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 in advance for our vacations. Start early to shop for your vacation scrapbook album.You will want one that reflects the location or the theme of your vacation.Think about using an album that is location-specific, like a Disney album or a Hawaii album.  You may prefer a beach-themed album or a general vacation album.  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.

Embellishing Your Vacation 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.  Keep all your embellishments with the album you have chosen together in one place.  They will be ready when you come home from your vacation.

Writing 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 rip out a few pages from your journal and put them right into your page layouts.

Planning Photos 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.  If you’re going a cruise, a picture of the ship would work well for this.If it is Disneyland, take a photograph of the Disneyland sign.  Remember that as you take photos of the places you visit you will want to be sure to include yourself in the shots too.  Before you go on the trip, make a list of what photos you don’t want to forget to take.  Tuck the list in your camera bag so it’s always handy.

Your Vacation Mementos

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.

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