Posts tagged CocoJourneyNYC

Yesterday I finish my first two layouts using my tweets to complement my journaling. I’m really satisfied with the result, and I want to share it with you!

These layouts showcase the waiting hours in line waiting for the tickets for the Conan taping.

Here’s my trick for the Twitter birds:

I used my Creative Memories Nancy O’Dell Hummingbird maker to cut the birdies, and trimmed with my scissors to the shape of the Twitter bird.

I’ll be posting more layouts later, and you can see my previous work tracking the #CocoJourneyNYC tag.

My style of scrapbooking is more story-centered than art-centered. Although I take pride on the aesthetic of my layouts, I am more concerned about preserving all the details that transport me to the specific moment I want to preserve. My biggest challenge is remembering dates, times, names when completing my journaling on my album pages.

The album that I’m working on right now is about a trip I made to NYC to watch a taping of Conan. Since I was traveling alone, I used Twitter and Foursquare extensively to leave the “track” of the places I was visiting and communicating with my friends in NY. When I started my album, I realized that all those “check-ins” and tweets were documenting the story of my trip. There were all our conversations with friends I met, the diners I ate in, the comedy clubs I visited.

I decided I wanted to incorporate my tweets and Foursquare check-ins to my album. With Foursquare, it was super easy to recover my history, badges and the address of the places I checked in. I “screen-grabbed” images from my browser and saved them. Managing the tweets were more difficult, because I tweet a lot. My lesson for the next occasion is to mark as “favorite” the tweets I want to include in my project, so I don’t have to sort through thousands of tweets.

As soon as I had all the images captured, I grouped them in 8.5 x 11 pages in my digital scrapbook program (I use StoryBook Creator and I love it) and then save them as PDFs.This is what they look like now:

I’m taking those documents tomorrow to Office Depot to have them printed on good-quality paper; then using the trimmer, cutting the images to incorporate them in my album.

Want to know how the final layouts look? Stay tuned!

I spent almost all day working on my Conan NYC album. Although I worked on a lot of layouts, I didn’t finish all of them because there were small details to complete (journaling, title lettering, embellishments…). I’ll post all the finished pages later.

With today’s work I have cropped all my photos before Wednesday, the day I attended the taping. The next bunch is going to be a challenge because I have so much photos of the show. I have to keep the layouts as simple as possible, but I want them to be awesome too. Lets see how it works.

Here’s one of the layouts I did finish: The Conan Blimp.