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Thanks, Cheryl!...and since it's you, that makes me think maybe I can find a good deal on a digital scrapbook and make one for the troop! Hmmm....
If you do, learn from my mistake and either take screen shots of your pages or do "save as" so you have different versions, so you don't lose the whole thing. Can you tell I'm still gutted that I've lost 60+ pages of work?
I got very busy about mid morning today and got another 6 pages done. I've only got 9 pages left to do in the WDW album, and then I'll resume the train room album. My new total = 155/200.
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Ginger was your son at Sea Base? I'm sure you already know that the Be Prepared Cricut cartridge has the logo on it.
Actually, they applied for Sea Base, but didn't win the lottery to get a spot, so made their own trip!
Now here's the rub:
I do really like the photo book, which is nearly complete. It's primarily a thank-you for the assistant scoutmaster who planned it all, but we'll get an additional one for the troop to keep, and I offered to order one for the parents who want one, as well. I may get one for my son, but...I still have to do a scrapbook! I've ordered a whole bunch of photos from the local Moto Photo, for a fair amount of money (lots of 5x7s and a couple 8x10s). Guess it's not really a quandary, but the actual scrapbook may be a little bit of a letdown.
I can see why Cheryl is moving to photo books--they're easier & faster, as well as cheaper in the long run. But I can't make the move; I have way too much invested in my papers, not to mention my Cricut Explore!
I may just do a photo book for the Philmont (2-week backpacking trip in NM) from two years back, though. They took a few thousand pictures, I believe, and I haven't even looked at all of them yet, let alone sorted through, selected, edited, and ordered them!
I have officially completed our May 2016 WDW Album today by finishing the last 9 pages as I worked off and on today. I'm pleased with how it looks and once I have a chance to get to the photos of the pages uploaded to my laptop, I'll post it. Now to finish a few more pages on the Train Room album. New total = 164/200.
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Yay, Cam! I have a couple more pages to do on the photo book, then I'll be adding those to my total. (I've been rigorously following Cheryl's advice to save my work often!)
Yay, Cam! I have a couple more pages to do on the photo book, then I'll be adding those to my total. (I've been rigorously following Cheryl's advice to save my work often!)
Don't just save often - I did that. Save as into different files, in case one corrupts. That's what happens to me and that's how I lost everything. It might also be worth taking screenshots of your finished pages, so if the worst happens, you know what you designed and it's quick to re-do. That's the problem I have, I can't see what I did and have no idea how to re-do it, so I have to start again.
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Congrats Cam!
Don't just save often - I did that. Save as into different files, in case one corrupts. That's what happens to me and that's how I lost everything. It might also be worth taking screenshots of your finished pages, so if the worst happens, you know what you designed and it's quick to re-do. That's the problem I have, I can't see what I did and have no idea how to re-do it, so I have to start again.
Thanks for the advice--I know you're just sick about losing so much work!
Can I ask which company you were using? I'm in Shutterfly for this one. I didn't see any way to save it as another file, so I just now took screenshots of everything.
Thanks for the advice--I know you're just sick about losing so much work!
Can I ask which company you were using? I'm in Shutterfly for this one. I didn't see any way to save it as another file, so I just now took screenshots of everything.
I use Jessops, which is a British company. There you do have the option to "save as", which is what they've advised me to do, although it takes up a lot of space to save all the photos each time in a different file, so I think I'll just do screenshots, as at least if I know what I did, then I can re-do it fairly quickly. It's having to start from scratch with the inspiration that's tough.
Even on the holiday, I did get to spend a little time in the scrapbook room after we had time with family for lunch. I managed another 6 pages in Luke's train room album. I have photos for only two more pages in it before he has to do something new in there for me to photograph. New total = 170/200.
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Well done, Cam! Just about time to increase your goal, looks like.
Done with the 26 pages of the scuba trip photo book, yay! Now just waiting to see if the last family wants me to order one for them, too--gotta get the order in tonight to get the sale price..
That puts me up to 120/300, so not as far off the goal pace as I had been.
I finished the last two pages that I have for now on the train room album. New total = 172/200. I'm not upping my goal yet because nothing is guaranteed. I will probably work on two WDW album's simultaneously for the October trip, one for us and one for June's crew. But I'm not when I'll start on these, so I'll just wait until I get started to see if I might get more than 200 done this year.
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New total = 164/200.
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