...with the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin!
Welcome back for another day of Vanilla Ice inspired problem solving and I apologise if that song is now stuck in your head and you are freaking your family & friends out with your awesome dance moves!!!!!
Yesterday we were attacking those bags / piles / boxes of photos and ephemera that we collect on trips both long and short.
Today we have another one of those bags but our solution is a little different, another option to consider.
You know when you get home from a holiday, be it 3 days or 3 weeks, and you are still on that high where you want to make an album so you can scrapbook every single photo and story because the trip was so much fun.
You start fantasising about the 40+ page 12” x 12” album you will complete when the 1250 photos you took come back from the printer! And then things like laundry (so much laundry after a trip), and life and work get in the way, and that album just never gets started. It’s a problem you can all relate to, yes?
Today I am going to show you a couple of solutions to that problem. First up a quick mini album that will capture the essence of your trip and can be completed in a night.
I “borrowed” my sisters Melbourne mini album because this is exactly what I had in mind (and sisters are good for borrowing from!!) After a great week in Melbourne my sister had photos, postcards, ticket stubs, business cards and good memories.
This quick and simple mini was made by using smaller sized photos, and the postcards she had collected formed the “pages” of the album – the blank side used for photos or journaling or covered in patterned paper.
A map was used for the cover along with the wristband from the skywalk (good use of ephemera). Boarding passes and theatre tickets all found their way into the book because they helped tell the story without the need for journaling.
All
the highlights of the trip are here and Nikki completed this mini in a night. Everything
else, that didn’t find its way into the album, gone!
The
second option is to use an album. I have also visited Melbourne a few times in
the past couple of years and wanted to document these trips, and other short
trips I have taken. I am normally a very simple scrapper, but I really wanted
to use a lot of the bits and pieces I had collected. I
used a 12” x 6” American Crafts album and I plan to use this album to house all
my “Mini Breaks”. I might complete 10 pages for one trip and maybe only 5 for
another, but all those little holidays you don’t know what to do with are now
all in one album, and can be added to at any time. It’s fun to flick through
this album and remember the places we visited, even if it was only for a
weekend. I
also used smaller photos, maps, business cards and a few sheets of coordinating
patterned paper – the colours green and orange kept jumping out at me so that’s
what I went with. I used the last page for all my journaling. Anything left
over…gone! In
the last photo you see the title page for my trip to Melbourne the previous
year, and I went with a blue theme through those pages.
“To
the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light
up a stage and wax a chump like a candle”
