It’s that time when we love to look back through the past year and reflect on the events and happenings that occurred. This is something that is particularly fun for digital scrapbookers as we discussed in the Paperclipping Digi Show podcast #29 The Year in Review. During that show I (Katie) talked about how easy it is for me to do my year-end recaps because of my monthly roundup tool. I’ve talked about roundups here on The Daily Digi before, but I thought it would be fun to show you how I simply took the information from this monthly exercise and turned it into a scrapbook album. It was SO EASY!
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ROUNDUP ALBUM INGREDIENTS:
Monthly roundup prompts as found on my blog. I fill these out at the end of each month and when it came time to make this album, I pretty much just copied and pasted the journaling right onto the pages.
Monthly templates. You can design your own or use some from one of your favorite digital designers. I chose Cathy Zielske’s The Monthly album set.
Papers and embellishments. I decided to use only papers in my album so it was more like a photobook. All the papers in my project are by Kaye Winiecki. I kept my format very basic by using the same background paper for every page and then adding a different accent color for each month. Of course you can add as many goodies as you want to, there is no right or wrong way!
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ROUNDUP ALBUM RESULTS:
I compiled at least one page of photographs for every month of the year and then included my roundup on the opposing layout. Each month has a minimum of a 2 page spread that both shows and tells what we did that month. There were several times that I ended up with 4 pages (or more) so I used some of the generic collages and/or altered some of the existing templates to stretch the layouts to include all the important memories from that time period.
Here are the main photo pages for each month of this year and the roundup journaling pages that accompany each of them:
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I still have to do my December roundup. I never roundup the month until it is officially over.
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If you’ve been doing your roundups, you have an album just waiting to be put together! Or you can also use the information on a variety of other scrapbook pages. If you’ve never tried a roundup, it’s a great time to start! You can begin with January and if you keep going, you will have the easiest end-of-year review ever for 2011 and plenty of inspiration for scrapping all year long!
Find the roundup details here. You can also subscribe to my blog, or check back on the last day of each month for a regular reminder.
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I have loved working with Cathy’s The Monthly this year. It’s been wonderful to do a monthly roundup, to take the time to look back and enjoy again. I’ve tried to complete each month during the following month, but I’m playing a bit of catch-up at the end.
But by the end of January 2011 I’ll have a lovely book of 2010 in review.
I definitely plan on continuing this project through 2011.
Thank you so much for this post! It is, indeed, very inspirational. I love the simple format of your round-up layouts and will be doing something similar for my 365 layouts!!
I just started with my roundup and also all other preparations to create a 2011 album! You’ve inspired me 100%
http://www.decemberdaily.wordpress.com (you see it all started with Ali!)
Do you know if the 2010 number on the front page of Kathy’s template can be changed to 2011 or should I wait ’till she brings out a new version?
It can be changed. I actually used a smaller font size than the one she had included, and just all other digital templates, you can customize many things.
I love this idea! I AM going to try to do this. Monthly might work better than those who suggest daily or weekly pages. Thank you for your inspiration.
Thanks for the idea of a monthly roundup – working on my first right now!
What an awesome super project! I’m feeling–dast I say it?–so inspired I might actually do one (which for me, would be a hugeginormousamazing thing)… =)
Absolutely LOVE this album. Can’t wait to get busy and do my own! Thanks for sharing the whole thing.
Very inspiring, Katie. I like the idea and it seems doable. Thanks.
Katie, this rocks. Love seeing it in action!
Awesome, Katie. I’m inspired!
Okay, I’m totally doing this in 2011!! THANKFUL that I have a blog, and that I try to keep up with my “Nutshell” posts. I need a system, though, so I’ll be subscribing to your blog!! Thanks Katie!!
That is a lovely recap!!!! Love the Cathy Z flavour of it too! Very well done.
What a fantstic album!!
I’m SO doing this instead of a P365. I don’t have the discipline for a 365, plus my Tuesdays after work just aren’t that fascinating so finding a photo is more a chore than fun. I’m going to use Biograffiti’s templates here:
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=25994&cat=366&page=1
and add-on pages here:
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=26040&cat=366&page=1
After two years of Project 365 I think I’m going to go with something like this for 2011. I love how yours turned out!! (especially the Swedish Chef…simply adorable)
Your album is so great!! Too late for me for this year, but just the right inspiration for 2011!!
OK Katie – you’ve convinced me now – i NEED to do my roundups! I love this album!