Hello there, scrapbooking friends. Do you have any travel photos to scrapbook? As we near the end of summer, it’s time to take those vacation photos and get them in albums!
This is Liz Qualman from Little Yellow Bicycle. We are so happy to share a great travel mini album using The Escape collection and we have a few simple tips we think you will love to incorporate into a future project of your own. Let’s take a look.
DIY Magnetic Mini Album Clasp
A Trip to Remember mini album by Renée Foss and Liz Qualman for Little Yellow Bicycle.
The first tip is to attach magnets to overlapping elements of a project to create a special closure. As you can see from the photo above, the chipboard airplane overlaps both sides of the cover, although it’s only adhered to the left side. By adding one magnet to the nose of the airplane and one to the right cover, we created a homemade clasp that makes it easy to open the album or keep it closed.
Cluster Themed Elements
We also used a variety of The Escape embellishments to create a fun cluster of travel elements on the cover. That darling little red suitcase is a felt sticker , while the airplane, green suitcase, and title tag are chipboard shapes. Mixed together, they represent the essentials of traveling.
Balance Left and Right
This is a fun album, because the left and right sides are different sizes. These unevenly sized pages add visual interest and offer opportunities for a variety of looks. Here we added one of our “skinny” Tear-Out Ticket journal tags, which was just the right size for the left side of the book. We typed the list on a typewriter and then checked them off with a simple black marker.
Add Embellishments to Spice Up Journaling Blocks
For the right page shown here, we had tons of journaling, so we decided to break up the writing by adding a few visual elements. As you can see, we added some of our Favorite Pieces cardstock stickers to the page and then flowed the text around them for a more brochure-like appeal. A typewriter makes the process easy, although it’s also possible (with a bit of planning) to create the same effect with a printer.
Control Text Placement with a Typewriter
In order to get this look, add the stickers to the page where you want them to appear before adding the text. Check for balance and symmetry to keep the eyes moving around the page. Make sure the stickers are firmly in place and then remove the page from the album. Roll the page through the typewriter and type around the embellishments. If you’re not familiar with your typewriter, you may want to practice first on a few sheets of scrap paper before tackling the real deal.
Use 6″ x 6″ Pads for Color Blocking
For the pages with photos, we used our 6″ x 6″ patterned paper pad from The Escape collection and cut the papers into blocks so that they would cover the entire page spread with a solid strip along the bottom edge. This photo reminded us of one of the sentiments in the Fresh Verse stickers about “secret destinations.” Don’t you think a phone booth is a great place to sneak away for a cell phone conversation instead of where everyone else can hear it?
Spread Photos Across Both Pages
Continue to add blocks of patterned paper to the mini album to create backgrounds for the pages. This one has some fun overlapping elements that still allow the pages to easily be opened for closer scrutiny.
Win The Escape Collection
We would love to send one lucky person some of our The Escape collection to document your own travels. We welcome all submissions, international included. To enter, leave a comment here telling us whether you took a vacation (or staycation!) this summer, and if so, how you plan to scrapbook your photos. Comments must be received by Monday, August 27, at 9:00 am (MDT).
We hope that you can create some wonderful memories and incorporate some of our tips. Thank you so much for taking a peek at our project today!
Happy Crafting!
—Liz Qualman, Little Yellow Bicycle
Congratulations to our winner!
Julie Bonomo says: Great mini! I love to make them too……your Fresh Print Traveler got me hooked (made a mini and another 8″x8″ album as gifts) and over the years loved Zinnia, Pack your Bags and looking at Splash for the boys fishing week mini. We head out on a bike trip in Spain so am planning an album for that. Thank you!
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Have not taken a vacation this summer. Took one last year to Natchitoches,La with the choir members from First Baptist Church of Carthage,Texas. I have not put the pictures into an album yet. This would be a good mini album to use. It would be nice to win.
I took a mini vacation to Denver, and had a great weekend. Went to a concert, then to a musical, sight seeing and a movie. I can’t wait to scrapbook the pictures!
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No vacation this year, but I still took plenty of summer photos enjoying the sun and family at home.
We are leaving on a mini-vacation to the beach for 4 days on Sunday. Right before Back to School for everyone. Thanks for a chance to win.
I took a vacation with my husband to Montreal 2 weeks ago…it was lovely!
We did not do a big vacation this Summer, but did a lot of day trips on the weekends!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
We had a fun but oh-s0-short summer. We went to the Bahamas for a week, Weeki Wachi for a long weekend and spend some time at Universal Studios in Orlando too. Naturally all of the photos taken at these spots will require scrapbooking! I plan to make a mini album for the Bahamas and pages for albums for the other trips. Thanks for the great prize opportunity!
I took an Alaskan cruise with my best friend. Still trying to plan the scrapbook, the pictures are awesome and I want to do them justice!
I just got back from a scrapbooking vacation in Wisconsin! My friend and I also toured around Door County. We both had put together a small album ahead of time so now all I have to do is add pictures and journaling. Simple and easy!
We just had two mini vacations and mostly stayed at home for the rest of the summer. I was thinking of making a mini-album for the summer vacation at home. It would give it a very fun spin. Love the album with the different sizes of pages.
OMG!
This is the COOLEST mini ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes, we actually got to take 2 vacations this year
a week at the beach and a long weekend trip to nashville, TN
Going to make a mini album each of places i’ve been to in beautiful Beijing! A mini album of the Forbidden City, Tiannanmen Square, The Great Wall, and their former Olympic Sports Complex. lots of beautiful pictures to scrap!
ahoy….we are traveling the Alaska Highway. This is the perfect way to show off all my photos of the gorgeous scenery.
We took a mini one to the beach and loved every minute. There’s never enough play time in the sand.
We went to Germany to see our son who was going to school and doing an internship and trying to improve his language skills. We have all the train tickets, small pieces of info and tons of pictures. This is going to make a terrific album!
We took an extended camping weekend vacation this month but I haven’t even begun to think about how I’ll scrap the trip.
I do childcare so summer is my busiest time & hardest to get away, so we spend as many weekends at the lake camping & boating as possible and visit the Iowa State Fair a couple of times and count all of that as our vacay/staycay. I scrap all of the lake pictures in their own 12×12 album every year & these fun papers & accents would make a few weekends worth of pages go together super fast! thanks for the chance to win them!
We rented a cottage at the beach for a week and it was glorious! I have lots of photos of chipmunks, blue jays and sunsets along with photos of my family having fun. I plan to scrapbook them this fall for a 12 x 12 album. Fingers crossed!
Yes, my husbsnd myself and another couple went to Riveria Maya, Mexico. It was the best vacation ….ever !! I am starting to scrap my photos now. Thanks for a chance to win.
I took my vacation in April, to Spain! A long-awaited trip. Way too many pics to put in a mini album though!
What a wonderful travel journal! My husband and I are going to Ireland to visit the homeland of my great-grandparents. I want to create a journal that captures every day, and all the senses involved in absorbing the places they lived and worked, and from which they came to America. I’d love to be able to use your new collection. Thank you.
I love this mini especially the different sized pages. We took two really fun trips this year; one to Lake Tahoe and one to NY. It was such a special summer for our family. I can’t wait to get started on my scrapbooks.
I took a cruise this summer. It was SO relaxing! I plan on making 12X12 pages. I know The Escape collection would be great to use too!
We moved! Now that is NOT a vacation but it take us out-of-state! This move is something I’d love to document and this mini album is just the trick!!!
My husband, son and I went to Palmya, New York and participated in the Hill Cumorah Pageant…such an awesome experience! I’ve already scrapped most of the pictures in a 12×12 album.
We took a staycation and had family visit us. Camped in the yard with the kids and had a blast. I will make a mini book to remember this time.
Sadly no vacation for us this summer. Instead we moved from Nebraska to Colorado, spent most of the summer in temporary housing and finally just moved into our own home. I do have moving pics to scrap though!
We have taken a couple of vacations this year. Once to Disney that I plan to scrap traditionally. Then we just returned form the beach. I’m thinking I may to a mini album for that trip since it is one we do more regularly. This prize would be so awesome to work with!
We had a family reunion in Pensacola, FL. It was our first trip with our newborn baby boy and our two-year old daughter had such a blast with her cousins. I want to create a mini-album of the photos, journal entries I made, and scraps of memorabilia. I love these ideas and this collection looks perfect for capturing it. Thanks for the chance to win.
No big vacation this summer but I did go to a family reunion and my husband and I also bought and moved into our very first house so lots of moving pictures to scrap
Sadly I also have pictures from a trip previous to this summer that have not been scrapped so I desperately need to catch up!
I didn’t have a vacation this year, but I’m going to try the mini album for a birthday party we had for my neice. We all took pictures, so there will be an overwhelming number of pics the choose from.
We went to a huge family reunion in Georgia this year. I am planning on scrapping it in a Smashbook of our family adventures. Thanks for the cool ideas!
We took a vacay and I plan to scrap the pics on our family trip album. The kids love to see everywhere they’ve been!
We combined air flights to WA state to see our daughter in the Air Force and her family and a family reunion in CO. We had a great time in Spokane and it was the first time to visit. So many pictures to scrapbook.
We spent a week at my Mom’s in Prescott and I do plan on scrap booking these memories, a mini album would be great!
I am not going away on a vacation, but have spent most of the Summer at the beach–so cool and even saw some dolphins!