Travel journal idea

Cherish your favourite memories of the year gone by with this colourful travel scrapbook

Anyone who likes travelling and scrapbooking is bound to love this travel journal idea. Unlike a traditional photo album or photo book, this journal allows you to unleash your creativity as you put together your own personal review of the past year’s holiday adventures. A DIY travel journal is a great way of making all your favourite moments last forever: you can stick in photos and entrance tickets, decorate with beautiful frames and borders, add hand-lettered headings and captions, draw mini pictures to match – anything goes! To recreate this idea, you’ll need a thick notebook, your treasured photos and the right tools. Luckily, the Colour Happy Big Box from edding provides all the products you need to do justice to your creativity: 69 carefully selected pens in a wide array of colours and nib sizes, plus the brush pen colour mixer – all in a single box. And the best bit? While you’re busy being creative, you can dream about that holiday and lose yourself in those wonderful memories.

Categories: Hand lettering
Special gifts
Bullet Journals
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Fineliners
Gel rollers
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Think up a page layout and sketch it out lightly in pencil first. A combination of hand-lettered captions with photographs can look particularly effective. Use the black edding 1800 profipen to colour in letters, make them bolder or simply go over them. Remember you can make each letter different from the rest – broad, fine, dotted... however you want.

Step 2

Now stick in your chosen photos. For added effect, use the edding 55 fineliner to draw delicate frames around your photos. The edding 1300 colour pens are perfect for adding matching motifs; depending on where you’ve travelled, these might be palm trees and parasols or polar bears and penguins!

Step 3

Headlines don’t always have to be written; why not craft them yourself, perhaps with a small strip of bunting. If you’re writing on bunting, the fine-tipped edding 55 fineliner is ideal.

Step 4

Small, handmade flags are also really eye-catching – and the best pens for colouring these in are the edding 1340 brush pens. Alternatively, for finer drawings, choose the edding 55 fineliner. Any photograph can be highlighted with delicate strips of bunting.

Step 5

Intersperse the photographs with entrance tickets, travel tickets and other mementoes and relive your memories of fascinating museum visits and other amazing adventures. Remember, there are no limits to your imagination – you can design however you want!