I use the top load album pages so I simply use cardstock or the printed paper. I use this paper instead of the paper that comes with the album. I do keep the album paper for when I choose to use a white 12X12 page.

I take the white paper out and use it for something else. If you get too many papers in the plastic sheet it will be too tight.

Never. I just use the background paper. It gives the wall paper effect. You can take out all that album paper and use it for other things like scratch paper or paint blotter. I even use it on other pages if I need a white or black matting paper.

Sometimes…

Depends on the pretty paper. If it’s thick then I would take out the album paper and/or just slide it in but if its thin paper then just slide it in or glue it. If you glue it the paper it can get damaged and it can make the background not so nice. So it all comes down to if the pretty paper is thick or not. Hope that helps…!!??

For me, it really depends on the weight of the pretty paper. I really like to economize my scrapbooking, so my first instinct is to tell you to take the white paper out. But sometimes the pretty paper is so thin, that I leave it in. Once I have a scrapbook page behind it, however, there is usually enough firmness to take it back out. Save a tree and do not attach the pretty paper to the white paper provided in the scrapbook. Only use it if you need to — otherwise take it out.

Cherie