When most
people travel, they bring back with them a ton of brochures of places they have
been to. While this is a good thing to show the family what they have
been missing while you have were away having fun, it can be clutter, unless you
do something about it.
In this
example I am going to use my 2004 trip to Disney. You got that right,
2004, and I collected tons of brochures and maps of the parks, which have
change a lot since I was there.
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| Box of 2004 brochures and maps |
They have
been in a box waiting for me to do something to them since that trip. See
the welcome home folder? I was at the time a Disney Vacation Club member, so
that was my welcome home folder with all the goodies me and my family received
on that trip. I have the membership card sitting next to me, also ready
to be put in a scrapbook for my viewing pleasure. Now a word from the
organization experts about this sort of thing: "If you have not
used it in a year, toss it, give it to charity, something, either use it or
lose it." My words, their thoughts, and they are right, but I did
not toss it in 2005 like I was supposed to. The only proper way is to use what
I want and toss the rest away. After all, I will be getting new ones in
December, including and hopefully a new DVC Card.
Now you
can go about this two ways (there are more, but for now, let's stick with two
ways): scrapbook with or without photos. If you scrapbook with
photos, make sure you have photo friendly paper behind the photo, since the brochures
are not printed on that kind of paper. This is great when you have people or characters in the photo or
want to highlight something special (baby enjoying her first Dole Whip).
You can always get archival mist, but that can be a bit on the messy
side, and it might make the colors in the brochures run together. If you
decide to go this route, make sure you test first. The second way is
without photos, and this is for when you did not take any, they turned out
horrible, or you want to keep something like a Smash book. For this
example, I am doing a layout with photos, because I found them. (Do not
ask, just know that I found them, LOL)
Step #1:
Gather your photos. I would start by separating the majority of
them by scenery, areas of the park, or themes. like this
Do not
let this pile fool you. It is only temporary, if you let it. The
photos are not going to deteriorate that fast, but you do have to do something
with the pile of photos. if you are not going to work on them for a
while, get a photo-friendly envelope, which are available in most places with a
photo kiosk near by (such as a drugstore or a local scrapbooking store (LSS)).
As you can see, I wrote down where I took the photos and the date of the
photo. Since it has been so long, I placed the year on to the slips of
paper. A paperclip or rubber band will do until you can put them in
envelopes.
Back to
the layout...
I decided
for the purpose of this demonstration to go with this photo:
To me,
this started my day (even though we had been to Epcot the day before)
Now that
I have choose my photo (and feel free to choose as many as you like, just do
not over crowd your background paper). I decided to choose to scrapbook
around this one.
Step 2:
Will it be one page or two? Oh and while I am at it, what size will
it be?
The
beauty of scrapbook albums is you can use pages as an one or two page layout
spread. I am usually a two spread layout girl myself, because I want to
get the most bank for my buck with two pages. This time, I want to
challenge myself and so a one page. This is great for a layout for one
photo. Since you will be using your brochures and maps as well, you can
easily have one layout for the photo and those materials and the other for just
the brochures.
Well that
is the end of this post but not the end of this layout, stay tuned for part 2
where I will show you how to choose your paper, style and other goodies.
Have a blessed day
