Page Order for Dis Scrapbooks...

[SharonLovesMickey]

How do you order your Disney scrapbooks? Do you organize by park? by day? by theme/event? by character!?! I am starting to look at our most recent trip and am simply stumped. What is your advice?

 

[LindaBabe]

Out of 12 books with Disney parks in them, no two are in the same order. Cruises, yes - that's easy - there's an itinerary - getting on board, sailaway, stateroom, around the ship, food, shows, parties, excursions, ports, farewell.

WDW and Disneyland though, it seems like every trip is different, so the story to be told is different. There's so much, you have to pick and choose.

A trip during flower and garden yielded an album divided by country and featuring flowers. A trip where I went character crazy had those photos divided by park, in some order. A trip last September was all about my girlfriend and her 3 yo niece (unusual for me - I rarely travel with kids). My last trip was with two families containing three girls under 3. I have two things - a handful of photopass photos and a whole lot of "messy face" photos at dining tables (the only time they sat still). Hardly enough for an album.

I almost always include a resort spread of where we've stayed, too many animal photos from AK., and a photo of the castle even though, theoretically, it doesn't change.

So, I say, get out your photos and sort them while thinking about your trip. What was the theme? Was there a pattern (ride mania?) What was most memorable? any disasters? Maybe you don't need to scrap a whole book - just slap most of 'em in a photo album and make a spread of the highlights or best photos for your family book. Or a mini book?

 

[tggrrstarr]

Yeah, I've thought about this quite a bit! I do it in order by day. For the most part I keep everything we did in order also, just to keep it straight. My last trip got a little out of order and I get confused now looking through the book.

 

[nikkistevej]

All of my books are in chronological order. Sometimes I do make "filler" type pages(pics of DD, extra character pics, pics of DH or me with DD).

 

[Jennasmomma]

Right now I'm just doing my Disney pages and when I'm done I'll get albums for them. (don't worry they are stored safely lol).

I plan to put them in the albums by park. I have a picture of my DD on the plane there and a car we seen at the check in for the cabins. I plan to put the pictures of the cabin at the beginning of the first book. Whichever that may be. I'll decide after I'm done how many albums I'll need.

 

[Macca1111]

Yeah, I've thought about this quite a bit! I do it in order by day. For the most part I keep everything we did in order also, just to keep it straight. My last trip got a little out of order and I get confused now looking through the book.

It annoys me when they're not in order (even when I've made books for other people) so mine are always chronological. There are usually a few pics that I take with the specific foreknowledge of "I missed this the first time we walked by, so it will go with those first pictures" but I can't handle any other "misplacements". Do what makes you happy, and won't drive you crazy.

 

[BrerMama]

I tried to do my book from 2007 in chronological order, but it was just taking too much of my time and creating too many layouts. I ended up going by park, then had a section with character meals, then a miscellanous section where I had layouts of our resort, things we did that weren't in the parks, etc. I included characters either by park or character meal.

 

[pjlla]

As I have mentioned before, I am a stricty chronological gal. Any other way would make me CRAZY! I think of my trip albums as sort of glorified trip journals. I keep a fairly detailed journal during the trip and I use that for my journaling on the album pages. Laying out my album in any way other than chronological just wouldn't make sense to me.

That said, I did recently scrap an annual extended family vacation (not WDW) and I did it by "themes" rather than chronological. During our week at the lake it just seems less important to know which day we caught which fish and which day the kids built which sandcastle. And I had way more good pictures from this particular trip than I usually do.... so I broke it up and did a short "vacation" album within my kids regular chronological yearly album. I had a two page layout of each of the following... "T-shirt Time", "Fishy Fun", "One boat, Many captains", "Hangin' Out", "Sun, Sand, Surf", and "Extra Stuff".

If you are not crazy about going strictly chronological I would suggest maybe doing something like this....... Pages by park, then pages by restaurant (especially good if you are big on eating table service), character interactions, swimming and water fun, your resort, travel days, off-days. Just some ideas...........HTH................P

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I did our first album by park only because I couldn't keep my days straight, we did 2 days in each park.
The album I'm doing now is in chronological order, I printed a contact sheet of my pics, the camera and iPhoto keep them in order by number.

And I have an ABC album I use with extra pics. Here is a link to the ABC list we compiled here.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1457364

 

[SharonLovesMickey]

Thanks for all this advice. I am enjoying learning about how others work through their creative process!

What is the best way you've found to print a contact sheet of your photos? Do you print them with the photo number underneath?

BTW...I especially like the idea of a space for extra photos or leftovers.

And I too take a photo of the castle every time. I thought I would get over it, but it's still the castle!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Thanks for all this advice. I am enjoying learning about how others work through their creative process!

What is the best way you've found to print a contact sheet of your photos? Do you print them with the photo number underneath?

BTW...I especially like the idea of a space for extra photos or leftovers.

And I too take a photo of the castle every time. I thought I would get over it, but it's still the castle!!

I haven't figured out how to add the numbers yet. I just leave the numbers in order and when I print the contact sheet (on regular paper, not scrap paper) it prints them in the right order.
I have a contact sheet setting on my printer which sets them up nicely. When I print the pages I number them so I can keep them in order when I go to scrap.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

I always start with a few pics of us getting to WDW, the resort we are staying at and then I go by parks.

 

[SharonLovesMickey]

You are all so talented...thanks for all the advice. I am working on two trips at once and trying to get as much done as possible before we take the next one...sheesh....I don't think that we planned on going back so soon and I don't mind...but it sure did throw off the scrapping!!!!

 

[kkbeaton2]

My Disneyland pictures are in albums according to year (and in each year it is in chronological order). We go to Disneyland all the time, so I have a ton of pictures in these albums.

My Disney cruise albums are 1 album for each cruise, and they too go in chronological order, from the time we get on the ship to the time we get off.

My WDW pictures I do by park, not in chronological order. The way I store my pics on my hard drive is to put them in a folder with the day and the park in the title of the folder. Then I do know what day they were taken, but I also know which park we were at when they were taken. We have only been to WDW 2 times, so if I went a lot, then I might do them in chronological order because I would know the parks a lot better, but since I don't know them as well, I do it by park.