I have several albums that I did before becoming digital. Basically they consist of pictures cut into shapes and put on colored cardstock (sometimes I added stickers). I was looking through them the other day and had a strong urge to redo all of them (I don't have kids and so I don't have many pics to scrap and am always looking for more pages to do). How many of you have redone your old albums? What do people think about redoing old albums?

After owning a scrapbook store, I have many albums with completed pages. My layout process consisted of creating a 12x12 layout for our album, plus 2 layouts in 8.5x11 size for each daughter's album, plus 8.5x11 albums for the grandparents. That worked well until I lost my sight, leaving me unable to even see to sign my name let alone cut along lines.

So yes, I am re-doing many of the pages as digital layouts using the information from this site to improve the scanning process and to edit the photographs to make them 100% perfect. My plans also include creating albums from the photos and negatives I have dating back to about 1905, even tho they are already in the albums created by my ancestors. I want each of my daughters and my nephew to have copies that they can keep and duplicate when they have children of their own.

There will be many different answers to your questions, as each person creates layouts for different reasons. Mine is to preserve the memories for my family, and to show them how special their lives are. But then again, I am just a sappy old scrapper that is trying to keep up the scrapbooking tradition that my grandmother started back in 1927.

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Hi Reelynn, I fully intend redoing some of my pages. (I have done a couple), but usually I change them quite a bit - normally I redo a page because I really love the photo. I don't have kids either but really enjoy scrapping "non-people", pages. Go for it, Lisa

This is going to be my fall project, I have some paper layouts in an album the rest are digital layouts I did when I just started (really really really bad layouts!!) so I am going to start over so my kid doesn't have to see all those oogy pages

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I'm redoing my oldest son's baby book. Lucky for me, I had only finished one paper book before I discovered digital, so there isn't a whole lot do. But I want my older son's book to be similar to my younger sons - after going digital, I'm really bored by my paper book lol.

I've already redone a couple pages and they are posted in my gallery. You should have seen them before - BORING. Now they are some of my favourites.

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