New Zealand Travel Journals

I made these journals for Meredith and me to use on our upcoming trip to New Zealand! We’ll be doing a lot and seeing many places, and I’ve found in the past that it’s better to keep up with your journaling while you’re actually still on the trip. Trying to remember afterwards doesn’t always work, especially if jet-lag is involved. I made these out of heavy chipboard that I found at Hollo’s. The inside pages are Stampin Up cardstock, and I covered the inside covers with patterned paper. I punched the holes with my frabjous Crop-o-dile and used keyrings to bind them. The beautiful cover paper is a handmade paper that my cousins Luke & Willow sent me for my birthday a few years ago. I just printed out the inside pages, and I intend to fill one page out each day of the trip. Each facing page is blank–we can put postcards, travel ephemera, or digital photos we print out from our memory cards along the way if we find such a service. And BOOM! When we get home, we have a completed scrapbook! This does NOT mean I won’t be doing a (large and possibly multi-volume) regular scrapbook of this trip, but it will be nice to have something right away to show people. And to use to remember the trip when I start getting all those bazillions of photos I will take printed!