Travel Scrapbooking Ideas
Travel scrapbooking makes much more of your holiday snapshots than just putting them in a photo album. Add vacation memorabilia such as tickets, postcards, maps of the area you visited, hotel notepaper, wine labels or menus for example and you can enjoy looking at your scrapbook pages for years to come, remembering the wonderful time you had.
Unless you are a hermit or agoraphobic, you are likely travel for one reason or another throughout the year, be it a vacation or for business; local or overseas.
The further you travel, the more cultural and environmental changes you are likely to encounter. Capturing the essence of these differences for your travel scrapbooking pages is a fascinating avenue to explore, be it photos of city architecture or nature.
Always carry your camera!
Having a camera with you at all times when travelling is a good idea, even if its just the camera on your cell phone.
You never know when something will catch your eye when you are out and about. With a digital camera you don't have to worry about using up your film, you can snap away and then delete any bad shots later, on return to your hotel, tent or other accommodation.
If it is important to know where your shots were taken, try to include distinctive surroundings to help place them. Some of the modern digital cameras even include a GPS tag in the photo information which enables you to plot them on a map once you return home and download them to your computer.
The Places feature in iPhoto showing where a photo was taken
However, if you prefer the low tech approach many destinations will have guide books available, that include a local map of the area. The maps make wonderful backgrounds to a scrapbook page and you could position your photos on top, with arrows pointing to the spot on the map.
Keep an eye out for anything that could be included when you scrap your trip. Luggage labels, excursion leaflets, packaging and coins for example could all be either mounted in your scrapbook, or photographed if bulky.
Travel scrapbooking ideas for titles
A photo of the top of a local newspaper is likely to include the date, and could be used as part of the journalling or a title for one of your travel scrapbooking pages.
Another idea would be to spell out a title by writing with a stick in wet sand while on the beach, and then photographing it. With plenty of bare sand in the bottom section of the photo it could even be used as a background for a page when enlarged.
Road signs and signposts could be utilized also. I remember my grandparents showing me a photo of them having a picnic beside a road sign in Kent, England. The sign pointed to two towns in opposite directions, called respectively, Ham and Sandwich!
If you are visiting a wildlife, adventure park or somewhere like Disneyland, don't forget to take a shot of the entrance way or sign saying where you are, it could prove very useful for titling your page.
Zoos may also have signs pointing the direction to various animals, these are worth taking pictures of, as they can point to photos of the animals in your scrapbook. You might also find plaques giving information about the animals habitat and what they eat - again they could prove handy when creating your vacation scrapbook album.
