How do you lay out your Disney albums?

[quiltymom]

I'm about to finally start scrapping our April '05 trip. I've made a bunch of borders and now I just need to decide how to lay out the pages.

I need to choose between chronological or by topic. Chronological would be the easiest, but by topic would also be good since we went to the MK three times.

What have you done?

Thanks ...

[Lisa]

Being the anal person I am, I almost always scrap chronologically.:confused3

[ltldeb]

Chronological for me as well. Don't think I'd do it any other way.

[KerTggr]

Semi Chronologically. Usually there is a travel/arrival page. Then I just go by what events/parks we did. I have done some where there are sections for each park and others where I just put in pictures that made sense to the journalling/story and the page theme

[StitchIsOurHero]

I'm a chronological person, too! It makes it a pain, sometimes, because if we go to MK 3 times (or something like that), I scrap it chronologically anyway. Crazy, but I think it's the only way my brain works! ;)

[quiltymom]

I'm leaning towards chronologically, too, but I always need to know what others are doing, just in case I'm missing out on something fun! It's easy to get stuck doing the same thing over and over again.

[123SA]

I am no help at all here. The first one I did chronolgically. 2nd one was completely random. 3rd one was by park (9 day trip, multiple days at each park). 4th one - -I have only finished 8x8 character albums for the 2 kids.

I still have 4 & 5 to finish. I am working on 5 for now. I think I like by park best.

[BernardandMissBianca]

by park for the first album, this time I am trying chronological but I'm not sure if it's going to work out.

ETA I usually do by park because we hit most of the parks at least twice.

[pjlla]

I'm a strictly chronological gal. I think of my Disney scrapbooks as glorified trip journals, so chronological is the only thing that makes sense to me....................P

[DarbyB]

Random, I am not good at the chrono thing.

However, I did do an A-Z album, but alas it was not in any specific order, other than that old alphabet...

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[Raenstoirm]

I do a little of both. This last trip I did, arriving, a large two page spread of almost all words to journal each day (including how many miles we walked), then the hotel, each park, downtown Disney, a page on Pal Mickey and pin trading and then a few odds and ends pages for all the other stuff that didn't fit anywhere else, like my obsession with those chocolate covered pretzels and my Disney crocs.
We are major hoppers so we see each park many times on our trips and I take pics each time, so it would be too hard to distinguish one days pics of splash mountain with the next days, so they share a page.

In general though, I do chronological

[Fran98765]

I create my Disney books like a picture trip report as well. I didn't on my digital book, but when I paper scrapped, I also scrapped my trip report after the reg pages were done. I'm so chronological, I even put things like Day 2 saw us at Epcot blah blah blah. I even ensure that all my pages for that same day are in order of time as well: arrival and pictures at X big icon, first ride, lunch, etc. I don't include everything in my scrapbooks, but I include a ton! My digital shutterfly book was 64 pages, which may not seem like a lot, but if you consider that many times I can put everything from a 2-4 page LO onto one page, then you can see how huge 64 pages is digitally!

[YodasMom]

I can only do books by theme (Attractions, Parks, Events, Celebrations, Festivals, Holidays, DCL, ABC, etc). I've got photos going back to the opening days of WDW, so it's way too late to do chronologically.

[amyjoq]

My trip is not until April and I've already started planning the scrapbook album almost as intently as I am our trip! :rotfl2:

I'm going to have a main title page, a title for each park, then chronologically within each park section. Prior to the park sections I'll put the fun travel pages, hotel pages, etc.

I think I'm almost as excited about the album as I am the trip!:rotfl:

[Dreamer & Wisher]

I have done two albums chronologically. Now I am working on a ABC album with pictures combined from two trips. I like doing it chronologically since every day is different.

No matter how you arrange your album it is a lot of fun to make a Disney Vacation book. We love looking at ours.:wizard:

[bigbabyblues]

Well, the first one was chronological, except for maybe one page. The second was by park/event. The third one, which is STILL in the works, is a hodge-podge mess. I've just been scrapping whatever pics I'm in the mood for, and it has no order at all.

I hope we can look back and it and remember it really was a great trip.....

[wdwgirl03]

I've done it by park and my last one I did by day.

[goofyisinphilly]

I am scrapping our 2007 trip chronologically and by color. Sound strange? First, I organized pictures from 2 cameras into one sequential order. This is from the beginning to the end of the trip. Then I bought a giant pack of 12x12 paper from Sam's Club. I pulled one sample of each color and compared them to the color composition of the pictures. For example, most of our MK pictures have lots of blue where as the Epcot pictures have lots of green. I then picked the 4 or 5 best background colors for each park. My MK pictures have blue or yellow backgrounds. Epcot has green, purple, orange, or red. Etc.

So my pictures are chronological on paper color coded by park. It has turned out really well. It takes the guess work out of paper choices. I have 4 or 5 choices for each paper and then can accent and detail to my heart's content. :thumbsup2

Yes I know that I am crazy:rotfl2:

[TCKK]

I have a tendency to do by topic. I just started my book from our 2006 trip this last weekend. I've done 5 pages. 3 are of Pop Century (taken all different days) and 1 is of Bug's Life and the Tree of Life and 1 is of my Castle pictures from that trip.

I never really thought of doing it chronologically. Sounds pretty cool when you talk about it although I don't think I'm that organized. I'll have to think on that. :scratchin

[Kim1964]

So my pictures are chronological on paper color coded by park. It has turned out really well. It takes the guess work out of paper choices. I have 4 or 5 choices for each paper and then can accent and detail to my heart's content. :thumbsup2



I think this is a GREAT idea. I may do that for our 2008 trip.

I have only scrapped one Disney trip so far, and I did it mostly chronologically. We did one night at Pop, checked into YC the next morning WAY early, then spent the day at Blizzard Beach. The scrapbook has all the YC pages between the Pop pages and the BB pages, even though the YC pictures were taken over the course of several days. The Stormalong Bay photos, however, fall between Pirate and Princess Party and MGM because the day between those 2 things was our "hang at the resort day". The last few pages of the book are "Odds and Ends", which was memorabilia that didn't really go with any of the themed pages but that I wanted to scrap anyway.

I'm thinking of splitting our 2008 trip into two chronological albums. The kids and I are going to be there for 5 days without DH but with my DSIS and BIL and we are staying at POFQ. When DH joins us DSIS and BIL will leave and we will move to WL. It will feel like two different trips, hence the two albums.

[labdogs42]

I do mostly chronological, but I might mix together all of my best pictures of Wishes instead of scrapping every time we saw wishes (like this past trip when we saw it three times, Illuminations once, and the P&P party fireworks once!) If I scrapped all of them, I'd have a whole album of fireworks! (now there's an idea...)

[quiltymom]

Thanks for all of your responses. I do believe that I'm going to do these albums by topic, just because it's been so long and I can't remember a lot of what went on! I just gotta sit down and work on them before more time goes by!

[Honeybehr1]

I am another chronologically kind of gal. It would drive me nuts any other way. At the end of the books I usually have a couple of pages of miscellanous pictures that didnt fit anywhere and title it Mouse Memories or something like that.

[labdogs42]

Thanks for all of your responses. I do believe that I'm going to do these albums by topic, just because it's been so long and I can't remember a lot of what went on! I just gotta sit down and work on them before more time goes by!

That's why I love digital -- you can tell what date and time you took the pictures!! Gotta love it!

[quiltymom]

I did take digital on the trip, and yes, it's wonderful. It's that I've forgotten (as in an uber-blonde moment) what we did. All the little fun things and such. I wrote some of them down, but it's just been too long to remember. My memory is so short these days...

[ltldeb]

I did take digital on the trip, and yes, it's wonderful. It's that I've forgotten (as in an uber-blonde moment) what we did. All the little fun things and such. I wrote some of them down, but it's just been too long to remember. My memory is so short these days...

When I get like that I just create the pages with pictures/embellishments and go without journaling. It's worked for me. Sometimes when I'm in the process of laying it all out the memories come back to me. :)

[kaelarad]

I have scrapbooks for each park that I add to after each trip. I also have one just dedicated to seasons and celebrations at Disney. This books starts with the 25th anniversary, MK 30 anniversary, 100 years of Magic and then Christmas and flower and garden. Some of the celebrations are also represented in park books

[jacobsmom]

I've done 2 in chronological order. One for DS8 and one for DH and I. I theme albumns if they are by holiday, recipes, fun things.... etc. Good luck though....

[The Lion King]

Our trip is in 13 days and I have been thinking about the album as I have been planning. I am taking a plastic envelope for each park to collect all of my maps,receipts,etc. I think this album is going to be done chronologically because we will only be in each park for 1 day. I'll have a title page, an anticipation page for when the kids found out we were going this month instead of in July, travel page and arrival day. After that I will have pages for each park-MK,AK and DHS, departure day and travel home.

I am planning to make each child an autograph album but I will probably have a couple of pages in the main album as well.

[mommy2mrb]

I always due my Disney albums by days.....am a chronological girl at heart for all my albums>

[coruth4]

I also do mine chronologically and create "chapters" for each day. I try to do lots of journaling to describe what we did each day. I start with pre-trip stuff & arrival. Throughout I add in misc type pages - like my son's new found obsession for Jack Skellington on our last trip. Or a page of photographs that my autistic son took.
Chronological makes sense for me because it becomes our Disney "story".

Next time I want to also do an alphabet book, or a book of character meetings. Some specialized smaller books - maybe 8 x 8 instead of 12 x 12.

[BuzzBelleMom]

The only completed Disney albums in our house are themed, chronologically!

In other words, the one of all the WDW Xmas decorations, according to when we saw them. Yes, I did take a couple hundred photos of just the Xmas decorations! And if I didn't get it one day (two visits each to MK & Epcot), then I got it on the second.

The three character albums (65 characters, some more than once) in chronological order.

DD's "story" album (I wove all of her adventures into a story) was also that way.

Besides, the kids wore costumes everyday, so I had to go chronologically!

[mermaid&cinderella]

My 1st book is chronological and my second one I think is going to be an ABC book so that one will not be chronological.