Use a simple design to create a quick album highlighting a memorable vacation.
Use the same colors and format for each page and minimal embellishments. With a bit of planning it won't be hard to get started.
Here are the basic steps:
- Determine how your album will be laid out. Give it a title, table of contents page and section title pages.
- Choose your color scheme. You'll see in the example below that I chose a spiral album and three papers - yellow, sky blue and plain vellum for my vacation album. Yellow and blue were my mats, and I used plain vellum for most journaling.
- Choose your embellishments. Remember, this is supposed to be a simple album, so keep your embellishments simple. My embellishments were journaling tags, two colors of eyelets, fuzzy white fiber and small stickers.
- Choose your journaling mechanism. Sometimes it's easier to use the computer to print out your journaling; however, you may want the personal quality your own handwriting gives a layout. In this case, I used my computer - MS Word for all journaling, and I stayed with two fonts - one for titles and tags and Arial for body paragraphs.
- Now you're ready to put your album together. Stick with your scheme and it will take no time at all.
PS: You don't have to use every picture from your set. If you have limited space, be choosy. You'll find another use for the leftover photos.
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Here's a vacation album I designed using the "keep it simple" approach.
Materials used: Spiral album (DMD Enterprises), yellow and light blue cardstock, plain vellum, square punch (EK Success), metal-rimmed tags (Avery), stickers, white fibers, white and blue eyelets
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