Hi Pam

I'm sorry for confusing you a little about scrapbook pages! When I talk about coordinating pages for a themed album, I'm referring to printed Shutterfly Photo Book Albums. I too have printed out my own unique and individual scrapbook pages and placed them in 8 x 8 albums with plastic sleeves. They are not tied together in any way - all the kits are different. But I like to have them printed out so other people can look at them like a photo album. And my family loves those too. We don't all have time to make a 20-page or more themed album. Sometimes we're lucky to find the time to make one or two pages each month. So it's quite okay to print them out and put them in an album for everyone to enjoy. If I'm setting out to make a printed photo book with a theme however, I do make sure that all the pages are tied together in some way, usually with a coordinating kit! That's why we create the themed albums every month for our Premier members. It helps you on your way to that goal. Our 'rules' if you can call them that, are simply design principles to help you make decisions. As we said before, it's a personal choice as to how you design your own books.