Travel Scrapping

hclappy

hclappy

GingerScraps Site Creative Team {Lead}
'Tis the season for summer road trips! Which got me to wondering- how does everyone scrap their travels? Do you plan ahead before the trip even starts? Do you document as you go? Do you scrap with one set of products? Do you make a hodgepodge of different pages, or do you have a set theme? Or, are you so overwhelmed that you put it off until all the memories have faded?

Share your process, link up favorite pages, show me your favorite travel kits, or point us to someone who's travel scrapping style you admire :)
 
My process is always evolving. My two biggest things that I try to do are to take notes during a trip, and to get all my thoughts into Evernote as soon as possible after we get home. Our memories definitely fade with time, I've already forgotten a lot of details from our Paris trip back in March. Thankfully, I have a couple of ways to job my memory. For the past few years, we do a trip hashtag on Instagram. The photos we shared on social media during the trip are often the first to get scrapped. And it's fun to get the point of view from the other people on the trip to add to your album. I've also started recording our conversations as we look through photos after a trip. That has given me a ton of ideas that I wouldn't have thought of on my own.

I don't have a theme for my travel pages, I just make them as I feel inspired. I do keep a big list of LO ideas in Evernote that I refer to when I want to scrap a trip. I love to have a mix of personality, relationship, reflective, and informative pages in my albums. I would get bored with pages that just told about where we went and what we saw. I want to remember silly conversations, weird bathroom graffiti, and big life lessons learned along the way. I want to remember why each trip was different or special.

There are two people that really come to my mind when I think of travel scrapping, Michi and Em. I love Michelle's style of scrapping her travels. She has a great mix of informative LO's and ones telling more personal stories. And I am just in awes of Emelyn's Philippines album. (And of how many great family selfies she got that trip!)
 
Aww, thank you so much Jen!! I was just about to comment, lol...

We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE traveling! In July we are going to Italy, woohoo!

I'm still behind on our Philippines trip, but just a few more days to go and not very many pictures left over.

I'm very OCD and scrap chronologically with trips and PL52. Which is why I take so long, but I really want them in order in online albums like FB or Pinterest.

I have an album for realtime pictures in FB that I would post daily. Day 1: etc...etc...
Then I have an album for all the layouts and would number them, Page 1: etc..etc..

I printed out the pages and stuck them in 8x8 albums

For our Italy trip, I plan on adding #something to the daily posts and to layouts posts just to make it easier.
But I will have an album for daily and layout posts just like with the Philippines.

I'm not on Instagram, so I'm not sure how to do anything on there, lol...

Ditto...I love Michi's layouts! She makes me want to go on a cruise and live near the beach!...xoxo...♥
 
I don't do travel layouts. I do journal layouts that include travel. I then make books of my pages. I try to jot down notes each day on my laptop, so I remember what happened each day. Sometimes if I am layout taking notes, I have to ask my husband what we did each day. I could then do travel layouts based on the journal layouts with added photos taken on those days.
 
Sarah- Good luck starting to scrap your travels! I was so intimidated when I first started scrapping... Just go for it, and you'll figure out your own process and style :)

Em- omg Italy!!!! Can't wait to see your pictures! You guys are going to have a blast, and hopefully no hospital visits this time! I like your real time photos folder in FB idea. WHY can't they make it so you can reorder photos in albums in FB??? I stopped sharing my LO's on there because that drove me crazy. Did you collect photos from the rest of your family for the Philippines album? I think that's my biggest worry about scrapping chronologically- that I would come across a photo or think of another story and get myself out of order.

Katherine- I love your journal pages! You're telling your stories in such detail, that's going to be a treasure for your family. I wish I had such detailed accounts of the daily lives of my grandparents.
 
I'm a hodgepodge scrapper LOL. I still haven't finished (in fact, considering the amount of pictures I have, barely started) my trip to Disney in 2016...and we leave for a cruise in 55 days (no, I'm not counting down or anything LOL).
 
kimb said:
I'm a hodgepodge scrapper LOL. I still haven't finished (in fact, considering the amount of pictures I have, barely started) my trip to Disney in 2016...and we leave for a cruise in 55 days (no, I'm not counting down or anything LOL).
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I so wish I were the kind of person who could finish a trip before the next one. We're about to go on a big road trip to West Virginia and Washington D.C. and I haven't finished the same trip we took in 2013. Not even close....
 
Travel scrapping is about half (probably more!) of what I scrap. I used to be much more haphazard, but I have (kind of) a system now. As soon as I get back (like within the week, at the very least), I get everyone's cameras and upload ALL of the photos. I put them into folders by day and then by event or activity within that day. For instance, I am currently scrapping our California/Hawaii trip from last year and I am looking at my folder for:
Day 4:
01 Neverland Ranch
02 Los Olivos
03 Miniature Horse Farm
04 Solvang
05 Ostrichland
06 Anderson's Pea Soup
07 Road pics to Santa Barbara
08 Santa Monica Pier
09 Friend's house and Grease Aquaduct
10 Hotel
(wow, we did a lot that day lol)
I find that having it in folders makes it easier to remember what we did. Like others, I also look at Facebook/instagram to remind me, but I just told my husband that we need to keep a notebook or something with interesting facts or quotes to put in the pages because the further behind I get, the more I forget the details.
For each trip, I have a folder/binder/plastic bag of trinkets/maps/menus/drawings/etc that I use to spark my fading memory, but something more organized would be ideal.

As I said, I print all my pages (eventually) and organize them so I have books for each year and then also for each vacation. The vacation books are my favorites. I do a mishmash of pages/kits/styles based on the activity (Neverland Ranch will probably have a music theme whereas Ostrichland will not!). I was afraid when I first started that doing it that way would be too scattered and look crazy in the book, but I love it. I think I would hate if I had 100s of pages with the same theme or kits or whatever. And I would be so bored. Even Disney vacations (which we take a lot of!) are like that... a ghosty page for the Haunted Mansion, a Rock and Roll page for the roller coaster, a cowboy page for Toy Story, etc. It makes me excited to scrap when I get to play with new themes every day.

I also used to scrap random pages at random times, but, in general, I try to scrap in order for trips (although I do work on several books/trips at once) and I keep track of the pages so that (a) I don't repeat myself as much and (b) I know when I need "filler" pages (like so my double pages face each other). I will randomly scrap something for a challenge or because the mood really strikes me, but I do try to stay in order now...

It is kind of weird. I simultaneously feel like I am super organized and a hot mess when it comes to scrapping...
 
Thanks for sharing your system Diane! I think you're way more on the "super organized" side than the hot mess side, LOL. That sounds like a great system. I like how you divide up your days into smaller parts. I divide my photos into daily folders, but I think I might try your route next time. The less photos I look through at one time, the less overwhelmed I feel.

I totally want to see pictures from Ostrichland! That sounds so fun!

I agree with you totally on having a mixture of kits. I'd get bored using just one. I would like to get better at using a kit more than once though.
 
Reading all this makes me think I need a vacation just to figure out how to do a travel album. :)

I have one album done back in my paper album days of the month we spent in Alaska while my husband was on a job there. So much fun looking at it. It is a hodgepodge of pages. Scrapped chronologically cuz that is how I scrapped back then.

If I did that now it would be hodgepodge of kits but probably not done chronologically just because I don't think I could do chronological anymore. hehe
 
So glad I'm not the only one who isn't able to finish one before the next!! Have a great trip!

hclappy said:
I so wish I were the kind of person who could finish a trip before the next one. We're about to go on a big road trip to West Virginia and Washington D.C. and I haven't finished the same trip we took in 2013. Not even close....
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Heidi1472 said:
Reading all this makes me think I need a vacation just to figure out how to do a travel album. :)

I have one album done back in my paper album days of the month we spent in Alaska while my husband was on a job there. So much fun looking at it. It is a hodgepodge of pages. Scrapped chronologically cuz that is how I scrapped back then.

If I did that now it would be hodgepodge of kits but probably not done chronologically just because I don't think I could do chronological anymore. hehe
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You totally should take a vacation "for research" so you can test out your new non-chronological process that you will make up along the way :36_1_11:
 
I keep a detailed journal on all my trips, they are so much fun to read in later years. I scrap two page layouts, but seldom a 'theme' for the whole trip. That way I can use as many trips as I want :) I have a few trips in my gallery. A trip to Hawaii with my daughter and my grandson to scatter my son's ashes. It still is not finished, but there is quite a bit of it. I also did my trip to England in March, which I did during the Survivor Competition, so many of the layouts were actually part of the competition. I have loads more trips, though, which I have printed out and am busy putting in books now.
 
We SERIOUSLY LOVE to travel! I make sure that I take photos in portrait and landscape because I have to make a project life pages and photobook pages (Niagara, Rhode Island, etc). I also make sure I have my travel journal with me so that I could jot down all my thoughts and my husband and daughter's quotes (my daughter love to comment on things which are either funny or on point) and that is aside from the fact that I have a collect app on my phone where I also jot down quotes in case I lost my notebook, and vice versa. Then when we get home, I will make a folder on my desktop with labels (e.g. Niagara RT Aug 2017) so I could make sure that all are in one place in case I will be ready to scrap. Then I also copy the folder/s on my dropbox so I could open the photos on my ipad when I do project life.

I also ask my husband to upload ALL of the photos he took using his phone to google photos, so that I could use them too.
I think he already know the drill once we get to the hotel or the house hehe
 
Lynnie, it's so cool that you were able to use the Survivor challenges to help scrap your travels! I love using challenges to help get pages knocked out :)

Cherry, sounds like you have a good system worked out! I love that you get your daughter's quotes too, so fun :) I definitely grab my husband's photos first thing after a trip too. He takes a lot more pictures when we travel, and I'm the more "everyday" photo taker.
 
Cherrylej said:
We SERIOUSLY LOVE to travel! I make sure that I take photos in portrait and landscape because I have to make a project life pages and photobook pages (Niagara, Rhode Island, etc). I also make sure I have my travel journal with me so that I could jot down all my thoughts and my husband and daughter's quotes (my daughter love to comment on things which are either funny or on point) and that is aside from the fact that I have a collect app on my phone where I also jot down quotes in case I lost my notebook, and vice versa. Then when we get home, I will make a folder on my desktop with labels (e.g. Niagara RT Aug 2017) so I could make sure that all are in one place in case I will be ready to scrap. Then I also copy the folder/s on my dropbox so I could open the photos on my ipad when I do project life.

I also ask my husband to upload ALL of the photos he took using his phone to google photos, so that I could use them too.
I think he already know the drill once we get to the hotel or the house hehe
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I think I want to go and check out your project life!!

hclappy said:
Lynnie, it's so cool that you were able to use the Survivor challenges to help scrap your travels! I love using challenges to help get pages knocked out :)

Cherry, sounds like you have a good system worked out! I love that you get your daughter's quotes too, so fun :) I definitely grab my husband's photos first thing after a trip too. He takes a lot more pictures when we travel, and I'm the more "everyday" photo taker.
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I did - I would like to work regular challenges into my life, but it seems a little overwhelming right now.
 
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