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October 2017 Release - Day 2

Hello everyone! Welcome to day two of our incredible October Release! We have some fantastic holiday inspiration to share with you today, just you wait and see!

 

This is the perfect set for documenting your December memories in your Traveler’s Journal. There are fun holiday images, sentiments, label elements, and tiny typed words. Don’t limit this set to scrapbooking and journal projects as they will work well on card projects too!

Available for purchase October 15th. CLICK HERE for further product details.

 

Traveler’s Journal: December Typed Words is a set designed to document your December holidays in your scrapbooks or travel journals. You could also use the words in this set on cards or other projects to send winter and holiday greetings.

Available for purchase October 15th. CLICK HERE for further product details.

 

Quickly create meaningful cards with these customizable quotes. This one focuses on a favorite holiday classic, perfect for adding to gift tags and more.

Available for purchase October 15th. CLICK HERE for further product details.

  

Now that I've made all of the formal introductions, let's get onto the projects!

 

Dawn McVey is featuring Traveler's Journal: December + Traveler's Journal: December Typed Words.

Take a close look at the snowflakes that Dawn embossed onto the background here. She added just a little bit of ink sponging over the top of each one and it really brings them to life. The smaller stamped snowflakes in the same color as the sponging ink  brings a unified look to the background. The way she has the labels cut off on the left side is a clever design detail as well.

 

• STAMPS: Traveler’s Journal: December, December Typed Words
• INK: Aqua Mist, New Leaf, Versamark
• PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Aqua Mist
• OTHER: Wink of Stella glitter pen, White embossing powder, 1/2” circle punch, ink blending sponge

 

Okay, this project is seriously one of my favorites! I love the three simple trees at the center, and that bright traditional red is so festive! The partial label with the tree medallion has so much style, while also bringing an element of balance.

 

• STAMPS: Traveler’s Journal: December
• INK: Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Olive Twist, Tropical Teal
• PAPER: Raspberry Fizz, Stamper’s Select White
• DIES: Mix & Mat: Snowflakes
• OTHER: 1/2” circle punch

 

The strips used for this background could be made from any of your favorite patterns, dots, stripes, etc. The single text strip helps to break everything up and lead the eye down to the focal point. The way Dawn placed the label slightly off-kilter is a nice way to make sure everything isn't too perfect, making things more interesting to the eye.

 

• STAMPS: Traveler’s Journal: December, December Typed Words
• INK: Simply Chartreuse, Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, Versamark
• PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Bitty Big: Simply Chartreuse, Pure Poppy & Scarlet Jewel
• OTHER: White embossing powder, ink blending sponge

 

Lizzie Jones is joining me today, featuring Quoted: Little Bit More.

Can we just talk about color for a minute? Aren't these amazing together?!?!? Pinfeather, Pale Peony and Ocean Tides. I love that! I feel as though things would have been a bit too plain without the gorgeous die-cut vellum snowflakes. They help lead the eye all the way down the card.

 

• STAMPS: Quoted: Little Bit More, Background Basics: Super Stripes, Faux Ribbon
• INK: Pale Peony, Ocean Tides, Pinefeather
• PAPER: Pinefeather, Fresh Snow Linen, Stamper’s Select Vellum, White
• DIES: Wine Bottle Tag #2, Silver White Winters
• OTHER: Scotch Foam Tape, Martha Stewart Glitter, Mark Richards Glittered Pearl, Xyron

 

It's always fun to see an older set brought back to life, and Lizzie did that perfectly here with the Come All Ye Faithful set. There is something so sweet about that sweater wearing dog and his cute little nose! I think it is an excellent pair with this particular sentiment, he definitely resembles Max from he Grinch movie!

 

• STAMPS: Quoted: Little Bit More, Come All Ye Faithful, Come All Ye Faithful Additions, Fair Isle Borders, In The Shadows
• INK: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate, Fine Linen, Classic Kraft, VersaMark
• PAPER: Pure Poppy, White
• DIES: Come All Ye Faithful, Come All Ye Faithful Additions, Double Ups: Rectangles
• OTHER: Nuvo Shimmering Pearl Embossing Powder, Scotch Foam Tape, Mark Richards Self-Adhesive Nail Head

 

Lizzie also pulled out the Holiday Hugs mini kit for this hat that totally looks like the Grinch hat, especially with the addition of a real pompom. And can we just talk about how clever it is to also add the stencil from Sunshine & Rainbows with the heart? Just a perfect pairing with the sentiment!!!

 

• STAMPS: Quoted: Little Bit More, Make It Market Mini Kit: Holiday Hugs
• INK: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, VersaMark
• PAPER: Green Parakeet, White
• OTHER: Make It Market Mini Kit: Sunshine & Rainbows, Filigree White Embossing Powder, Nuvo Shimmering Pearl Embossing Powder, Scotch Foam Tape, White Pom-Pom

I hope you have enjoyed all the creations that I have shared with you today! What are your initial impressions of the Traveler's Journal products? There are SO many things you can do with these both in a journal and just on holiday cards and tags. Talk about versatile! And the new Quoted set? What previously released products do you think might pair up well with that?  We would love to hear your initial thoughts on everything we introduced!  Please leave a comment on this post to tell us what you think of the new products and you will be eligible to win big!

Leave a comment today and you're automatically entered to win a $75 Papertrey Ink gift certificate!

You have until 7am ET, October 12th to leave your comment and be eligible to win.  Only one comment per person please.  One randomly selected winner will be announced on our October Release Winners Page before noon ET the same day.  Thank you for stopping by today and best of luck with the contest!

 

 

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Guest Blogger: Heather Nichols

Hello everyone and welcome to this month's Traveler's Journal feature. This month we are going to talk about creating mini kits for your Traveler's Journals to either give as a gift or maybe just to keep for yourself! I know when I have coordinating products all pulled together it makes putting together pages and layouts in my Traveler's Journals so much easier. I am so much more successful at being able to actually complete my projects.

I am excited to share that there is some exclusive new Traveler's Journal products debuting this month and they are just perfect for the upcoming holiday season. You will also being seeing more inspiration during the rest of the Papertrey Ink October release countdown. 

Today, I am featuring the Traveler's Journal: December and Traveler's Journal: December Typed Words stamp sets in the mini kit that I am sharing with you. You will learn more information about both of these stamp sets a little later in the Papertrey Ink October release countdown.

Sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start when putting a mini kit like this together and so I thought I would breakdown the parts of this kit. There really isn't a right or wrong way to do this. Just think about what you want to have included and start with making a list and maybe some sort of inspiration. My inspiration for this kit was, of course, Christmas!

1. I started with the journal. You are definitely going to need a place to put your journaling and layouts. I use the Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks and stamped the cover with snowflakes in Fresh Snow ink. I put the book together and used some red and white twine for the binding. I also added some die cut letters to spell out the word "merry" and I glittered just edges of the letters for a fun, frosty look.

2. Next, is a selection of patterned papers. You can use printed patterned paper from your stash or you can stamp your own custom patterned papers. I used a few pieces of Bitty Big: Pure Poppy patterned papers along with a few custom pieces that I stamped myself using the new Traveler's Journal: December stamp set.

3. Labels are always great for adding titles and journaling to your pages. The new Traveler's Journal: December stamp set includes two label images and stamped them in Pure Poppy, Prairie Grass, and Olive Twist inks and cut them out. I stamped a few of the labels with some of the larger sentiments in the Traveler's Journal: December stamp set.

4. Tiny word stickers! I cut 1/4" strips from a white adhesive sheet and then stamped the typed words from Traveler's Journal: December and Traveler's Journal: December Typed Words onto them. As I am working in my journal, I can just snip the words apart that I want to include.

5. Frames, page tabs, and more stickers. I used the Traveler's Journal: Accessories die collection to cut out an assortment of frames and page tabs for my journal. I also stamped some of the small circle images from the new Traveler's Journal: December stamp set onto a white adhesive sheet and punched them out with a circle punch. I love having all of these elements ready to go!

6. Embellishments. I went through my craft stash and found twine, ribbon, and some snowflake eyelets that coordinated with my kit. I made my own metallic snowflakes using the Fancy Flakes dies. I die cut the snowflakes from cardstock and then applied some silver gilding flakes to them - you could use embossing powder or glitter as well.

That breaks down what I put together for this particular mini kit and I hope that this list helps you when it comes to putting together your own kit of supplies. There are so many other ideas of items to add to your kit that I didn't add to this one like pockets, envelopes, tags, and more - just add whatever elements that you would like!

During the rest of the Papertrey Ink October release countdown, I will be sharing layouts from my journal that I created using this kit and so I hope that you will stop by to see what I have created to share and to learn more information about the new Traveler's Journal products debuting this month.

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: December, Traveler's Journal: December Typed Words, Background Basics: Farm & Barn
• INK: True Black, Fresh Snow, Fine Linen, Classic Kraft, Olive Twist, Prairie Grass, Pure Poppy, Versamark
• PAPER: Stamper's Select White, Classic Kraft, Olive Twist, Bitty Big: Pure Poppy, Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks, white adhesive sheet
• DIES: Traveler's Journal: Accessories, Block Alphabet, Fancy Flakes
• OTHER: white embossing powder, silver gilding flakes, 1/2" circle punch, white gold glitter, red & white twine, ribbon, snowflake eyelets

Amy and Andi from the Traveler's Journal team have some great mini kit inspiration to share with you today:

"Keeping up with memory keeping during the holidays can be challenging. How about get a head start by putting together a mini kit? Design your pages and prepare an assortment of die-cut and stamped embellishments ahead of time, so that by December, all you'll need are photos and some quick journaling!"

• see Amy's blog for more information on supplies used

Click here to visit Amy's blog to see more!

"Looking around I’m seeing some signs of the up coming holiday season. I thought it would be fun to pull out some Christmas colors and play with the soon to be released Traveler’s Journal Sets. Let me show you a Mini Album Kit that I’ve made to give to some lucky person…or keep for myself. It’s too cute!"

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: December, Traveler's Journal: December Typed Words
• INK: True Black, Fresh Snow
• PAPER: Pure Poppy, Pinefeather, Classic Kraft, vellum, Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks
• DIES: Traveler's Journal: Accessories, Traveler's Journal: Envelope, Traveler's Journal: Outer Cover, Countdown Details, Framed Out #5
• OTHER: Rustic Cream button twine

Click here to visit Andi's blog to see more!

Thank you so much for joining me and the Traveler's journal team today and I look forward to sharing more Traveler's Journal inspiration with you next month!

Guest Blogger: Heather Nichols

Hello everyone and welcome to this month's Traveler's Journal feature! This month, myself and the Traveler's Journal team are sharing some fun embellishments and accessories that you can add to your Traveler's Journals.

I don't know about you, but I really love paper craft embellishments and accessories. They just add so much fun to your projects!I have spent lots of time browsing embellishments at craft stores and to be honest, I spend time thinking about how I can make the embellishment myself. So many embellishments and accessories out there are actually pretty easy to make on your own. And when you make them yourself, you can completely customize them for your projects and journals.

I decided to create some glittery clips and embellishments for my journal this month - let me show you how I made them:

I started by die cutting some clips with the Clip Tips dies and stars with the Small Sketched Stars dies from kraft cardstock that I had added adhesive to the one side of. You can add adhesive using a sticker machine or a double sided adhesive sheet. When you die cut the cardstock with the adhesive (the adhesive should be covered by the backer paper) make sure the adhesive side is on top because that is what your glitter is going to stick to.

Once your shapes are die cut, remove the backer paper so you can add the glitter and labels to the shape (top left picture.) I added some labels that I stamped on white cardstock and then I also added a some tiny star glitter that I had in my stash to add a little more texture to my glittered embellishment.

After you have added those pieces to your shapes, then dip the shapes into the fine glitter to cover the rest of the embellishment (top right picture.)

Next, lay your embellishments on a craft mat or piece of acetate (so they won't stick to your work surface) and add a layer of Glossy Accents over the whole embellishment (bottom left picture.) Let this dry completely - I let mine dry overnight. You might notice that I had a little overflow and that is okay because once it's dry you can trim those pieces off.

After the pieces are dry (bottom right picture), you have a fun collection of epoxy like glitter embellishments! I love how the glitter is sealed right underneath the glossy accents.

It's back to school for my girls and so I put together a few little layouts in my journal with some photos that I took. This first page is of Hana on her first day of Freshman Orientation at the high school - I can't believe that both of my girls are in high school now!

The left page has a pocket made with the Traveler's Journal: Accessories pocket die that I tucked a card into that includes a little bit of journaling about the day.

I added a glittered clip with the "take note" sentiment on it to the side of this page. There's a little star embellishment on the journal card and I am sure you noticed the bookmark that I will tell you about in just a bit.

On this page I added a photo Hana with a glittered clip attached right to it along with a few little stamped and die cut embellishments that I made with the Desktop Design stamp set and dies.

This next layout spread is from the official first day of school. 

The left side is individual pictures of my girls along with a glittered star embellishment - I also love how the clip from the previous layout peeks out on the side.

And the right side is a photo of my girls together. I attached a clip to the photo that has the September abbreviation and then added the "6" on a punched circle to the bottom corner of the clip. There are a few more stamped and die cut embellishments here too. Some typed journaling and a few more glittered star embellishments finished off this page.

Now about that bookmark: I added some twine to the binding of the journal and then strung a few beads and glittered star embellishments to the end of it. Having a bookmark as a part of your journal is fun as well as functional. You can use it to mark a certain page to look back to, to mark the area in your journal where you left off, or just as a fun embellishment. And don't think you have to limit yourself to just one bookmark - add as many as you like!

Here's a look at the top of my journal where the twine goes down between the cover at the first page spread. I literally just tied it right to the binding and threaded it up and over the pages.

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: Dates, Clip Tips, Desktop Design
• INK: True Black, Pure Poppy, Prairie Grass, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow
• PAPER: Stamper's Select White, Kraft, Bitty Big: True Black, Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks
• DIES: Memory Clips, Small Sketched Stars, Traveler's Journal: Accessories, Desktop Design, Monthly Moments: Mini Journal Card
• OTHER: gold glitter, gold star glitter, Glossy Accents, eyelets, white twine, red beads, 3/8" circle punch

Now, I know you are going to LOVE all of the ideas and inspiration for embellishments and accessories from the rest of the Traveler's Journal team:

 

"Just as accessories can totally make an outfit, they can also elevate your traveler's journals to something extra special. I'm excited to share with you some ideas for charms, bookmarks, and pen storage that will add both functionality and beauty to your journals."

• DIES: Traveler's Journal: Outer Cover; Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks; Stitched Tray: Rectangle Trim Die; Stitched Ornament: Classics; Bitty Button Stacks; Grand Botanicals; Coin Purse II; Sew Stylish Alphabet I
• OTHER: Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, Fresh Snow, Lavender Moon, Winter Wisteria, and Simply Chartreuse Felt; white thread; True Black Baker's Twine

Click here to visit Amy's blog to see more!

 

"Accessorize…How we all love our Accessories! If you are like me, it might not be so much about fashion or attire, but I love all the things when it comes to scrapbooking, crafting, and journaling! I’m showing some ways to make your own accessories using some things you may already have on hand, and a way to collect them all in one place when on the go!"

• STAMPS: Traveler’s Journal: Bullets, Traveler's Journal: Currently, Traveler's Journal: Adventure, Accessories Die, Envelope Die, Outer Cover Die
• INK: Tropic Teal and Enchanted Evening
• PAPER: Blueberry Sky, Melon Berry, Vintage Jadeite, Lemon Tart, Bitty Big: True Black
• DIES: Traveler's Journal: Accessories, Traveler's Journal: Envelope, Traveler's Journal: Outer Cover, Countdown Details
• OTHER: Rustic Cream button twine

Click here to visit Andi's blog to see more!

"Accessorizing your journals, planners, albums, etc. is often even more fun than actually making the album!! Creating decorations is exceptionally enjoyable and if you add in something like my moveable pen holder, then it's useful too! I hope you will join me on my blog where I will go over how to recreate these looks. Much love friends!"

• KIT: Traveler's Journal
• OTHER: Binder Clip, Large Paper Clip, Ribbons, Pom Poms, Twine, Tassels, etc. (whatever you happen to have)

Click here to visit Stephanie's blog to see more!

Thank you so much for joining me and the Traveler's journal team today and I look forward to sharing more Traveler's Journal inspiration with you next month!

Guest Blogger: Heather Nichols

Hello everyone and welcome to this month's Traveler's Journal feature! This month, myself and the Traveler's Journal team are delving into the bullet journal trend.

Bullet journals are a customizable and forgiving (I love this part) organizational system. It can be your to-do list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely it will be all of the above. It will teach you to more with less. I got this definition to share with you from bulletjournal.com.

The minimum supply list for a bullet journal is a journal and a pen. Everything else is up to you and being paper crafters we like to have a little fun with supplies, right? 

If you do a search for bullet journals online you will be amazed at the amount of ideas that you will receive - pictures, tutorials, videos and more! The best part is that you can customize the idea into something that will work for you and be whatever you want it to be. I put together a bullet journal using the Traveler's Journal products to share with you today - including the new Traveler's Journal: Bullets set.

I started off with a title page for this month. I used the "August" stamp from the Monthly Moments: Year Round Mini stamp set and the flowers from the Stemmed statements stamp set. The star bursts and dots around the flowers are images from the Traveler's Journal: Bullets set.

One of the parts of bullet journaling is setting up your journal each month. That way, it is easy to keep filling in the pieces that you need to as the month goes on without having to invent something new each day to keep track of things. When you are done with your month, you can look back and easily see your accomplishments.

I can't not have an envelope in the front cover of my journal, right? I added one here that I die cut from patterned papers.

One of the main ideas of a bullet journal is to use a symbol system along with a list of tasks, appointments, goals, etc. and track your progress. I included basic symbols in the Traveler's Journal: Bullets stamp set and here is a suggestion of how you can use the symbols in your journal. You can use this system or you can come up with your own way to track the items in your bullet journal.

I set up days of the week across this spread to keep track of daily items. You can see I have tasks listed by the squares, appointments by the triangles, events by the open circles, and notes/reminders by the dots. The framed area make it so easy to keep things organized for each day.

I also added a few habit/goal trackers at the bottom of the one page: one for a daily walk and one for practicing my ukulele.

You can keep things very simple and just black and white, but I added in some more flowers, borders, and a few other little details.

I continued my week onto this next spread using the same framed boxes and list format. As the week goes on, I can add to the lists that I started if I have new items come up or I have projects that take longer than one day to complete.

I had a little fun with the banner image I the set for my birthday on this Saturday. I stamped it onto an adhesive sheet and then cut it out to add it to my journal.

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: Bullets, Monthly Moments: Year Round Mini, Stemmed Statements
• INK: True Black, Soft Stone, Prairie Grass
• PAPER: Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks, patterned papers
• DIES: Stemmed Statements, Traveler's Journal: Envelope
• OTHER: baker's twine, eyelets, watercolor pencils

I am so excited to finally get started with using a bullet journal. It's been something that I have been looking at for a long time and sometimes it takes little bit of a push to get started. I can see how this way of journaling can be easy and enjoyable - especially because I can use it the way that is best for me. I hope you have been inspired and then get ready for some more inspiration from the Traveler's Journal team. They all have some great bullet journal ideas to share with you:

"If you like the idea of an all-in-one notebook that you can use for your calendar, future planning, reference, and general note-taking, then bullet journaling might be for you! You can start any time, and if something doesn't work, you can change it up the next day. Stop by to check out my slim, trim August bullet journal and calendar!"

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: Dates, Bullets; Pencilgrams; Monthly Moments: Year-Round Mini; Shine
• INK: Fresh Snow, Berry Sorbet, Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Tropical Teal, Aqua Mist
• PAPER: Berry Sorbet and Green Parakeet card stock; Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks
• DIES: Tag Sale: Quilted; Monthly Moments: Year Round 2; Traveler's Journal: Booklet Accessories
• OTHER: hemp cord, Mildliner Pens, black gel pen

Click here to visit Amy's blog to see more!

"Hello all! We’re coming to the end of these lovely summer months, and for a lot of us this means a little more planning to our days. There has been a huge Bullet Journal movement out there amongst the planners in the world, and I thought I’d show you how to use your Traveler’s Journal supplies to do this cool way of list making and tracking your tasks and goals!"

• STAMPS: Traveler's Journal: Bullets, Traveler's Journal: Dates, Traveler's Journal: Currently, Brushed Off, What the Doodle: Sun
• INK: Pale Peony, Hibiscus Burst, Melon Berry, Lemon Tart, Mint Julep, Vintage Jadeite, Spring Rain, Hawaiian Shores, Tropic Teal, Stormy Sea, Smokey Shadow
• PAPER: Traveler's Journal: Page Blanks 

Click here to visit Andi's blog to see more!

"Bullet journaling has long caught my eye but unfortunately been too scary for me to try out haha. With Heather's new stamp set, I actually made it work and it was so easy!! I loved being able to combine hand drawn lines with the stamped images from the set to complete an entire layout perfectly "bulleted." 😊 I hope you will join me on my blog as I show you in more detail the Habit Tracker Goal page I put together."

• STAMPS: Travelers Journal: Bullets
• INK: True Black, Lemon Tart, Amethyst Allure, New Leaf, Blueberry Sky, Raspberry Fizz
• PAPER: Travelers Notebook

 Click here to visit Stephanie's blog to see more!

Thank you so much for joining me and the Traveler's journal team today and I look forward to sharing more Traveler's Journal inspiration with you next month!

Guest Blogger: Heather Nichols

Hi everyone! Welcome to this month’s Traveler’s Journal feature. Today I am sharing how you can incorporate the Moments Inked products into your journals. Moments Inked products are geared towards using in your planners (although there are lots of other uses too.) You can set up your Traveler’s Journal to use as a planner or use the Moments Inked products as a part of your Traveler’s Journal. The Traveler’s Journal team has some great ideas to share for using your journal to plan for different things - you are sure to be inspired!

I set up a journal to use as my garden planner for this year and it will be perfect for looking back at what we did and how our garden looked.

For the cover, I used the die cut script alphabet to spell out “garden” and then added that to a piece of white cardstock that I die cut with the Mix & Mat die and layered onto a piece of linen vellum. The little flag above the word is stamped with the “planning” word from the Traveler’s Journal: Currently set and Moments Inked: Planner Banner stamp set. I typed the year on my typewriter and punched it out with a circle punch.

In the front of the journal I added a picture from my garden to the inside cover and a pocket to tuck some extras into. Right now I have a few seed packets tucked in there so I remember to go back and add specifics in my journal later on in the season.

I made a few circle embellishments to use in my journal that I stamped with some garden images from the Moments Inked: Everyday Symbols set - I used the bee image on this page. I stamped the image with Prairie Grass ink over the top of a polka dot stamped with Fresh Snow ink and then I punched it out with a circle punch. I also made a bunch of the little banner flags like the one on the cover. The one on this page is stamped with “loving” from the Traveler’s Journal: Currently set.

The trick to putting together your journals/layouts quickly with embellishments like this is to sit down and stamp, die cut, punch, and assemble a bunch at once. Things move so much faster when you have a pile of finished pieces that you can grab from!

For the pocket, I die cut some kraft cardstock that I stamped with some polka dots in Fresh Snow ink with the Moments Inked: Pocket Page die. The pocket is too big for the journal page and so I trimmed it down a bit so it would fit and then stitched it down with my sewing machine. I also added a tab to the page with the “garden” label made from the Moments Inked: Divided stamp set and die.

This next layout includes a simple diagram of how I planted our box gardens this year along with a photo of how things are looking so far.

I cut cardstock to represent my gardens and then typed in what I planted in them. It isn’t exactly to scale, but it will help me remember where things were when I look back when I am planning my garden in the future.

On this picture of one of my gardens, I added a few fun embellishments using the Garden Variety set and coordinating dies.

For this next layout I added a picture and a list of the plants in the herb area of my garden.

On the picture I added a title using the Type Strips II stamp set that I die cut from an adhesive sheet using the Type Bits Strip die. The flowers that you probably have noticed sprinkled through my journal are die cut with the Grand Botanicals die from a white adhesive sheet which makes them super easy to peel and stick wherever I wanted to put some.

For my list, I stamped some lined using the Moments Inked: Posted II set with Fresh Snow ink on Kraft cardstock. I typed up the herbs with my typewriter and then die cut out the list using the Moments Inked: Basic Pages die.

I added a few embellishments to the page as well as one of the sentiments from the Garden Variety set.

I have one more layout to share that I did to document the new perennial garden I added in the front of my house. I am anxious to see how this garden evolves over the years and I know I will enjoy looking back and remembering how it looked when I first planted it and what I actually planted too.

I kept the layout very similar to the previous one. Doing this makes the process on doing the pages quicker and the book is more unified.

I added a title to the photo just like I did on the herb garden layout.

And I did a list like the previous layout, this time adding the watering can, a little banner flag, and the stamped “fleurs” word.

I will keep adding and updating this journal as the garden season goes on this year!

 

• STAMPS: Moments Inked:Planner Banners, Moments Inked: Posted II, Moments Inked: Everyday Symbols, Moments Inked: Divided, Traveler’s Journal: Currently, Garden Variety, Polka Dot Basics II, Type Strips II
• INK: True Black, Fresh Snow, Prairie Grass
• PAPER: Stamper’s Select White, Classic Kraft, Prairie Grass, Linen Vellum, White Adhesive Sheet, Traveler’s Journal: Page Blanks, patterned paper
• DIES: Moments Inked: Basic Pages, Moments Inked: Planner Banners, Moments Inked: Pocket Page, Moments Inked: Divided, Garden Variety, Script Alphabet, Mix & Mat Scallops, Grand Botanicals, Type Bits Strip
• OTHER: Dark Chocolate baker’s twine, Tea Dye Distress marker (Ranger), 1/2” & 5/8” circle punch (EK Success)

Andi and Stephanie from the Traveler’s Journal team have some great inspiration to share today to inspire you to use your Traveler’s Journals for planning:

“Hello! This month I am focusing my Traveler’s Journal project on something we could probably all use help with: planning and eating. Well, maybe not eating in general, but choosing healthier meals to eat. I came up with an interactive meal planner where I can easily save some favorite meals, switch things around, and be able to use the same cute planner every week. Let me show you what I’ve made!”

 

• STAMPS: Traveler’s Journal: Dates, Medallion Trio
• INK: Blueberry Sky, Tropical Teal, Hibiscus Burst, Limeade Ice, Vintage Jadeite, Smokey Shadow, Versamark
• PAPER: Blueberry Sky, Limeade Ice, Vintage Jadeite, Smokey Shadow
• DIES: Traveler’s Journal: Accessories

Click here to visit Andi's blog to see more of her cute meal planner journal!

“I am so excited to share a fun 4 day vacay mini album I put together by combining Traveler’s Journal products and Moments Inked stamps. This album is ready to go for my next trip and all I need to add is photos! Do you ever prepare your albums beforehand?? Head over to my blog for all the details!”

 

• STAMPS: Moments Inked: Day by Day: Lists, Moments Inked: Day by Day, Moments Inked: Day by Day: Blocks
• INK: Tropical Teal, Raspberry Fizz, True Black
• PAPER: Oasis (Crate Paper)
• OTHER: Traveler’s Journal Kit, black & white twine, pink ribbon, black ribbon, Oasis stickers (Crate Paper)

Click here to visit Stephanie's blog to see more of her vacation journal!

Thank you so much for joining me today and I look forward to sharing more Traveler's Journal inspiration with you next month!