Can you do it ?

[cantstopstampin]

I've just been through my 12x12 albums I have about 12 that are filled, well almost filled. Every year I go through them and scrap - really scrap some of my pages/layouts.

I keep whatever embellishments I can (IF they are worth keeping) and keep the photo's obviously if I can, but I hate to see layouts that I made in the early days which really aren't very good (in my own opinion) - I'm not a fantastic scrapper but I do enjoy flicking through my albums from time to time.

I have managed to throw away about 5 pages tonight. I feel cleansed. ha ha

[soojay]

Yes and No -i could never take apart the page - each page has memories in itself while I was creating them - even if they dont meet today's expectations. Where I was , who i was with ( if at a crop) , how I felt at the time. I have often rescrapped a photo or an event though.

[jackinthebox]

Oh...no...couldn't do it!!!! Each page tells a story and that would be lost if you tore the page up!!! It doesn't matter that it hasn't got the latest embellishments/paper etc my stlye has probably changed anyway!!! I have about 40 albums...so far!!!!

[faerie]

I re scrapped mall my albums about 2 years ago About 25 albums at the time. I did not re-do every page but I loved going through them all again!

[yizzard]

No, because a) like Soojay each page holds its own memories of where I was, why I was scrapping it and who I was scrapping it for but also b) I still have a zillion and five photos that I havent had a chance to scrap yet and I dont have time to worry about re-scrapping those I already have scrapped. I have 21 12x12 albums and quite a few smaller albums and yet I still have 13 CD RUB's filled with photos which doesnt even start to include the ones post digital camera which are stored on my external hard drive.

[Crafty Sandra]

No cos each page has memories and even though ive improved (i hope) since then its where i was at the time.

[Beanpie11]

Yes! I did it recently throwing out bin bags full of lo's and emptying half of the albums I have. But I scrapbook for a different reason to many people. To me the process of being creative is more important than the memory. At the end of the day I have nobody to leave my albums to so I keep the lo's for a while then when my albums are full again I'll go through them and have a throw out. There are certain lo's I didn't like anymore so the photos got taken off them to rescrap but I didn't keep any of the embellishments. Plus I take loads of daft photos like flowers and animals and the sky and berries and (once) a ducks feet cos I liked the colours I mean do I really need 25 lo's of a highland cow

[CoventryAnn]

Noooo! I haven't ditched any older pages, they show how my scrapping has changed over the 12 years I have been scrapbooking. I have re-scrapped some photos, but not many.

[alison 2]

I did 'alter' some when I transferred some LO's from a creative memories album to a ring binder. I had to chop off the edges, then I mounted them on card stock to make them 12x12 which updated them a bit, I did rearrange the photos on a couple too. I also plan to change a couple slightly so they work with other lo's when put together in an album, some just don't work together !!
I couldn't just throw lo's out though

[cantstopstampin]

thank you for your replies. interesting.

I still feel cleansed and looking forward to rescrapping the photo's too. I have my mojo back (well at the moment anyway)

[terri]

Debbie, I scrap for myself too. I do have two boys in their twenties. They won't want the albums.

[scrapnanny]

I revamped my Albums as part of my de cluttering, a few old LO don't fit in with my style now so I upgraded them and a few unfinished ones that I really didn't like {reason for not finished them} I took the pictures off and dumped them, It is nice to look back and see that I have improved. LOL.

[Damkina]

No, I couldn't take them apart or ditch them.
But, what I am about to do is transfer all my very first 11x8 1/2 layouts into my 12x12 We R Memory Keepers albums. I'll be adding them onto a matching backing sheet with just a title or bit of embellishment As some of the layouts didn't have them.

[Voodoo Vixen]

I would really have to dislike the LO to actually rip it up and start again. I quite enjoy looking back at the different styles I acquired over the years but the reason for scrapping the photos remains the same. Hopefully the albums will be treasured when I am gone and if they aren't... so be it, I won't know! LOL

[SarahK]

I have thought about it, there are some where it is a case of 'crikey did I really scrap like that' but most often it is the photo, from when it was taken and as said above, the moment it was scrapped - perhaps thinking that they are on the wonky side for some other reason apart from not being able to see straight