Scrapbook Page Kits

My sister in law gets these page kits from her local scrapbook store. She pay X amount per month to receive one a month. (I think they are about $10) In the kit she receives everything she needs for a 2 page layout with all the papers cut and ready to go; what isn't ready they have instructions for but it's very minimal work for her. Since she has already put the layout together, when she gets to her next crop all she has to do is slap the pictures in. No deciding what to do, what papers to use, what colors, etc.... Since she's been doing this for so long she has a lot of different layouts and she sometimes repeats a layout using different papers. This has worked very well for her. It's very much a time saver for her. Well I'm all about saving time so I decided to use this technique, making up my own "kit" here at home. Basically I'm scrapbooking without putting the photos, journaling, titling and major embellishments in. I decided to try this with 1 album. If it works for me I'll continue using the idea. If I have a local scrapbook store that ever does these page kits like hers does, I'm all over it!

So as I said I decided to do this for 1 album to test it out. I've been working in my Maui album. My daughter and I went on an overnight trip there in 2006. The boys were all at the Maui Boy Scout summer camp so we did meet up with them at the Maui Ocean Center but we had plenty of time to ourselves as well. It was a fun trip. I plan on taking the album with the completed layouts and the printed out photos to a crop in April. I'm hoping to finish the full album at the crop. All I'll have to do is put the photos into the layouts.

Here's some photos of what I did today....you can see the layout is there, it's just a matter of adding photos, journaling and a title and a few whatnots if I want.






Once I place photos on these layouts, I'll post and share the finished product. I'm really hoping this will be a time saver for me as well.