Post-bound vs. D-ring: which Album is right for you?

Close To My Heart My Legacy™ albums provide an excellent housing for 12" x 12" scrapbook pages and are available in a variety of colors. Perfect for preserving your best-loved memories, the My Legacy™ line is the ideal album for every full-size scrapbook. Each album is made with a soft faux leather cover with a textured linen interior for a high-quality finish


My Legacy Post-bound Albums

Beautifully showcases scrapbook layouts side by side in Memory Protectors with lay-flat seams. It's sturdy binding is ideal for securing thicker layouts. Includes 1" album posts. Finished size 12 1/2" x 14" x 2 1/2"

1 1/2" posts available for purchase to replace smaller posts if desire a thicker spine.

easy screw-top posts for displaying layouts seamlessley with no gap between pages. Best when used with Memory Protectors with full gutters (list). All four styles of Pocket Plus Memory Protectors also have full gutters and will lay flat.

Faux leather covers. Not recommended to emboss the albums.

Colors: Saddle Brown, Black, Navy, Grey, Teal and Sea Glass

Faux leather album, perfect for 12" × 12" scrapbooking.

• Features a 1" screw-top post binding for displaying layouts seamlessly, with no gap between pages.

• Finished album size: 12½" × 14" × 2½".

The post-bound style beautifully showcases scrapbook layouts side-by-side in Memory Protectors™ with lay-flat seams. Its sturdy binding is ideal for securing thicker layouts. Non-expandable. Memory Protectors™ not included.


Video showing how to assemble: 

My Legacy D-ring Albums

Especially well-suited for projects that use pocket Memory Protectors like the PML layouts. Have durable steel D-ring binding for quick and easy addition and removal of pages. 

Great if you don't scrapbook in order. Can easily add and rearrange pages.

Use with any 12" x 12" Memory Protectors, including divided protectors for pocket scrapbooking.

Not expandable.
 
Finished size 13" x 15" x 2 1/2" (larger)

Faux leather album, perfect for 12" × 12" scrapbooking.

• Features a durable steel D-ring binding for quick and easy addition and removal of pages. bum

• Finished album size: 13" × 15" × 2½".

The D-ring style is especially well-suited for projects that use pocket Memory Protector™. Capacity varies depending on the thickness and weight of your layouts. Non-expandable. Memory Protectors™ not included.


Everyday Life 12" x 12" Album 

Julip only
1" spine, O-ring
Stitched Faux leather

Soft, stitched, faux leather album.

• Features a 1" O-ring binding, perfect for holding 12" × 12" pages.

• Finished album size: 15" × 13¼" × 1½".

Our Everyday Life™ albums provide the greatest versatility in size and color options. Perfect for preserving vacations, weddings, highlights from the football season, or backyard adventures, the Everyday Life™ line is designed to accommodate any occasion or memory!



Q&A --- MAKE DECISION TREE?

1) Size: 12x12 vs. smaller (separate post with options - this post focus on 12x12)
2) Ring (easily add, rearrange, all styles of MP) vs. Post (lay flat, smaller)
3) under ring: 1" vs 2?" ring (footprint size)
  1. What are the primary differences between the D-ring and post-bound album styles? The main difference is the mechanism that holds the pages in the album. There is also a small difference in size. D-ring albums feature a D-shaped ring that snaps open and closed. If you want to create a pocket scrapbooking album, we recommend this album style because the pages will lie flat. Post-bound albums feature straight posts with a screw. When the screw is removed, additional pages can be placed in the album. You then close the album by replacing the cover and screwing it closed. We recommend using Memory Protectors™ with a full gutter in your post-bound albums
  2. How many Memory Protectors™ fit in an album? There is no fixed number of Memory Protectors™ that fit into either the D-ring or post-bound albums. The number depends entirely upon the weight and thickness of the layouts. (Add a rule of thum?)

Memory Protector and Pocket Plus Options for 12x12 albums

Memory Protectors™ & Pocket Plus™ Pages Complimentary with My Legacy™ Albums • Top-load 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ (4110) • Side-load 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ (Z1968) • 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 1 (Z1324) • 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 2 (4113) • 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 3 (Z1950) • 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 4 (Z1951) • 12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 5 (Z1952) • Pocket Plus™ Memory Protectors™ Design 1 (Z3242) • Pocket Plus™ Memory Protectors™ Design 2 (Z3243) • Pocket Plus™ Memory Protectors™ Design 3 (Z3244) • Pocket Plus™ Memory Protectors™ Design 4 (Z3245) • 6" x 6" Memory Protectors™ (Z4233) • 8½" x 11" Memory Protectors™ (Z4066)