Travel Journaling: Capture Memories On the Go

1. Introduction to Travel Journaling: I think for a moment about how many pictures we take when we travel. Then think about how many of those pictures we actually end up revisiting. So when we're scouring through thousands of digital images, most of them gets skipped. But what about all those little things you documented throughout your adventure? Those little things that made the trip really memorable for you. Maybe it was an interaction with a waiter at some hole in the wall restaurant that ended up being a subtle joke or not so hilarious moment where you tripped over your own foot before you ever even reached the cobblestone. You will definitely laugh about later or that little Allie D to or that you took that led you to a 50 square foot antique shop where you chatted with the shop owner for an hour. It's these moments that we wouldn't think to reference when we're just scrolling through our digital photo top, which leads me to travel journaling. This is a bite-sized class that will take you on an adventure so that you can document your own journey, exactly how you want to capture it will be covering my favorite supplies so that you can have options, but still pack light, will be covering different styles of travel journaling. This will spark your imagination and keep your process feeling like you. We'll walk through layouts together so that you can watch them organically come together also to give you permission to play and know how you want to structure things, and then quick tips to help your process. I'm Peggy Dean and I am an artist, author and most importantly educator. That is where my heart lies. There is nothing in the world that brings me more joy than to facilitate creative resources for anyone that wants to create. By the end of this class, I know that you are going to be fully inspired for your very own travel journal and it very well may turn into one of your new cherished items. I can't wait to get started and I will see you in the first lesson. 2. Packing Supplies for the Journey: If you're anything like me, then you don't like checking bags. You want to pack really light. So how can you bring all of this stuff with you if you're flying or you want to have a backup. If you're on a road trip, like let's say you just don't want to carry a lot of stuff. That's me in a nutshell when it comes to leaving and going places, I don't want a bunch of stuff. I have to check check around with me. I'm going to show you exactly how I pack this tiny bag with this stuff. This is all that I bring. This is actually square so it fits my square in stacks, which I don't actually bring with me anymore because I prefer the smaller one. I just don't have this film to show you is fair. But what I'll do is depending on how long the trip is, I'll bring this, which comes, these come with Tupac's. Or I will open it up and I will only bring, only bring one of these little foil packages with me, which actually makes things a lot smaller. So that's usually what this looks like, only with the right size. So here's how this works. I have my adhesive tape, I've got my washy tape. I have the pens that I need, so I usually pick out a few Tombow colors. It looks like I have 123456 here, which is actually a lot for me. I usually bring like two or three, maybe four. I've got archival ink for my ink, which these are the monoline pigeon, the pigeon letters pens. And then I've got a fit on a spooky for smaller brush lettering. Should I choose to do that? Which oftentimes I just like to scribble. So I have my options here, but you can see I've rubber banded them. I made them very small. And then I have my printer, my charger for the printer, and the actual travel journal. I also keep stickers in the back flap of the journal so that I have those on hand if I want to have any space filler other than washi tape or marker. So what I do and the bag is I put it, I put this part in first. It makes it a lot easier because if it has any sort of rubber on it, it'll stick and trying to cram everything and you know how a pack something, you just put in the big items first. Alright. Then I put the chord in, usually shoved some more toward the bottom. I put the printer in, I do it flat and then I build up. So I have the tape. I have my I'll just pretend that this is the right size. I'll have my film right next to that. And then I have my washi tape. And then at the very top, I place depends. And then I zip that closed and that is the contents of my bag when I am traveling and want to keep all these memories on the go. Now, if you want a lot of options or you want different options, that's what we're about to go into next. So buckle up. I'm gonna give you so many fun ideas. And then it's just coming down to you to pick and choose what you want to bring along. 3. Travel Journaling Styles: The first thing that I want to say is that there are not rules, they're not rules to journaling when you are trying to capture experiences. Don't worry, don't let this overwhelm you. I'm just showing you how different the variety is that you can tap into and then maybe spark some ideas for you along the way as you decide what you want to do for yourself. So I'm going to show you an order of how I actually started doing this and then what it turned into. And you're actually going to find that it went from way more structured to weigh less structured, which is kinda interesting. I have these two cloth scrapbooks that I don't do this anymore, but back in the day I did a ton of scrapbooking and I loved it. This was actually the first time that I documented or the first way rather that I documented traveling. And so you can see if you know, scrapbooking, then you know that there are so many embellishments that you can do and little ideas here and there. And the reason I wanted to show you this first was because maybe you loved scrapbooking and you can see kind of how you can have a layout. This is just burned paper edges with little fiber ART and these little wooden pieces. And then I've got this second I got a part two because there are so many pictures I wanted to keep. Um, but, you know, experiences little things like this, stickers and whatnot. But I have found over time that I actually prefer to doodle these in. But back in the day, I really loved using all of the elements and embellishments. And if you're a scrap worker, then you know, this gets a little spendy. But it is a fun way to document photos and experiences. Alright, the next way that I want to show you is just from a mixed media book that you put in. And so what I'm going to show you bookmark this and I don't want it to slip. There we go. You can see that these are very basic. They're based off of just like quick doodles or like an urban sketch here to capture what it was that I was seeing. So I had watercolor and ink and I just wanted some kind of playful writing and so I just went for it. Not all turned out great, but it's still, I mean, I remember this street. I remember capturing it, which was really fun. So you can also do something where it's a full spread and really capture everything around. So you can see this one was more focused on sketching, like the streets in the city and the buildings surrounding. This is similar, but it's done only with paint. And this was when I was in Hawaii and I just kept layering and layering and layering. This was a garden that was the lowest in a hotel that we stayed out in Mali. You can see items like this where I've mentioned the Patio festival, but then I wanted to actually capture a full patio that I saw. It's sporadic, it doesn't have a whole lot of direction, but that's totally okay because as I flip through this, I know and I can remember exactly what it was that I saw or experienced. The next one I want to show you is very specific. And this is a really special journey that I have taken myself on. And I usually don't do anything with this style or journal until I get home. Because what I do instead is create collections. So let me explain. This book consists of pigment that I find in nature. So that means raw elements like rocks that I then grind up into pigment and mole into paint. And so I take photographs, is aware of where it came from. I like to tape the pigment Rob before I mole it to see how the color is raw versus how it shows up with paint. And it's really just like a documentation of the places that I've collected this pigment from. And then going into the different ways that it translates. So I have location, what the landscape was like, what the forum was like. This was earth clay, this one was Iraq. The color that it is rather color processed. It's transparency, it's a test. So I put a little cross and then painted over that to see how transparent it was. Light fastness. This is where I do a test where half of it is exposed to the sun for awhile, the other half isn't. Notes on modeling. So this was, this is obviously very, very specific. And you can have even taken little samples like this and put them in regular travel journals that are amongst other category, other topics as well. Just because it's such a big part of what I loved to do with foraging. So that's an option that you can do. Obviously, your focus might be a little bit different, maybe not on earth pigment, but on something that really brings you a lot of joy, something that you do often for the places that you travel. And then finally, I want to get into the main interests that I have. Now with how I like to travel journal, which is, this is a wanderlust Passport by Bobo design studio. She isn't a small business. She's an artist and she loves traveling. The reason I love these so much is because you've got she puts in the date. This is the older version. I'll show you the newer version, but the date and your location, the temperature, the weather, your accommodations. If you need it or not. And you can see that there are a lot of notes and here's why I like this style the most. It's so forgiving. I can put notes and doodles anywhere. And at first glance it looks really interesting and fun, but you can see my handwriting is just a hot mess. I've got the things that I want to call out in a right pen. I have pictures that I've printed out that, you know, are the key elements that I want to look at from those trips. I don't like to put too many pictures in. I am known to overuse them for sure. I use too many pictures, but I'm okay with it. I've had some pages really overlap. But the reason why is because I like to just kinda see what it is that I want to remember, But then write those notes of those really interesting or hilarious memories over time. Here's another one where we were in Vegas. So the things you'll notice, I have a strip of this. This was just the bag, but I thought, oh, that's perfect. It's got the logo on there. There's a sticker that says Area 15, which is a place we visited, which is really fun. You can see my handwriting completely changed for this trip. I've got stickers. I've got this omega access card because it was such a highlight that day, which was really fun. So this is the idea and this is what I have found that I liked the most because it is such a scrap situation. You've got ticket stubs and you can do this with anything. You don't have to have an official like specific to what you're doing travel journal because you can write this in a bullet journal, anything like that. I just really loved this one. I love the way that when it closes, it's just like this. It's just a nice memory piece to carry around. And then I'll pull out the newer version just so that you can see it. This is actually the pack that I end up bringing with me. And this is the size that it is and the stuff that I have in it. I make sure that everything will fit, which means that I'm limited to supplies and I know a lot of people who bring a lot more than that, but I I'm not that person. So this one is very similar, but the information like the date and accommodations stretch on a thinner part of the pages and then you can add your little doodles. I like to choose two colors or three colors to represent a trip as a whole, just because I think it looks nice, but you definitely don't have to do that. So just little memories. This is a tear out from a pamphlets? Yeah. Just little little experiences, little memories. This was from another tear out from a pamphlet. So basically this has become my favorite way to capture memories, doing it this way, having this spread, having these notes, having these little pictures that really take me back to those moments and having accompanying bullet points and whatnot. So I love this. We're going to get into how you might set this up, how to think about a layout or lack of layout and how you start because I know blank paper is really intimidating, but I wanted to walk you through all of those different versions so that you have permission to know, hey, whatever I have laying around, Cool, Hey, if I prefer a bullet journal, cool. It doesn't matter what you use. It just matters that you are keeping, keeping these memories in a way that you're really going to connect with them. Because how many pictures do we take of things that we never look at again? Or they just sit there and they're not some that we highlight. And so that's where this really makes it a fun experience. 4. Printing Photos On The Go - Option 1: When I was recently in London, I saw this view from our Airbnb and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to take some footage to walk you through how I print on location with my in-stock sprinter. It's not something that I see walked through too often, so I just want you to know how easy it is. So first step, you take your picture, then you will turn on your end stocks printer. You want to make sure that you have the right software because there are a couple of different ones depending on the printer that you have. So you'll open that software and then you can select which picture you want. So you'll go to your gallery. It will pull up all of your photos and then you can select the image is that you want to print. And then you can see you can pinch with your fingers to zoom and move and scale. This also shows you at the top, your remaining film and the battery of your printer, which is very helpful. And then after you press Print, you'll see that your in-stock sprinter is responsive, prints your image on the spot and then you'll just wait a moment for it to develop. And then you will have your beautiful photo ready to go in your travel journal to keep that memory. 5. Printing Photos - Option 2: Okay, future Peggy is popping in because while I created this class with the end stacks printer, I also wanted to introduce the Polaroid because it's new to me. And I also like this one a lot. And I wish that I could say I have a favorite, but I think it just depends on the aesthetic that you are going for. The in-stock sprinters do have that kind of retro vintage feel. I don't know, I love that part of it, but then this new Polaroid, it is super, super new, but it's new to me. It prints in really vibrant color. So I'm going to walk you through how this one works also so that you have a clear idea. And I would say that these two are my favorites. So Polaroid has its own app for this, also, where you will pull up the photo that you want and then just simply press print as the stacks work, so very basic. And then from there it will load that up. And it goes through these three cycles where it will print cyan and magenta and yellow, and then it puts a protective coat on it. And it lets you watch the full process on your phone, on the app. And while that's happening, I'll also show you what's happening with the printer. Real quick. You do have editing options that are real basic, just like you do with the other printer. So if you did want to do that in the app, you can, I typically just do this before I even start printing it. But now we are going through the color passes and this is what you see on the phone and then this is what you see. I will say that while this is a longer process, it's still interesting and fun to watch it happen because you get to see the color being added. And if you're a color nerd like I am, it just makes it a little bit more fun. So basically the difference is that Polaroid, the high print, this, this printer uses dye sublimation technology. And then the stacks uses zinc, which is a zero ink, one pass printing. But this is how your picture is going to come out, so it's very crisp and true to color. Whereas the end stacks printer will have more of that retro feel to it. So I personally like to use both of them because I get two. Play with aesthetic more. So I say go for whatever you liked the most. And these aren't the only options, but it does make it fun. And then as a bonus, the Polaroid film is sticker also, so you can peel that off and stick it to something. 6. Layouts for Your Journal: Alright, so now I wanna go over some fun lettering techniques. If you want to do a header of some kind, that's what we're going to start with. You can't really see it here, but I've written out the word adventure in pencil super lightly. I don't want it to come through and bleed underneath my light color that I'm using here with my brush pen. But I did want to have it be legible enough tomorrows going, but I have a trick for doing this, and I always like to count the amount of letters that I use. So adventure is ADV and T, U, R, E. So nine letters and the middle of that word would make it letting letter number five, which would be n. And so it helps me because that's where I can center it on my page. And the reason that I use pencil first is because it lets me know, okay, This is the width that I'm going to need to do everything in order to make it stretch the whole way. Or this is the spacing I need to have in-between letters and what have you. And it's a really great trick that's helped me for a long, long time. So hopefully you can take that one and put it in your pocket. But from here, I start in the middle and then I start to further stretch out on either side. And once I've laid my word down, that's when I can start erasing any marks that I see that are really stand out. And then I can continue on or leave it as is. But you can always add effects to these letters like drop shadows. For this one, I'm going to add adventure awaits and so awaits has six letters. And if I was to sandwich that in-between adventure, I'm going to create enough slots for six and then figure out where if I want this to stretch, also, where it should lie within adventure. And so it's just a little bit of math. And then I can mark off the places that those letters should go. And obviously this doesn't have to be perfect. But if you like having a guide, that helps a lot. And so from here, I can just reference it loosely and place the a kind of underneath the D. And the trick that I use to make sure that these are even is, see where the next letter is going to go. And then my exit stroke, which is basically the end tail of the a, and then this tail of the W right here. Those are my spacing. So I'm not making the letters super wide. I'm just changing the spacing so that it all connects to approximately the right spot. It doesn't have to be perfect. And that kinda makes it have that nice stretch, which I think is really fun and playful. And then I'll add these longer tails on each side. So that's an easy header. And then we can go from there and get into kind of like a layout plan. This isn't always what I do, but let's say you're not sure what photos you want to use yet. So I'm just going to place the approximate size of one of these and you can use any dummy film or another picture that you have and just kinda mark off some areas. So let's say you want to write notes already. That's when this comes in handy because then you can at least preserve some spaces to include photos. Maybe you don't have your printer on you and you know that you want a certain amount of photos on a spread, this is going to help with that. So basically, as I'm moving these around and seeing, okay, this might be a good spot for this or I like how this is laying out. Whatever it's loose ish, but then I can just create these squares where these are going to lie and don't be afraid to overlap. Also, that can be really fun to have these overlapping photos. So you can see right here it would overlap. And then we can look at different ideas on linework or line spacing. But this also adds a lot of interests just doing like thick line dividers are dashed dividers. But you can also use those thick lines from your brush pen as basically little boxes to write inside of. So I might write down my location where I'm visiting, the temperature. And just like key elements to include before I start writing notes. And that just kinda adds its own divider, a block, if you will, which is just easier on the eyes to read as you're navigating through your journal. But now let's take a look at putting your photos in and positioning and then drawing around them. You could do this with or without, but let's just assume your pictures are ready. So you can lay them down with adhesive, of course, but you could also get creative and use some washi tape and then find whatever information that you want. Around it basically, that might look like details of all the fun things, maybe some funny inside jokes or highlights that happened that you don't want to forget. This is a great place to write them because it's easy to look at like, oh, this is the big stuff that happened, but it's less. You want to be able to remember the little things too. So that's one of the things I love about traveling. And then you can add those in, in-between your notes. You can do some mark-making just like those broad strokes that we did. But you could also just use the side of a brush pen and create a box with little marks. I do this a lot. I use just basic broad strokes, but then you can also use little marks that add interests. And then you can do like additional section where you maybe put down something that kept coming up during your trip that was really special or hilarious or anything like that. And then you can always find different areas. But then of course you don't have to fill this all with nodes. Either you can fill it with ticket stubs or any sort of memorabilia that was relevant that you actually have those tangible. And then let's say I added these notes in or their stickers or whatever and there's a gap. You can highlight something by just calling it out. Let's say this was a particular place. Well, I'm going to write this section divider down and maybe that's actually the place that I went. So maybe it's like Tahoe or something and that's my section divider. So you can use words as a section divider. That's like in a different color or a larger tip pen. Okay, so let's keep moving. I'm going to pretend this as a new photo now. And let's say this one. I use just the adhesive. I don't have washy and you can see that I've separated and made a little frame where these photos would go. And I'm just doing that with dots, just colorful dots, which also is just as fun. So after that, then I can write my notes in here. Or let's say now I want to do if you're a letterer or if you do calligraphy at all, or any special writing, you could do block lettering, anything that you want to just kind of add some interests. So I might call something out in calligraphy and then write smaller underneath it with more details. You can use different colored pens for this too. I find that every single layout that I do is always different. I don't really have consistency, but some of you might like consistency, which by all means do it, it's fine either way. Then you can add some doodles. So let's say it was super sunny or I went somewhere really sunny, Maybe it was summer. And then I can do a splash down here where it's like kinda like a water splash. Maybe. Below here. This photo is something that was really a funny experience and I can just call that out and pretty lettering. So basically, you see how this is coming together and it's pretty effortless. I didn't do a whole lot, I didn't plan out anything. It was just kind of like an organic experience. And that is what I want you to experience too. I want this to be really fun and just kinda flowy. And then, you know what if you hate the, the layout which does happen? Just give yourself a break. Keep going, and then look at it later. I mean, really it's impossible to love everything. So to let yourself go on a journey of fun, doodle, capture your memories. But most of all, just let it happen. 7. Section Dividers: When it comes to our page setup, dividers are great to have because we can concentrate certain areas on the page so that our eyes don't get confused with everything that might be going on. So we're gonna go over just a page of options that you can use to create separators in your layouts. The first divider is pretty simple, but really does the trick. It is these side slashes, they can be forward, they can be backslashes. You've probably noticed this video sped up a little bit and that is because I don't think that you want to watch me drawing lines so for so long. But I am wanting to give you these beautiful swatches. So the second divider is simple circles, and these can be broader or smaller. I love doing little dots for borders, boxes, etc. The next one are these small little triangles which can be upside down or right side up, but they make for some added interests and little doodles. You can take that point and simplify it by doing just a line that is zigzag. And then you can get real simple again and just suit do some dashes. Sometimes I like to do these really close together where there's two lines of dashes for borders and whatnot. And then this one kind of always reminds me of a little bird feet. And I love doing them just because it's like a little burst, if you will, to emphasize corners or doing a full separator. And then you can do the same thing we did with triangles where their little boxes are little squares. Obviously these work great for checklists, but also if they're small enough, they weren't good for borders or tech separation. And I ran out of room here. But you can do something fancy where they have little arches, little dots at the ends of them. It's like little flourish lines. And keeping wavy lines in there, you can always do a border. And for fun, z is I'm going to add this divider that I did at first only on a straight line. And these are essentially just little points at the bottom where they come straight down and then make an inverted V and then come right back up and then you fill those in. They can be a lot larger than this, but for the sake of those, I just wanted to smush them in here as a line. For those of us who love florals of all kinds, which I think I can speak for a lot of us. You can always add these little leaves where they are just little curves, little arches that come off of a single line. And they work great as dividers because they're nice and thick, but still kinda elegant. They can also be pretty playful. You can carry that kinda leaf shape into just a basic shape and sit it on its side. Or it could be straight up and down. But these little shapes that are hollow, you can fill them in. But when they're hollow, they do make for really interesting. And simplifying again, we've got our x's. I'm always a fan of doing x's. I think that they are fun and kinda edgy and not just with edges, but when you turn any shape on its side and shorten a line like these little like they could be plus signs or crosses or what have you. It totally changes the vibe to change proportions angle. This one is one of my favorites. It's just straight up and down lines but small and then longer and then shorter and then longer and then shorter and then longer end. I think it's fun because it just adds all that texture that I love to see inside of my notebooks. And then speaking of changing proportions, if you do little dots or circles, you can do a combination of both. Then there's always the classic wave, which is a fun separation for anytime that you are at the ocean or the coast or vacation. Another favorite of mine as an imperfect line that has thick and thin areas. I think that it just adds so much character. So don't be afraid to be imperfect in these things. So I hope this fired some ideas for you guys and I will see you shortly. 8. Layers on Layers: Alright, so this looks like a hot mess and I realize that. But this is an opportunity for you to get creative with the items that you get when you're traveling. So this is just a I mean, it's wrinkly. It's got a writhe in it. But this was tissue paper that came with something that I purchased as was this. And I just think that it will make beautiful layering. This was a piece of the bag and then I've got some ribbon and then some twine as well. And then I grabbed these stickers because I thought they were just so cute. So how could I not? I'm going to show you how I would build this up to create a background or even aside, embellishment to notes and two photos and whatnot. So very, very simple. And I just want you to know that you can work with what you have which can be scrapped. So it's even got oil on it. Who knows? So you can cut this or you can tear it. And I'm really fond of the torn edges. I think they are just lovely. I also like it when there's a wrinkly texture so I can tear it like so. I can also, if I pulled toward myself, what this does is it creates kind of a more like a thinner edge so that there's a lot more fibers showing from the paper. I could also put it against a straight edge or a ruler to fall into a straight line. It would just make it so that it still has that torn of that. But you get it started here. It's going to be a lot smoother. I did that way too fast and it did not go in a straight line. But as, you know, maybe ruler terrorists and my forte. Alright, so I've got this piece now. Is it perfect? No, Do I want it to me? I could, I could make it a perfect rectangle, or I could just see what happens if you do this type of embellishment. Yes, you can plan out your layout, but I want to encourage you just to dive in your very first part and just lay it down and trust the process and see what happens. Because it can be so fun so that I'm committed to there's no turning back. Alright, so the next layer I'm gonna do is this tissue paper and I'm going to bring it out a little bit. So since this is already torn right here, I'll just tear this part off and then continue on. Just the main areas. I will put adhesive to the out. Oops. Be careful with tissue paper, the outline area or outer edges rather than the very center, just to keep that down, if it helps to do glue drops or however you wanna do that, it's fine. And I'll put this kinda toward the top, but spilling out off of that background. And now I will use this black. Since I like tearing stuff so much, I'm going to have this also be torn and then maybe I'll keep that straight edge here and that would be good. So again, be careful with tissue. I'm just doing enough to make it stick. Mod podge is fun for this too, if you want to get really into making sure everything is super flat. But basically that's the gist of it. And then what I can do from there is take the photo that I want to use and plot for that down, like so. And then I've got this really interesting layered effect. I could even put it down here and have more of that showing maybe some embellishments. So I'll take I'm not going to glue this. Oh, yes, I am. Yes, I am. Because I told you to go with the process, so I am going to do it and commit. So where do I want this here, here, here. Let's just go with a drop a little bit. Right here, it looks good. Then I'll take this Twine and this ribbon and do something with that. So I can cut this. And I don't know how much I really want to cut. So maybe just a small amount. They can see kind of what can happen here. Maybe I'll make that a little bit shorter and just have it be small little section. I'll put that down. So let's see. Maybe on the edge who I like that because it can be off the edge. I like putting it against the dark because you can see the raw edge of the ribbon who I like it right here. Actually. I have some of it on the dark background and you can see that right edge and I just think it has such a beautiful quality. And then lastly, I have this Twine and I could see if I could do something with it. It's not going to stick to well with this adhesive. But what I could do actually, it's cut it, lift this image up, and just kinda put it behind. And then. Put some adhesive to put that down here, and then I have that twine. And if you want to free the edges a little bit, that could be really fun. So this takes us into that scrapbooking world a little bit. But look at how much interests it adds. And then I can put my notes here. And something that is a very interesting type of photo down that rabbit hole. This is, I think it's the cosmopolitan in Vegas, but every time that I go, there's a restaurant that's called eg slit. It's so good. I think it's like brioche buns that they use or something, but oh my gosh, I just love it. So the sign is right outside of there because they have this little Alice in Wonderland theme which brings me to these mushrooms stickers. So I'm going to open these up and see what we've got and see what might be fun to add in here. Lots of really fun and interesting ones. So this one's kind of fun and different. I wouldn't think to add green into it since I have this pink thing that I like, how that makes it stand out, I don't know if these are stickers. They might just be either way. I've got adhesive. Let's see. Oh, that one's pretty so I'll do this one. Then I can just tuck it maybe right here. I love how it looks. A little bit faded. Blue. I'll have some tucked behind and then have it reach out like that. Then I might add one more smaller one like this guy, maybe too much. I liked the understated. So see how I'm just kinda going with the process and seeing how I can really bring this more interests. I think I actually like it just as is. I don't think Oh, wait, wait, wait, this one's good. Yeah, that one's good. I just didn't want to do too too much. I think I'll go layer over the Twine two. So I can position that the way I want it. And then just lay this over and then laying it over has that effect where it looks even more layered. So, okay, so now is when I can write any notes, this is where it gets kinda gone because I can have like an inside joke or I know this is outside of eggs slot, which wouldn't necessarily make sense at first glance for anybody else. But I can say God and love, ****. And maybe that's all that I write right here. And then I have a divider and then continue on with the rest of what I wanna do. So just a fun way to make this a little bit more elevated, maybe more scrap bookie, maybe more. It just gives a different vibe than having it be playful. So another option that is very beautiful and I'm a big fan of. 9. Quick Tip: Fix Mistakes: This is a bonus because I want to show you how you can fix mistakes. I'm actually using this journal for some swatches just because this is like more of a mixed journal for me. So it's not like my designated travel journal. Hence using as an example for this one, but I made a mistake and it's not a big deal. I usually go with it, but I messed the spacing up a few places and while I don't care about that, I did grab the wrong color. This isn't a big deal. It has nothing to do with what we're learning, but I do want to show you how you can fix this mistake. So if I was doing a travel journal and I made a boo-boo, I wouldn't really care that much, but if it bothers you and if your aesthetic is really beautiful, you can use these. This is adhesive, but they have whiteout like this as well. So I could go over that and then continue or rather than tear this page out, let's say the back of the page. You've already done like all this beautiful documentation. You can just glue these two pages together. So all you need to do is go along the border. This is a trick that I learned from my friend Angie of Bobo design studio. And I just thought, gosh, why didn't I think of that sooner? And I I swear by it. So I just go along the edges. I hit two spots in the middle. I guess I didn't even need to go on that one, but this will make sure it's extra stuck. And then I just fold it over and press down and then you can see, no problem. So if you have something that is like you can't go back from, that is a way instead of tearing the page out. 10. Your Class Project: Having a space to isolate these moments has been incredibly rewarding to my own travel process. And these journals have become some of my most treasured possessions. Remembering things that might have otherwise been forgotten, reflecting on moments with someone who I may have traveled with, reminiscing about the never-ending landscapes and wildlife and architecture. And the list goes on. Your project for this class is to look through your photos and choose an experience that you recently had, whether far away or close to home. Instead of grabbing the most obvious photo choices, take some time to select a few images that dig a little deeper and highlight some unique experiences. With those images in mind, create a spread in your travel journal and document your memories. Be sure to upload your final results also add notes about your process along with your favorite memory from that experience. I can't wait to hear all about your adventures. Remember, we're not striving for perfection here. We are all about that organic process, which is what makes it so imperfectly perfect. And that alone is eye candy.