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I LOVE creating year in review layouts and albums! It’s the perfect way for me to take some of my favorite photos from the year and put them on one layout. A year in review layout is a fun way for me to showcase events that happened each month through out the year (since I normally don’t love scrapping events).
We’ve done posts on this before:
- Quickly Creating A Year-In-Review Album
- 2009 – the year in review
- Truly Inspiration – Year In Review
- New Year’s Eve, Last Chance for TDF10, & Year-In-Review Layouts
Typically, when I’m creating a year in review layout, I go through my photo folders by month (they are organized chronologically by year, then month) and pull out the photos I love and that represent the year to me. I use FotoFusion to automatically create a collage for me with all of my photos. Here are some other programs that will create collages for you:
For one of my year in review layouts for 2012, I decided to document my travels, which were abnormally frequent this past year:
Layout by Steph, supplies used: free map template by Nettio (there is also a tutorial for creating your own), Vagabond by One Little Bird, font is Smith Primiere Schutzy.
I have a New Year’s Eve tradition where I work on a Year in Review Album and I’m looking forward to that again this year (I missed last year). I will most likely do photo collages using one of the programs mentioned above OR some scripts that will place photos in a template for me.
I thought I would share a few of the fun templates I’ve seen popping up around digiland:
Michelle Batton’s templates that are included in The Digi Files through the end of December 2012:
A year in review by Penny Springmann
From Studio Basic:
I think this is a GREAT idea and would create a super quick Year In Review Album:
Cindy Schneider has a lot of Year in Review templates. If this link doesn’t pull them up, just do a search for “year in review cindy” and it will pull up 6 packs. Here’s the link to the templates below.
There are many, many templates out there that can be used for a Year in Review album. They don’t need to have the months on them in order to work. Just look through the template section of your favorite store, you are bound to find something great!
Have you created a 2012 Year in Review layout or album? Link us up in the comments! We would love to see your work!
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When I was a paper scrapper, my year in review layouts consisted of photo scraps with a layer of vellum over it with some type of review text–often ABCs. Since I don’t have photo scraps anymore, I’ve kind of discontinued this practice. However, in 2011 I participated in Project 52 and at the end of the year, I made a big layout of all the pictures that didn’t “make the cut”. Here’s that layout:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonsuske/6621201303/
Now I’m considering another year in review layout!
Great article!
Hi! I would love to know how to download the Anna Forest Designs Album Builder Script. I couldn’t find a link in the post. I love all the ideas in this post! Thank you for any help!
Sabrina
You can email her directly and she will let you purchase them:
myranalis (at) hotmail (dot) com
Thank you!! I did contact and she was AMAZING at helping me set up the Album Builder. I was/am blown away by her generosity to help me step-by-step in installing the program. I’m so excited to play with the script!
Heddy — Fabulous page & I really like the detailed journalling
Thank you!!
I also like to create a 2 page year in review to focus on the important things that happened to my family over the past year. Every year I create a calendar for my family featuring my nieces. They are too pretty to throw away at the end of the year, so I add them to my scrapbook album just before the YIR review pages.
Great post, Steph! I’ve done YIR pages in the past – it’s a great exercise to sum up a year and reflect on all the good times we had. Here’s one I did; http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1233035&title=2010-in-review&cat=500