Summer is here and that means vacation, the sun, the water and the beach! Here are just a few hints and tips to capture those summer memories.
- Keep a journal on your vacation and write down places you see, memorable moments along with ticket stubs, post cards and memorabilia. Take along an envelope or Ziploc bag to keep your keepsakes all together. You’d be surprised how much you forget when you finally sit down to scrapbook your vacation.
- If you are worried about ruining your good camera on the beach or in the water. Buy a disposable waterproof camera so you don’t miss those fun water and beach shots. Underwater shots are always fun too! When you get the pictures developed have them copied onto disk so you can load them on your computer if you want to digitally edit them or email them to friends.
- When taking photos on a sunny day. The sun should be directly overhead to reduce shadows in your pictures. Play around with settings on your camera especially if you are shooting with a digital camera. Add flash even if your auto setting does not use it, it can brighten up the dark shadows cast on your subject.
- Bring a back up memory card(s) for your digital camera on vacation. You don’t want to have to delete photos in a hurry just to have room to take more photos. Better to take more photos then not enough – you can always delete them later.
- Go on vacation with friends? Instead of just making doubles of photos for them, create a mini scrapbook using the photos and add special personal touches. Your friends will enjoy looking back at your vacation together. CD blanks make nice mini albums and you can include a disk of photos for them in the pocket. (see idea gallery for CD blank ideas. CD blanks are for sale in our store)
- At the Beach? Write your names, where you are and/or the year in the sand and photograph it. It makes a fun title for one of your scrapbook pages or a great title page for your vacation album.
- My last tip for you – Have fun! Time on vacation flies by and before you know it your back home and back to work. Whether you travel over the summer or just enjoy some family time at home – Enjoy it! That’s the fun thing about scrapbooking you get to relive the fun you had on your vacation when you scrapbook your memories.
Happy Scrappin’ Melinda!
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I have been scrapbooking for almost 10 years now and never get tired of learning new scrapbooking ideas. My favorite subjects to scrapbook are my pets, my nieces, and everyday life in general. Hope you'll enjoy visiting Scrapbooks N Smiles!