how do you "start" your disney album?

[cherio]

We are taking our first family trip to WDW in Nov. I am planning on dedicating an album to this trip. I already have 23 rolls of film purchased for our 7 day trip. My question is I don't know how to "start" the album. I am going to make a countdown chain for our kids(ages 5,3) to help them as to "how many days now?". Wanted to put the last links in the book. But I don't know what to do to get me to that point in the book.

Thought about doing a title page for the first page. Then my next couple of pages dedicate to the planning stage of the trip, talk about the wonderful board I found that helped me out greatly in planning this trip!, etc. I am not sure on how to lay this out though. Just make it a journaled page, add stickers, etc ?????

Any thoughts or examples would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Cheri

[etwinchester]

I am taking a two week vacation in March so needless to say, I am dedicating a whole album also. I bought a black one from Creative Memories to use. I love their calendar pages. You can write down what you do each day.

I've started the page layouts on some and here are my ideas:

* First Page - title page (Making Magical Memories, Our First Magical Trip, etc. - haven't decided the name yet)
* Page on our countdown chain that I made for my daughter
* Getting ready to go page (packing at home)
* And we're off (pictures of packing car, leaving)
* Cast of Characters (people who are going with us - it's a family trip and there is a total of 12)
* Stops along the way
* Our arrival
* Itinerary Page
* Pages for each day there (MK, AK, Epcot, MGM, Downtown Disney, Days by the pool, beach, etc)

This is just a rough draft for me. I am still preparing. I hope this helps.

[chessie]

Deb Wills has a great Disney scrapbook idea page (http://wdwig.com/scrap.htm) I have only one prep page in my album. It was of the night before. I used Second star to the right and on until morning from Peter Pan as my title. Disney sent me a really great vintage looking photo advertisement I used on my cover page. I used the inside flap and the first page. The advertisement had Tinkerbell on it and I did a takeoff on pixie dust and wrote something about pixie dust sprinkled about the book to bring back wonderful memories.

[bananiem]

For our first trip we surprised the kids and didn't tell them until about 3 weeks before we left. I had filled fanny packs with Disney related candies, disposable camera, etc. I took pictures as they tried to guess and then a couple of pics after they knew and were absolutely BEAMING! It made for a great "We're going to Disney World!" 2 page spread.
If you've already told them you could have pictures of the countdown chain, you at the computer "researching", packing...

[cherio]

Thanks for all the suggestions. They are all so cool. They have given me some great ideas. I do appreciate them.

[melindaandrob]

I just started my first scrapbooking project, our trip to Disney Jan. 2002, I have to finish before our trip in Jan. 2003 :earseek:

My first page I bought a pkg. from Creative Memories, it had a big red Disney logo, white gloves, stickers and Mickey ears. It was perfect for the first page.

[BevS97]

I did a collage effect for my title page -it was scraplifted from one of the idea books.

I've posted it before, but you can see it here (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bevs97/PAGE01.jpg)

if you are interested.

Bev

[matterhorngirl]

I'm taking on a vacation to Disneyland on October 6 & November 9 for reasons. I'm using these ideas for my scrapbooking.

[grover]

Great ideas everyone-thanks for sharing.

Bev- What did you use as a template to cut the squares on your title page? I have been comtemplating doing something similar but not sure how I would get them all exactly the same! I have a stencil with squares,craft knife,scissors and fiskars paper trimmer, I suppose using the stencil would be my best bet?

Grover in Winnipeg :)

[My~Rumbly~Tumbly]

Grover, I'm not sure what Bev used, but I have used my CM square cutters to do this on several occassions. I have the mini and regular one, which gives you a total of 4 different sized squares.

BTW Bev, I love that idea!

[BevS97]

I just used my paper trimmer. I made then 2 inches square and used the line on the trimmer to get them even - they weren't all the same though, so I cheated, I put them all on card, then trimmed the whole lot so it was straight at the top and bottom.

if I had a square punch it would have been a lot easier!

I cut a square out of a piece of cardstock first, and held it over the photo's to decide which one's to use. Then marked them with a blue photo pencil

Bev

[carone0318]

This is my first time on this forum. I am in the process of doing my 3rd Disney trip book. My last 2 books have been CMs, which of course I love. My 2000 trip book I only had my dd and my first page I cut a circle of dd with Minnie and then cut 2 smaller circles of the Epcot ball with the 2000 wand and made a mickey head. The current book that I am working on is from my last trip in June 02 and we now have a ds. My first page I have the diecut of the mickey head that looks like a balloon and have a picture of my ds in it and another one that I added minnie's bow on top and put a picture of dd in that one. It looks really cute. My 2000 book I did it by parks and this one I am doing it by day. I am not big on journalling and I admit that I am one of those people who has to scrap every picture. I hear what everyone is saying about switching from the 8.5 X 11 to the 12 X 12. I think I will do that on our next trip. I am doing a little adult's only get away in Dec to see the decorations and thought that I'd do a 7 X 7 of that. Well it is great to hear from others who have the same interest as me.....;)

[cherio]

carone0318 - that sounds really cool...ooohhh now I have to make a decision....everyone has shared such neat ideas. I will definately incorporate all the ideas through out the layouts.

Thanks again....Cheri