Snap & Scrap: vacation scrapbook layouts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

MemoryWorks Simple Stories Destinations Blog Hop

Hello fellow blog hop travelers! If you have just joined in, Welcome to the MemoryWorks Simple Stories Destinations Blog Hop! This blog hop is featuring TeamWorks members and our Simple Stories creations with the Destinations line.

Come aboard and travel with us to the MemoryWorks blog and navigate your way to the Simple Stories blog. Leave a comment on any blog and get a chance to win a Destinations kit of your very own! Leave a comment on ALL the blogs, you have a better chance to win! YAY! (Only one comment per blog please.)

My Destinations projects showcase photos from my honeymoon...eleven years ago! These photos have been sitting in photo albums just waiting for a kit like this to appear. I only wish I would have had a travel journal back then to keep track of all our activities and memories.

Let's see what I've done so far with the Destinations kit:

"Hugs & Kisses From Florida" 12x12 Scrapbook Layout

"Ft. Lauderdale" 12x12 Scrapbook Layout

"Mai Kai" 12x12 Scrapbook Layout

"D is for Destination Dan Marino Stalker" 12x12 Scrapbook Layout

Oh yes, we had quite an adventure in Florida during our honeymoon and there will be more layouts to come! I plan to finish my honeymoon scrapbook album during Layout A Day in May and there will be plenty of storytelling.

I also wanted to share a new technique I've been using on my photos. I scrape the photo edges with scissors:

Here's another look at two photos on a completed scrapbook page:

To save paper, I cut out the middle part of a double-sided sheet of cardstock, leaving a one inch thick border. I put the center part aside for later use and used the border for the "Mai Kai" layout and then flipped it over to reveal the other side of the cardstock and made the "D is for Destination Dan Marino Stalker" layout. (Funny story and I'll tell it later in a future blog post.)

Now, it's time to travel back to the start if this was your first destination or go full speed ahead to Sharon's blog. Here's the full itinerary:

Start here--> MemoryWorks Blog
Lacey Igo

Susan Nichols

Danielle Hunter <---You are here

Your next stop---> Sharon Hill

Simple Stories <---Your last stop

Enjoy and good luck!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Vacation Scrapbook Layouts

I recently read How To Chose Your Best Vacation Photos, a wonderful and helpful post by Noell Hyman of Paperclipping Roundtable. Most of us can agree, we take a lot of photos when vacationing, often hundreds of snapshots documenting all the activities we partake in and the wonderful sites around us. With so many photos, it would be a time consuming task to use every single one in a traditional scrapbook (a little easier when going digital). Noell's post helps us to decide what photos to use on our scrapbook pages and I highly recommend reading it.

I haven't been on a "real" vacation in FIVE years. (I soooo want to relax on the beach right now and without any children, but I'm stuck in Ohio. Anyway, there's always next year. That's what I keep saying year after year.) Here I am, reminiscing about my Vegas vacation in 2004 and the Miami vacation in 2005: