Disney Smash Book Part I
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Carswell Family · 06-15-2013, 04:35 PM

Sorry some of my pictures on here are upside down and sideways. Photobucket and I are not on friendly terms right now. But, I wanted to post about my homemade Disney Smash Book that I made for our January 2013 trip. I had previously used a SMASH book by K and Company for a trip to Spain in April 2012. I posted about it here on the Scrapbooking board. Here is the link:

http://www.passporterboards.com/forums/spare-room-collecting-scrapbooking/261281-smash-books.html

I love being able to journal and have a place to put all of the stuff that I collect. I collect a lot of stuff that never seems to make its way into a scrapbook.
While I liked the K and Company book, I felt a little restricted with the patterned pages. So I decided to make one myself. I found a hard back sketch book at Michaels that would be a good size and fit easily into a backpack. We drive to Disney, and I could have chosen a bigger size, but I wanted to try a reasonable size book.

My goal in all of this was to try and keep expenses down, since I would also be making a scrapbook for the trip. I found a Disney sticker for the front of the book using a 40% off coupon. I already have a good supply of Disney stickers. Believe it or not, there is Dollar Store in my area that has a large scrapbooking aisle. (I think the stuff is overstock from stores). They usually have a large selection of Disney stickers and I stock up from time to time since everything is just $1.00. I also checked my supply and found some number stickers to use for the year on the front of the book.

I also had ordered the Photo Pass Plus for this trip. It came with a CD of Disney Stock Photos. I chose to order a few photos from the stock CD to use in my scrapbook and smash book. Luckily, Snapfish had a penny print sale and I was able to get quite a few printed for a low cost.

For the trip I took a small pencil box with some supplies: a small tape runner, a small set of scissors, a SMASH pen which has glue on one side and ink on the other, two kinds of Washi tape, a few patterned paper clips, and a few stickers. Since we drive, space is not too much of a problem, but I wanted to see if I could do this without taking along a bunch of stuff.

I did a page on how the trip came to be. I have a Cricut machine and I already had the Mickey and Friends cartridge to make the Mickey Mouse.

I made a page of our trip countdown. I left a spot for a picture of my trip countdown on my IPhone. I added it later to my book.

I included a map of our journey (printed from Google maps), We also have a family tradition of looking to see from how many different places we see license plates. I usually just keep a list on a scrap sheet of paper….but this time I had a place to put it in my smash book.

I purchased some of the SMASH pockets from Michaels and glued them in my book. (I have since found some You Tube videos on how to make your own pockets…I will do this next time). The pockets were good for holding our receipts and other stuff. I also glued our used gift cards into the book after we used them. (Yes, I know you can recycle them, but I wanted them in my book….)
On this page I also have a screen shot of the text I received saying our room was ready, along with the resort map that I received at check in. I have a copy of this map in a previous scrapbook, so I knew I would not use it in my scrapbook this time.