momtomy2
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Post by momtomy2 on Aug 25, 2014 17:52:36 GMT
My husband and I went to London and Paris this summer. I bought Authentic Abroad and Echo Park Getaway to scrap them. Problem is, I have 550 pictures. I want to do some pages and then add some project life styled pages. I am looking at this paper stash, and I definately don't have enough paper for all of them!  Any recommendations as to one that will blend with these. |
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Post by titancia on Aug 28, 2014 17:38:09 GMT
I went to London at the end of last summer, too--I made myself a book with Shutterfly and shoved all my photos in it. My mom & I went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour and I took about 300 photos there alone. There is no way I could scrap that in a cost effective manner! (I took 1200+ photos on my trip in total).
I made my Shutterfly book in chronological order so even though it's been a year since my trip, I still know what order I did things in. I waited for a 50% off sale on the book before I bought it--it was about $155, but I paid 1/2 that with their 50% off sale, so around $78. It's 80 pages and, of course, I had multiple photos on each page (the pages with my Harry Potter Studio Tour had about 10+ photos on each page. There's no way I could have done an entire scrapbook of my trip for that price.
I do, however, still plan on scrapbooking and journaling some of my photos with some ephemera I brought home, but the pressure to put ALL the photos I want in one scrapbook isn't there (trust me, I thought about it!)
To answer your question, though, Graphic 45 has a couple great travel/vacation lines, I just bought "By the Sea" (for aquarium/beach scrapbooking) and have been looking at "Transatlantique." You might want to check those out
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paperanthology
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Post by paperanthology on Aug 28, 2014 17:50:00 GMT
Bazzill has a fantastic travel line called "World Wide"
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Post by littlebee0408 on Aug 28, 2014 20:41:10 GMT
Bo bunny souvenir would go with those two lines too, I think.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 28, 2014 23:46:50 GMT
We went to London and Paris in 2005. I did lots of different papers (but totally get wanting one line or look). I ended up doing one book of Paris and one of London with its day trips. I also make two of every book, so I guess it was four. I also utilized Walmart's and Sam's wallet sized pictures to fit more on the page. They are still favorites of my travel books.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 30, 2014 4:37:08 GMT
I've used Paper House Productions and Scrapbook Customs paper for various European vacations.
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Aug 30, 2014 14:32:16 GMT
My thought would be to use one unifying thing to tie it all together, but not to stress about all of it matching exactly. For instance, Shimelle uses kraft paper on each of her layouts in her backpack adventure album, but combines it with all kinds of paper lines and colors. Or you could pick a color that is predominant in the collections you have and use that to guide you as your "theme." Chances are, you're not going to want to do the entire trip in one chunk and this would give you some flexibility to go back later when the exact paper lines are no longer available. One other thing to consider is whether you'll get tired of the same supplies. I've done travel albums (far smaller than this project) with one particular line and got very bored and kinda irritated by the sameness while working on it. The finished product is lovely, but the process seemed to drag on b/c it all started to feel the same. Glad you had a fabulous trip! |
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momtomy2
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Post by momtomy2 on Aug 31, 2014 4:15:55 GMT
Thanks all. I actually decided to go with some hybrid travel related embellishment kits that I got on sale and use my Pixscan mat to cut them. That way I can pull papers with a neutral pattern in somewhat similar color schemes thru out and hopefully be able to pull from my stash some. I like to layer embellishments and this will give me lots of layering options without having to get more theme based papers.
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Any recommendations as to one that will blend with these.
