Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts

Friday, January 12, 2024

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
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.
❤️

 

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Travelogue Album Vol 2 in the books

It picks up when we settle in Oregon for about 6 weeks.
I picked up extra 6x8 page protectors and 
hardly ever use them.
I save a lot of ephemera too and I love to
drop into different churches - so I save 
their bulletins if I can so if
we're in the area again I can pop on in.

I also save the packets from the campgrounds we stay
because it has a map of the grounds and
we can figure out if we want to go back or not.

Made a project life card 
I love it.

And another PL card that I made.

I also decided that my journaling didn't
have to explain a lot of things
especially the self explanatory ones.
OOOO and I bought these 2x2 page protectors oh a whim
and hated them and loved them.
Its fun putting random pix out there OR ones you have
a bunch of but don't need to be big.

Another couple of homemade PL cards.

I do love the 3/4 sized page protectors
and tend to use them a lot.
In fact, I'm running out and I need a HL soon.
Anyway - instead of adding another sized page 
protector and leaving gaps
I cut a 4x6 into 2 3x4 size matching
the middle.
I really like doing that.

Oh and THEN I found these 4x4 pages with 2x2 on them.
I'm kinda having a love hate relationship too
only because what to put there LOL.

Used a tag
 and another homemade PL card.

And then there's the 4x6 - 2 to a page.


And then there's the fold over 3x4 page protectors.
I KNOW!!!

You can really tell a story like that if
you have a lot of pix for it.
Another homemade PL card.

Isn't it fun - had to try and match the backside up
that lays over the front side the wrong way 🤣
And the 2 3x4 and 4x6
always a fav too.

I also embellish the pamphlets because why not.

And some don't need it .

Keeping receipts.

And journaling on the backside.

And the END.

Did some journaling about the battle on the dock
between a blue heron and a bunch of river otters.
It was too funny to watch.