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When you go on a trip you want to remember it as vividly as possible once you get back home. Scrapbooking is the perfect way to immortalize your trip and look back at it as often as you want to! Creating a travel scrapbook requires lots of preparation and work but it is so worth it because it is one of the best ways to express yourself while documenting your trip and personalizing it as much as you want!

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    Take an abundance of pictures during your trip. The more pictures you take, the better, because you can always delete extra pictures but you might regret not having taken certain pictures.

    • Try to take both vertical and horizontal pictures since you never know which will fit with your layouts better.

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    Keep mementos throughout your trip. Some examples of things to collect include:

    • Brochures
    • Postcards
    • Stickers
    • Stamps
    • Business cards
    • Brochures
    • Receipts
    • Foreign money

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    Briefly journal each day. This helps so you can easily remember the specifics of each day for when/if you choose to journal in your travel scrapbook. Some ideas of what to include in your journal are:

    • Phrases
    • Places you visited or ate at
    • Funny or cute memories
    • Interesting people you met
    • Anything meaningful to you

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    Find the right scrapbook for you. Any style of scrapbook/album/journal works. Being able to find the size, color, or design you want makes this even more personal and fun!

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    Sort through your pictures to find the ones you want to include then print them out. Once you've printed them out you can trim them down to the size you want so they'll be ready for placement

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    Gather all the supplies you want to use to decorate. Some ideas to get you started are:

    • Pens
    • Markers
    • Stamps
    • Stickers
    • Tape
    • Paper (for matting pictures on)
    • Glue
    • Scissors

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    Find all the miscellaneous things you collected throughout your trip and sort through them. Try to not have many repeats, you want a wide variety to display everywhere you visited on your vacation. Cut them down to the size you want and if desired you can mat them on colored paper to give your page more dimension.

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    Organize each layout according to events/days/places. Sort through your pictures and seperate them for each layout and spaced them out how you want.

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    Customize each page to how you want it. There is no wrong way! Switch it up and individualize each layout!

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    Once you have decided how you want your pictures to be placed, you can choose to mat them on colored paper to add some more color to the page. Try to include the things you collected on your trip as much as possible in each layout so you remember it more vividly since this is a travel scrapbook.

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    You can go ahead and add glue or tape them down, whatever you feel is right for your scrapbook. You can either cut out a blank piece of paper or leave a small section blank for journaling.

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    Adding some journal entries will help you to remember the trip even better. It doesn't matter the length. Some suggestions of what you could journal about are:

    • Date
    • Place
    • Time
    • People
    • Just summarizing the day

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    Add a title. This is very helpful because it makes it easier to know what you are doing or where you were on that specific layout. You don't need to title every layout or make very long and detailed titles.

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    Customize your scrapbook. One of the best parts about scrapbooking is being able to customize it as much as you want! Since there is no wrong way to scrapbook you can do whatever you feel! Some suggestions to get you started are:

    • Layer paper under picture
    • Add fun designs with markers
    • Place stickers anywhere
    • Add designed washing tape alongside pictures
    • Add some sparkles or glitter on your page
    • Rip pieces of paper to add behind pictures
    • Distress the edges of paper to add depth

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  • Don't forget that there is no wrong way to scrapbook! Travel scrapbooks are completely unique and personal so all that matters is whether you are satisfied with your work after you complete this. Have fun with this! It should be a relaxing way to let your creativity go wild.

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