Scrapbook

[clovely]

Don't forget the cardbox protectors that your ship's pictures will be placed in. I have used many of those as picture frames and logo's. My motto is If I can't buy it I'll figure out something to scrap for it. Don't forget dinner menus and napkins make great add on to your pictures. Keep your room keys also to add to your pictures. Also if you get a good picture of your family with the logo in the background you can scan and paste in a digital scrapbooking program from walmart(which works well and I found to be fairly easy.) Last time I was at Disney I took close to 600 pictures I have only 410 (so far) placed in Scrapbook and will be working on those before I do my cruise pictures lol. Postcards or letterheads with the ships logo works also. Keep your nagivators too, great for the scrapbook. also keep in mind a calender if available is great also. good luck to you while scraping and happy scraping to everyone else too.

I saw a picture of a page someone had done and scanned in somewhere on this site and she had put in her room key, napkins, and all kinds of paraphanalia...it looked great. My dad and his girlfriend are going to try to run up to DTD for me (and I'll let you know what they find) but I'm going to collect as much of that stuff to use as possible too!

 

[Annae]

The scrapbook store in DTD is located on the right hand side in a group of stores just before you get to the Rainforest Cafe. It is actually connected to other stores on both sides of it and it is not listed as just a "scrapbook store" so you'll have to look through the stores. I cannot remember the exact name of it. I live in Orlando and visit there quite often so I'll check it out the next time I'm down there. Also, if you want the cruise-related package, you must get it on the ship because I have never seen it available in the DTD store.

 

[graygables]

It's called World of Memories and it's across from the Christmas store on the RFC side. I've never seen the cruise pack anywhere else, either, BTW. I don't buy a whole lot at WDW, only park exclusive embellishments/stickers. The rest I get from Mousememories.com or Archiver's (or my LSS)

 

[LeslieG]

Do Mousememories and the store at Downtown Disney have basically the same items?

 

[2disneycruzrs]

The World of Memories store is awesome!!! As noted they don't have single papers nor DCL items, but they have a lot of great scrapbooking items. I didn't realize the store was there and wound up buying scrapbooking items at three or four different stores over two days! If you're not going to Disney anytime soon, you can call their merchandise number and they should be able to sell you items. Some of the things I was able to pick up there include: mouse ear eyelets, mouse ear-cutting scissors, paper packs, Cinderella's castle charms (for my 2006 Xmas cards), Cinderella's castle punch. That's just a small sampling of the items you can buy. It's much nicer shopping there than the World of Disney that is packed with people. There were two or three different packs on DCL. The nice thing about cruising at the end of the year was they had 2005 scrapbook kits, scrapbooks, and photo albums for 1/2 off!

 

[scrapperjill]

Myself...I was disapointed in the scrapbook store in DTD...before our trip I couldn't wait to go shopping once we arrived...but once we went.....well in so many words... I was let down. But that's JMO...anyways I wouldn't put to much into what eveyone says (it's kinda like the whole cheese platter thing..some people LOVE it and think it's the greatest thing while others say it's a plate of cheese)...I think the biggest problem for me was I listened to what eveyone had to say about how great it was...and it was okay...but not "Great". It wasn't near as big as I had thought it would have been...and they really didn't have a whole lot of scrapbooking things...sure they had some paper packs/kits, punches and albums...but not near as much as I had imagined.

After saying that I did find a few things...but I think MOST of eveything they have at the "scrappbook" store in DTD they have at the parks also...so don't fret if you can't make it to DTD.

Anyway about the OP question on "DCL" papers....Like others have said they do have kits with disney cruise related things...and like others have said they only sell them in the kits...not per page. My first impression of them was "bla"...or "hum..I don't know"...but I went ahead and purchased both packs and after we got back from the cruise I opened them up to see exactly what I had got...and to my suprise I liked them...I found a ton of great things inside. Of course I like one better than the other but over all they are both good. Oh...another thing they do sell out so if your thinking about it get them early.

One kit has a design like a comic strip....This is the one I like the least...the other has more of a tropical feel to it....it even comes with two of the six sheets of 12x12 paper that have a map of the Caribbean with "CC" marked Some of the others things in this kit that I like are....stickers of things like..various signs and things on the ship (the fish out side the staterooms, Oceaneers club sign, BV theater and so on)

Overall...I think DCL and WDW would benifit from breaking the kits up and selling pages individually...Believe me I could have loaded up on some of the pages in the kits at the DTD store...but because most of the items in the kits weren't things I'd use I passed on all of them...Maybe something like a make your own kit...and include eveything that comes in the kits...But that's a totally diffrent topic all together

 

[nskjerven]

I have to agree with scrapperjill. I was also not overwhelmed with the supplies at DTD. Most everything but the albums I can and have bought at my local store(s).

On the ship....there are allbums and paper sets that I saw no where eles. Lucky me I got all my 2005 stuff 1/2 off since we cruised the last week of the year.

Wish me luck I've got 1000+ pics to start scrapping.

Nan

 

[knebel22@frontiernet]

I have to agree with scrapperjill. I was also not overwhelmed with the supplies at DTD. Most everything but the albums I can and have bought at my local store(s).

On the ship....there are allbums and paper sets that I saw no where eles. Lucky me I got all my 2005 stuff 1/2 off since we cruised the last week of the year.

Wish me luck I've got 1000+ pics to start scrapping.

Nan

How did you manage all the pictures? Did you download them or use the Disney new CD burning option?
Thanks
Denise

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[Disney Lover Linda]

I was on the Christmas cruise on the Magic. They had DCL 2005 scrapbook kit on sale so I bought 2 the first day. They were cartoon like, Donald and his nephews. So were the 2005 photo albums. I didn't like it at first but it has grown on me. I went back 2 days later and all were gone (there had been probably about 25-30 the first day) and was replaced with new 2006 version, a little bit more traditional, I remember Captain Mickey face on front. No actual scrapbook though. There was a pretty nice selection of scrapbook materials at the Disney store in the Orlando airport in case you think of something at the last minute. I saw someone took their pirate menu and scanned it and made a cool page from it. I'm going to have to try this.

 

[nskjerven]

My pictures are digital, DH brought his laptop so I downloaded my cards at 500 pics (1 gig cards) so I have yet to place the paper order, not sure if I will use Costco or Kodak for that.

The photo pass option to burn 300+ pics for $100. Wish I knew about it at the beginning of our trip....Ended up buy the option for 42 pictures.

I was that person that bought out the the albums, there was only 3 there by early evening, I put one on hold to get the price and snagged one other when I found out what they cost. So glad I got 'em too. One for each kid. I also bought the 4x6 album, they had these cute paper inserts that I pulled out and used as our autograph pages. The characters thought it was an "interesting" paper to sign. I was not impressed with any of the autograph books I saw at WDW or on the ship. I think this means I'm doomed to making my own auto books from now on.

All this talk is making me want to get out my scrap loot and oogle it, see ya.

Nan

 

[scrapperjill]

1/2 off... You can't beat that deal.

What's the "photo-pass"? And when did they start doing that?

We brought our laptop along also...to download our pics...it's so worth the hastle of lugging it there We were able to take tons of pics and not even think about or worry about getting our cards full.

 

[knebel22@frontiernet]

I don't know that I want to lug the laptop just for downloading. I thought Disney was offering a cd burn option for $15 a cd? Not the photopass option but similiar to film developing but burn a cd.
Anyone know?
Thanks
Denise

 

[lbgraves]

DH brought his laptop & I was SO glad. We have 2 1/2 GBs of memory cards but filled them each a few times. I LOVE taking pictures.

 

[Annae]

We had a laptop with us the last cruise and we downloaded from our camera every night. We ran into a problem once where the laptop told us there was an error on the disc and wouldn't allow us to download the pictures. We had to go to Shutters to see if they could salvage our photos. I think we had about 75 pictures on there from our day at Nassau. They downloaded all of the pictures for 15.00 onto a CD.

 

[nskjerven]

Photopass is at WDW parks. The park photogragher takes your picture and gives you a card with a sque # on it. Each time you see and want a picture taken you give the next WDW photogragher the card, they scan it and some time (I think an hour or so) download it. All pictures (up to 300 I think I was told, from all parks) can be stored on a disc at the camera store in Epcot for $100. You don't need to spend precious park time looking at pictures and deciding what you want, just get it all. You do off course miss out on the cool layover that they can do when they print them for you, but at 12-16 per picture, I think you can do alot of learning at home to create them yourself. Of course all this is dependent on you having the capibility to print at home.

There's my pitch, I love this idea, wish I knew it was availble at the start of our vacation, would have had pictures all over the park.

Nan

 

[scrapperjill]

Oh....that photo pass..for some reason I was thinking on the ship... We got a photo pass on our last trip to WDW in Oct...but didn't end up with many pics at all. I really didn't see many chances while we were there....

I think it would be a WONDERFUL thing for on the ship ....I could totally use that.

 

[scrapperjill]

I don't know that I want to lug the laptop just for downloading. I thought Disney was offering a cd burn option for $15 a cd? Not the photopass option but similiar to film developing but burn a cd.
Anyone know?
Thanks
Denise

They do offer to burn your images to a CD for about $15...but depending on the amount of pics your taking...and the amount of CD you'll need to cover them...

Well let's just say I ended up with about 15 FULL cd's......for our trip...Yep you guessed it I took ALOT of pics. So you can see....if your needing to just get one disk burnt..then $15 isn't to bad...but when your talking about 15 of them....lugging the laptop is the best option.

PLUS we end up having our photos downloaded to the laptop AND burned to disks...so were doubled up....Just in case. I know I've heard of people who have a disk or two not burn correctly or have a couple pics with some sort of problems when burned (that's happened to me)....I'd hate to take the chance and have DCL burn the cd's only to realize when we got home...something was wrong.

Another thing is...I think you can only burn ONE time to the shutters disks.......So if you had to burn them each day...it would be a new disk each time...in other words $15 each time. Even if you didn't fill the disks all the way.

 

[knebel22@frontiernet]

Okay you convinced me to bring the laptop and to burn my pictures each night. I've never stayed inside Disney nor gone a Disney cruise so I'm sure I will be taking a ton of pictures.
Thanks for all the help.
Denise

 

[Scubabeck]

I was at the DTD store in March 2004, I thought they had a fair amount of things that I didn't normally see at AC MOORE or Micheals... I got my album there with a Tinkerbelle only because that was our theme. I picked up a few items. Me personally.... I have a store near me called the Flower Warehouse and they have tons (LOADS) of Disney stuff that the ship would have to have something different from them for me to buy. MY DH thinks I already have a small store now and might not let me buy more till it gets all used up. lol :thewave: Wish me luck! Hopefully I'll find different items aboard ship.

 

[jweiss]

I think we need to have a long week-end scrapbooking retreat once a year so we can all get together and scrap our DCL cruises. Would that be cool or what??? After four cruises, I'm running out of ideas and motivation..... I could use the group motivation. I say we start out in Northern California!!!!!