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loobee lu · #1 (**permalink**) 08-27-2005

I am currently scrapping a Fiji holiday with 171 photos, I am up to my 6th LO, will probably end up with about 10. Thats quite a lot.
We have recently returned from a 18 day vacation to the US and I have 850ish photos, obviously I cant scrap all of them, but Im not sure that I can cull that much because the thing I love about digi photography is that you can get the casual shots that you wouldnt normally bother with but that tell you about the experience not just the place kwim?
So what do you do?
Do you scrap a few special photos and leave the rest on disk?
Scrap a few special photos into really nice LOs and then put the rest on pages fitting in as many as possible?
Scrap the lot?

How do you do it? I need ideas!

Nevermore · #2 (**permalink**) 08-27-2005

I just finished a wedding album with 10 layouts and it has taken me since March to do it. I was exhausted by the end--even with the very very very loose theme I used (so loose I expect I abandoned it at the end!) I found sticking to a theme tiresome and, at some points, joyless. I will be interested in hearing responses to your question to see if I can get any pointers for embarking on "long haul" projects. My only other project was an ABC book for my son and that took me about a year. I can do a layout a day but whenever I have a theme, seems like I get a little lockjaw. Maybe just the thought that those layouts will get printed and lumped together whereas nearly all of my other layouts haven't made it off the hard drive yet. 850 photos!

guikrazy · #3 (**permalink**) 08-27-2005

Nevermore, I now that your "non-style" self Must have a hard time with a theme scrap project! LOL!!!

I tend to do a lot of theme scrapbboks and the only way I am usually able to stick with them is because they are gifts for people and there is a deadline associated with giving the gifts, so that forces me to stay focused.

Loobee lu,

I have a TON of vacation/location pics. I am in the process of finishing up a scrapbook of Baltimore and what I have done is use Becky Higgins sketches to try and fit in as many "location" shots as possible on a two page LO. Then with these "location" shots I just repeat the LO with different photos. I change the main LO that serves as the template based on the location. For instance, if you check out my gallery you will see that I have some LOs at the aquarium. I did all of my aquarium pics with the same two page LO design. (I only posted two of the six I did.) And for the street/waterfront pics I used the 2 page design that I used for the crabs. Anyway, my point is the each individual LO will not be different, but will change every few LOs. Doing this saves me time, allows me to use all the photos I want, and is helpful for when I have hit that boredom wall: all I need to do at that point is resize and paste, with no creative thinking involved.

You should also check out a forum thread I posted a few days ago related to this topic: How have you done travel scrapbooks?

HTH!!

guikrazy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-30-2005

Just an FYI: If you do what I do and make a lot of LOs with different photos from the the same LO and you print at home, make sure that you have an adequate supply of toner ink (I would say more than one replacement). Since you are printing basically the same thing over and over again, you will likely run out of one particular ink cartridge, maybe even twice. This just happened to me when I was printing out gift scrapbooks late Sunday night and one tank ran out Twice! Luckily, I always keep my supplies stocked with two replacement tanks.

Carole · #5 (**permalink**) 08-30-2005

The easiest way for me is to design several template pages using the colors and elements that best suit the photos. As suggested, sketches also help here. Then add the photos to these templates. That way your album has a theme and it simplifies things since you don't have to design each and every page.

If you want to have all the photos available to look at in your album, you might want to consider scrapping only selected photos and displaying the others in your album using the pages with individual sleeves for 4x6, etc. I've seen these in scrap magazines and they seem to come in different sizes and photo orientations.

Hope this makes sense.
Carole

Doris · #6 (**permalink**) 08-30-2005

There is a paperback book called Creating Vacation Scrapbook Pages. How to Preserve Your Travel Photos and Memorabillia. It's by Memory Makers. I checked it out at the library and liked it so I bought it. Am sure there are others.You might want to pick that up for ideas. Now it's not regarding digital scrapbooking - but the ideas work the same.

Also....don't forget to scan items from your trip! Not that you need more work...but Plane tickets, ticket stubs to places you visited, brochures you may have picked up, maps, travel guides (we go to football games, so I get special buttons, game tickets, travel itineraries) - all can make wonderful elements for your pages.

You might want to save to a DVD to watch on your TV also. Just do layouts on some, do just the pics on others.....or brag books or coffee books. If you've not done DVD's there are programs from Nero or even Microsofts Movie Maker that are fun. HAVE FUN DECIDING

leeandra · #7 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005

I'm really bad abt theme stuff, so when I scrapped my DH's and my last working vacation in June, I had no color scheme, sketch, or anything else to unify the pages' look, just the photos themselves to tie everything together.

I did abt 25 pages for a one week trip, but I also do mostly one photo pages with lots of journaling. Since I will print all my photos out one day after I win the lottery (ha!), I do not feel the need to scrap every photo, especially the 'boring' non-people ones, so I mostly focus on any funny/telling stories that happened during the week and use photos as complements to the story I'm telling in my journaling, i.e. the day we went mini-golfing and found a gigantic oversized inflatable chair on the course which I had to sit in, rather than a bunch of photos of the ocean (which is what the vaca spot was famous for). Sure, I did a couple ocean/beach photos, but not many, as what defines my vaca from someone else's is ME (and DH and whomever else is along), so I want to focus on that in my album.

HTH!

guikrazy · #8 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005

Leeandra, it is so funny how different people are: my thinking on vacation is that the same thing is me in all of my vacations, so I focus on the place, the landscape, the architecture, the history, the people and culture.

Your LOs are probably more fun than mine.