Beginner & Scrapbooking Basics / What I wish I knew before I started Scrapbooking / Tips from a pro

Learn my tips and what I wish I knew BEFORE I started scrapbooking! I will cover the types of albums, must-have products, and the strategy you need to get started!
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[@user-pn1bk3kr4w]

Its funny I came across this video today. I stopped scrapping for about 10 years because I was overwhelmed. I am getting back to it, in a much more specific way, instead of scrapping every single thing on the planet. This video was very timely and affirming for me. Thank you! Amanda in Salem MA

[@julieharden158]

Omg…….. you nailed it right on the head saying you don’t have to do every photo!! Nobody has every said that before. And who wants the albums later?? So much to think about after scrapbooking for so many years. Thanks Lauren for your wonderful floss tube. Love and blessings xx

[@juliespady8467]

1995 was the year I was introduced to scrapbooking also! Creative Memories at a friend’s house! I still have that first page! This was a great video. Thanks.

[@53islandgirl]

Another great video, thank you Lauren!

[@cindylawrence7076]

Great video Lauren! Great informationfor us old timers too. I also started in 1995! Photo's, Pages, stickers, Cardstock, best friends and laughter. Scrapbooking is a wonderful medication.

[@melissadivelbiss5996]

Thank you for these wonderful questions to ask ourselves, they helped me find my answer. I have an endless supply of scrapbook supplies and photos and items and I’ve just not been sure how i want to start so i never have. In about 7 years of wanting to and collecting stuff to do it I’m so so excited to be able to finally start! I can’t thank you enough

[@nwalker1049]

Lauren, thank you so much for this video. I think I will be watching this again. I’m at a crossroads and need to make a decision ❤️

[@user-qn5kl7jl6e]

Thank you so much for this video. I just started scrapbooking and truly learned a lot today. Looking forward for future content GB

[@lizkeyshian3850]

Hi Lauren and everyone from Livonia MI. I didn't realize this was on, and caught the replay. I love your thoughts and ideas and even when I have heard some of this before, there is always something I take away. Lauren says: "I don't have to scrap all the photos" -I can never hear too often. Thank you. One thing I wish is when I am watching a replay-that all the comments showed on the replay because the interaction with your other viewers is always interesting and so much fun!

[@SuzanneHHaupt]

Lauren, you are an excellent teacher!

[@elizabethscott8767]

My favorite album is one of my sister and I on a trip to Montand. I didn't have a ton of scrapbook supplies so it's very minimalist with a few stamped images, feathers and even a piece of toilet paper It's more about our memories and less about how much "stuff"i could put on a page. Soo, this is a very timely talk for me.. I'm getting back into my scrapbooks and so love your ideas. It helps me stick to the memories and make a more simplistic style...Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[@scrapoutloud]

Great info. Even though I'm a seasoned scrapbooker, being reminded about the different types of albums and what do you want your end result to be, are great questions.

[@rosemarycarpenter4290]

I love the Thanksgiving album idea!

[@mindihutter184]

Hi Lauren. I'm so very glad I found your channel 😊. This is so me .

[@CraftSomeJoy]

I'm so glad! Welcome!!

[@bajin6065]

I came across an amazing KZbin video on Beginner & Scrapbooking Basics during my recent binge-watching session. The tips shared by a seasoned pro were incredibly helpful, and I'm grateful for the effort put into creating such a valuable guide. I've already liked the video, subscribed for more insights into the world of scrapbooking, and eagerly anticipate the next one! 🌟 #ScrapbookingEnthusiast #KZbinGems

[@annejones8716]

Appreciate hearing other viewer's struggles! It gives me hope that I can stop and start again, as I hear other people say how they started with Creative Memories back in the 1990s, stopped for awhile, and now are trying to pick it up. That's me - especially since everything my folks hung onto ended up at my house. It's overwhelming. I'll be using pocket pages for much of it and scrapbooking some. Still a daunting project. Love this community because most of my friends and family think I'm crazy to put in so much time and energy. I have no children. Who will look at these albums? Hoping my siblings and their children will value them someday.......

[@griml89]

Sometimes it is enough to create for yourself. If it gives you joy. :)

[@juliespady8467]

My must haves 30 years ago were scissors paper stickers, adhesive. I didn’t have a trimmer. And die cuts! Pens!

[@annejones8716]

Wish I could get into the 21st century and do some of my current stuff. I'm mired in the past, trying to memorialize family history that I'm not sure anyone will even ever look at. I did a huge album of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, covering our growing up years - starting up with our parent's engagement and wedding - and then the story of the seven children, through high school graduation for the youngest. I'm now stuck with boxes of photos - not in order and mostly not labeled - from the folk's house - that people are asking my why I feel it's important to make albums and will anyone look at them. And what to do with the memorabilia that my parents kept but didn't organize - documents, letters, cards, some photos, and a genealogy study - one side only. Sigh. Thanks for letting me go on......Scrapbooking helps me organize. Very time-consuming but I don't have a better solution. Looks like the next project is a prequel. What came before 1950? It's all in a huge pile on a six-foot table. How to start......

[@penniebryant-jk9gj]

I'm going thru the same experience.

[@laurajerbi9818]

If I had the money back when the kids were little, I would have made them each their own albums. But to pay for all the duplicate or triplicate photos just wasn’t in our budget, so I scrapped our family of five chronologically. Kids are now 32, almost 30 and almost 28. Those albums in our small house hallway bookcase are the first things they grab for when they come home. Two kids are in CO…one at an army base, and one is in MN. Hubby and I are in IL. I will keep on doing the chronological order as we are empty nesters and the only pics I take now are when we travel to see the kids or they come home. Lauren…..love love love all your you tube videos…

[@ruthorner5659]

Great information. Lots to think about. You showed a way to organize pictures. I thought you said you had the cards for sale on your shop.

[@diannepillar3061]

I have been CM scrapbooking since 2006. I have finally made a decision to end my kids' albums at the age of 12-13(i.e. final year at primary school here in New Zealand, Year 8). I also do family albums and these are where I will continue to add any layouts of the kids following on from this. The other decision that I have is that for any family trips we do will now be digital photobooks, this will ensure I have "special trips" that are separate and all other smaller events etc will still be in standard CM albums. I used to also think that all my photos had to be scrapbooked, now I'm trying to trim down as many as possible, making the pages more special around the actual events. I cull my photos now before printing them, saving a whole lot of money on printing and decision making when it comes to what to put on a layout.

[@tinaclifton4611]

I remember being so nervous cutting my first picture.

[@juliespady8467]

Me too!!!

[@carolblackburn6008]

?? Lauren, I love how you showed your daughter's albums with the spines labeled. Did you do that yourself or were you able to send in the spines to CM. I have about 50 albums and would love to have them done. You have inspired me so much to get my disaster craft room back to working order. Still lots more to do, keep it up!!🩵

[@kimberlyberger4362]

Hi Lauren - what do you do with pictures that you don’t curate into a scrapbook? Especially older prints? Do you digitize them?

[@ruthorner5659]

It was a Friday night Where you showed home to store pictures

[@diannescott4673]

Hi Lauren, Have you made a video on your 8x8 grateful Album. Thank you

[@jacquelinewaters5795]

Hi, would you use it as a travel album, I have brochures and tickets?

[@griml89]

This is a very useful video for me. I’m a card maker some have already a lot of supplies. I want to preserve some memories for my kid. I just have to figure out which size and style of album to use. I’m quite intimidated by 12x12 as I’m used to card size projects. I think I’m more drawn to a smaller album with smaller fotos, like instax Polaroid. Do any of you have any tips for good albums, maybe with ring binding?

[@juliespady8467]

I really like the idea of having one book with the same theme!! BUT right now I have 30 years of chronolocal photos!!!

[@chaosinthecraftroom]

Hi Lauren I'm creating my first ever creative memories album but have made many other albums before but found this very helpful. I was wondering how you label the binder of your albums as yours looked so nice and I'm not sure how to label the CM binder material

[@CraftSomeJoy]

So glad! I used the custom spine service from Creative Memories... you can find it here: www.creativememories.com/custom-foiled-spines.html?acc=LaurenHinds

[@chaosinthecraftroom]

@@CraftSomeJoy thank you so much 💕

[@ruthorner5659]

Personal trimmer. 12 12 trimmer. Adhesive Album.

[@chocoholic1684]

Id tried making a scrapbook back when i was 16 for me and my boyfriend (now fiancee) and had next to no photos so was more of a journal. Ive decided i want to do one of my kids and tried to do it in order in a spiral bound album and its driven me nuts to the point of removing the binding. Now im at a point where i get the paper out and am overwhelmed with what photo should i use how should i put it together

[@hanliejensen9308]

Hi Lauren ! Thank you for great info. I just started scrapbooking tonight, for the first time. Want to make a book for both my son & daughter . The plan is to fill it with pretty pictures I saved from the Internet, to adding inspirational quotes, pieces of lace etc that comes from my sewing box etc. Also adding pictures of them, but pictures that tell a story or serves as as a precious memory. I wrote a "to my daughter" poem on the very first page, but messed up on the decorating... I just don't like it. WHAT DO I DO ? 😢 Tear the page out...? Or just leave it as is ? Please help ❤

[@carolblackburn6008]

??? Also, one more question, do you keep your negatives/how do you store them?

[@lindachrisco7257]

Hello from Edgefield,S.C

[@nancyann1090]

I do family chronological albums and put two years in one. I started when getting married 23 years ago. I have only finished up until 2014( about 7 albums currently) Now that my kids are older I am finding that we are not taking as many pictures. So I will probably eventually have 3 or more years in one album. I plan to make one album for each of my kids from their ages of birth to out on their own) sort of focused on them but also still emphasizing our family. I really want to just high light big moments and not do so much of the day to day stuff. When kids are really young there are more of the day to day stuff but not so much when older, kit's mostly holidays and vacations or special occasions. To be honest I am also tired of taking pictures instead of just being in the moment!! I like having fewer pictures on a scrapbook page and really enjoying the artwork of my scrapbook pages. I only put 1-3 pics on one page. A 2 page spread layout will have 4-6.

[@sandygarcia8972]

Hello, I actually came to the conclusion last year that I will never be able to scrapbook all of my printed photos, which go back to the 80"s. So I'm giving all those pictures to family members in the pictures for Xmas presents this year. And will email and or at up something digitally where family can go and copy and print the pictures they want from all my digital photos....I have always been the photo taker since junior high...

[@gailstimpson9045]

I can't find the the link for the paper album of your Minnesota trip in January, is it there and I am missing it somehow????

[@CraftSomeJoy]

I have now added it! Thanks for the reminder!

[@gailstimpson9045]

Excellent thank you

[@nalinimorris8931]

How many pages do you have in each album?

[@thatsfunny2051]

Maybe your daughter isn't that interested in her 9th birthday album right now. But she will be glad she has it to show her grandchildren

[@suzanneboily5224]

Where do you get your albums

[@CraftSomeJoy]

You can get all the wonderful items here: www.creativememories.com/user/laurenhinds ❤️

[@krembry08kentucky]

As a new scrapbooker I often fear I will mess up. Have you ever gone back and redone pages from when you were first starting out?

[@nancyann1090]

Yes, I have done this and it's no problem at all. When I first started scrapbooking I was just using what I had which was construction paper!! LOL It's faded and the pages are not very good, the pictures are good, though I cut the pictures into funky shapes!! LOL I don't have digital copies because at the time the photos were from cameras with negatives and I don't have the negatives. It's easy enough to restore these pages and re do scrapbooks! Just enjoy the process and have fun.

[@bouldergirl528]

My kids, now 28 and 30, both want digital videos of their albums, not the physical albums. That's become an important thing for me to do also in case a natural disaster destroys them. We had a wildfire recently that burned 1000+ homes nearby. There was literally no time to rescue albums. I know friends who have lost everything. I will be digitizing all of my completed albums and uploading them to private KZbin channel and to google docs, as well as portable drives.

[@gianni7397]

😏 Promo_SM

[@tarafurnice6097]

Hi, I'm a complete newbie to scrapbooking. I bought a 12x12 album but in a binder type so I could add extra pages to it. I want to do it for my 1st grand daughter, but the blank pages are daunting. I don't have a craft room.