Back from USA and journal completed - hooray!

Well here it is, the biggest, fattest, travel journal ever! It is jammed full of photos, memorabilia, mementoes, receipts, menus, postcards, flyers, everything I could find!

I used the first section as a record while I was in the USA and then added the photos and other pieces after I came back.

I am so pleased with it, as I have the whole trip recorded in one place.  I have not done this since I made holiday scrapbooks with the children when they

 were small, and as a result I cannot find anything easily to remember trips by.

The thatsjust penny  pages have been brilliant for giving the journal a structure and a flow.

I have not shown photos of my son and daughter-in-law as I did not want to invade their privacy, but needless to say, the journal is full of them!!

Ready to go - USA Journal

I want to use this to record details of my trip; there are nooks and crannies to store notes, drawings, receipts - and photos when I come back home and print them.

I have not seen my son and daughter in law since October 2009, so I am very excited about this but so sorry my husband is not fit enough to come with me.

The last time I went to USA I collected all sorts of ephemera and notebooks, but I never actually collated them, so I have decided not to repeat that.

I have used a notebook with lots of pages removed and duck tape to make it into a text block inside the cover which has maps of UK and my US destination.

I have used a thatsjuspenny travel journal digi-kit and added details of my Heathrow hotel, flight details with transfers and info on how to pick up my hire car, cellphone numbers etc.

Going to America - Journal in progress

I'm driving to Heathrow airport, parking at a hotel there, catching a flight to Chicago, another one to  Saginaw and picking up a car and driving to Mount Pleasant!

I start off from Lincolnshire...

and end up in Michigan...

I have found vintage prints of Mount Pleasant

I haven't decided what to use as the Journal yet, though it is going to use justthatpenny's travel journal digi-kit.

I have got an old book with the text block removed or 2 notebooks with signatures that can be taken out.
I was thinking about having a looseleaf postbound version, or a notebook with lots of pockets to store memorabilia and to make notes.

this is a little notebook...

and this is A4...


I will use the maps as covers...

So watch this space!!

thatsjustpenny BIRDS AND BLOOMS digi-kit in a 5.5" x 4" altered notebook journal

This is an exceptionally pretty digi-kit from

thatsjust penny called BIRDS AND BLOOMS

I have used it as the basis for a little altered note-book, 5.5" x 4".

To make the mini journal, I removed about half the pages and stuck some of the remaining pages together and used them as pockets.

As well as the kit, I have used scrapbook papers, envelopes, doilies, paper bags and some little pictures off the web.

The video of the finished notebook is here:-

https://youtu.be/VIItXj6wGFY

thatsjustpenny Victorian Seamstress journals

I have just finished two journals for the thatsjustpenny Design Team using the Victorian Seamstress digi-kits along with a mad array of embellishments and ephemera.

Each one consists of four signatures ( the folded pages nested inside each other) stitched together and bound into covers that show the signatures. I shall be posting videos showing how to make these books.

But in the meantime here is a video:-

https://youtu.be/wYN4aW7n7mY