September KOTM.
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Today I worked on putting together my travel album from a trip to New Zealand and Australia last August - using the September Kit of the Month. This is one of those trips where I took along a travel journal (with great intentions like past trips - see my March 2006 Studio A column about Scrapbooking on the Road) and only ended up with a big pile of photos + maps + collected stuff rather than coming home with a completed journal. The truth was I just didn't feel like working on it while I was traveling.
Here's where the September kit comes in handy: it can be used after your trip ORduring your trip. If you have an adventure coming up you could take it on the road and it has everything you need (including cool stamps) all ready to go in a tin that doesn't take up too much space. Or, if you want to just wait and create when you come home you can collect stuff on the road (including journaling which is always so much fresher when you are writing on the road) and just put it together another time.
This would make a good gift for someone you know who has an adventure coming up as well.
The album comes with all the pages inside the spiral but I went ahead and removed them so I could add in brochures, photos, etc and make changes to the order (for a how-to on taking minibooks apart and putting them back together click here). I am really into page size variety right now. I also added a transparency sheet on the cover and as one interior page (an 8.5x11 cut to size). For adding pages I created holes using the Bind-it-all and my Crop-a-dile.
One thing I was so happy I had were blog posts related to my trip (in addition to some handwritten things I had written in my travel journal). I printed those out onto the paper from the album and added them back in - definitely tells a more complete story than I can remember off-the-top-of-my-head a year later.
Here's a look at what I made with the kit (the rub ons were my favorite):
Fun project. Excited to add it to the basket.
In addition, I want to give you a sneak peek of next month's KOTM which should go on sale next week.
The concept? Hope & courage:
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I LOVE this album so much! Your work is always so inspiring and your blog is full of such wonderful information. Creatively, I am always fed here. Thanks for sharing.
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so beautiful, as usual.
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Oh my freakin' goodness.
You just blow me away.
Again and again
And
again.
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This is such a great idea. And I love how you put it all together. Amazing!
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Ali, this is incredible! take this the right way and as a compliment...you made it NOT feel/be tacky with all the pamphlets/clippings. great work!
LA
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Absolutely stunning. Now which company does that transparency or is that something you created? Also, love the stamp of the arrow that says The Details. Who makes that?
Love it all. Sorry but to me this is perfection. Lovely!
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Awesome montage. Gave me some good ideas about how to put my vacation photos together. Thanks for sharing your work!
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Amazing!! What a great album! Where in the world do you find the time to do all this stuff???? Not only putting this very creative album together but to also take all those photos, upload them and blog.... I can barely find the time to write a letter or complete one scrapbook page, with the demands of my three small children and my husband.
Thanks for sharing! It is another mini album I know I will have to scraplift.
Christina
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WOW! You are always so inspiring! Incredible book!
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HeY! Ali - we were in Australia last August too! It changed our whole perspective, AND although I scrapped several pages with the pics.... I feel like scrapjacking your album as well! Super thanks.
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so inspiring in every single way. motivates me to get my aus/nz book together too. xoxo
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Thank you for sharing.
I'm currently starting on new project, for which I NEEDED this inspiration. He went to Taiwan and Japan for work for 6 days and brought home 300+ photos and lots of business cards, brochures, maps, all paper goodies he could get his hands on. I think he was channeling me during his trip ;)
But I really wanted to make a cool, bit masculine album for him and I didn't know how to start. But now I do! This is absolutely what tried to envision, but couldn't. Thank you!
Nancy
The Netherlands
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He, as in my boyfriend... Duh... :)
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Insanely cool!!! Insanely. :)
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Very cool. Thank you for sharing. Hmmm, now I want to travel so I can make one of those.
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AWESOME!!! Love your album. I wish I had all this information of my past travels and so wonderfully compiled... Great idea for the upcoming ones.
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I just received my kit this morning (it takes more time to come to France ...) and I'm very excited about it(especially because it's the first one I've ordered).
Your album is very inspiring and I can't wait to start mine.
Just one question: these transparent sheet that you used, where did you get them and can you print on them (or are these stickers??) ? Thanks Ali.
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I do believe that this is the coolest album I've ever seen, Ali! I love it!
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I LOVE this album. You did an awesome job on it Ali, as you usually do on all of your projects. You are such a talented woman and I love seeing your work. You've inspired me to start working on my albums again soon. I miss it so much. Love all the photos you've posted and Simon is growing so fast.
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You book looks amazing! Makes me want to travel the world! :-)
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