If you have shoeboxes crammed with old family photos that you find a little overwhelming, or have just returned for an event like a wedding or family reunion and have more photos than you know what to do with, don't worry.  We can help you decide on the best order to start scrapbooking a large volume of photos without wasting your money or missing some elements you'll need.

The first step when deciding the best order to start scrapbooking a large volume of photos is to figure out the theme or tone of your photos.  If it's a wedding then you immediately know you're going to need some wedding related elements.  But if it's a family reunion or just family photos in general, to decide the best order to start scrapbooking this large volume of photos you need to decide if you want a fun theme, a whimsical theme, or something else.  You can of course just choose something neutral but it's best to have some common elements - this might mean all your pages are rainbow colors or pastels or stripes and dots, and so on.  While there are many kits that can be the best order to start scrapbooking a large volume of photos you probably want to avoid mixing up kits that don't match.  Many are complementary - soft pinks and blues, for example, or all earth tones - and using complementary kits is a great idea, but mixing pastels with earth tones or with primary colors can make your scrapbook look disorganized and scattered.

You then need to spend some time with your photos, picking and choosing the ones you really want to keep and display.  Some may need to just be put in albums while the best ones should be displayed in a scrapbook.  Remember when shopping for the best order to start scrapbooking a large volume of photos is that you may not be able to have a page for every photo, so cut down that large volume by using some discretion.

And remember that you may get overwhelmed when you start scrapping all those photos.  So, the best order to start scrapbooking a large volume of photos may be one that has a lot of pre-designed templates with nearly completed pages so that you don't get tapped out when it comes to creativity.