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honeymoon scrapbook, national park service, scrapbook, scrapbooking, scrapbooking with maps, wedding scrapbook
Meet my scrapbook nemesis.
Yes, it’s a National Park Service map. These maps drive. me. crazy.
These maps are actually great. You can pick one up free at any national park in the US. They are really cool and all follow the same cover design format. When I collect one I really really want to use it in a layout because 1) maps are just awesome in layouts and 2) it’s a great keepsake.
Adding keepsakes to layouts is a big deal to me and part of my scrapbooking style. You all know by now that I think keepsakes are what make a scrapbook a scrapbook.
The problem? I have such a battle fitting these maps into pages. Designing a page around a keepsake that must be present can be difficult.
Should I cut up the map? I cut up keepsakes all the time and cut up a Yosemite National Park map on my Yosemite Scrapbook layout. I actually battle myself over this – whether I should preserve the keepsake or throw caution to the wind in favor of design.
The map pictured above I want to keep whole because I really wanted to remember the places we visited – some of those places are off limits now because of the lava flow!
Stay tuned to see how it turned out, but this is definitely not the last battle I’m going to have with one of these maps.
A pocket or paperclip, perhaps?
Maybe!
I can’t wait to see how you work it in. I had a similar problem with a map of St. Lucia, and for the life of me, I can’t remember what I did! (silly flu fever, its messing with my mind!) When I can get off of the couch, I’ll have to pull out my scrapbook and check it out!
I hope you feel better soon! I’m curious to see what you did with your map!
After 20+ years of scrapbooking I have learned one thing about vacation scrapbooking it’s to bring home MULTIPLE maps!!! I often want to cut out something from EACH side that intereferes with another item. I have used the maps as wallpaper in my albums, I have cut out specific roads I traveled … You get the idea
I agree with you about memoribilia!! Without the tix, ribbons, cards, programs, MAPS, it’s just a photo album.
I bring home TONS of stuff but for some reason this one still threw me for a loop!