Creating Time To Scrap!

We've all been there, so many pictures and ideas with so little time. I like many other scrappers fit into the category of working parent with young children. That means my time to scrap exists at freakishly early or late hours in the day or my spouse happens to take the kids somewhere and if I'm lucky there is nothing critical I need to do. What do I do, I love to scrap and can't fathom all my memories sitting inside picture folders in a box. Below are some tips I use, and hopefully are helpfull for you.

1) Cut and crop pictures as soon as you pick them up or print them out.
2) Create some preformatted pages that just need pictures added. As an example if your kids play sports there's a good chance you will be creating a sports page at some time. Therefore create some simple preformatted pages with sports paper or stickers and you then can add pictures and captions when you have a chance.
3) Buy some preformatted pages. Not exactly expressing your fulll creativity but serves the purpose if you crunched for time.
4) Copy a page design you've seen somewhere else. Every page doesn't have to be a completely unique piece of work. If you like it use it, the pictures are different.
5) Make it a family or one on one project with your kid. Let them create some pages or help cut, glue, place stickers, etc.

Please visit the following page and share your questions about scrapbooking.
http://www.questionsabout.com/tross/Scrapbooking_01.html

Enjoy,
Tony