Combining trips in one album. . .

[Dreamer & Wisher]

I am really enjoying reading your posts. . .I loved looking at the sticky thread with all your layouts! Very beautiful photos and layouts.

I have been making the small Mickey CM books using the Disney Snappacks. THey turned out cute except for I couldn't put a lot of photos on the page.

Now I am making a bigger Disney album using CM's bigger Mickey book.

I am trying to decide if I should combine two trips. I saw one of you had made a Disney Alphabet book. I was thinking of doing it that way.

If you have combined trips in an album did you date the photos? How did you do your journaling? Or should I just stick with a theme? Like here we are at Ohana? We went to Ohana on both visits.

THe dates of our trips were August 30 through Sept 5, 2006 and Jan. 1 through 6, 2007.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Do you like to scrap chronologically? Or is it ok if you mix up the photos?
I personally don't combine albums because we take way to many pics. And I also don't scrap in order, So I did my album by park, and threw in some dining and resort pages in where they fit. Any left over random pics go into my ABC album which will be a combination of all of our trips.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

I'm like B&MB--I take WAY too many pics! I usually end up printing around 300-500 from each trip. . .sometimes more. For that reason, I don't have more than one trip in a book. . .sometimes one trip takes more than one book! And I scrap 12 x 12!

I am also a chronological scrapper, so my books start with day one of the trip and go all the way through to the end, in the order we did it. Any extra pics we have go into 1) my little CM 7 x 7 Mickey album where I have a 2-page spread for each trip (you're right. . .not many pics on those pages) or 2) into our family travel album (a 12 x 12 with a double page spread for each trip we've taken. . .not just Disney).

Whatever works for you is the best way for you! Just have fun and remember that getting the memories in is the best thing!!

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

I have scrapped both my previous Disney books chronologically. So I am somewhat interested in doing something different. We have taken 4 trips in 2 years and I don't want to have 4 books that are so similiar.

How do you do an alphabet book?

One of the reasons I don't want to do a seperate book for one of the trips is because some things didn't go so well. So that trip has some bad memories unfortunately.

We don't take as many pictures as you do. We printed out 150 photos from our trip in January.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I would probably do a book divided into parks, especially if you have lots of different photos. How about the theme, "the good, the bad, and the ugly" that way you can still scrap the bad stuff.

My ABC book is just layouts using random pics that don't go anywhere or if I have extra pics from a 2 page layout. For example I have pictures of Minnie's House. They were not great shots but to good to toss so I did that page for the letter M.

Disneyfreakjackie has a great ABC album posted on 2peas. this should work.


http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/album_display.asp?album_id=35612

 

[MazdaUK]

I had my photos aranged chronologically in a normal album, but when I scrapped them I did them by park, then did Kennedy and Universal, and finished up with our Easter Sunday Brunch at Chef Mickeys. The very last page is actually panoramic shots of Islands of Adventure - I didn't want to lose them and they didn't fit anywhere else, so as I tend to do double page spreads that worked well for me. I put our itinerary on the front page so I didn't have to date individual pictures, as we went to most parks two days.

I also have a small CM album of our DLP trip - I couldn't remember exactly what we did each day (it was 2003!) so I just sorted the pics as they looked best.

 

[Lisa]

That is the nice thing about scrapbooking, you can do your albums anyway you want.

An ABC album would be perfect for combining trips. I would date the pictures, but that is just me. If I didn't, I would promptly forget what pictures was from what trip.

There is a fairly recent thread on this forum about ABC albums that has a nice listing of suggested Disney words to use. That would be a good place to start with your pictures. See what pictures you have and what Disney words you can use for your ABC album.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1350484

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

That is the nice thing about scrapbooking, you can do your albums anyway you want.

An ABC album would be perfect for combining trips. I would date the pictures, but that is just me. If I didn't, I would promptly forget what pictures was from what trip.

There is a fairly recent thread on this forum about ABC albums that has a nice listing of suggested Disney words to use. That would be a good place to start with your pictures. See what pictures you have and what Disney words you can use for your ABC album.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1350484

Thanks for the reminder Lisa, I need to get that list in one place one the boards. I'll do that when we get back!

 

[dsneygirl]

I have just started scrapping so I put my Oct 2006 and Dec 2006 in the same album with a title page for each trip. Now that I am more experienced and have way more ideas I think I will be able to fill one album per trip no problem.

 

[Lisa]

Thanks for the reminder Lisa, I need to get that list in one place one the boards. I'll do that when we get back!

That's what I am here for, to keep you on track. Now who is going to keep me on track?

 

[luvtig]

We have been to WDW 12 times and I take tons of pictures. This is what works for me. I have a book for each park and one for resorts. Example of the MK album is I start with Main St and work my way around the park. I may have several pages for Adventureland and only a few for Tomorrowland, etc. and just add new pages as I get more pictures for each area. I do the same for each park album. It's much easier for me as we are at disney so often. I do make sure to journal and date somewhere on the page. This may not work for everyone, but after several attempts at different ways to scrap, this is what made more sense to me.

Scrapping Disney is my favorite thing to scrapbook!

 

[Faerie]

Depends on the length of my trip. I have a bunch of weekend trips in one 12x12. Anything longer (my annual week long trips) get their own album