This 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.