travel albums/photos

All of the above.

For our last big trip (2 weeks overseas visiting family, about 3k photos) I made a 100 page chronological photo book with just photos and date/location no other journaling.

Now I'm going back and scrapping picture for STORIES I want to tell. No pressure to scrap every photo since they are all mostly in the photo book. This has taken a lot of pressure off of me.

I'm more of a chronological event scrapper so having a big focus on the stories is a shift for me and a (good) challenge.

I haven't yet but I may also add in pocket pages or small inserts if I feel like it.

I do a mix depending on the trip, how long it was, and how many pictures I took. For a long trip with lots of photos, I do PL style with maybe a few LO's in a 12x12. For a shorter trip or long weekend, I will either do an 8X8 or a snap album with divided page protectors. Our last trip was to Las Vegas but had lots of off-strip adventures - Valley of Fire and a raft trip down the Colorado River. For that one, I have mostly 12x12 LO's, but for the park and rafting pix I have them in divided page protectors.

I love scrapping travel, that is MY THING. I scrap "old school" so it probably won't be your taste but you can see my travel pages here tripswithtwo.com/SCRAPBOOKINGSCENICAREA.html, sorry the links are not set up, and I have many more to add, but it takes a alot of time to upload. Maybe you can find some inspiration. I general do a theme for each trip. Since 2012 we have been camping at various places throughout the year, so I pick a design and follow it through for that year's camping destinations.

I use traditional albums to document my trips, but in 2012 I was doing PL and went to Ireland, and included Ireland spreads in my PL album. But the trip will still be scrapped in its entirety in a traditional album.

I think pocket-style would be a great way to go if your time is really limited, then you can still have albums to pull out and enjoy.

Or you could go super simple on traditional layouts, and do photo+story-focused layouts with little embellishing. And maybe use some of the Becky Higgins page protectors for enlargements, like a 5x7 or 8x10 of a favorite photo, throughout.

I have more travel albums than any other type album. I make two for every vacation we take. The one exception is Vegas. We've taken our kids there so much that I have 6 trips combined into two 3.5 D ring albums. Love that I can see my boys grow from 6 to 16 in one album. I originally did all regular albums for all travel albums. Now I do about 80% traditional and 20% PL pages. They mix well together. I retired three weeks ago and plan on scrapping my arse off. WHen I get caught up with my boys albums, I am going to go back and do two travel albums for just my husband and me from the 90's. All of the pictures are 3.5 x 5 if believe. I am going to do PL because it seems faster and I am not going to worry about it.

I do 8.5x11 ring albums, love the versatility. That's for a week vacation to the same place every year. I could see using a 12x12 for a longer vacation or if I wanted to include more photos.

I use all different size pages to hold photos, ephemera and layouts. I generally journal, but I also make a journal before the trip to write in during the week, so it's just copying over what I've written.

What's nice is that there are times I just have too many good photos, so instead of choosing 1 or 2, I can slap a pocket page in between and include those extras. Kind of Project Life-y.

I'm not consistent in my approach at all. I've done mini albums for shorter trips where I've created a photo collage for each day and then used that on one side of a two page layout with journaling on the other.

I've done 12x12 postbound albums and 12x12 D-ring albums with a mix of 12x12 and PL style layouts. I've done digi layouts which will eventually be printed in photo books at 8x8.

The last project I tackled with only 4x6 photos and have three very stuffed albums for a 5 week holiday - way too many layouts for me. I was hoping that having all the photos printed would make it easy to scrap, and it definitely has, but I like have a mix of photo sizes in my album because I can get so many more images in without the bulk.

For my next project I'm going to try alternating a PL page protector with a 12x12 one. I still do a mix of single and double pages and I'm hoping this will allow me to reduce the number of albums required to document this trip.

I use 8x8 for travel albums. I have a shelf that's starting to fill up with our travel albums and they're our favorite ones to look at. I love the size because it's easy for me to complete the whole album in a short period of time, but it does limit how many pictures I can use. I usually make some grid pages with smaller pictures and some pages with four 3x4 or square pictures. I also try to make some pages that have pockets that are accessible without having to take out the whole layout from the page protector. That way I can include more pictures. I think if I had 1,000 or more pictures I would just have to go with a bigger album and probably a D ring style so I could fit more pages. I'd probably use more collages and grids to include more pictures.

 I love travel albums-they are mostly what I scrap. First thing I do is edit down my photos-by editing I mean looking closely through the photos and any that are alike I compare and choose only the best one. Being a former photographer I always take more than one shot of each thing, so that helps bring the photo count down. Absolutely get rid of any that are out of focus, or just not a good choice for whatever reason. Mind you I'm not deleting these-I'm just not choosing to print them. (Except for the out of focus ones-those are deleted). I print mostly 4x6 with the best being 5x7 or 8x12.

I prefer using CM 12x12 albums and scrapping in a very clean style (not on white-it's too boring for me) using colored cardstock, the photos, and the tons of memorabilia I've brought back from the trip. I keep the memorabilia clean and wrinkle free by bringing a folded accordian file with me on the trip. It does double duty because I can use a slot of each day's activities, so when I get home I don't have a pile to sort through. I collect tickets, menus, brochures, maps, hotel stationary, basically anything I can find on paper. Post Cards are terrific for the views I'm not able to capture like inside museums that don't allow photography (like the Anne Frank museum), or that amazing night shot or angle you can't quite shoot due to time or crowds.

I like using colored cardstock because it gives me a way to pull the color from the photographs in a clean way and still have lots of clean space for the photographs to be front and center (which is what I want). With the memorabilia and journaling I keep embellishing to the minimum. I might add rubber stamps, or something else that blends well. CM has 4x6 clear pockets (well, they're not really pockets they are open on the top and bottom) that adhere to the background and I can slide a postcard, a folded map, or what I like best a brochure inside that can be pulled out and read. I don't think they make them anymore but I buy mine off of Ebay.

Debbie in MD.

I have always scrapped my travel items in a traditional format using 12 x 12 post and D-ring. However, I'm going to a crop tomorrow and plan to start an album for my trip to Italy in the summer of 2013. I'm going to try the pocket protector approach. I'm a little nervous that I won't like the PL style.

I do mainly 12x12 albums and am a chrono scrapper.  When it comes to my travel albums, I stick w/12x12 but they are in their own separate album - one for each trip.  Or 3, in the case of Disney.

If you're looking for a timely way to get them scrapped, PL is the way to go.  You can get all your pics in quick and then just journal away.  They do make sleeves that have different sized pockets, so if you want to have a few photos that are larger than the typical 4x6, you can work that out, too.

It would also be a great way to include memorabilia.  Just stick it in a pocket!  

I take thousands of photos too... I get them all (except for blurry/obviously bad ones), printed as 3x4 when there's a sale at my local Super Centre or Walmart... I put them all into pocket pages in chronological order along with memorabilia/souvenir stuff... Then I go through and decide if there's some I want to reprint larger as 4x6 for either pockets or their own layouts, and I will print some 5x7 if it's a special photo...

Having them all printed makes it easier for me to figure out what style of pocket pages, embellishments, filler/journaling cards, etc... Photos that I decide not to use either get slipped behind another in a pocket, made into a LO for my regular albums, or tossed... It's worth it to me to print or toss $10 of photos that don't make it in exchange for having them in albums... If I try to plan out that large a project before printing I don't ever get started...

Depends on what you like, but I print my photos with a white border so that I have a bit of extra room if I want to cut them down smaller to fit on a card... I like the look - even without embellishing they look unified/done somehow, but having that extra bit I can cut off without touching the photo means I don't cut away much of the actual picture if I cut it down...

Scrap the best, store the rest.