Before leaving on my trip to Queensland, Australia last month I shared a sneak peek at the mini travel journal I'd put together to take with me. I'm just finishing up my little album by adding all the photos and journaling and wanted to share with you how its come together. Here's what it looked like then:

And here's what it's looking like now. The album includes photos and point form journaling along with a few bits of  memorabilia from the trip. Because the album is so little it was easy to take with me to Australia and when I had time I was able to add a bit of journaling while everything was fresh in my mind and save the rest of the work for when I got home.

Supplies used to make Pocket Travel Journal:

small notepad to use for album cover

elle's studio tags 

making memories bracket 

heidi swap chipboard letters + chevron paper 
plier stapler

printable graph paper 

kaiser craft orange polka dot paper 

pink paislee map paper 

hair elastic

Make your own Pocket Travel Journal:

1. Find an inexpensive notebook/notepad to use for your album housing.
I found mine at the dollar store.

2. Remove the inside pages from the notebook/notepad using a ruler and exacto knife and cover the inside with patterned paper. View the short video below for more details.

3. Choose a variety of coordinating papers in a cute colour scheme and create your album pages to fit inside your album cover. All of my album pages measure 3.5' X 5.5"

4. I chose to put all my album pages together before my trip and take them with me to add journaling while in Australia. Keeping my album size small made it ideal for travel. Here are what my pages looked like before adding photos/journaling:

5. I used a variety of scraps of pattern paper, premade journaling spots and labels from Elle's Studio Summer Lovin' collection and chipboard stickers to create the pages. I attached different elements using a gluestick or simply stapled them onto the page.

6. As a final touch you could use a rounded corner punch to round all the corners of your pages or just a couple corners like I did.

7. Tuck all your pages in order into your album cover, secure with an elastic and that's it! A cute and simple way to record your travel memories!

For another view of my mini travel album you can watch the following video. This is my very first blog video EVER so you'll have to go easy on me, I was a little nervous. ;)



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