Show your DIY album pages

Yes, and the printed album page keys are in page protectors

djcmh - could you take a pic of your Vario / printed page combo? I’m having difficulty visualizing how you would use the two sided black Vario as an overlay? 

I usually buy from dealers on Amazon and usually buy the 25 page dealer packs, which at present are running US$30 to US$35 a pack.

$9.95 sounds like a 5 page pack.

Your clever method would be really helpful for me and my flyspeck varieties that require quite a bit of explanatory text. It’s potentially extremely useful for any material that has varieties that are not obvious like watermarks, perfs etc. I’d also like to be able to add in more historical info. Wow - my brain is thinking of myriad ways I could use this idea. This is a game changer for my collections! I owe you a beer! (Or wine, or a good cigar lol)

I use a similar concept for tracking spares instead of bit of paper to identify each or just sorting stamps. It is a little hard to see the sheet.

This is another mock up of my project using a suggestion by Clive to add quadrille pattern. It prints lighter than it looks on my printer.

I am still looking for suggestions on layout as I am still not satisfied with the layout of the spaces for the stamps. My idea is 1) to allow space for different sizes and even more than one stamp. The original source is used in this example but still looking at other arrangements at bottom such as one row or maybe create columns at bottom.

I had a thought.  I may think about getting rid of the map and adding a representative enlarged image in its place. I want to work in the actual name printed on the stamp somewhere if it is not the same as the English spelling.  If I did color I would want to switch to white paper.

I finaly started at the beginning with France... which woulod seem the logical place to start.... but for whatever reason I just started picking definitives or years to make pages(?) I have been working on the the first Ceres issues (I post pic of it over int he France section), but I decided I needed a 'front page", but wanted it to be simple

....and then the fun starts     expanding into more specialized stuff - 3 full pages of varieties of shades, papers, printings, as per Facit Special catalog.

All those shades and printing-quality differences might be a challenge to identify!  Fortunately other Sweden collectors have been kind enough to establish a fabulous website  wich is really helpful. So, I took the liberty to use the shades/images from that website and incooperated them onto  pages replicating my album pages. The purpose is they will serve as a purpose made / DIY colour chart 


The first album page of shades/varieties:



is replicated into this colour chart:

3rd page:





...and its matching "DYI colour chart" :

blaamand I admire the care and diligence of your pages

Thanks for your post, Jon.... you are quite right!  I think that I will eventually have enough Cape triangle color and print-sharpness varieties that I will end up in a position to create some sort of DIY album page for those who would want to collect them.  At the moment, I am arranging the colors/prints in a Hagner stock sheet, and when I think I have a good group of varieties, I will let you know, and perhaps you can help guide me on how to set up a DIY page for them.

One of the interesting aspects of this task for Cape triangles is the fact that many of the color and print-sharpness varieties are not listed in the published catalogues.  This will mean not only describing each one in an understandable way, but also coming up with some names, particularly for the colors.  I have some ideas about those, but I may also post images here on the Forum and ask for opinions.  To some extent, we are stuck with the catalogue terms for certain varieties, but I want to keep an open mind about how to approach the project.

Great idea from you (of course), so thanks for tagging me!

I am getting close to a template.  Wikipedia has been standardizing maps and I really like the globe (flat projection would be ok) but since the globe images are contributions not every country has an image. They do not look easy to create.

I plan to add a quadrille pattern to the page as shown previously but has been disabled while I bulk add information.

The information in the text is somewhat a duplicate of timeline and will try to merge them or ensure they do not have duplicate information.

The AlbumEasy source code is up to 8000 lines. Much is just copy/paste a template for each page then fill in country details.

# =====================================================================================

# Argentina

#=======================================================================================

PAGE_START

PAGE_VSPACE (-8)

PAGE_TEXT_CENTER (BSB 18 "Argentina")

PAGE_VSPACE (-2)

PAGE_RULE_H (0.3 0 0)



PAGE_COLUMN_START (40 0 0 0 0)

ROW_START_ES (BA 6 0.1 1.0)

STAMP_ADD_IMG (50 50 "argentina_map.png" "" "" "" NO_FRAME)

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_START (BA 11 CENTRE)

Region: South America

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_END

PAGE_COLUMN_NEXT

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_START (BA 11 LEFT)

A republic in southern South America. Independent from Spain in 1816, Argentina was torn by regional separatism through much of the 19th century. This is reflected in the issuing of separate stamps by several Argentine provinces during 1858-80. Large-scale European immigration and investment after the 1880s made Argentina the most economically advanced nation in South America. Since 1930, Argentina has, more often than not, been ruled by authoritarian military regimes. During World War II, the government was sympathetic to the Axis, and after the war, a large number of ex-Nazis found sanctuary in Argentina. In 1946, Juan Domingo Peron was elected president, and he dominated the country's political life until his death in 1974,

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_END

PAGE_TEXT_CENTER (BA 10 "First issued stamps in 1858.")

PAGE_TEXT (BSB 11 "Timeline")

PAGE_VSPACE (-4)

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_START (BA 11 LEFT)

xxxx -

PAGE_TEXT_PARAGRAPH_END

PAGE_COLUMN_STOP

PAGE_VSPACE(2)

ROW_START_FS (BA 9 0.1 4.0)

STAMP_ADD (40 35 "+" "" "Argentina 1858 -" " ")

STAMP_ADD (40 35 "+" "" "Cordoba 1858 - 1879" "")

STAMP_ADD (40 35 "+" "" "Corrientes 1856 - 1879" " ")

STAMP_ADD (40 35 "+" "" "Buenos Aires 1858 - 1862" "")



#PAGE_QUADRILLE(0.1 5.0 5.0 centre)