Travel Book | Lauren's Epic 6 Week European Vacation

Warning ... wordy post alert! Ha!! :)

I'm super excited! I sent a pretty massive (134 page) travel book off to print at Blurb last night. My daughter had a 6 week travel adventure in Europe this past summer and I promised to make her (and me) a book of her travels. I thought I'd share a couple random pages with you.

My husband and I traveled with her for 12 days of her trip and fortunately I'd already created a book for those days so for this book I made add on pages (86 to be exact) for the weeks before and after our time together. She didn't want me to add journaling to her pages because she wants to simply remember her experiences via photos. She did keep an extensive travel journal so I scanned her travel journal and added all those pages to the end of the book. (I thought that was a pretty good idea!) I'm psyched about the way the book turned out!

FYI, this is MY book for her trip. I just printed one book so I can proof it and see if anything needs to be tweaked. Once I (we) decide we're done proofing and made any tweaks I can reword the title pages (she doesn't want a book called "Lauren's Epic 6 Week European Vacation" - HA!) and send it off to print again. I can't wait to get the book in hand!

Connections Around the Globe

With windchills at -51 degrees standing outside and waiting for a bus to go to work was not a safe idea. Guess what it is a good day for? Sitting by the fire and scrapping!

Credits:

Scrapping with Liz: Around the World Templates

Katie Pertiet Designs: Taped Together Stacks December No. 1; Simple Spots No. 3, Catana; Adventuring; In the Post No. 2

Pink Reptile Designs: You've Got Mail

Karla Noel Designs: Bestie

Paislee Press: Photobooth

Glitz Girls Designs: Happy Trails

Us. Together | Brugges, Belgium

Credits:

Studio DD Layer Works No. 937

Wake up with determination | Go to sleep with Satisfaction

Karla Noél Design​ and designs by anita​: Audacity Collection

Karla Noél Design: The Sticks font

2018 Family Vacation Album (Europe: France, Belgium & The Netherlands)

We moved Lauren off to college last week and I've been trying to be productive and busy. I've been organizing the house and I've also been busy creating and designing an album for our trip to Europe this summer (we got back 3 weeks ago). The next step is sending it off to print at Blurb Books.

Guess what ... even though I've been busy I still find time to miss Lauren! She's doing great and is keeping in contact with us so it's all good! I'm super happy for her at college!

NOTES: 

I'm still thinking about how I want to design the front and back cover, but I've got the "guts" of the book done, proofed (hopefully; I always manage to miss something) and ready to share! 

I keep my vacation albums pretty simple. Photos, words and a white background. Something, in my mind, like a coffee table book. It helps me keep the focus on the pictures, words and memories. I save all my digital embellishing for my annual family albums. TFL!