Posts Tagged ‘travel scrapbook’
End of Month Scrapbook News…
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Hello Scrapbook Friend,
Kathy has a few things to let you know about the new templates she’s added so far this month.
She totally replaced the baby category on both the Soft Expressions and the Printable Pastels members areas. That’s 180 new digital scrapbook page templates added just for the end of January. 90 12×12 baby pages and 90 8.5×11 baby scrapbook sets.
Join us at www.MyPrincessCrafts.com by logging into your Members Home page there. If you aren’t a member, then you’ll want to fix that quick and join us. Templates literally cost only a couple cents a piece with your membership. There isn’t a better deal on the Internet and it’s so fast and easy with our quick build templates.
Members will also find new Scrapbook Elements in the Elements Area.
For our FREE Members:
We’ve added new Valentines Day Stationery Downloads at: www.Free-Stationery.com
Note: Kathy’s adding 3 more Valentines Day Love Letter Stationery this afternoon, so they’ll be there for you tomorrow. Check back often as we are adding lot’s of free goodies this month.
We’ve also added New Valentines Day and St. Patrick’s Day Photo Greeting Card downloads at: www.FreeScrapbookTraining.com
That’s it for now,
Happy Scrappin’
Wes and Kathy
4 Easy Steps to Turning Your Holidays into Lasting Memories
Thursday, November 4th, 2010Before we get to the article, here’s a couple of links I know you want:
Recently Added Templates
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4 Easy Steps to Turning Your Holidays into Lasting Memories.
Author: Wes Waddell
Don’t you find that no matter how many times you experience holiday travel, the excitement never fades?
Unfortunately, the one thing that does fade is your memory of all the wonderful experiences and pleasures you enjoyed on your trips.
There is a way to preserve more of the memories, emotions, sights and senses… you can even pass them on to friends, family and future generations.
Would you like to know how?
Here’s how really easy it can be:
– Step 1: Keep a small journal or notebook handy on your trip.
I know that the idea of writing everything down can be boring. But all you really need to do is take 10 to 15 minutes at the end of the day, usually after dinner when things calm down, and just jot down the days highlights and where the photos were taken. If something really exciting, funny or memorable happened that day you may want to make those notes a little more detail. Otherwise, keep it simple and know that the photos will help jog your memory later.
If you didn’t take a lot of photos, then the receipts will help with your notes. For those of you that don’t take a lot of photos or forget to bring the camera, I’m afraid that your best option is to keep a detailed journal each day or risk losing your memories forever. If you don’t like to write or have trouble writing like my wife does due to medical reasons, then keep an audio journal with an inexpensive digital recorder or even a video recorder or laptop computer.
Just remember that your photos can only capture so much of the story and emotions… it’s your journal or audio (or both that will capture the rest of the real emotions you had that day. Oh, and don’t forget to get comments from the whole family when possible so that you can capture their emotional memories as well. This one step of keeping a journal is going to make your scrapbooks and photo layouts so much easier later when you truly preserve the memories.
– Step 2:Take lots of pictures.
I know in theory this doesn’t need to be said, you probably already do that, but here’s a few things that usually get missed in all the excitement and fun.
Don’t forget to take some background photos of the food, your picnic table settings, trails or gardens and even the outside of airports, hotels or empty campsites. These make perfect travel scrapbook backgrounds and stationery for your final photo memory books and journals. Besides, with digital photos and inexpensive memory cards, it costs next to nothing to snap a few extra fill photos here and there.
I personally also like to create a separate directory and subdirectories on my laptop for each day of the trip and inside that a subdirectory for each location we went to that day. I then sort the photos into those directories at the end of each day and review the photos while I’m compiling my journaling notes. Going through the photos each day also helps me create a more complete journal for each day as well.
Many times, this step has got me to go back to a location the next day (when I could) to grab a few more photographs to replace an out of focus one or a missed shot. It’s amazing how your photos will change when you think about the final memory book and how it will look as you go.
– Step 3: Shop for bargains and think FLAT!
What does that mean? What I mean is that every location will offer some unique (maybe even exotic) items you can buy for very reasonable prices that will become real treasures when they later sit on your mantel at home or augment your photo memory journal and scrapbooks.
What gets missed a lot of times are local fabrics (careful of acids in the dyes), papers and even post cards that help your minds eye recall the feelings and emotions you felt while you were there. Just keep FLAT in mind as you’ll be placing some of this in your scrapbook memory book with your photos and journaling along side.
Note about postcards: Many really popular locations are always filled with people and it’s hard to get a clean shot on your own. Most of these places sell postcards that have been taken when the attraction was empty. One of these along with a close-up shot of you and the family at the same location make for a great memory layout page later.
– Step 4: Don’t forget the paperwork.
All to often, a lot of your receipts get thrown out when it’s a pleasure trip. Be sure and keep your taxi receipts, menus (when possible), boarding passes, railroad passes, left over foreign paper currency, attraction receipts, and ticket stubs to special events. You might even like to cut out pages from any travel books and brochures you used or picked up on holiday.
When you finally transcribe your travel journal into your photo memory book scrapbook, you’ll be able to add photos and then journal in small vignettes and anecdotes amidst these visual items of your trip.
Finally, don’t make the all too common mistake of procrastination in assembling your memory book scrapbook when you return home.
I’m not saying you need to start it as soon as you walk through the door, but I know from personal experience that the sooner you get started, the more easily you’ll create the finished your best memory book scrapbook project. Try doing it as a family and I just know (again from personal experience… even with teens) that this will be an enormously entertaining family activity. Besides that, we all know that the sooner you begin your memory book, the fresher your memories and emotions will be.
Holiday travel is meant to be relaxing and fun, even if the relaxing part sometimes gets left out. So why not let this fun carry right over into the preservation of all those wonderful memories.
If you simply follow these 4 simple steps, you will easily enjoy and “relive, over and over” your favorite travels. Do it well, and even your future generations will be living them right there with you in the future while they create their own adventures in many of the same places.
Happy Travels!
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