Oops!
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I shoot 100% digital these days, so it should be easy to only print what I need. Or so you’d think. Instead, I find that I still have stacks of unscrapped photos leftover at the end of each scrap session. This year, one of my scrapping goals is to be organized enough to plan ahead and print only what I intend to scrap. At this birthday party, I shot 48 pictures - most of them of the boys climbing on the hay mountain. I only wanted to do a single-page spread, though, so that meant culling the photos WAY down. This is often the hardest and most time-consuming part of the process for me. I managed to choose and print the 5 photos I felt best represented the day, but in the end, I realized I’d forgotten to include a photo of the birthday girl whose party we were attending! Oops!
Sometimes, the best laid plans aren’t good enough. For the layout below, I printed the photos I knew I’d need. Except that when I sat down to do the actual scrapping, I decided that I wanted one of the photos enlarged. Since I was miles away from civilization at a scrapbooking retreat, I had to improvise with a sheet of paper. The enlargement is sitting at Costco this minute, waiting for me to drive over and pick it up.
At least I don’t have stacks of unused photos lying around. 
February 5th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I have TONS of extra photos. And now that I’m getting forgetful in my old age, I find that I’m making prints that I’ve only printed. If only there was something about the Proverbs 31 woman having a bazillion photos in boxes for her family to cull through someday.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I have tons of pictures! Way too many, when I go through them I end up with some that are almost the same, but I can’t stand not to use them or get rid of the hard copy…they are digital so I need to learn to let go of the unused ones.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I stink at culling my photos before printing. I try to keep my photo printing up to date - so that I don’t miss or forget any. But I am often uploading them to a developer in a hurry - and I just find it difficult to plan layouts with be able to physically hold the photos. I don’t have huge stacks of unused photos - but I do have some.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I agree that sometimes you forget about everyone else that were at the event when you are trying to scrap your kids (spouse, parents, etc..)
And I wish I could plan ahead enough to print different sizes.. I see so many cute layouts.. but I am such a simple scrapper.