| If you're like most people, you take rolls and rolls of | | | | memorabilia from your vacation, too. You can also |
| photographs on your vacations, and then once you | | | | write your vacation memories directly into the book, |
| get home these photos stay under your bed or in a | | | | either handwritten or typed. These can add valuable |
| closet stored in shoeboxes, never to be seen again. | | | | details to the book, making it much more than just a |
| Why not bring them out and display them? Create a | | | | photograph album. Years from now, these notes will |
| vacation memory book to store these memories. | | | | bring back wonderful memories of your vacation. |
| Especially if you have young kids, record these fun | | | | When designing your scrapbook pages, don't forget |
| memories before they are forgotten. Whether your | | | | that even the embellishments you use can evoke the |
| family vacations are a weekend camping trip or your | | | | setting of your vacation. Use a background page that |
| dream trip to Europe, make a vacation scrapbook to | | | | looks like leaves, a beach, or the setting sun, for |
| capture these memories. Why take rolls of photos | | | | example. Choose background papers that match the |
| only to keep them where nobody will ever look at | | | | tone of the photos you've selected, and make sure |
| them? When you first take these photos out of their | | | | that the photos match the colors of the background |
| boxes, you'll be surprised at how many vacation | | | | as well. You can buy die cut embellishments that are |
| memories they bring back. | | | | shaped like everything from a tent to a beach pail to |
| You can make a separate scrapbook for each | | | | add interest to your page. |
| vacation or leave room at the back of a large | | | | Once you have your background papers, |
| scrapbook to add pages for future vacations. If you | | | | embellishments, and photographs selected, now it's |
| take a yearly vacation as a family, you should keep | | | | time to arrange the photos on the pages. When |
| these in the same book so that you can flip from | | | | designing the layout of your album pages, keep in |
| year to year, watching your family grow up in the | | | | mind that it doesn't have to be in chronological order. |
| space between those cherished vacations. | | | | You can also group your photos around a theme. For |
| To make a vacation scrapbook, first gather all of | | | | example, you can place all of the beach photos |
| your vacation photos. Go through the boxes, and | | | | together in your album. There is no wrong way to |
| choose a selection of photos to use in your | | | | assemble the pages of your book, so be creative! |
| scrapbook. Keep in mind that you don't have to use | | | | Vacation scrapbooks are a great way to get your |
| everything! Pick the ones that recall the best | | | | photographs out of their storage boxes and display |
| memories of your trip. Choose the best photos, | | | | them. Looking back through the scrapbook years |
| where everyone is smiling and in-focus. | | | | after your trip, you'll be able to recall wonderful |
| Don't forget to save tickets, menus, and other | | | | memories of your vacation. |