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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Finding Photo Freedom

I have been participating in Stacy Julian's Finding Photo Freedom class (aka Library of Memories) over at Big Picture Classes.  It has been an amazing experience!  It has caused me to organize my photos in a new way and to think very differently about how to organize my layouts.

Until now I have kept strictly chronological albums.  I scrapped out of order but kept layouts in order in my albums.  Now I am going to try Stacy's approach of organizing them into categories: All About Us, People We Love, Things We Do, and Places We Go.  I plan to use this system moving forward but I'm not going to go back and pull all my old layouts to sort in this way.  I'm leaving well enough alone!  :)  So for right now I have all layouts in one album, just divided by category.  As it starts to fill up I'll move each topic into it's own album.  Which is where these title pages come in...


I kept the layout design the same for each title page.  It was inspired by a classmate in Finding Photo Freedom.  I made the photo grid in PSE printed it out and backed it with paper.


I've assigned a theme color for each category.  So on the title page I used that color in the title block, on the photo mat, the ribbon and the tab.  Then I used the other three colors on the accent squares.


On the accent blocks I used versamark ink to stamp hearts and one word.  It can be hard to see in the photo because it is tone on tone but I love how it looks in person!


I also found a quote for each category.  Some were in a Quote Stack book I had so I printed the others on vellum so that the style would match.

And there you have it.  My new title pages for each category in my Finding Photo Freedom/Library of Memories album.  Yipee!




















How do you organize your albums?  Have you ever made a title page for an album?  If you were to divide your pages into these categories which one do you think would fill up first?  I'd love to hear your thoughts!

4 comments:

  1. I'm so envious of you, Monica! I wanted to take this class so badly, but my recent schedule would not permit it. I've had Stacy's books for years and have wanted to take the plunge into the Library of Memories system. I've already positioned myself to work on my girls' School of Life albums the way Stacy does her kids' books. I just need to DO IT!! Your title pages for each section of your LOM are AMAZING! The photos and design are just fantastic. Keep on inspiring me by showing me your beautiful pages for this book and also tell which category it will go in. It will be my motivation to get into it!! :) ~Jen http://happyplaceforjen.blogspot.com/

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  2. I've never taken the class but I have one of Stacy's books. My girls' each have their own albums with layouts that I've created. They are in some sort of order but not by much. I love Stacy's approach and will probably move to that sometime in the near future. I love your title page and the color scheme that you chose:)

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  3. I highly recommend taking it the next time it's offered (although that won't be for 2 yrs). It has been awesome! I just finished putting my oldest's pages into his School of Life album today. Thanks for all your support and comments Jen! I know that if no one else is looking at least you are! :)

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  4. Thanks Michele! I've loved FPF! And I think I'm a bit of a Stacy Julian stalker! She just inspires me so much! :)

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