Travel journal ideas thread

What about a slim travel journal, and bring along a baggie containing precut journal cards, embellishments, etc.., pens-markers and a glue stick.
If you had a tote bag, you could keep them in there and pull it out when you have time to work on it.


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I think this is what I would do. You can make it as big or small as you want and then print it later. You can always print out the pages + add any memorabilia to the album later.

The journals are slim, meaning >> very thin, 10 pages, not bulky. So they would be easy to carry with you, in a tote bag.
Blank pages, so you can journal and add embellishments (journal cards, stickers, etc....)

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In 2022 I bought this small journal and used it as a travel journal www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I9L79TQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
I have a portable small printer www.amazon.com/Wireless-Printer-Compatible-Android-Bluetooth/dp/B08C72V1LB/ref=sxts_rp_s_a_1_0?content-id=amzn1.sym.eff26b9b-e255-411b-a40d-eccb21f93fe4%3Aamzn1.sym.eff26b9b-e255-411b-a40d-eccb21f93fe4&crid=G68RWSVXDTRG&cv_ct_cx=kodak+step&keywords=kodak+step&pd_rd_i=B08C72V1LB&pd_rd_r=50e6b0ff-b604-46d2-842c-c45e23ed3233&pd_rd_w=O1Fvc&pd_rd_wg=CmM36&pf_rd_p=eff26b9b-e255-411b-a40d-eccb21f93fe4&pf_rd_r=16DJ2MDFZVGT0J5TFT01&qid=1675705960&sprefix=kodak+step%2Caps%2C149&sr=1-1-5985efba-8948-4f09-9122-d605505c9d1e that I would print out one or 2 photos for the day. Write in bullet point the highlights for the day. I have a multicolor gel pen that I used for this.
It's fun to look back on and I might use it one day to fully scrapbook my trips, but for now I don't feel pressured to do it right away since I've documented the trip. It worked well for me in 2022 and I think I'll continue in 2023 to do it.

I'm happy with is so far.  I've had a picture on my fridge for a year and it's still looking good.  The photos are sticky back so it works really well in my little journal.

I’m really sorry I don’t have a flip through of this but I recently did an everyday explorers mini book. It was simple to do and I love the way it came out. It doesn’t fit a lot but I could see the format really working on the go. I did the entire thing in 2 days of minimal effort.

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blemon I am holding fire on the Voyage collection from The Lilypad the-lilypad.com/store/Voyage.html which is also discounted this weekend, because perhaps I'll like Traci's Weekender better (and she says that it will fit nicely with her other travel collections too) I'm thinking I'll print a few pages out ready to go, will include some with pockets for the inevitable ephemera but will be sure to leave lots of space for the notes I'll keep whilst on the go. Our Road Trip friend came over last week and we spent a few hours looking through old journals and reliving the moments - so many things we'd forgotten about but which came flooding back when we saw the pages. I just have to do this!

Traci's collection goes live later this evening for us - maybe too late and I'll wait till the morning to decide. Having said that, we have quite big event to watch tomorrow (!) and I can't imagine I'll spend much time at my desk. Still, the other great thing about digital collections is that they don't sell out!!

Now, about Orange and the Netherlands - it all comes from King William, whose family came from an area in France called Orange. Since then, the Dutch have identified with the colour and I understand that's also the reason why we have orange carrots! (I believe they were originally purple....)

What takes you to the Netherlands? Sounds like you are going to have plenty of time to have fun!!

Thanks blemon - now following you (which always feels a bit like stalking, but I can assure you it's not!) I agree about how much more accessible having photos in a journal is than just stored on a phone. I love having the pics in context as well - with a map, maybe, or other stuff alongside them as in your two lovely examples above.

I found another couple of possibilities for digital collections, both already in my stash. Firstly, for this trip Elf Sahin's Travelogue, particularly because one of the phrases is "in the middle of nowhere"...very apt for N Dakota I thought ;-) I had also forgotten about Lyn Grieveson's Mapped, which I love but might keep for the next trip on our schedule, which is Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland. Seems more appropriate for that.

Oh heck. Too. Much. Choice.

So, I succumbed to quite a bit, encouraged by the 40% discounts for INSD (or whatever it's called!) I bought a bit of Traci Reed's Weekender www.tracireed.com/journal/weekender , especially the Road Trip add on. I hummed and haawed about whether to buy the "printable" or the "digital" but the Silhouette files persuaded me in the end towards the printable, because I thought I could at least use those as digital files anyway. I also shopped at the Lilypad and got some of Voyage the-lilypad.com/store/Voyage-Collection.html (liked the palette) and some of Wanderlust the-lilypad.com/store/Wanderlust-aCollection.html , both by Anita - thinking that a $6 spend wasn't going to break the bank anyway. Then, in a slightly mad minute, I got This is the place the-lilypad.com/store/This-is-the-Place-Mixed-Media-Artistry.html - very different but more like the kind of thing I do when I create my own art rather than use my PC. Anyway, my Travel folder is "comfortably stuffed" now, has plenty of fresh material on which to base my next journal and I have no excuses for not getting on with it.

Well, actually, I do. We're about to "welcome" builders into our home to begin a fairly major project and have to empty several rooms before they do. They just announced they'll begin on 15 May. A week. Eeeek! They promise to do the noisy, dirty work whilst we are in N Dakota...but there's a couple of weeks before we set off to "enjoy" first. I might take refuge in my studio...or want nothing more than to lie down in a darkened room. We will see.

Traci's Weekender kit is on sale at Sweet Shoppe Designs right now...40% off.

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Deciding what to take (and what to leave behind) is always tricky though less so when we are heading to the US because I know I can get whatever I need when we pass the first Michaels/Joanns. Actually that was also true when we started a trip in India and walked down a street in Mumbai, where I hoped to find a glue stick and a hole punch. Not only did I find a chap sitting in a hole in the wall selling both (he had an amazing selection of office stuff) when I asked about the hole punch I was asked "What size?"

I usually choose a colour palette and stick quite hard to it, so take just one or maybe two of the small cube type ink pads and a couple of coloured pens. I don't usually bring stamps along beyond a generic star or swirl, something that ends up more of a bullet point as I progress through my journal rather than anything more. I have one of the plastic school pencil boxes and, if it doesn't fit in there, then it can't come with me! I also use your washi tape trick, sometimes winding it onto pencils, but find that I seldom use the stickers and die cuts until I'm home again. And though I very rarely use them, I still feel the need to take the tiniest box of watercolour paints, because in my fantasy holiday world, I'm sitting creating a watercolour in an idyllic setting. It's only ever happened once, but hey, who knows?! (And a girl can dream!)

Thanks for sharing the link to the video, which I'll take a look at later. I'm always open to new ideas and fresh approaches!! After all, we can't have this year's travel journal looking like all the others, can we?!