How to Make a Good Scrapbook About a Trip

By Brooke Bartlett, eHow Editor

The old traveler's adage, "Take only pictures, leave only footprints," certainly lends itself to the popular pastime of scrapbooking. The longest-lasting memory from any trip is the collection of pictures you take to document your experiences. Instead of letting the pictures languish on the computer or gather dust in a drawer, use them to create a special scrapbook that chronicles all of the sights and memories from your journey.... Read full How To Article

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Denise Alvarado-Wirtz
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September 23, 2009

How Denise Alvarado-Wirtz Did This - How to Make a Good Scrapbook About a Trip

Photographs are great to put in scrapbooks, especially if you've run out of albums or have snapshots stuffed into picture boxes. I would also recommend not throwing little things away, like candy wrappers, tokens, souvenir bags, receipts, etc - things my husband calls "trash."One person's trash is another person's...scrapbook!

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course, you don't need to save each and every scrap, but I have found that certain items make a better background page than purchased template pages. When my husband and I got married, for instance, I used some of the gift wrap for background. On our honeymoon, I even asked specifically for a menu to use, and the restaurant owner happily obliged! When our family went to Europe, I used some of the souvenir bags for background, and a few Euro coins for decorations.