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[Jengoodaim]

I was thinking about creating homemade autograph books for my kids for our upcoming trip. Anyone do one of these before? Any helpful tips or sites to inspire me or push me into the right direction?

Thanks.

[Kyen]

I made this one and 99ish others for my last trip in October.

For the clip art I just googled Disney clip art, then cut and pasted on to the frame. Each movie got a different coloured background and I even left several without pictures.

[Shell_of_the_South]

There have been several beautiful autograph books posted here in this forum - if you do a search in this forum for autograph books they should come up. I can't remember any off the top of my head, but I'll see if I can find them.

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by Kyen

I made this one and 99ish others for my last trip in October.

For the clip art I just googled Disney clip art, then cut and pasted on to the frame. Each movie got a different coloured background and I even left several without pictures.

How did you make the border? Did you do it using powerpoint?

[hockeyguysmom]

If you go to my public profile & look in my photo album I have pictures of the autograph books I made for my 2 boys & niece to use at WDW (oh, BTW we leave in 2 day!!!!! Not that I am excited or anything)

I bought plain books at a local scrapbook store and decorated the covers with printed paper. To personalize added the kids name & a disney character to the cover. I have a cricut cutting machine so I was trying to get my moneys worth & get some practice using it so I made pages with pictures of characters that we were planning to see on each page that the characters could autograph. You could also get stickers to decorate the pages or download clipart to add to each page.

Have fun & please let us know what you decide to do! I love to see how everyone gets creative for their trips.

[LizB]

I've made dozens of Disney autograph books. In my profile, you can check out the different ones I've made in the last five years.

I started making "brown bag" books with removable tabs and a ribbon binding (which most of the pic are of).

Now, I use my cricut more and make envelopes with tabs as well as pages. I then bind the pages with spiral binding using my Zutter bind-it-all .

The removeable pages are great for adding to scrapbooks later and the envelopes are great for holding other small trinkets!

I'm making one tomorrow for our upcoming trip next week. I'll post pics here when I'm done!

Hope you get some ideas from my pics.

[NERebeca]

I made my daughter's last year with cardstock and stickers. Some 3-dimensional some not. The characters got quite a kick out of seeing themselves on the paper! It got a little pricey but you can find the DK sticker books with a bunch of them in there. I also printed out clipart and then glued it on the cardstock. I decorated a plastic "bill envelope" (the ones with 13 slots) with her name and stickers of the Fab 5, then put clear packing tape over the stickers. But it kept them all from getting bent up and whatnot.

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by LizB

I've made dozens of Disney autograph books. In my profile, you can check out the different ones I've made in the last five years.

I started making "brown bag" books with removable tabs and a ribbon binding (which most of the pic are of).

Now, I use my cricut more and make envelopes with tabs as well as pages. I then bind the pages with spiral binding using my Zutter bind-it-all .

The removeable pages are great for adding to scrapbooks later and the envelopes are great for holding other small trinkets!

I'm making one tomorrow for our upcoming trip next week. I'll post pics here when I'm done!

Hope you get some ideas from my pics.

Please post pics when you're done!! Can't wait to see it and thanks for the ideas. I hope I can be as creative as everyone else but I want this to be a special trip for my daughter

[Nala]

LizB, your stuff is so adorable! Lots of great ideas there.

[LizB]

I'm still working on my Autograph book. It's almost done and I should have it done tomorrow with pics up by monday.

I had a last minute interview yesterday so I didn't get as much done as I had hoped

Oh well, it should be done tomorrow!

[Kyen]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

How did you make the border? Did you do it using powerpoint?

No, just photoshop elements

[LizB]

So this took a little longer than I planned (plus I had some things come up).

I did a book a little bigger than my other ones. Each character page is actually an envelope that contains a tab for the autograph.

Then at the end there are 10 pages that are blank for any characters.

I even found some charms in my stash to add on the the ribbon accent.

Here's the pics:

The cover:


Here are the twelve character pages:

[LizB]

These are the blank pages



the others are plain like this one:

[LizB]

This is the back cover:



These are the charms I added:

This one is a mickey hat: (sorry the pic didn't come out too clear)


This is a mickey face:

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by LizB

This is the back cover:



These are the charms I added:

This one is a mickey hat: (sorry the pic didn't come out too clear)


This is a mickey face:

Where did you get the envelopes and the tabs from? You are sooo creative and you're inspiring me, but I just don't know if I have the resources. You're book looks awesome!!!