Travelogue Album - Vol 3

Hard to believe that I have 3 of these 6x8 albums

for ONE trip.

6x8 from Hobby Lobby and I love personalizing them

with paints and rubons.

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And stencils oh my.

I bought a variety of page protectors and its

been fun fitting pictures and journaling in them.

And 6x8 size was fun. 

I

I ordered a lot of them because they were on sale

at scrapbooking.com for

the next go round.

I do pack it with a lot of ephemera - so

we have an idea of the campgrounds we stayed at

whether we liked them or they

didn't work out as planned.

Also from the parks - who can resist a patch

or sticker.

Of course an album wouldn't be complete

with do dads hanging around.

I also have enjoyed making my very own 

project life cards.

Or using the ephemera for a journaling card.

Pockets for tags are fun and that one is when we

had to get our rig worked on.

It appeared the brakes needed to be replaced.

Also ordered some panarama

page protectors.

I

It allows for extra pictures to tell a story

I also created journaling cards using the state flag

of the state we were in. 

Thankfully a lot of states keep their flags simple.

And they are scattered throughout.

The problem is matching the pictures on the panaromas

to the front and back.

Also, a new one for me, I tried not to gunk up the

photos with a lot of stuff because

I actually got some really great pictures. 

LOL.

Especially the aspen trees and autumn

which was the entire premise

for this adventure. 

And another page protector that I have

a love/hate relationship with

because I don't trust the 2x8 strips to stay put.

Still a lot of fun.

Finally got to use my cactus dies.

Woohoo!

We slid into Mexico so my DH can get his teeth taken

care of and what an adventure that was.

We have to go back so more fun on the Mexican horizon.

Parks are a lot of fun to drop into

especially with friends.

Here are the state flags of the states we just blew

through on overnights. 

Journaling on the back.

And a surprise visit to my dad's to see my

brother for the first time in way too long.

And then Back in Florida - just in time

for Thanksgiving with the family.

That b&w picture of the two of us looks 

kinda creepy there.

LOL.

And Christmas cards of the grandkids is the perfect way to end

the album.

I had a blast using alot of dies, stamps, inks, stencils

and paints.

I'm in the process of lining up our next album.

❤️

 

Using a lot of rubons on a chipboard album.

I really love creating my own album covers, and

each time I do it, I think that I won't be able to think of anything.

Well I did have to ponder for a bit and its the

reason I do the inside first - figuring it wouldn't be

to glaring if a cover up is required.

Experience. 🤣

I didn't use as much paint on the inside as I do the outside and

the colors are happier.

I used stencils, stamps and masks.

I did screw up on the moon page because I used

ink that was staz-on like so when

I modge podged it sort of smeared and I had redo it.

The cover was a lot of overthinking on my part.

Once I painted it took a couple days of ignoring it

because rifling through my stash wasn't

cutting it.

So. On a night as I was rifling I did a better job

where all my things I look for on every page is stashed there.

And lo and behold RUB ONS jumped

right in my hand.

The big numbers are Creative studio - they sell at the Dollar stores

and let me tell you they rubbed on like a pro

and 2 packages of Tim Holtz.

Well, it was really fun and I used the all the big numbers

rubons and one package of TH.

Then of course white splatters that I got carried away

mostly because I'm blaming it on bad lighting.

🤣

 

New Album in the works

 

This album is from Hobby Lobby and 6x8 comes with a

variety of inserts.

I decided not to do matchy matchy from the 

outside to the inside.  

Used a combo of stamps and stencils.

 

It's not required is it???

 

It's kind of fun, yet I feel sort of boxed in with the different

project life pages because I feel it's like

a one trick pony

 

plus  I have limited supplies.

FUNNY THING - I had to whittle down and kept what I

thought would be used for everything

and it fits "my style" (snort)

 

However, when I go to scrap it feels like nothing works.

Seriously.

 What else is fun is that the towns, even the little ones

have their own stickers which of course

I totally needed, however, they ain't cheap.

LOL.

 

So I try to work with what I have and in fact,

I have started doodling - we'll call -

because I.am.not.a.good.draw-er.

 

However, that minion is mine. 

It appears I'm a really good copy-cat 

LOL.

So above it appears I did all my journaling

on the page before and it's sorta/kinda a 2 page

spread.

 

Did a bit of Tim magic and made my own PL cards.

WouldYouBelieveI'mRunningOut

gaspfaintthud

Having a tough time with mojo.

 

I feel because of space I need to make albums smaller

but I am so used to working in any size

and somehow I can't convince my bad self to  just break out.

Scrappy pages continues with more from Saguaro NP

 

There is an east and west side to the park on different sides

of town which allows for different

plants and species.

Also some exciting roads getting too and fro in the park.

 

Above and below was when we hung out and had

lunch at Jerome which is a totally cool

place to go. Also taking back roads and hanging on

Route 66 - so many things from yesteryear.

 

We also took the long - short cut to the Grand

Canyon. As we've been there 3 or 4 times - first time

for me on our honeymoon 💗

and it never fails to be it's beautiful self.

Not too much journaling on the canyon 

but I did get chatty 

about the drive over.

I also found I liked the pamphlets going that

direction, however, I'm afraid there may be some

inconsistencies. LOL.

 

My new 6x8 Chipboard album

I decided that after doing Traveler's Notebooks

in a homemade chipboard album 

using rings I wanted to do something a bit different.

I LOVE them don't get me wrong but I have concerns.

There are no page protectors and because

it's on rings I was also concerned about storage.

Tossing them in a box and hoping for the best without proection

SOOOOO

hunting around there are 6x8 albums

(I know where have I been)

with page protectors.

So I found an album and it's chipboard which means

DECORATING.

So technically this is still a Traveler's Notebook.

So I gessoed the album which kind of gave me choices,

inks, oxides and alcohol, oh my.

In addition to paint. 

Therefore, I found a tag I liked that had these colors

on it and I really really really liked it.

Of course it's not EXACTLY the same but I 

love how it came out all the same.

Inside.

I used Rustic Wilderness-ink and Blue Lagoon and 

Pickled Raspberry Oxides.

Then I dithered about the rest of it and decided on

these awesome stamps that I used before

on an album.

Why yes, yes I'm a copy cat. LOL.

I used this stencil on the inside of the book along with some stamps.

Love how it turned out.

And the rest of the stamps.

I just love this and yeah it's been done a bazillion times.

But I love it.

Oh and the page protectors are on the project life size.

Pockets. 

So that'll be fun to do on this trip which is called

Over the COVID Tour

😂