No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.
~ Jewish Proverb
If you frequent my blog then you already know that my family and I h
ad a
fabulous time in DC several weeks ago! Because I literally took hundreds of pictures, I decided to scrapbook our trip in
Studio J rather than print all my photos and then scrapbook them the classic way ( with paper, scissors, glue, etc.) The great thing was that I could work on my scrapbook layouts anywhere I had an internet connection (so many Tuesdays while the girls were dancing I was sitting at McDonald's or Wendy's- scrapbooking!).
Another great thing about Studio J is that it resizes your photos to each "photo well" (the spots for pictures on the layouts) automatically. No cropping and I didn't have to order enlargements of any of my pictures either.
One "disadvantage" of Studio J is that you cannot order single page layouts; they must all be a complete two-page layout. This isn't a problem for me because that is how I scrapbook, but what about the first and last pages of your albums? Aren't those single pages? To solve this, I chose a layout pattern (above) that worked really well for my album opener (at left) and the closing page (at right).
Because I had so many photos, I decided to create an entire album of our trip rather than a layout or two to go in our trip album (actually our trip library). {Because I (loosely) follow
Stacy Julian's Library of Memories system, all my travel albums are
dark chocolate. This makes my life much easier!}
Although I don't believe it's necessary to keep the layouts in an album cohesive, I chose to for this trip. I used the Passages paper pack collection for all of my layouts for our DC trip.
If you've stuck with me this far, thank you! I will be featuring trip layouts for the next several posts, so please come back for more.
{Layouts 2010 #48-50}
Visiting the National Cathedral was probably the highlight of our trip for me. I have very fond memories of visiting here as a child with my Dad's cousin, who lived here on the grounds, and his family. Words cannot describe how meaningful it was to bring my family here, with my parents, to this holy place, especially to visit our family members who are interred here.
