Travel albums- do you do the same type of title page for

I actually have a different approach to my travel albums!

For me, the title page kind of sets the tone for the whole book - color scheme, destination ( tropical, mountain-y, winter, summer, cruise, etc) so I do whatever strikes me for that particular trip. Once I figure out the title page, I know where the rest of the album is going to go, and I make a huge kit from my stash and fill in with stuff that I need to purchase. Usually it starts with one particular collection, and I'll build from there.

For one album, I actually found a beautiful collection and bought multiples of each paper before we even went on the trip! ( SOOO glad I did that.....RIP Basic Grey....I did my best to single handedly keep you in the papercrafting business...) Then went back through my stash and pulled out lots of stuff that worked with it.  I try to stick to about 5 main colors, have a basic "Go-to" for the majority of my background papers, and a few specific icons that end up being the "signature" for a particular trip. It may be travel/destination themed, like a camera or globe, anchor, compass rose or flamingo, but it may be something specific to that trip, pulled from a family joke, activity or incident that just "made the trip." Other than that, I use whatever papers and lines that go with that scheme.

Bad side: it can take me FOREVER to commit to a color scheme and make that freakin' title page!  Like, a couple weeks has not been unheard of, of playing around, here and there, and making it feel "right."

Good side: Once that's decided, it's decided for the entire album, and I don't have to go back to the drawing board for each page.  I just use some combination of the 5 or so colors I've chosen, and the rest comes together as quickly or as leisurely as I want.  Some pages I speed through, some I do some kind of time consuming sunburst paper piece, or mixed media, or whatever, but I already know what colors/themes I'm going to use. 

So I guess my answer is no, I don't make the same title page for every travel/vacation album, but I do follow the same basic formula in making them!

My title pages usually come after I've done a number of pages for the album - like justcindy I like my title pages to set the tone for the album, but unlike her I need to have a few pages done to really know what that tone is.

I don't have a go to page design although I often use a map print paper. Sometimes it will just be a list of the destinations, sometimes it will include some of my favourite photos, and sometimes it will include leftover photos that don't fit anywhere else in the album.

KikiPea, those are really beautiful layouts!!

They are KikiPea ! Did you make the island cutouts or is it a paper?

I take a similar approach as justcindy in that I choose a color scheme and embellishments that I use throughout the album to provide continuity. For instance, right now I'm working on an album about our UK trip and I'm using red, white and blue and I've got some stencils, stamps and embellishments that I'll use on every layout to make it cohesive. I don't worry about that with my PL or my kids' albums, but for albums that are all from the same event, like a trip or a wedding, I view the entire album as one big project instead of a series of separate LOs.

The online photo printers that i use provide a little contact sheet with a miniature of every photo. I usually use these in some way for the title page.

I like the trip in review pages you have done KikiPea. If a design works that well, it certainly deserves to be used again.

I tend to just let the photos and stories take me when I scrap, rather than plan out a whole album ahead of time, so if I ended up with similar pages in two albums it would just be a happy accident.