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guikrazy · #1 (**permalink**) 08-25-2005

Hello again,

I doubt that I am the only one who picks up a bunch of ephemera (I know Nevermore is LOL at that word!) [postcards, pamphlets, maps, etc] when traveling.

On some LOs I have scanned in whatever the item is and used it that way. I also plan to just leave a spot open on a digi LO and then stick on the item to the LO with a stick on pocket. But, for the vast majority I have purchased scrapworks smart album divided pages (which hold 4X6 and 6X8 items) and have just stuck in the postcards. I tend to buy a lot of postcards and really don't have a desire to scan and scrap them all.

The scrapwork pages are really for their binder album, which is like $40, but since I already have a post-bound travel scrapbook, I just stuck the pages in that. They are slightly larger than the other pages and stick out ever so slightly from the edges of the scrapbook but it turned out to be a fairly quick, organized and easy way to include everything in one album.

I am wondering how you go about including these items with your digital LOs?

Silly · #2 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

quikrazy,

I scan most of mine because I like to cut out pieces from them rather than using the whole thing. I also sometimes only use the journaling from them, after all their are professionals writing this stuff!

leeandra · #3 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

Um, don't tell anyone... but I have all my ephemera & random other sentimental items in a gigantic plastic storage tub that I affectionately call my memorabilia bin and which gives me a hernia every time I have to pick it up and move it somewhere!

guikrazy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ksbalint · #5 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

I scan tickets, brochures, etc. and use them in digital form on my layouts.

webchyck · #6 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

I keep a lot of stuff! LOL! Most of it doesn't make it into scrapbooks. I have one of those plastic shoeboxes for every year my husband and I have been married--in it I put thank you notes, Christmas and birthday cards, event brochures, postcards, newspaper articles, comic strips, ticket stubs. What a loser, huh? I did have fun going through a bunch of the boxes one day and making a collage layout from the scanned items. I have no idea why I keep this stuff, but it is neatly organized and not taking up needed space (yet). It's kind of fun to go through and read letters I've received. I think I'd better get rid of it all before I die, though, so the kids don't have to deal with it! I will try to glean the good stuff they might be interested in. I do use some of our ephemera from vacations in the scrapbooks I make about the trips, but most of it just gets put into a plastic folder for storage near the annual boxes.

Nevermore · #7 (**permalink**) 08-26-2005

I am not laughing, not me. I am humming "Low Budget" by the Kinks (I'm on a low budget, low budget, I'm a cut price person in a low budget land). I don't have even the faint shadow of ephemera. I have stuff. And junk. And c***. Odds and sods. Bits and pieces. The currency exchange being what it is, I don't think I could trade my entire collection for one ephemeron much less ephemera.