Do you scrap all your Disney vacations? Any tips for speed scrapping them?

[BevS97]

I haven't been on this forum for agse, but it was here that I first discovered scrapbooking (something which completely changed my life so I thank you all)#

We are just about to leave for our 4th disney trip - my first ever scrapbooking project was our first trip - it took about 6 months to scrap that. It took me nearly a year to scrap the next trip, and the last one was in December and I am only 3/4 done with that album. I really don't know what to do about this next trip - I know I will take a ton of photos and I don't want them languising in a box, but I can't see me ever scrapping anything but Disney at this rate and I really want to work on other projects - any ideas for scrapping them quickly but in a fun way?

For the last album I tried just black backgrounds and only red and yellow cardstock, but I have to say I am getting really bored with red and yellow and it's getting very hard to think of new things to do with those 2 colours, so rather than speed me up I think it's slowed me down.

Oh - and we don't go that often, no more than once a year. This trip is just under a year since the last one so that we can reuse our APs.

thanks

bev

 

[wtpclc]

Is CM available in your area? I know they do have consultants in teh U.K. They have a lot of tips to make things quicker. Disney combo packs with alot of pre-printed paper & stickers. Also, their Short-cuts have a lot of pre-cut shapes that you just pop in your book.

(You may want to pick up packages while you're at WDW too. Those will offer some fun papers and stickers for you without too much thought.)

I have found that Power Layouts really helps me for speed, if CM is available to you. It lets you visualize all of your pages and see the 2-page spreads very easily.

I had 1 of 3 Disney trips scrapped in 8 years. I've been doing Power Layouts since July and just finshed the other 2 trips. I tend to go a little more crazy with my Disney trips, but it can be done simply too. The Disney pictures are so fun, keep it simple and let them speak for themselves!

 

[jennz]

I have a Disney layout that I a fellow DIS-er emailed me that's for a complete album. It uses CM products. I'd be happy to share it with you - if you want to see it PM or email me w/your email. It's really cute!

 

[BevS97]

we do have CM here in the UK, but I haven't really looked into them since I first started, asI didn't really care for their style. However, I am looking for a quicker answer to this next album, so maybe they are worth revisiting?

 

[pjlla]

Try looking in a few new places for inspiration also. Try www.twopeasinabucket.com Click on "Peanut Gallery" and then click on "view by category" and then scroll down and click on "Disney". There are LOADS of pages of disney layouts to look at! So much inspiration for FREE!! I go in every few days to look at what's new (I have already spent to time to view the entire category...yikes!) and I print out what I really like. I've got an impressive "inspiration" book that I stop and look at when I have scrappers block. HTH........................P

 

[WendyZ]

I am doing my first of 5 trips to scrap. My pages are pretty simple, so that helps. But I got alot of my ideas from twopeas website. I also divided my trips up to help make them look different. This one is being done by our itinerary. The trip we're going on next month is going to be done in blk/wh pics with halloween accents since it's Oct. Our very first trip to WDW I'm doing in Mickey's colors. I have been all sorts of stickers, papers, etc. with those colors so the pages will look different even though it's the same color scheme.

It's so much fun doing them though...like reliving your vacation!

 

[scrapsoflife]

You don't have to do CM style to be able to use their power-scrapping concepts. Ask a CMC specifically about a power-layout class and then adapt it to what you want out of your albums. Their snap packs do make for easy, coordinating embellishments and over the summer they came out with a Disney done-with-one page of accent pieces that would make several pages with just the addition of cardstock.

Also make sure you check out the House of Memories at Downtown Disney. While there are other things I'd like to see them do, the page kits that make 6-8 pages and are divided into different themes, character groupings, etc. will help you get sets of pages done without limiting yourself to just a few colors.

A non-Disney product that might give you a little boost would be to look (online or in your bookstore) for page sketches. Right now sketches are really big, and Creating Keepsakes and other places have several they post. The way these work is you find a sketch that has room for however many photos you're working with, then follow the sketch for placement of photos, title, journalling, embellishments, etc. Sometimes that gets the creative juices flowing.

Good luck!

 

[paulinewdw]

I just have to face the fact that I am a slow scrapper! Each album takes me aprox 6 months to complete. I usually spend 6 months on a vacation album and then 6 months on a Family album. I just finished a vacation album(Disney trip 2001). I am working on Family album for 2002. I try to scrap in order, but
I do find that if I scrap out of order sometimes things go faster. If anyone finds a way to help things go faster, I sure would be interested.

 

[wtpclc]

Pauline - one of the best ways to go fast is to scrap your recent stuff ASAP. Those are fresh in your mind and tend to be easier. Play catch up with the rest later.

 

[jiminy579]

I am a huge memorabilia fan, and come home with oodles after a WDW trip. I finally got smart and started taking a CM File Mate with me on all of our trips. I use one slot for each day, and when we get back to the hotel after a day at the parks I empty out my bag into the coordinating pockets. Day 1, Day 2, and so on. Park tickets, brochures, maps, etc. Then when I get my film developed I drop the photos into the right "day's slot" and I have an instant mini power layout!

When you are ready to crop, not only are your photos already organized and in order, but your memorabilia is ready to go as well!! This has helped me tremendously since the hard part is getting organized in the first place!!

I hope this info helps, and hope your trip is wonderful!!

 

[Spinning]

we also go to Disney every year and I have found no matter what your pages begin to look the same.
So now I think about the pictures. I still take a ton (digital) But for the most part I do 1-2page lay out for each day. Unless of course it is a special something. Or I will do a character page for each park. I no longer feel i have to have it all down in my scrap books. Then what I do with all my wonderful Disney pictures I create a slide show. Then in the back of the album I make a pocket and put the disc.

 

[wtpclc]

DeeAnn - Great idea!!! I had a folder for itenerary last trip, wish I had just brougth my File Mate!

 

[nicki dahling]

This may not help with this album, but I suggest joining a Disney swap. ( especially the one's here ) . I plan to use the items from our most recent swaps to complete the album for our next trip. And everyone's work is diferent, so your album will have lots of variety. Plus the elements are already done. You just have to add them and your pictures to the page. The one disadvantage I have found is getting other items to match. Which I think we addressed in our last swap by doing more then one element and having them match. Plus I have found that adding a third peice of cardstock in a coordinating color to the elements you recieve will help make it more uniform. In some cases I have been able to match the cardstock someone has used by taking it with me to the LSS, and other scrapbook stores.

Another way is to pre-do elements yourself, file them along with your pictures, memorabalia and wembellishments and then set up a night to scrap away.


Cyndi

 

[DiznEeyore]

I remember seeing on 2Peas that someone had done their Disney album with "one hour layouts". She only allowed herself that much time to do each page, and the results were cute! She said the time limit forced her to be creative ... sort of like an impromptu writing assignment back in school.

It sounded like a fun idea -- I think I might try it when I do the album for our upcoming trip.

 

[ILOVEPOOH1]

I use 2peas all the time for inspiration. I also like to use Becky Higgin's sketches. They really help to get a lot of pictures on a page!! I call her sketches "the little black dress of scrapbooking"! Always in style and no scrapbooker should be without

 

[WendyZ]

Spinning...AWESOME idea!!! I have gone a little crazy since going digital. I never thought of creating a cd of pics though. My DS and I even have a program on the computer for that. I'm going again next month. It's my first trip with digital. The CD will be on my to do list!

jiminy579...great idea too! Think I'll check into that before I go. My easier than just putting everything in a file. That's what my items are in now.

 

[wuv tigger]

since we AP's we have made a # of trips & now I am adding pages into the book.

This book will include photos from 2003 - 2005

I have done both 2 page spreads & single pages of the following & some have 4 page spreads:

1st page is (family) Disney Adventure - I used post cards of all 4 parks on this page
The 1st 4 pages are AK.
Beauty & the Beast
Out of Africa (EPCOT small outpost) 1
Alice in Wonderland 1
Beauty & the Beast 1
Chef Mickey's 2
Crystal Palace 2
Donald & Daisy 2
EPCOT 2
Friends we have met
Garden Grill 4
Ice Cream (our girls love it) 4
Jo Jo's Circus & Goliath 1
LuLu, the bug lady & lady bug releases 1
Liberty Tree Tavern 1
Lion King
Mickey & Minnie 4
Magic Kingdom 2
Monsters Inc 1
Peter Pan
Pinnochio (sp?) 1
Mr Potato Head 1
Prime Time Cafe 1
Pooh & Friends 2
Pretty as a Princess 4 (adding more REAL SOON)
PUSH (the talking trash can) 1
Rides (favorite rides & photos of them) 1
Toy Story - Buzz Woody Jesse 2
2 pages are My favorite photos
I put my park brochures in a CM Portrait Sleeve
We also collect Wild About Safety Cards & I have them in the back of my book.

HTH,
Judy

FORGOT TO ADD: I used the Power Layout System from CM & that is how I got this album done in 20 hours!

 

[pjlla]

Oh My GOSH!! 20 hours!! I gotta get my hand on that power layout system! The two albums for our 2002 trip (one for each child) has taken me the entire last 12 months!! Granted, I didn't scrap for hours every day or anything, but virtually all of my scrapping time over the last year has been dedicated to finishing our 2002 albums. And I'm sure it is well over 20 hours!......P

 

[Disneyland_emily]

One thing I did for themeless pictures (ie a great shot of ___ but not enough to do a layout) is that for each park I did a layout of just those- MK I did a very simple layout with a different color per land cardstock piece matted them all in light tan with a 1.5 inch tan strip across the center and a vellum tag with the lands name. Clean, crisp and easy!

Studios was done in Red/White with a Red/white star paper for the same effect, DAK was dark, light green and tan

Easy -em

 

[jajuan]

This is cheating...lol. But...I buy paper piecings from e-bay. It helped a lot. Still took a yr for my last trip.