A travel scrapbook page with 30 photos and room for more? Is that possible and still be able to see the photographs?
Well, first off, unless you are entering a photo competition where the photograph is the focus then you do not need brilliant 7 x 5s for scrapbooking.
Secondly, you could see your photos on that little 6 x 4 in (or whatever) summary you used to get when a film was developed (remember those?) And the photos on this layout are huge in comparison.
Thirdly, it’s the memory that counts, and this type of scrapbook page is a summary and for reminiscing without worrying about seeing every detail. That said, the photos are about 1 in x 1.5 in, so you can see them.
Read on for today’s tips.
A trip to Europe is a huge adventure not to mention a great photo opportunity, and our friends made time for a few days with us. We were thrilled to see them for it had been twenty years of Christmas & birthday card exchanges, with the occasional letter, since we last saw them … 5000 miles is a long way, and more so when 2000 of them are ocean.
It took me ages to do this layout because I had to choose just a few photos and I’m no good at that. ‘Just a few photos?’ I hear you say. Yes, I took loads more.
I wanted to get the whole visit on as few pages as possible, and I thought if I forced myself to make a one-page layout it would make me choose the best and most representative photos. If I want to make supplementary layouts later, then I have the main ‘topics’ and can fill out other layouts with photos and the story.
Now the advantage of digital scrapbooking is that if I change my mind it is quite easy to redo the whole thing – which I may well do as I had intended to tell more of the story than I ended up doing. Then again, maybe I should fish out the old photographs, scan them in to my computer and tell the early part of the story separately. The memories are still in my head with quite a few photos to back it up and remind me of the bits I’ve forgotten.
Take a closer look
I decided I wanted to use a film strip for this page. I created a single frame and a triple frame to allow for variations, and, in fact, needed both to complete one width of a 12 x 12 in page. Be warned: whether you are a digital or paper scrapper, there is a lot of resizing work in a layout like this.
To make a film strip for your paper scrapbook page:
- Check what size your smallest square punch is – you want one about 1/8 in, but if you choose to work with slightly larger photographs you will get of with a 1/4 in square punch.
- Look out your 1/4 in circle punch.
- Decide what size your photos will be – with 1.5 in wide photos, allowing 1/8 in between photos, you will get 7 (and a half) across the page; center the strip and you will lose a little off the outside photos rather than half of one
- prepare your photos at 1 in x 1.5 in.
- For a 1 in high photo, cut a sheet of 12 in black card or heavy paper at 1.5 in, which equals a height of 1 in plus 2 borders of 0.5 in.
- Cut as many lengths as you require.
- Position your photos leaving 1/8 in between them.
- Adhere them once you are satisfied with the placement.
- Punch a 1/4 in half circle on the edge of the black card/paper, above and below each intersection, and on the outer edges if your photos are flush with the edge of your page – that is they do not overhang the edge.
- Punch an odd number of square holes in the black card/paper, above and below each photo.
- Adhere each film strip when you have finalized the overall look of your layout.
With so many squares and rectangles on this layout, I wanted to add something circular. I thought the finished result looked vaguely globe-like (use your imagination!) which goes with the travel theme.
The credits today are for PSE which allows a digital scrapper to do so much. The circle shape, the blotches and the leaves on the paper all come with it. I just put them together in the designs you see here.
Well, that’s another travel scrapbook page – with 30 photos and room for more to boot! Have fun scrapping!
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Thank you for showing me how I can display next years trip to New England. I was wondering what my intro page would be. Will be on the road for 2 months & will take many pictures while leaf peeping.
Karen, I’m so glad you found this helpful. I’m impressed you are so organized to be planning your album even before you take the photos. I love the idea, but am always chasing my tail. Have a great trip.
This would work well for the intro page to any album.