Do you ever have a problem with scrapbooks and how they work with your pages inside them? I do all the time. My husband and I have to redo every scrapbook we buy. The pages once you put several in the book/get bulky and bind hard onto the pages/and stress the pages out. I hate that! Those post are no good to use either. Finding ones that work to expand the book is like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Our solution? My husband the ever crafty dude/told me in order for the pages to get less STRESSED...we had to put those extra pieces of cardboard (that most page protectors come with)for EACH PAGE. That way your pages lay straighter inside the album. However, the page protector kit only comes with a hand full of those cardstock binders(sorry forgot the proper term for those). Anyhow, our solution, we have a heavy duty hole puncher and we have some heavy cardstock/cardboard almost like paper. We make a template that fits the other binders that the kit came with/and we make several more of those binders. So every page has a cardboard piece to hold the pages more even. Than, we buy posts(universal post from K & Co.) and use whatever post that works for that paticular album we are redoing. The universal post .....from K & Co. not all post will work with the album but should be enough to fix whatever album your working with.

It sounds like alot of work but it did work for us. I have tried those new binders system from pioneer (the plastic ones). It failed for me to work and I ended up putting the post back into my album. I thought they would be the cream of the crop to my album problems. Maybe I didn't use them right but I didn't like them. The problem with them was you have to adhere them onto your album(they have a sticky to adhere to your album)....and I thought to myself: how is this going to be secure? Sure enough, those stickey's fell apart and off and it was hard to keep them on the album. PLus, another problem(I use them on a 6x6 album.)the straps were very bulky and I had to leave the flap for the album open(were the post usually go) otherwise it wouldn't close properly. Also, they "claim" to fit any page protectore out there but that is not so. You have to still buy page protectors that line up with the exsisting page protectors in your album. The holes are always different in every page protectos....so it that didn't work for us either-they didn't line up right at all.

I hope someday they make a postbound album that actually works/and works well with pages inside. Until than, I guess I will keep revising them.

PS-Another tip: all papers will not fit all page protectors/or 12x12 albums. Not all papers are TRUE 12x12 size/not all albums are true 12x12 size either. SO always check the page you make works in the page protector before you start doing your project. Sometimes I have gotten a page done and realize the page is too fat/or wrong width and can't hardly get it to fit inside the page protector/thus stressing the pages out even more.
I usually try to make a template or use the paper that the page protector comes with/and use it for a template for that entire album I am making. SO I get the right size in the album.

I am not sure those are good tips but it what I've been doing. If anyone has any other solutions I am real OPEN to suggestions. I get real annoyed with those albums out there. I am sure I am not the only one...LOL!