Collect brochures and visitor guides – Souvenir tip

by Gadling Staff on

Collect all the brochures and printed promotional materials you can find, as well as local traveler’s guides. Most of these are professionally printed on good quality paper stock and feature beautiful photography. Inexpensive postcards make nice accents, as well.

At home, you can cut these up (include words, headlines, and phrases). Use the words and images as scrapbook elements to supplement your own photos. You can also cut out the front of the brochure, or paragraphs of copy with details about the event or attraction you saw. This helps you remember little details.

Travel Scrapbooking Supplies

by Adrienne Wilson on

I enjoy scrapbooking – sometimes. I’ve been known to return from vacation only to need another after getting through the scrapbooking process. It consumes me – making the perfect visual to take those who did not journey there with me, to take them away. It’s worth it. Scrapbooking is a wonderful means to relive your funniest, scariest and wildest adventures from the road, rail or seas. I’ll be honest – it burns me up inside when people don’t do enough to protect their precious memories and more so when they expect me to sit through their leafing through their Mayan Escape one photo at a time. I don’t mind if they want to take it slow and tell me a story relating to the shot, but geez – put them in a scrapbook!!!

Building a book is super fun (yes, I just said super fun) and with the right materials you can jazz them up easily. Scrapyourtrip.com has a huge selection of stickers, scrap papers, die-cuts, coasters, charms and frames with various themes. If you’ve recently been on a cruise try dressing up your snapshots with items like the stickers to the right. Went diving, to the beach or international – they got the goodies for them all.