Photo projects; alternatives to scrapbooks?

[HunnyPots]

We just got back from another awesome Disney trip with tons of photos of course! I would love to scrap them but I'm already two years behind in that department. So I've faced that fact that it just ain't gonna happen. But I would liketo do some sort of small project to show off our best pics, other than just framing them. Any ideas?

 

[Kim1964]

Maybe you could scrap the "best of the best" and buy some of those 12 x 12 shadow boxes that are made for displaying scrap pages.

 

[New England Eeyore]

What about a photo book?

Shutterfly keeps sending me free offers for 8x8 ones and I have a done a few different ones of different trips. It's a nice complement to my scrapbooks, and an alternative for people who are not going to flip through the hundreds of pages in the albums!

 

[HunnyPots]

Hmmmm... cool ideas so far. I've thought about just doing a few pages and framing them. That might work. Tell me more about photo books. Are they simply your photos printed in book form or is there more to it? Interested to know...

 

[Fran98765]

shutterfly has some backgrounds and you can add some text. Disney has something similar on the photopass site, but it is a lot more expensive, but you can have a disney-like book and use some of their stock photos too.

 

[New England Eeyore]

I've only ever used Shutterfly but I imagine most photo-processing sites/stores have a similar option. I know my friend has used CVS (but I think she said they only print on one side of the page.)

Hopefully these links will work to show you some examples of a completed photobook.
This was a quick and simple one I did for my DsD who loves animals:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/project/0IZOGTdw0YsXaA/landing

This was a summary of our April 07 trip:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/project/0IZOGTdw0YsXeQ/landing

 

[Lisa]

Digital storybook albums are quick; click, drag, drop, boom, your album is done. Disney Photopass also offers a digital album. I haven't done one of theirs, but I've seen one and it did come out nice. I believe you can add your own pictures too.

I've only used CM digital albums, love that the inside binding is stitched rather than glued.

 

[huge mickey fan]

For our next trip I have a multiple hole frame ready and waiting. I plan to take the best of the best for the photo frame and it will become the centerpiece of my Friends and Family wall in the hallway.

 

[bumbershoot]

Hmmmm... cool ideas so far. I've thought about just doing a few pages and framing them. That might work. Tell me more about photo books. Are they simply your photos printed in book form or is there more to it? Interested to know...

I too have gotten the free photobook offers. YOu do pay shipping, but it's still a bargain.

I made a 20 page book just recently that I titled "our pretty disney", and it's all the pretty pictures I took of Disneyland and DCA. Not people or characters, just the sites. And I did it with maps in hand, so it's like taking a pretty little stroll through the parks. I made it VERY colorful, with different backgrounds and different picture borders on every page, and tried to match it all. Like on a left page I have a FULL page picture of a ride at DCA called the Orange Stinger, which looks like a bit semi-un-peeled orange. On the right page I have a 4 picture layout of pix of CA Screamin' signage and the Cove Bar which is in the Paradise Pier area. The background for that page is plain white, but I put bold orange borders around those 4 pictures. It makes the page really pop, which matches the colors and sunlight of the days we spent on that trip in DCA!

I spent more than a few sessions on that book, but that's b/c I had the time. I could have had it done sooner if I had read the tutorials ahead of time, but I learned as I went, and I paid for that with time.

 

[MazdaUK]

I came back with 250 pics to scrap (from 4 days at DLP!) and I needed to wait not only til UK CM started stocking Disney stuff but for a couple of Disney swaps I want to use for pages. But I had some paper bag albums from a last year swap so I did those with my favourite pics (tailored one for me and one each for the kids with their faves) so we have something to show anyone who asks while I'm getting my a** in gear!