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Scrapbooking Tips for a Vacation Scrapbook

When you are packing for your vacation, you never forget your camera, but do you remember to consider how you will be scrapbooking your vacation pictures 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 Scrapbooking Album

Most of us plan our vacations well in advance. It’s never too early to start shopping for a vacation scrapbooking album.  You want one that will reflect the theme or location of your trip.  Consider a location-specific album like Disney or Hawaiian scrapbooks.  You may prefer a beach-themed album or a general vacation album.Planning ahead will give you lots of time to check your local craft store or scrapbooking store for specials and sales.You can even buy a plain, chipboard-covered album and design your own scrapbook cover.

Embellishments and Your Vacation Scrapbook Album

While you are shopping for your scrapbook, check to see what products are available to coordinate with 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’ll be ready when you return from your trip.

Writing About Your Vacation

Remembering the details of your vacation is part of the journaling process on your scrapbooking page layouts.  Make it easier by keeping notes or writing in a journal during your trip.  Note the dates and the places you visit as well as your feelings and thoughts.  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

Pre-plan some of your vacation photographs.You will want a photograph that can be used as the title page of your vacation scrapbook.  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.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.

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 will not be damaged during your trip back home.  Save tickets to parks and shows, menus or napkins, maps and brochures.  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.