Planning Your Vacation Scrapbooking Page Before Your Trip
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
