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    Home » Travel

    Disney Cruise Scrapbook Travel Album

    Last Updated: Sep 30, 2020 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 1 Comment

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    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    A few months ago I shared with you one of my “tricks” for scrapboooking vacations. Today I’m going to show you how I used those tricks to make this DIY Disney Cruise Scrapbook.  Essentially I do the journaling on the trip then come back afterwards and add photos and embellishments.

    A few weeks ago, this album looked like this:

    As I’ve been in the scrapbooking mood lately- I finally opened the baggie and got the album put together.

    While on our trip, I sat down and wrote down each night what we did. Somedays it was quick just “top 10” and somedays it was a longer description.  To save time, I did the journaling right on the pages that would go in my scrapbook.

    I’ll share with you some photos of the finshed book- Let me tell you right now though- this is a SCRAP book in the truest sense of the word- it’s got ticket stubs, recipets, hastily written notes and sloppy handwriting it in.  One of the tricks I’ve found to get these type of albums done is too not stress too much about the design- as it turns out I kinda like the hodge podge look.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    The book is constructed from 2 9.5″x9.5″ pieces of chipboard for the front and back cover. Inside the main pages are 9×9 premade pages from Close to My Heart (I don’t think they sell them anymore) and chipboard tabs that I picked up at a local scrapbook store.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    I used the tabs to break the album into sections- basically one for each Port of the cruise & one section for the photos on the boat.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    I printed all the photos 4×6 and didn’t crop them- That’s what’s nice about 9×9 it fits 2 4×6 photos nicely.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    I just used 2″ metal rings to hold the book together (easy to rearrange that way).  You can use reinforcement tabs on the back of your pages if you are worried about little hands tearing them.  Since all my pages are cardstock weight, they hold in the album pretty well.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    Most of the time I journaled in the margins of the page, or on tags that I took with me.  Then I just glued the tags in the album.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    The paper in the albums is a combo of Close to My Heart and supplies from the Disney Cruise line scrapbooking kit that I bought on board the ship.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

    I tried to keep little things from the trip- like the time reminder card I stapled on this page.

    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation
    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation
    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation
    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

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    Learn how to easily create a custom photo album or scrapbook of your Disney Cruise Vacation

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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      August 24, 2011 at 9:38 pm

      Awesome

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