Preserve a vacation's worth of photos using this simple trick: use your photos to frame your scrapbook page. Save room for more photos, as Joey Manwarren did on her layout here, by keeping journaling minimal and letting your photos tell the story. Simply arrange matted or framed photos (to keep them distinct) in chronological order starting at the top left of the page.

Memories by Joey Manwarren.

Using Joey's layout as your guide, you can quickly scrap 25 photos on one two-page layout. This makes it incredibly easy to scrapbook an entire vacation in one evening! While Joey's layout is digital, you can easily translate this idea to a traditional paper scrapbook layout by following our sketch:

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Check out the July/August 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine for even more ways to speed up your scrapbooking using grid-based designs.

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July/August 2011