Album with just one kit, anyone?

I have to make a disclaimer...I'm the worst at sticking to a single kit for one layout, so I can't imagine trying to stick to one for a single album, and I've never been to Greece, so I could be WAAAAAY off LOL

But I'm thinking maybe

 

I am doing my New Hampshire / Massachusetts album from our trip last month with one collection. I am using Viewpoint from Memory Pockets Monthly. I have picked up all of the add-ons and I am getting the Viewpoint kit with my MOC gift card. Because of the add-ons, it is bigger than a traditional kit, but because it is a MPM collection, it is all completely cohesive like one kit would be.

 

I don't think I could do that! I mix and match kits for each layout!

Here are some kits that are big and might work for your photos!



You could also go with Treasured since there are two parts - the places and the people.

 

I know I couldn't do that for a whole album. But I love some of these kits that are posted! It would have to be a BIG kit for me. I get bored easily and need to change things up. LOL

 

I'm currently working on one with no kits... just some of Lynn Grieveson's templates... here are a couple of pages, there are a few more in my gallery....





But I'm doing this as more of a coffee table photo book type of book. I will probably scrap a more personal album at some point with a mishmash of kits.

Here are the templates:

 

Awesome photos! I think Santorini is a magical place, but I'm biased, since I'm Greek.
I went there for the last time 16 years ago. I didn't have a digital camera back then, and now the paper photos are just bad...
Anyway, here are some suggestions for you. Images are linked.





This one is not summer related, but those colors speak to my heart.

 

No specific kit suggestions but I have done an "album" with all one kit. The album was my "Week In Review" from 2008-2010 where I took pictures on a daily basis and did a layout of them each week. I made the album simple, using the same template each week. I chose a kit that had over 60 papers in it. That gave me the variation I needed so each layout didn't look exactly the same. The other thing though is that I used no elements on the pages. The papers were the big thing for me.

I think the thing to do if you want to use one kit is find one with lots of papers. Changing those up can make a big difference in how the layouts look but it will all flow seamlessly since it is one kit. So you might have to look at a collab or a designer that has several kits that tie together (I have some of those from both BellaGypsy and Kristin Aagard).

 

I really love this Tracie! As much as I love digiscrap, this simple clean look is just beautiful.

 

I tried one time to do a simple 30 day Thankful type book. After about 10 pages, I was gave up on the single kit idea. Some kits don't have the variety you need. Collabs would give you that.

I have found that Lynn Grieveson's kits tend to have similar color palettes, making them very easy to combine on a single page. She has lots of blues, pinks, reds, with green and yellow being the next dominant colors. Actually, now that I think about it, that (similar colors/similar style) is probably true of most of our designers. For example, Paula Kesselring likes bright, bold colors. So one way to approach this is to browse your stash by designer and see what 3 or 4 kits would work together from a designer based on similar color palettes or topics.

 

@BevG I do the same thing with BellaGypsy and Kristin Aagard kits. I can't tell you how many times I have combined Kristin's Jungle Boogie and Zoo Day for layouts. They mesh so nicely. I once did 11 layouts for my day at Cedar Point using Kristin's Amusement Park. But they all looked different unless it was a double page spread for 1 ride.

Using less kits makes scrapping go faster too

 

Thanks Desi! I love a scrappy page myself, but I'm loving this album and how quickly the pages are coming together. I'll do the scrappy album later (thankfully I kept a notebook during the trip, so I have all of the stories recorded already).

 

I did our Europe trip with the same pages/elements, but it's not TLP products, so I can't show it.

 

I'm horrible at sticking with one kit!!! So I feel you one this. There's lots of "neutral" kits out there you can use to mix and match without looking weird.

PRD has some lovely neutrals as well as Mommyish has that kit "An Extra Day- Bundle" that's fairly neutral!