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SCRAPBOOKING 5 KINDS OF TRAVEL & VACATIONS
Chronicling your travels on scrapbook pages allows you to relive the trip even when you’re back home. Photos, memorabilia, facts and journaling impressions are all part of this.Helpful links:
Uniting multi-page events
Scrapbook page planner for trips
6 coordinated page sketches
6 coordianted page templates (layered psd files)
While some travels are best looked at chronologically, others benefit from a “subject” approach. Consider the following types of travels
scrapbooking the Weekend GetawayA weekend getaway can be as much about the company as the destination. It might be a short trip to hang out with friends, find some romance, see an exhibit, or just take a break from your typical weekend routines. With fewer photos from fewer activities (than you’d have with bigger trips), the scrapping of weekend getaways can focus on impressions, stories, companions, and moments.
Try this: find a strong opening photo and a strong closing photo. Put each of them on their own pages and then make several pages for the middle that show the key stories/moments on this short getaway. Get the stories written down as soon as you can, in a diary or on a blog, if you’re not scrapping the pages immediately.
scrapbooking the Road TripA “road-trip” type vacation is not necessarily a literal trip in a car on a road or highway. The “road-trip” vacation is one that takes you to a series of what may be quite different locales over the course of one trip. The road-trip is a story that’s well-suited to being told in chronological order (more or less).
Try this: Use the Travel Page Planner to start detailing the different stops on the trip. After you’ve listed them all, go back through and think about whether they all really need to be included. Think, also, about whether there are some stories that merit their own pages and how best to get the pages and stories in order.
scrapbooking a trip that’s about Being ThereSome trips take you to one locale. There’s limited sightseeing on this type of vacation, and it’s more about enjoying place, people, and activities. Examples of this kind of vacation include:
- visiting family
- staying at a lakehouse/beachhouse
- going camping
- the ski slopes
Try this: It’s often more efficient and makes a better presentation when “Being There” trips are by categories or logical groupings. These groupings (which translate into pages) might be:
- the people
- the place
- the spots at the place
- the constants
- the hightlights
- the activities
The “On Tour” travel experience is one in which many of the details are decided ahead of time–and, in fact, taken care of for you–so that you can relax as well as experience new sights and experiences. There are many ways to go “on tour” from taking a cruise to going on guided hike and camping adventure. You might take a bus tour through Europe or go on safari in Africa.
The photos you take while on tour will include those of the sights you visit as well of those of the aspects of the tour experience (i.e., lodging, people, routines). A combination approach that mixes chronological telling of the trip with select subject pages would work well for this kind of travel.
Try this: Make two lists: one of the trip chronology and one of the aspects/subjects you want to feature. Use a chronological flow with the featured aspects inserted where they flow best.
scrapbooking the Themed VacationThe “themed” vacation is one that takes you into a created world
where you are doing more than viewing, where you’re entering into and
experiencing a manufactured reality. You may have gone on a Disney
vacation, visited a historic settlement where you’re re-enacting the
way things were done in the past, travelled to Santa’s Village, or many
other variations on the themed destination. The photos from a themed
vacation can cover a lot of territory, and they don’t usually require a
chronological telling. Aspects of a large theme/amusement park may
include: characters, rides, performances, events, posed portraits,
sights and more.
Try this:Begin with your “stack” of photos (prints or digitals). Select
the keepers AND select the photos that are spectacular and that should
be featured. Use the page planner to start defining the pages your
photos demand of you. Once you’ve made a first pass at this, you might
need to cut the planner up and play with order and arrangement of pages.
Be sure you’re on our mailing list so that you receive notice when my self-paced class, “Scrap Your Travel & Vacations,” is available in the Get It Scrapped! store. It should be available before Thanksgiving.





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I've taken two of your Get it Scrapped classes and they were great. I'd love a chance to win your book! My five year old loves to decorate for Halloween. We put removable ghost stickers on the bathroom mirrors. We wrap that spider web stuff from the stair railings. Our front window is filled with construction paper pumpkin cutouts that my daughter made. My husband puts orange light bulbs in all of our malibu lights. And of course, each of us decorates a pumpkin to place on our porch. I can't wait for all the cute trick-or-treaters. Have fun!