Question: Hi Robin, I am in a dilemma. I made a scrapbook for my daughters graduation and have been making it for months. Now I have so many pages and they just won’t all fit in the album. Do you suggest I get a 3 ring binder and try it that way to fit all the pages or will the sheet protectors not line up with a binder? I only have until Saturday to complete this project. I didn’t realize I had completed so many pages until starting to put it all together.
I would appreciate any advice from you.
Thank you,
Answer: I actually use 3-ring albums for all of my scrapbooking pages (I just started using them and got hooked). I love how all of them are the same size and color (I buy the 12×12 leather ones from Roberts and the linen ones here). So a binder will work and the page protectors should line up fine.
But if you have a postbound album, you might just consider getting some extension posts so that that pages can fit.
The last option would be consider getting a matching album to the one you have and doing a “Part I” and “Part II” or using dates to distinguish the two albums.
**As a note, most 2″ 3-ring albums will hold about 20-25 page protectors with 40-50 pages back to back. Postbound albums usually come with 10 page protectors (so you can have 20 back to back pages. Depending on the size of you extension posts, you can double or even triple that. Just keep in mind that too many pages in the album makes the albums less durable and your pages are not as protected. I don’t think I would ever do more than 25 page protectors per binder/album. If you do digital scrapbooking or do not have any bulkiness to your pages, you can get away with several more pages per album.