Monday
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Vacation album...
Monday, August 11, 2008 at 01:50AM
I won't post the entire vacation album here, but I kept it pretty simple. One of the biggest time-savers was printing all of my pictures as 8x10 collages using these awesome digital template pages (yes, I tweaked the template some...cropped to just the photo area and stretched the sizing to 8x10 dimensions). After plugging my pictures in, I had them printed at Sam's Club. I was then able to simply use the 8x10 print directly...no need to mess with a gazillion photos and sizing them initially to print to the right sizes...no need to cut them all down...very cool.
Meanwhile, I printed my titles and journaling for each layout (gotta love when the titles are so easy...just place names for the most part)...typical of me, I just printed everything on plain cardstock. With that and my printed pictures in hand, I just had to add a strip of paper along the bottom and assemble the pages while I was at the crop. Here are a couple:
Meanwhile, I printed my titles and journaling for each layout (gotta love when the titles are so easy...just place names for the most part)...typical of me, I just printed everything on plain cardstock. With that and my printed pictures in hand, I just had to add a strip of paper along the bottom and assemble the pages while I was at the crop. Here are a couple:
In addition, I added an 8.5x11 page protector between each layout with memorabilia from that place...pressed pennies, brochures, ticket stubs, etc. Hard to photograph, but this might help explain:
Really nothing too fancy or complicated...Altogether, it came together so quickly and the boys and I are thrilled to already have that album complete! They've been enjoying looking through both it and their mini-vacation albums, and that's at least part of what it's all about, right? :)
Okay, off to get something done...watching the Olympics all day pretty much obliterated productivity, LOL!
Reader Comments (1)
What a great idea! TFS!