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.
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I printed out these labels on transparency to use in my album:
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Also available as digital files:
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Recent Comments

John Tanner
John Tanner Sat, 09/19/2020 - 05:27

Very cool. Real creative work.

Dani Janzen
Dani Janzen Thu, 04/30/2020 - 11:10

So cool! Love the llamas :)

Stephanie Elaine
Stephanie Elaine Sun, 12/22/2019 - 01:45

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!

Lynde Young
Lynde Young Fri, 12/20/2019 - 19:19

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.

Charlene Warwick
Charlene Warwick Fri, 12/20/2019 - 10:58

So Inspiring, thank you!

Joolse Mcarthur
Joolse Mcarthur Thu, 12/19/2019 - 13:14

I love the TN books I make my own thanks for sharing your layouts

Bourico Casper
Bourico Casper Thu, 12/19/2019 - 08:52

wow! Marisa! Fantastic book! I love the pages.

Cassie Reed
Cassie Reed Tue, 07/10/2018 - 22:55

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

Shawna Adkerson
Shawna Adkerson Fri, 06/29/2018 - 23:32

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!

Marcy Coate
Marcy Coate Thu, 06/28/2018 - 05:14

PS: I mean, more inspired to do printables for TN's and JJ's (as opposed to designing for digiscrap).

Marcy Coate
Marcy Coate Thu, 06/28/2018 - 05:13

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.

Anyang Mendoza
Anyang Mendoza Wed, 06/27/2018 - 11:20

Beautiful pages!

Maude Landan
Maude Landan Wed, 06/27/2018 - 07:51

Fantastic book! I love the pages.

Deb Andrew
Deb Andrew Wed, 06/27/2018 - 06:50

I like the smaller sizes as they are easier to handle and store. Great idea.

Erin Taylor
Erin Taylor Wed, 06/27/2018 - 06:21

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.

Mon Kinnane
Mon Kinnane Wed, 06/27/2018 - 05:36

What a great idea.

Sonya Stover
Sonya Stover Wed, 06/27/2018 - 03:41

That's so cool!