Virtual Trip? (Digital LO's Uploaded)

How wonderful! What a great idea using the faded maps as background paper. On the vacation album I just gave my daughter, the title page had a US map with red dots designating the places she'd been, but I didn't think about using the individual state maps like that. Later, janetlee

Alicia! I really, really, really love your Albums! Did I mention I really LOVE your albums??!! You are soooo creative. It feels like I'm paging through a beautiful Coffee Table Book and getting totally lost in it! BEAUTIFUL photos! I've never been to the states and to all my American friends: you have a beautiful country! Thanks Alicia for showing it all through your eyes and experiences. You have a very elegant and logical style that makes me want to see more! Can't wait to see the Scottish one :)

Judy, SA

very nice Alicia:>)

My DD just did a LO using the Canadian map as a background. What a great idea:>)

Your album is beautiful. It makes me want to go there and see the sites for myself. If you were a travel agent this is what should be on the table in the waiting area. Sandy

Wow that was a long trip. You saw a lot of wonderful sites!

Lynne

Quick update before I go do laundry. Scotland is up! For those who checked out the part of the album that was posted yesterday, picture #21 in album #6 is where the new uploaded part starts (OK, it's really #20, but you can skip the boring map ).

I think I posted the link recently to the whole text (& a few pictures, but not my layouts) of the Scotland trip on the web. If you missed it & are interested in reading about the whole trip, check out my cousin's website:

Thanks for taking the time to look at the album!

Alicia

Well, thanks, Judy! :::blushing:::

And too many of us get or take the time to see much of it. I'm guilty of that, too, the past few years. I'd love to see the Pacific Northwest. And the only cruise I really have an interest to is one to Alaska (but only when I have the money for the cruise, plus a helicopter ride & the cool glass-domed train that you can take into the interior).

Thanks. I'm definitely a chronological scrapper.

It's up, but it's probably too late in your time zone.

Alicia

Thanks! One of the advantages of digital scrapbooking (& 8.5x11 size) is the ability to make background pages (as many as I want) out of whatever I want. LOL And I love maps!

For the family album that's currently in progress, I'm using non-paper items scanned or photographed as backgrounds. Actually, there is one antique map that I used as a background to a travel journal of my great aunt's (the map came with the journal). The background for some of the pages is a digital photograph of a painting of the old family farmhouse. I need to switch the background of the heirlooms pages to a scan of an antique blanket made by an ancestor. (Heck, I even scanned the family violin! LOL)

And Trish posted:

Thanks, Trish!

Glad y'all liked it.

Alicia

Sandy posted:

Thanks, Sandy. Hope you get the chance to see some of them. My cousin & I are known for our inexpensive trips. We've camped, stayed in hostels & inexpensive motels (plus the occasional guest house in Scotland). We stop at grocery stores & carry peanut butter, jelly & bread with us, along with fruit & something to drink. We usually "eat out" only once a day. I don't remember what the U.S. trips cost, but I think I paid $1100 for the 11-day trip to Scotland (including airfare). My point is that you can have a great trip without breaking the bank.

Hmmm. Interesting idea! Too bad travel agencies have seen their business hurt so much by the internet (tho it's good for us tourists). Maybe market to B&Bs, hotels, etc? :::idea wheels turning:::

Thanks!

Alicia

Thankfully, that was 4 separate trips. LOL (Plus Scotland.) Don't think I'm up for that much traveling all at once! I just combined them all into one album since they were all trips my cousin & I had taken together. The album was made as a present for her, tho since it's digital, I have a copy as well.

Alicia

I have a friend that has a "Trips and Adventures" album, which your album reminded me a lot of. I really like the idea of keeping them in a separate album.

Lynne

Wonderful travel album Alicia. I looked through it this morning but because of the PC problems I am just getting around to sending this through. I note you also visited Stirling on your travels....that is maybe 15 mins drive from me.

Your album is beautiful Alicia. I'm sure your cousin will love it. We are taking a big trip to Europe this summer and I think I might scraplift some of your ideas for our album.

Thanks!

mins drive from me.

Too bad we hadn't "met" then. Maybe we could've met somewhere for tea or something. We got together in Edinburgh with a gal I knew from online. When she visited the DC area (before we went to Scotland) my cousin gave her a tour of that area.

Alicia

Thanks, Cathy.

I think she liked it. Gave it to her on her next birthday after our

2001 trip. (My dad enjoyed sharing the Scotland part with folks; he has a copy of that, but not the whole album.)

scraplift some of your ideas for our album.

Scraplift away! Um, got room in your suitcase on the trip?

Alicia

WOW! That's a great travel album! I like the idea of using the map for a background. You've done a great job with your album.

Looks great!!

We already have several people that want to stow away! I'll add you to the list.

In response to my request to travel to Europe in her luggage this summer, Cathy responded:

I'm short! I've seen luggage longer/taller than me. Does that put me any higher up the list?

Where are you going? First trip, or have you been before?

Alicia