Favourite ways to document trips
 

I'm heading to Denver on a trip and am looking for suggestions for your favourite ways to document trips!!
I am horrible for this, I am still just doing a layout here and there for my trip to Italy 3 years ago:o
I would really like to just make a go of it and get it all done and possibly put in a book (I also don't print out any of my digital layouts:blink:).
So...any suggestions to how you document your trips??

I love photobooks for a trip, they have beginnings and ends and are a wonderful project to jump into. Decide how many pages you need for the book, my minimum is 20 and then make a list of what you must have included and work as the mojo leads. You can do this!

I'm all for scrapping Photobooks afterwards, but if you don't have time to do that, here's an option. https://findpenguins.com/travelbook?hl=en
My brother-in-law used Find Penguins when he did a motorcycle Road trip through the US. The finished book was amazing, and it was all done for him, using his photos and Facebook posts from the trip

I love the creativity of scrapping events myself, but three years later I'm STILL scrapping our Disney trip from 2019/2020, so I plan to try Find Penguins next time I do a big overseas holiday.

The biggest tip I have after coming back from our big Disney trip in February and I've already scrapped it, all 149 pages! LOL! Is I used my notes app every night when we got home from the parks with a little run down of what we did that day, so if it was a while before we got there, I at least would remember what we did.

I put a quick photobook from Shutterfly together for my SIL of just photos right after the trip in chronological order and she loved it. She's not a scrapper and would never print them herself.

Big trips get me excited to scrap typically though.

Before the trip, I usually create a folder on my computer where I can store all the kits I might use.

Afterwards, I go through my photos and delete the dupes, bad ones, etc. My trips have just been a few days here & there stateside (not anyplace super cool like Italy!) so this is usually only 100-150 photos or so. I almost always use Cindy's multi-photo templates when we visit places like parks, museums, etc. where there are lots of landscape/still life photos so I would pop those into a template right then + add in journaling that is not immediately apparent in these photos. If there were any stories to tell that did not have obvious photos to go with them, I would create a Notepad file with those notes/stories.

At that point, I have coordinating kits, all of the "good" photos, some journaling, and some photos templated so I can work on the rest of the album at my leisure without having to spend a lot of time thinking about or coordinating it. It goes pretty quickly after that.

Good luck & have fun in CO!

This looks great!! I also like the personalization of doing it myself...but this would be great for a coffee table book!! Thanks for the suggestion!

I do a separate album for each vacation. Weekend trips just get a couple of pages in the yearly album. For the vacation books, I put it in a separate album, decide how I will scrap (i.e., each day vs. each activity, etc.) Then I figure out how many pages per activity/day and make sure they all line up nicely, then I chose the kits for each page and one template album and start scrapping. They are my favorite to scrap. When I upload, I name them by the Vacation Place and Page number.