Some additional Travel pages

I will occasionally share some additional Spain vacation albums on the blog.  My album will be a mix of kits - but in general will be on the more masculine end of the scale since I have lots of building pictures and my sons don't enjoy lots of flowers...Publishing keeps me accountable and I love to share the great experience we had!

Just Jaimee's Bryce Storyteller Collection - Pre Made pages Ready-To-Go-12-x-12-Pocket-Page-Templates-Weeks-10-14-Storyteller-Bryce-Add-On.html

Detail of right page

Using Just Jaimee's Bryce Storyteller Collection - Quick Pockets & Frames from The Lilypad Quick Pockets & Frames from The Lilypad

European Vacation Album and FINISH in action!

Just Jaimee Hunter Ready to Go templates at The Lilypad

So as we talked in a previous blog post setting goals is definitely a way to motivate some or overwhelm others… luckily I am in the former camp.  I have some pretty big goals and big scrapping  goals for this year - a few of which I will share here with you on the blog.

First - I want to document my fabulous trip to Spain that I was able to take with my family over the Christmas holidays - we had planned for this for over a year.  I want to document this journey while it's still fresh in my mind and I can add in all the details that get lost in my albums when I finish projects months or years (usually years) after the events have happened!  I am using a combination of Pocket Page protectors (Traci Reed Stitched Grids - Sweet Shoppe Designs) and Just Jaimee Storytellers products.  I am guest posting in March - and I cannot wait for everyone to see all the great products that Jaimee has lined up!!! I love Just Jaimee's Storyteller products - they are so incredibly versatile.  There are tons of patterned & solid papers, 2 templates, 2 pocket templates, a million elements, pocket cards (all sizes, journaling and filler cards) and even cut files, alphas…I could just go on!  Can you tell I'm in love?? Jaimee's design style fits so many different design sensibilities - I have loved every Storyteller kit and it helps me push myself in different directions.   She has just started a subscription at The Lilypad which offers the whole kit for a great price Just Jaimee Storyteller Subscription.  I also love all the add on's for every month like planner pages and pre-designed templates with all the elements placed for amazingly quick and fun pages.

Here are a few more examples of the pages I've completed to date:

Spain Album cover
Just Jaimee Storytellers Collection - Hunter

New Years Eve
Just Jaimee- Storytellers Hunter Collection - Pre-designed pages Hunter collection.  
Aren't these amazing?

I will focus on the two facing pages matching, but not worry about using different kits throughout the album.  I have a few selected kits in a folder with shortcuts in a folder on my PC, that way I don't have to continuously look in my stash to find the kits I want to use.

Here is the screen shot of @Spain folder - inserting the symbol keeps it at the top of the feed.  I can add to the shortcuts as I find more kits that I want to use or that I buy...

I'll be posting additional pages as I complete them for my album.

Embellishing Becky Higgins PL App pages

Last time I talked about how I was using Just Jaimee's Storytellers Kit for working on my Spain vacation album.  Now I will share I also use Becky Higgins Project Life app pages and how I embellish to get 75% of my page done on the go.

First up here is the page exported directly from the app to document some of our transportation modes and the apps that helped me get through our trip since I am the primary trip planner.

I could have added a a journal card instead of the filler card and been good to go but since this trip is once in a life time I wanted to add a bit more to make it "fancier". I like the look of stitching on my pages so that I can add a little depth to the background.  There are many great options - my favorite are Traci Reed's Stitched Grids from Sweetshoppe Designs is a great option.

Here it is with the grid and a great travel alpha

Finally a couple of small embellishments and text - and done! I love that there are so many options with digi scrapping - super fancy or very simple with a lot in between.

Final version with some text added and a few simple elements - from Just Jaimee's Quinn Storyteller's Collection.
Simple but effective.