Rise and shine, CK campers!
On this first day of CK Summer Camp 2011, we’ve got some tips to help you scrapbook about your summer camping adventures as they’re happening.
A camping trip is a fun way to spend time with family and loved ones in the great outdoors. While on your campout, why not take advantage of some down time by scrapbooking as you go? It’s the perfect way to highlight your trip and it’s super easy to do. Just bring along a mini album of your choice along with some themed products like stickers, tags, small embellishments, and a pen for journaling.
Download these adorable coloring pages and let your children help create a mini album about your camp-out.
This on-the-go scrapbooking idea will work for a family vacation as well. Look for creative album options that suit your needs, like the coupon organizer from an office supply store that made it easy for Briana Johnson to scrapbook and collect memorabilia while on vacation.
Here’s how you can easily convert this type of organizer into an album:
1. Mist spray ink in two to three shades on front, back, and inside of accordion folds.
2. After ink is dry, decorate cover with title letters and accent stickers.
3. Slice individual accordion folds open to create flipable pages, leaving a few intact to hold memorabilia. Staple loose sides of folds together so they lie flat.
4. Stabilize album by applying masking tape to inside spine, which is the center of each new two-page spread.
(As seen in the 2011 Tips & Tricks: Summer Fun & Travel issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.)
Album Tip: Prepare a journal that you can take with you on your trip so you can record the highlights of each day while they’re fresh in your mind. It can be a simple notebook or an album prepped with destination titles and dates.
Download the free CK Alpha Boy font to create a fun title for your album cover.
Be sure to try this fun album challenge for a chance to win cool products!
Happy camping!
Lori Fairbanks and Joannie McBride
That mini is absolutely brilliant!
Planning to adapt this idea for my next trip, we’re flying so space and weight are limited.
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I am not able to see the download for the coloring pages
I also can’t see the download for these pages.
This is great! This is my 3rd year participating in CK Summer Camp—I can’t wait to get started! (however, it seems the site is crashing….)
Saw this in Tips & Tricks and planning to use it for some extra photos I have from our recent vacation.
The site is really slow today – I’m guessing a lot of people attending camp!
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Love the mini idea!! Definitely going to try this on our next trip!
This is the cutest mini-album!! and I love all the great tips!!
Cutest mini album idea ever! I am not much of a mini album person, but I think even I could pull this one off!! Thanks so much CK!!
What a great idea!!! Instead of having all of the little things from the trip in your wallet and then getting lost you can just use your mini album. Off to get an accordian folder!!!
WOW! What a fantastic mini album! We are off to Italy in a few weeks for a family wedding – will have to make this – this would be great! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love it!! What a great idea…
What a great idea – I want to make one for the upcoming birth of our 2nd grandchild!
Love it!!!! What a great idea
We will be leaving on our trip (cycling from Maine to Florida) in less than 3 weeks, so I will definitely be bringing a small journal to write down the days highlights in!
-Katie
Love this… what a great idea.
Gads, we haven’t camped in years and I don’t know when and if we’ll be able to take a vacation this year. Time and money are tight.
That’s creative and easy to take with you to show family the vacation shots and maybe sucker a few new members into scrapbooking.
I always have a journal with me to write down thoughts and events…I tend to forget small things but not anymore! I have several mini albums and proudly display so that even our friends can enjoy after the summer glow fades.
I think i will try the journaling concept on our next trip. Sounds awesome!
I really like the idea of using a coupon holder to collect memorabilia! What a great idea! Not sure if I could make one into and album though. We’ll see!
More info on construction, Please! If I cut the sides of the dividers free from each other, they will no longer be attached at all! Are you taping them in at the bottom??
Help!
Thanks
This is awesome! The mini-album is something that I should be doing this week! I super love the way the pictures are organized and about the coloring pages, my nephew has been asking me to print it out immediately! Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Love the mini album ideal. This would make an easy way to store memorabilia while on vacation as so it does not get lost before I have a chance to add it to a page.
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Amy, this is Briana Johnson and I am the one who made that album. Yes, once you slice the folds you will have to use masking tape to tape down the inner spine of the album, creasing the tape along the spine in the center. To finish the sides since they’ve been sliced and look a little unfinished
is take a stapler, I used a tiny attacher, and staple both sides of the slices together. The masking tape is fine to be seen if you like this look, it’s supposed to be a little mixed media like – I journaled right on the masking tape and I liked the little bit of subtle texture it added. Hope that helps, google me and send me an email if you need more info.
I love this idea but can’t find the right kind of coupon holder…..the stores only seem to have plastic….. any suggestions on where to find the kind used in this cute mini album would be appreciated….
What an incredible idea!!!