I have finally gotten time to post my Italy travel journal! I took it with me on the trip and wrote every few days, putting in postcards and anything else I collected that could possibly be put in a journal. I have waited so long to post this because I was thinking that I would “finish” it, i.e. put in some pictures, do a bit more journaling in the end etc. But I don’t know when I am ever going to do that, so I thought I should go ahead and post the current version.
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Italy Travel Journal – Before
8 AugI’ve finally got my travel journal ready to take to Italy with me. And here is the post, as promised.
I’ve used random patterned papers in sort of an Italy-ish color scheme, with some envelopes, pockets, and ephemera printouts. I’ve used tons of distress ink and water on pretty much all the pages, and my sister told me it looked like the whole book had been in a flood. But that feel seemed like Italy to me so I am happy with it, and can’t wait to start filling it up.
Here are some details, and a video at the end.
Art Journal Backgrounds
27 JulI’ve been playing with the new supplies my sister brought from the states, especially the distress ink and copic markers. I’m still learning how to keep an art journal and the actual journaling part is still difficult for me, so for now I’ve been experimenting with backgrounds.
Gesso, distress ink, water and a blow dryer.
Distress ink, masking tape, water, and a blow dryer. I’m not sure about this one.
Copic markers over gesso. These pages were very fun to do but I guess it doesn’t come out as polished looking from the markers, so it depends on what look you are gong for.
Leftover strips of patterned paper, acrylic paint, and copic markers.
This one is my favorite. Again I used strips of leftover patterned paper (and my ticket stub from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2!), distress ink, and copic markers for accents and shadowing.
I guess time will tell how the pages end up when I am finished with them! Meanwhile I’ve also been working on my Italy travel journal. More on that soon to come!
Make ahead travel journal
16 JulThis is a travel journal that I made for my sister, who has come to visit for 6 weeks and see a bit of europe.
Front cover:
The title and front cover image (along with several inside) are from a book about a girl who travels through europe, and it’s sort of an inside joke. I chose to use a homemade map of western europe as the backdrop and it is in no way a realistic representation (some countries were too small to include), but it was fun and I think it works.
Here you can see the pages:
They are all different sizes and included are several envelopes as well. It was meant as a place to keep all the memoribilia etc that she will collect throughout her trip, as well as any journaling, pictures, notes from friends, etc. I got the idea from this video of a make ahead travel journal, which I thought was a really great idea. The finished journal flip is also worth a watch.
I wasn’t sure how to make the binding at first because I don’t have a bind it all, but then I found this tutorial which is basically the idea I used for the binding but I just added more wire for extra security. We don’t have Zutter products in my area so the wire is from a dollar store notebook. It was a little more work than using a bind it all (a lot maybe) but it looks about the same and cost almost nothing.
Here is the inside of the back cover:
I used decoupage medium and varnish on all the covers.
I like how it turned out and I will also make my Italy journal in this format.
Scrappy wife
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