Scrapbooking Tips for a Vacation Scrapbook
When preparing for your vacation, you always remember to pack your camera, but do you ever think about how you will scrapbook your vacation photos before you leave on your trip? Planning your vacation scrapbooking pages before you begin your trip makes it easier and quicker to design a beautiful vacation album when you get home.Here are a few tips to think about when planning a vacation scrapbooking album.
Your Vacation Album
Most of us plan our vacations well in advance. It’s never too early to start shopping for a vacation scrapbooking album.You will want one that reflects the location or the theme of your vacation.Consider buying an album that is specific to where you are going, like a Disney album or a Hawaiian scrapbook.You might prefer a basic vacation album or an album with a beach theme. Planning ahead gives you plenty of time to watch your local scrapbooking or craft store for sales. You can even get a plain chipboard covered scrapbook and design your own album cover.
Embellishments and Your Vacation Scrapbook Album
While you are shopping for your album, look to see what coordinating products are available to match it. Planning in advance allows you to take advantage of sales on embellishments as well. Choose page elements and paper that will work well with the location and themes of your vacation photos.Store all of your embellishments for your vacation album in one place. They’ll be ready when you return from your trip.
Journaling about Your Vacation
Remembering the details of your vacation is part of the journaling process on your scrapbooking page layouts.Make it simpler by wrting in a journal or keeping notes on your trip.Document the places and dates that you visit and include your thoughts and feelings. Now when you return home, journaling in your scrapbook will be quick, easy and more detailed. You can even tear a few pages from the journal and include them right in your layouts.
Planning Photographs of Your Vacation
Think about and plan some of your photos for your trip. You’ll want a picture that can serve as the title page of your album.A photo of the ship would be perfect for this if you are going on a cruise. If it’s Disney World, take a photo of the Disney World sign.Don’t forget to include yourself in your vacation photos.Before you leave on your trip, make a list of what photographs you want to remember to take. Tuck the list in your camera bag so it’s always handy.
Mementos of Your Vacation
You will want to collect mementos of your trip to include in your vacation scrapbook. Pack small plastic bags to hold them so they won’t be damaged on the trip home.Save your tickets to shows and parks, maps and brochures, menus and napkins. You will definitely want to add these to your page layouts.
A little planning will make your vacation scrapbook album come together easily.Get your photographs printed as soon as you get home, and then begin working on your layouts while your memories are still fresh in your memory. Following these scrapbooking tips, you’ll have everything you need when you arrive home to design a beautiful keepsake of your trip.
Oct 16, 2009 | Sentimental Thoughts
The observance of mailing Christmas cards came into existence in 1843 with Sir Henry Cole of England.
As legend has it, Sir Henry Cole had too many co-workers to hand write Christmas notes to, so, he enlisted artist John Calcott Horsley to design a card onto which he had printed “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You”. He had one thousand cards imprinted.Of those, twelve exist today.Before long, people all over the world startedmailing Christmas cards.
The most popular Christmas cards in the late 19th and early 20th century were made by the Victorian children’s author and artist Kate Greenaway. Her cards often utilized multi-media, with different fabrics, fringe and papers. Some were even elaborate pop-ups featuring skaters and tiny mangers.
Christmas cards were not wide-spread in the US until 1875, when Louis Prang, a German immigrant, opened up a shop and began producing them. BeforeUntil that year, Christmas cards were brought into the country from abroad.Unfortunately, Prang was forced out of business in the 1890’s when foreign publishing houses produced lower priced cards. Still, Prang is known as the forefather of the American Christmas card.
Technical advances in card publishing during WWI was spurred by competition among card publishers.
Color lithography, first was used during the Great Depression, rejuvenated the card industry.
A major change in greeting cards in the 1950’s was the introduction of staple cards. These cards, for the first time, used humor as an element.
The 1990’s saw the introduction of the e-card, an electronic version of a greeting card sent via e-mail.
Today, there are many types of Christmas card available, including traditional and religious Christmas cards to funny Christmas cards. In fact, the industry has evolved so much that there is a card for virtually any event, or “non-event.” Still, Christmas remains the highest ranking of the card-selling holidays.
As a staple of the holidays, Christmas cards are sent to family, friends and business colleagues to express holiday wishes. With people’s busy lives, it is often the only time they update family and friends on events that happened in their lives during the year. They are always evolving; from e-cards to written letters chronicling the year, to picture postcards, the warm sentiment is always there: Merry Christmas!
Oct 16, 2009 | Sentimental Thoughts
How many Cricut cartridges have you bought for your Cricut die cut machine?Whatever your answer is, it’s certainly unlikely that you have all of them! Using a Cricut machine is one of the best ways to update your scrapbook pages and because of that, the manufacturer is almost always offering new Cricut cartridges. They have many licensed characters such as those from Sesame Street, Disney, or Hello Kitty, as well as holiday cartridges and many different fonts and lettering.
One of the best features about Cricut cartridges is that they come in so many fonts for letters and so many shapes. This is one big thing that sets them apart from other machines. Imagine being able to create vacation scrapbooks using shapes from the beach – beach balls, seashells, sailboats – or being able to create sports scrapbooks using shapes from your favorite sports, including footballs, basketballs, baseball bats, and so on.Because of this, with Cricut cartridges you won’t need to struggle with difficult to use stencils or cutting by hand and coming up with crooked or imperfect letters or shapes. You can even find “indie art” cartridges that offer shapes of guitars, skulls, hand grenades, and all those other difficult to find shapes that are perfect for your particular scrapbooks. You’ll also be able to cut out a variety of letters in creative fonts for all of your wedding scrapbooking quotes.
There is such a wide variety of Cricut cartridges that you might be surprised at the variety and the new ones they offer every time you shop.Whether you are designing scrapbook albums for yourself or with your children, you are sure to find something that is just perfect for your project and create more scrapbooking embellishments.
Designing a scrapbook album the old-fashioned way, that is, using cutouts and stencils and just searching for the right shapes for your page is okay, but usually the more options you have the better your page layouts will be and the more enjoyable scrapbooking becomes. Using a variety of Cricut cartridges with your cricut machine will enable you to find just the right embellishment for your pages, no matter what the theme of your book.You will also be more efficient and save time by no longer having to cut every shape and letter out by hand.This allows you to get more page layouts done in the same amount of time so now you are spending more time being creative with your scrapbooking. So how many Cricut cartridges do you have?Whatever your answer is, you could very easily find many more than would be just perfect for your scrapbooking projects.
Oct 14, 2009 | Sentimental Thoughts
