{"id":27967,"date":"2015-08-23T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=27967"},"modified":"2015-08-23T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:32:34","slug":"sugarbabe-sunday-823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/sugarbabe-sunday-823\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugarbabe Sunday &#8211; 8\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27982\" alt=\"SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SugarBabeSunday-header-Zakirah-600x72.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>We\u2019ve added a fun, new weekly post during this summer! We\u2019ve loved having the SugarBabes hang out with Stacia and I on the blog. \ud83d\ude42 We only have a few more weeks of this &amp; i\u2019m so sad. I\u2019ve loved seeing what the SugarBabe\u2019s write. \u00a0Today we\u2019re lucky to have Zakirah with us &amp; she\u2019s showing off her newest photobooks. Thanks Zakirah!<\/p>\n<p>Hi Sweet Shoppers! It\u2019s Sugarbabe Zakirah here with this week\u2019s Sugarbabe Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/sugarbabe-sunday-712\/\">Vanessa&#8217;s post<\/a> about how our generation is the most photographed generation, but they never see them printed? Sad, isn\u2019t it? Since taking digital photos only require a device and a hard disk to store the files, most people think it\u2019s enough to have them in their computer. Besides, we take too many photos anyway, and choosing the ones that we actually want to keep could be daunting when facing with 1000 photos.<\/p>\n<p>I was one of those people a few years ago, until I discovered digital scrapbooking. When I started scrapping, I didn\u2019t give much thought about printing my pages out because most of them are experimental and I was still learning my craft. Fast forward a few years later, I saw the importance of printing the pages out as a book, but I put it off because of a few reasons, one of it is because it costed quite a lot of money to print.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, I decided that I should no longer put it off, so I thought I should start with a personal album &#8211; a Book of Me.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that I had enough pages to make 2 books (I had more than 120 pages), so I bought 2 coupons &#8211; one for 40 pages, and another one for 80 pages. I knew that I could just print them all into one book, but after calculating the costs, additional pages would make the book more expensive so I bought 2 coupons instead. It was the most economical option for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So here they are, my first scrapbooks, printed:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27968 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-01.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-01.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-01-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><br \/>\nWhat I learned when attempting to print my first two albums:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The reason why I\u2019ve been putting off printing my pages is because I didn\u2019t scrap chronologically<\/strong> and an album with a jumble of memories seem overwhelming to me. I can\u2019t imagine my family enjoying to flip through an album that is jumbled. So I didn\u2019t print because of that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Only buy photobook coupons when your book is almost finished<\/strong>, like when it\u2019s at least 70% completed. NEVER buy if you\u2019re only planning to print, but haven\u2019t started yet. Before you know it, the coupons will expire and you\u2019ve just thrown good money into the trash. And only buy when it\u2019s a great deal. Shops like Persnickety run great deals during scrapping events like iNSD &amp; DSD, so save the date and work your book\/s toward completion.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t worry if your scrapping style has changed a lot. <strong>An album with a mixed scrapping style WILL look great.<\/strong> A minimalist page do look great next to an embellishment-heavy page. It creates BALANCE. Here\u2019s a couple of examples <em>(no, they\u2019re NOT 2-pagers)<\/em>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27970 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-03\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-03.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-03.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-03-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-03-600x358.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27969 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-02.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-02.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-02-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-02-600x386.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, I want to share with you my printed family book!<\/p>\n<p>This year, I jumped into the PL bandwagon. I loved how the pages can look uniform, yet unique at the same time. I decided to give it a try and see if I can manage scrapping my family memories in PL form.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I approach it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scrap chronologically<\/strong>, and keep photos in separate weekly folders, together with videos &amp; audio files that I want to share.<\/li>\n<li>I still love to scrap past events, but I don\u2019t want to have to go back YEARS behind and make a PL album just for that year. So I create them as <strong>\u2018flashback\u2019 pages<\/strong>. Not all months will have these flashback pages, but some do, and that makes a lot more sense to me than trying to create a whole new album for a past year (and I\u2019ll be FOREVER trying to catch up. No thanks!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on scrapping monthly memories, not weekly.<\/strong> This has kept me sane because I realize that some weeks are more typical than the others, and I don\u2019t want to make myself insane just because some weeks have less memories. I&#8217;m OK with that. My family will be OK with that too.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as I finished scrapping a spread\/page, I <strong>immediately add it to the photobook printing software<\/strong>. The company that I print with, <a href=\"http:\/\/photobook.com.my\/\">Photobook.com.my<\/a>, has a software where we can add our pages and build it for printing. I use it to track my progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27971 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-04.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-04.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-04-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-04-600x364.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started in January and in August, I managed to finish January-March. I\u2019ve scrapped other months as well, but they\u2019re not completed yet so I decided to print the first 3 months to see if I\u2019m on the right track. Here it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27972 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-05\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-05.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-05.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-05-600x451.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-06\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-06.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-07\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-07.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27975 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-08\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-08.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-08.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-08-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-08-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27976 aligncenter\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-09\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-09.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-09.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-09-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-09-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nThe print quality is AMAZING! I love the buckram cover. Here\u2019s some detailed shots\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27977\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-10.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-10.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-10-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27978\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-11.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-11.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-11-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27979\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-12.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-12.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-12-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27980\" alt=\"sugarbabesunday-z-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-13.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-13.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sugarbabesunday-z-13-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? Have you printed your scrapbooks yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve added a fun, new weekly post during this summer! We\u2019ve loved having the SugarBabes hang out with Stacia and I on the blog. \ud83d\ude42 We only have a few more weeks of this &amp; i\u2019m so sad. I\u2019ve loved seeing what the SugarBabe\u2019s write. \u00a0Today we\u2019re lucky to have Zakirah with us &amp; she\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":27972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291],"tags":[209,306,197,279,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27987,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27967\/revisions\/27987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}