This is the project that almost wasn't.... but I'm so excited that I decided to do it and I actually finished it!
This time I started with a Simple Stories Sn@p album...
I actually just decided to order it a couple days before we left... that's how close this project was to not happening. I liked the Creative Chaos journal I used last time, but I wanted to try something different this time. I've been obsessed with Sn@p albums lately, so I decided to go for it. One thing I really liked about the Creative Chaos album, was that because I was doing the book smash book style, it was easy to work with on the trip. I wasn't quite sure how to do that with a Sn@p album. This trip was a quick trip that was jam packed full of activities, I didn't figure I would have time to work on the journal itself on the trip. BUT... my plan was to take all of my printed journal cards with me to fill out during any downtime we might have.
Well... at 10:00pm the night before we had to leave for the airport at 5:45am, I could NOT find my stack of cards ANYwhere. I nearly cried. I figured that was it for my journal. I gave up looking for it and decided that I would find a cute little notebook at the airport to jot down stories in and sketch out my pages.
Read the journaling below and you'll see why that didn't happen....
Once I was back though, I did one last sweep of my supplies to see if I could find my cards and I found them!! I had put them away in the bag I had bought to carry our supplies last year. My cards were very simple cards. I pulled up a blank 4x6 in photoshop, used the guide to divide it in half and dropped in word art and elements from Just Jaimee's Storyteller collections. So fast and addicting to make. I printed them on 4x6 card stock and cut them in half. Super easy! The only thing I did other than Storyteller word art, was the calendar on the first page of my journal. That's also by Just Jaimee, Storyteller 2015 Month 3x4 Calendar Cards.
I really liked working with the photo slots, but I still occasionally just punched holes in brochures (the flat, one page kind) and added them directly to my binder...
Just for fun, I printed a few cards that were just patterned paper to use as background for tickets and such...
On most pages, I just printed single photos (or two 3x4's on a 4x6 to be cut in two)... but on the page above, I used a template to add more photos.... since the whole point of the wax museum was to take LOTS of photos (FYI - I thought it would be so cheesy in there (and it was) but the kids had a BLAST posing for photos with the figures). I was going to link to the template I used (Designs by Lili), but it looks like it is no longer available.
Another type of card I wish I would have made more of was this...
I used 6x8 page protectors to hold larger brochures and playbills...
Just an example of how great the word art cards turned out... simple with lots of room for journaling...
For this trip I picked a color palette and stuck with it throughout the book. All of my cards were basically black, red and yellow and I mainly used my black and white washi...
Most of my journaling is front and center for anyone to read, but I wanted my thoughts on our visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to be private...
It's there on the card with the washi tape pull tab on the top right.
I am beyond thrilled with how this book turned out! I can't stop paging through it! This was a great test project for our upcoming road trip. It will take some more planning with how to turn this into an "on the road" journal, but I'm gathering ideas. Clara and I really liked working on our journals at the hotel at night on our road trip last year and would like to continue that this year. I just need to figure out the photo thing since I'll wait to print until after we're back.
I'm not sure if it's documenting overkill or not, but this is one of three different ways this trip will be documented. I will include an overview of the trip in my project life book and then I will do a separate photo book for the trip. I justify this book, because it's personally mine, the journaling is 100% me and my view of the trip. I'm not totally comfortable with everyone reading my journaling in front of me... makes me crazy for some reason. So the trip photo book will be more generic, more labeling, less journaling. And, this journal will be used as a reference book for when I go back and do my other pages/project. My travel journal from last year was so helpful for when I went back and did my album. I basically went page by page through it to make sure I had everything labeled properly.
So that's it! My travel journal for our NYC trip... now on to planning for the next one!
To see the pages from each day, click the links below....
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