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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 Getaway
A 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.
layout from a weekend in boston
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 Trip
A “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.
Traveling from LA to Vegas with cousins
scrapbooking a trip that’s about Being There
Some 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 things that make a trip to my parents' home so lovely.
scrapbooking a vacation when you go On Tour
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.
Photos from one outing on an Alaskan cruise.
scrapbooking the Themed Vacation
The “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.
The highlight of a 5 year old's first Disney experience.
Looking for more help getting your Travel and Vacations scrapbooked?
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