on the other page. Result = no mis-matched pages! She has a VERY minimalist style, but I think it would work great no matter your style. Try Googling Paislee Press and photobook project for links. I thought it was a great idea for anyone who's concerned about matching pages