Hybrid Spotlight: Countries Visited Travelers Notebook
I know most of you here are digital scrapbookers, so you may or may not be aware of the trend in paper scrapbooking towards Travelers Notebooks. This is a specific size of notebook, each page is 11cm x 21cm (about 4x8 inches). For me the appeal of using these notebooks is first just having a different size canvas to work with. After many years of scrapbooking I'm pretty burned out on the 12x12 size. It will be a long time before I make a paper layout in those dimensions again. Also, the smaller size makes it seem less intimidating, and like pocket pages for me, it feels like a better home for snapshots than a larger canvas.
Anyway, I've got a bunch of notebooks going at the moment, but I've finished (for the moment) this first one I started, which I used to document all the countries I've visited, using one page per country. It's a super fun way to look back at all the places I've been.
You can see photos of all the pages here.
I printed out these labels on transparency to use in my album:
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Hi There! I’m Marisa Lerin and you’ll see me around at DigitalScrapbook.com a lot. I started this site in 2010 soon after I discovered a new love in digital scrapbooking. DigitalScrapbook.com has gone through some significant changes since that time and it’s grown into this lovely community site you are seeing now. I am daily surprised by the turn of life’s events that has led me down this path. If you're new to the site, welcome! Here are a few tidbits about me that I hope will help you get to know me better!
I’m originally from Minnesota, USA, but spent a good chunk of my childhood living abroad (in Bolivia and Hong Kong). I returned to Minnesota to attend university, got married and then moved overseas again (Korea, then Jordan and 1 year of traveling). My designs are heavily influenced by these many nomadic years. I am currently back in the USA, now living in the great state of Oregon!
I have no official training for what I’m doing, since I decided very wisely (haha) to study physics in university. I am always learning new things about digital scrapbooking, and this community has been immensely helpful for that!
If I manage to stop digital scrapbooking you will probably find me watching TV, reading or baking. I also enjoy writing for the blog here at DigitalScrapbook.com where I talk about whatever happens to be catching my fancy at the moment.
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Recent Comments
Very cool. Real creative work.
So cool! Love the llamas :)
Love it Marisa! I started with digital scrapping... then stumbled across junk journaling on YT and went on a year long obsession with thrifting and collecting for papercrafting. Love the TN size. I've only gotten one actual 12x12 book of digital scrap pages printed and it just felt waaay too big for me. I am going to try 8x8 for prints, but lately I am just finding myself more inclined to do journal making so I love that you always make print kits to go along with the digital kits now! Thanks so much! Happy Holidays!
The lines between scrapbooking, journaling, and bookmaking are disappearing. Scrapbooking is not just cute simple 12x12 pages of paper and glue. Journaling is not just diary writing. Making a handmade book or repurposing an existing book (i.e. junk journal) as containers for a more personal matrix than a simple photo album is now an integral part of the art of storytelling that is scrapbooking.
So Inspiring, thank you!
I love the TN books I make my own thanks for sharing your layouts
wow! Marisa! Fantastic book! I love the pages.
Just started a TN to scrap. The size is much more manageable and it gives me an easy way to document little things while helping to use up the abundant supplies I have accumulated.
Your LOs are great Marisa. Thanks for the inspiration
Love this post Marisa! Thanks for sharing and for the ideas. I am trying really hard the last month or two to do something similar but I always forget about the fact that I can use/do printables. Seems like such a 'duh moment to not realize I can "customize" it to exactly what I need!
PS: I mean, more inspired to do printables for TN's and JJ's (as opposed to designing for digiscrap).
I hear you about "burn out" on 12x12 size. I love watching YouTube videos on TN's and junk journals. I've started designing printables for JJ's and other paper crafts, too. I'm more inspired by these, somehow.
Beautiful pages!
Fantastic book! I love the pages.
I like the smaller sizes as they are easier to handle and store. Great idea.
I'm not much of a traveler but my husband bought me an HP Sprocket for Christmas....and I still have yet to use it! :/ I've been thinking of getting a travelers notebook to make a journal of sorts in it. I just don't have any idea for a theme and I'd rather it not be just random. So... thats why I haven't started it yet. Ugh.
What a great idea.
That's so cool!