2024 Travel Collection | Special Guest Nolana Lynch

Documenting Our One Month Holiday!

Hello Everyone!

How are you doing today? I am so excited to be back with you to share more of my projects with the 2024 Travel Collection.

I decided to tackle our one-month trip from September to the end of October last year. I have been contemplating how to tackle this trip over the past few months - as there are sooo many photos and soo much to document!

I have always wanted to create an “artsy” word art page with various sizes of alphas. Earlier this year, when we were driving from the most beautiful little beach town - Sorrento, back to my in-laws’ home in Melbourne, there were the most beautiful art pieces on the highway (freeway). I remember marveling at the commissioned word art with the towns’ names under the flyovers leading to the respective town - while I was not fast enough to take a photo - it remained etched in my brain.

Once I saw the city street map in the paper pack, and the colourful geotags, I was inspired to create this title page with the names of all the cities we visited during our trips. At first the idea was to have the alphas adhered to the top page but, when I was finished, it felt too pretty to be covered up, so I decided to leave it unattached so that I (and anyone who views my album) can see the full city names

To the back of this page, I added a full-page photo of our family at the Departure gate of our city, full of excitement for our fifteen-hour flight, while being a tad bit nervous about how our toddler would sleep on his first long-haul flight.

While working on my pages, I thought it would be great to do a Snapshots page - as we took seven flights, and visited seven cities during our trip. I went through the paper pack and chose the tag page, as there were eight spots to document the various Snapshots from our trip.

I chose one photo to represent each leg of our trip. I used the 4x6 vellum journal cards and printed a few of the patterned papers on vellum to create tags that fit perfectly on top of the tag page. I created a “stencil” using the digital stamp that matched the tag paper in my Cricut Design Space program - and these cut out perfectly.

I sized the journaling blocks and photos in Canva using the digital tag page as a template and printed the journaling on clear adhesive sheets and the photos on Epson Glossy photo paper. I then cut them down to size with my rotary trimmer. For the “Snapshots cover page”, I used a 7x8.25 inch piece of acetate, one of the circle die-cuts, and the digital alpha stamp in Cricut to cut out the words “Snapshots” using Gold Mylar.

I’ve been most excited to document the Disneyland component of our trip, so I kicked that off with a title page/summary page of that portion of the trip. This was so much fun!

Of course, I used our photo in front of the castle - I toyed with whether to use our day or night photos here - but in the end, I felt like I could still put fireworks on the day photos - hah! I grabbed my firework stamps from previous kits and got to work stamping with white shimmer ink. I then used a page protector to create some angled segments. These portions contain vellum, journaling, a few stars, and the title in Gold Mylar. I love how it frames us.

I then used the Plastic Tags down the side, tied them together with ivory and gold baker’s twine, and placed the year in gold puffy alphas on the end. I also did this on the flip side.

Here's how I plan to tackle the remainder of the album:-

I have printed my photos for the very first leg of the trip and decided to do a mini-book of these photos on one layout. I realized that this album may take a lot longer than I envisioned, so summary pages/layouts may help it move along faster I will then choose, edit and print the photos one leg at a time so that I won’t get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of photos, or get bored or frustrated with editing hundreds, perhaps thousands of photos in one big go! I will then work through my layouts for that particular leg of the trip, and sit and savour the process of putting it all together, before moving on to the next leg.

Thanks so much for joining me here for some insights into my travel documenting process!

Happy Scrapping!

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