Vacation and Memorykeeping Crafts

Personalized Postcards

Transform your favorite vacation photos into authentic postcards when you glue our vintage templates onto the back.

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Summer Collection Box

Display your beach-combing finds by filling a picture frame with seashells and showing off their nuances of color and shape.

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Memorabilia Tins

Show off a map or flier from your trip by pasting it onto a decorative tin.

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No-Glue Scrapbook

Maps, ticket stubs, and receipts add an authentic touch to a vacation scrapbook, but incorporating them can be messy. Instead, simplify the process with this glue-free scrapbook.

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Customized Journal

Spark inspiration even after the journey's over when you adorn a journal cover with maps or other printed ephemera.

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Travelogue

A travel scrapbook can incorporate anything picked up on the road -- even cafe napkins or business cards!

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Map Memory Board

Put your vacation adventures on prominent display by creating a map memory board that traces where you've been.

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Travel Collages

One-of-a-kind wall art can be created inexpensively when you assemble a collage from travel paraphernalia.

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Picture-Frame Photo Box

Store snapshots from a vacation or special occasion in a box that displays its theme.

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As-You-Go Vacation Keepsake

Preserve your vacation memorabilia on the road with a handy organizer.

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Kids' Collector Desk

Kids are natural collectors. Here's a great way to display the treasures they've brought home from family vacations, school, and the playground.

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Summer Scrapbooking

Fun-filled summer memories can be enjoyed year-round when captured in a cheerful scrapbook.

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Photograph Jewelry

Jewelry embellished with baby photos is sure to charm any new mother or grandmother.

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Vintage Album Covers

To add a classic touch to your photo album, replace a plain cover with one of our vintage-inspired templates.

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Collected Memories Book

Compiling "remember when" moments in an album and presenting them to a friend will strengthen those bonds even more.

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Memory Flip Book

A favorite digital video can be transformed into a keep-at-hand photo flip book for repeated enjoyment.

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Memory Quilt

Some items -- like a baby's first bib, or the blanket she came home from the hospital in-- are too precious to give away. Instead, turn them into a baby memory quilt.

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Bottle-Cap Magnets and Thumbtacks

A homey take on the traditional locket, bottle caps inset with small black-and-white pictures, can be used as thumbtacks or magnets.

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Labeled Photo Frames

Keep memories fresh and bring the charm of an old-fashioned album to the pictures on your walls by giving each a thoughtful label.

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Family-Tree Fan Chart

A family tree in the shape of a fan can be set in a frame to create a cherished memento for generations to come.

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Picture Pillow

For a memorable gift or keepsake, transfer your favorite photographs onto a plain pillow.

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Instant Photo Album

Bind your photos from a family event or party into mini albums made with decorative paper covers.

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Envelope Books

A paper-bound envelope book can store recipe cards for a young cook, photos, or even an enclosure of seeds for an avid gardener, and is a thoughtful alternative to a store-bought organizer.

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Baby Face Clock

Place your child's adorable mug on an unexpected place -- a wall-mounted clock.

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Photo Centerpiece

Pay tribute to an honored guest, or display holiday memories on your seasonal tabletop with a set of photo-frame lanterns.

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Photo Cubes

Black-and-white images of nature, still lifes, or friends and family form photo cubes, which can also be used as bookends.

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Birthday Memory Box

You can't keep your little one from growing up too fast, but by filling a box with birthday mementos, you can at least capture a moment in time.

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Photo Stickers

Preserve your favorite memory -- or favorite person -- on a sticker to use on party favors, stationery, and party decorations.

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Doily Frame

Preserve your sweetest photos in a ring of lace.

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Recipe Box

Keep treasured dishes in the family by scanning and printing original recipes from everyone's most beloved cook.

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First Day Book

Preserve tokens from your adventures, parties, vacations, and projects this year in a first-day book or party album. The resulting collection of written messages, photographs, and other mementos will serve as a tangible record of your year and more. Review it each year on December 31st, and continue to add to it throughout the coming year.

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Accordion Gallery

These frameless photographs are mounted on sturdy art boards and linked by small hinges for an accordion structure. Color and black-and-white snapshots, portraits, and still lifes add to the effect.

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Personalized Magnets and Tins

Brighten your desktop by slipping a picture of a familiar face into the lid of a round tin.

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Baby Face Thumbtacks

Can't get enough of baby's face? Use photographs of the children in your life to decorate everyday items like these adorable thumbtacks.

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Martha's Method for Preserving Recipes and Home Videos

Martha compiled DVDs of her mother's TV appearances and gave them as gifts to family, then printed the recipes on card stock wrapped with a pretty ribbon.

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Vacation Memory Jar

You can keep vacation memories a little stronger a little longer with vacation memory jars. Filled with souvenirs collected on trips and pictures developed afterward, they are like little worlds that can be visited again and again. Kids can also add to them or rearrange them anytime they like. Bent wire can be used to lower and position objects in a thin-necked jar.