the autograph pages thread - just for MAC!!

[julia & nicks mom]

the awesome thing about these it that the characters then know my kids names and it is pretty easy to keep track of whose autographs we still need

it is funny when we see a character multiple times and they have already signed - they always seem a little disappointed they don't get to sign!! We get comments from the CM's, the characters, other guests and Julia looks at her books ALL the time - I use them as her trip scrapbook and it is just perfect!!!!

For our quick 4 day trip in May - instead of making the 6x6 pages - I went ahead and made them 4x6 - then I bought her the Happiest Celebration on Earth Princess album and put the cards in before the pictures of the character - again s he loves this book and looks at it all the time - if you think you are not inclined to scrapbook the pictures when you get home - I think this is a great option!!!!!

to make the 6x6 cards - I buy a pack of 12x12 cardstock at Michaels - i wait until they are sale or use the 40% off coupon and then I cut them into 4 6x6 squares.

I have the characters in a word table so then I make a mail merge document and get my words organized - then i merge them into a new document and go through and make sure they are all on the page - the size of the character sometimes causes the words to fall onto the next page and I make any necessary adjustments and then print -

I take a small clipboard that costs less than $1 at the office supplies stores and a bunch of sharpies (Julia and I like to coordinate the character to the color of their outfit - except princesses have to be pink or purple - for example peter pan signs in green - so we always buy the mega pack!!!) and put them in a ziploc baggie - then at night we do take out the ones we already had signed so we don't keep carrying them throughout the week - i also always print blank ones - there always seems to be a rare character we forgot to put in around or thie time the mickey one got wet and we had to have him sign a blank page

feel free to ask questions -

kate

 

[tinkandhook]

i have made these kind of books too. you would be amazed at the interacaction from the characters. pointing showing their names and pictures to the cm's. I just made a new one for my DD and my mother daughter trip coming up. It is her 8th bday, and first trip just the 2 of us have been on alone (we have 4 kids ) so she is very excited. On all her pages i have printed "It's my 8th Birthday! with mickey balloon ears"

I really like the chip and dale one that has bday scribbled out and nutday written in! too cute!
tinkandhook

 

[macntosh]

I feel so special getting my own thread without even starting it. But I can't wait to "borrow" all of y'alls great ideas!

Thanks!

 

[dis4harley]

I love this idea, but would like to do it a little different, but I am not sure how. I like how you said the characters already know the childs names. I don't want mine to say happy birthday though. So, any ideas on what to say on the page so they will know their name????

 

[julia & nicks mom]

I love this idea, but would like to do it a little different, but I am not sure how. I like how you said the characters already know the childs names. I don't want mine to say happy birthday though. So, any ideas on what to say on the page so they will know their name????

this year was not my daughter's birthday - so we wrote

Julia's disney friends

on the top

 

[Cinderumbrella]

Kate- great idea!! I'm just subscribing so I can "scraplift" these ideas for our December trip

 

[Tammi67]

We went in December so mine said "Merry Christmas, Nicholas".

 

[UP Disney]

this year was not my daughter's birthday - so we wrote

Julia's disney friends

on the top

This is a great idea. I'm doing one for myself. Do you think I should put my name on it as an adult? I don't want to take too much time away from the kids but I love the characters and the autographs.

 

[itdjbw]

If I get a break from reading threads I will try make some for our May cruise.

 

[rosiejo]

I've been asked to add the link to the pages I created in my photobucket account by another DDAer - so I hope you don't mind me sharing :

Autograph book images

I created these in photoimpact and they are sized to print as 6x4 - if you would like to print them out right click on the images and select save as - save them to your hard drive. Then open word and select insert pictures from file. You should end up with two images per sheet of A4.

You can then print them out and cut them into 6x4 pieces.

I bought a spiral bound notebook with cardstick pages and stuck the images in - Kate (Julia and Nicks Mom) takes her pages on a clipboard around the park and then scraps the autographs and photos after. I think I like that idea better than sticking in a book beforehand but it worked for me

 

[Tammi67]

I just looked at your pages, Clare. They are great!

 

[msbad]

hey rosiejo,
Great pages. I know I will do something like it for my niece in Feb. when we go. I will probably do one for myself also. Just a 40 year old kid here.....

 

[UP Disney]

Here are a couple of my autograph pages.

http://photobucket.com/albums/d191/upturbo/Autograph/

They are also 6x4. The only one that is done at this point is the Tigger page. I totally got the idea from Rosiejo's Seven Drawfs page. Thanks for the inspiration Rosiejo. The other pages (Mickey & Minnie) need some kind of border but I'm still learning PhotoImpact and haven't got the look I want yet. I think I have sized them right but haven't tested yet. I'll add more to my site as I get them created.

I am going to use Kate's (Julia & Nick's Mom) idea and keep them as separate pieces of cardstock. Then I can add them to my scrapbook page when I get home.

I only carry a fanny pack with me in the parks (I only carry a wallet at home) and a clipboard would be too large to carry in that. So, I've cut out two heavy pieces of cardboard (from the back of one of my old notepads) a little larger than 6x4. I'll use a binder clip to hold the pages together between these two while in the fanny pack. When I see a character, I'll put theirs on top and clip it back together so they have something hard to write on.

I will also keep it in a ziploc bag per Kate's suggestion for those water rides and rainy days!

I love this site. So many cool ideas to keep my creative juices flowing.

 

[bear74]

Kate,
How many Autographs do you have? Do you just take pages for the ones you don't have each time or do you take pages for all.

 

[my3princes]

I started making some autograph pages myself. I really like RosieJo's, but I thought I'd give it a shot myself. We do one autograph book for all 3 of our kids so I'm putting Nicholas, Hunter and Colby across the top and Walt Disney World 2007 across the bottom. I worked all day on it today and made about 20 pages. The weather here was absolutely horrible and the kids were home from school since the roads were very icy. I had planned to run errands, but since I couldn't I had time to be creative. It was a really good experience and I figured out a lot of cool new things on Photo Impact. I am really starting to get the hang of the program and like working with it.

Deb

 

[RobInBigKC]

Kate -- thanks for starting this thread. So handy having it broke out separate.

Rosiejo -- I love your autograph page designs and am planning on using them for our upcoming WDW trip (26 days away but who's counting?).

A question for all: Does anyone know what size the pages are in the "official" autograph books sold at WDW? I'm thinking of slightly shrinking down Rosiejo's designs to fit on 4.25" by 5.5" card stock and am wondering what size paper the characters are used to signing on.

Thanks. -- Rob

 

[Tammi67]

Deb, can you post pictures of what you did?

 

[my3princes]

Deb, can you post pictures of what you did?

Here's a few of them.

Deb

 

[my3princes]

Here's a few more:

That's half of the one's I did yesterday. I ended up really pleased with the jungel border so I used it for several of the jungle characters and just made minor changes to accommodate the character.

Deb

 

[UP Disney]

That's half of the one's I did yesterday. I ended up really pleased with the jungel border so I used it for several of the jungle characters and just made minor changes to accommodate the character.

Deb

Those are awesome. What program do you use? I'm using PhotoImpact? Where did you get your borders? I've been collecting quite a few from different sites.