How do you use your pages???

[akpatterson]

Got to thinking today after reading Kayleigh's post on her blog about not understanding why someone would not post dates on each page...

As a beginning scrapbooker, I create my pages with the intent to put them into a yearly family book and in my mind, I was thinking it redundant to put a date on every page.

All that I have been doing is uploading my files to Shutterfly and having a book made, but I am interested in what you all do?

Thanks!!!

[muddygirl]

I make shutterfly books too. I do a yearly one for my son, well I will have when I catch up . This year I am doing a 2010 Family album, a 365 Album, probably a December Daily again too, and I am trying to do a book for my DH for a project he did, as a surprise. I date all my pages, but usually just with month and day, not year, unless they are january photos, then I might do some with the year, to to show the change (my son's books go from May to May). I date them all for two reasons - 1. I think its important to recoginse when the photos were taken for the future when I might not remember so easily, they are kind of like a visual diary for me, and 2. It helps me to put them into the correct chronological order in my books. I also name my pages by date eg, August 23rd KinderGym.psd, this helps building the books too.

[HeatherPrins]

no i rarely date pages for the same reason-they go into my yearly American Crafts binders. I print monthly.

[esther_a]

I name the file with the date so the digital version doesn't need the date on it. Pages that go in a year book just have the day and month. Holiday books have multiple pages for each day so I only put the date on each new day. Pages for heritage books or random pages have the date if it is of a specific event. It is handy to have there.

[Kayleigh]

So i guess i am one of the only ones that is obsessed with knowing the exact date for my pages! Well then! lol I guess even if i were to do yearly albums i would still wonder looking at the pages 20 years from now if that page were June or July b/c i wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Everyone has to do what works for them & if you have a system that works run with it!

[anke]

I try to date all my pages! I have been known to print tons of pages at the same time and then try to sort them in order. What a headache! It taught me to put a date on them, plus I kind of like to have it right there, so I am with you

[Jen D]

I like dates on my pages... but sometimes I tend to forget! I usually will go back and add one before I print. I am with Kayleigh a bit. I wonder what will happen if the books get mixed up somehow when I am long and gone

[digigrandma]

I try to remember to date most of my pages, except for double page spreads when all the pics are from the same event; then, I just date one of the pages.

Sometimes, I don't date Art Journal pages, but, I think I should.

[HeatherPrins]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

So i guess i am one of the only ones that is obsessed with knowing the exact date for my pages! Well then! lol I guess even if i were to do yearly albums i would still wonder looking at the pages 20 years from now if that page were June or July b/c i wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Everyone has to do what works for them & if you have a system that works run with it!

not a problem when you're an obsessive chronological scrapper like myself, lol. After I complete each layout i put the jpeg into iphoto in an album for that month, so if i needed to i could always check the date there by clicking command i

[JulieSade]

I put a date on my pages. I have a poor memory, so I rely on the dates to clue me into what was happening. With arty pages, I think it's a good thing to put a date on there somewhere, too, so that when it's printed, you can tell when you did it, and see your progress. Besides, I thought the point (part of the point for chronological scrapping) was to put down dates, names, and details, if you have them, for the future. Otherwise, the books/layouts just turn into another version of Great grandma's "Who IS this?" scrapbook. You need context and documentation. At least, for me!

[2girlsandapoodle]

kayleigh, you're not the only one! i feel exactly the same way. i know that i will *not* remember when that was at any future point in time and if i don't, no one else will! so i date every page.

i don't actually feel "finished" until it's on there somewhere - sometimes i just type it in a tiny font along the photo or border, and sometimes i use elements - i like having to find that one-more-perfect-thing for the page to use for the date.

i don't usually use the actual day of the month unless it was particularly special, usually i just note the month and year and often the place (town/province).

[Britgirl]

No kayleigh, me too I am not scrapping for myself, I'm scrapping for the future generations, who WONT have access to my files or computer, and just want a date on a pic. I might just add a month and a year, or a day, month year. but eitherway I always do!! My parents had piles of old pics with no dates... and the person who took them was long gone, so we had no idea of WHO most of the time never mind WHEN!

[tdavenport]

I'm with Jen. Sometimes I just forget.

[carollee]

I date the majority of my pages too. Possibly not as specific as the actual day, unless it's something special, but definitely August 2010 or similar.

I look at some of the old old photos of my grandparents and their parents and wonder, is that the turn of the century? is that the 20's or the 30's. I'd just like to know. So I figure if I want to know, then our audience for our photos, whoever that may be, might like to know too.

[janet_o]

I date most of mine when they relate to a specific event or when I'm afraid I won't remember what year, i.e. my daughter's softball stuff.

[jeswel@msn.com]

I try to date pages. Even if I'm not specific with day, month, year, I try to at least have the year on a page. I have a ton of pictures from my mother & grandmother and none of them have dates. I can look and guess at decades but frankly the women in my family weren't fashion forward so I could think I'm looking at a photo from the fifties & it really be from the seventies (I might be exagerrating a bit ) Anyway, I don't want the same thing to happen to me or my children (when I get some of those).

[Crafty Kacy]

I date mine too, at least when I remember as I know I'll forget when I took the photos otherwise.

[earlofoxford]

I didn't start out dating pages, but once I got some printed and tried to sort them to put in an album, I quickly saw the value. Now I try to put a date on each layout. And as has already been mentioned, future generations will thank us.

[whatnext]

i usually sneak a little date on my pages somewhere. plus, when i print out my pages, i write something on the back of each.

[Adryane]

I have to date too. It's not always obvious, but it's there. Sometimes, I turn the date off before posting but turn it on for my own copy :-)

[jesshunt]

Oh I can't scrap in order at all so dates are a must - usually just a month and year, but I try and get it on there one way or another

[anxela]

While I do think that it's nice to know the date, I find that I rarely include it. I think I have to change that. Years from now, I might wonder about when things happened...

[anxela]

Originally Posted by digigrandma

Sometimes, I don't date Art Journal pages, but, I think I should.

I agree with you on this one!

[annaaspnes]

Originally Posted by whatnext

i usually sneak a little date on my pages somewhere. plus, when i print out my pages, i write something on the back of each.

I LIKE this idea Phylis!

I usually date my pages, month + year is good enough for me though.

[tylertooo]

I date each page, I don't scrap as aggressively as most of you, and I tend to scrap that special photo I find or think about. Unfortunately this means I am not lucky enough to print shutterfly books (my goal to do one someday), I also figure that someday someone may be viewing my online images and will wonder, just as I wonder when going through heritage photos that not only have no date, but not even a name - which is soooo frustrating to me now that my mom is sending me old photos. No I am playing detective.

[Carol Elliott]

I also date (although, at times forget). I think I'm going to start putting the ages and names as well as I think that will be very helpful down the road!

[kathie02]

oh, i have to date each page....i jump from one project to another and someday, probably June 2014, when i get them all done, i will need those dates to get the books ready for printing!! lol!!

[jeswel@msn.com]

And to answer the second part of the question that I missed... I create separate pages that will be printed and go into a book.

[Lindar70]

Definitely have to include the date! Sometimes I include the specific day, but usually I just record the month and year. I scrap out of order, and I would get completely lost if I didn't.

[glassbird]

Just another angle on this...we do not know today if today's date may be important in the future. A date can put historical relevance on an image that just might be very important someday. I have a picture of my grandmother as a teenager that is carefully dated on the back. The picture itself is priceless to me, but knowing that it was taken on the day before the the "Great Stockmarket Crash" of 1929 puts the historical time frame of the picture into focus for me.