Scrapbook on the Road: Travel Album

By Tania Willis

Supplies: ESC – 122 12x12 Deco Edge Cardstock ESC – 133 6x6 Deco Edge Cardstock ESC – 135 Fav. Pieces Cardstock Stickers ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Cardstock Stickers ESC – 160 Vellum Tape Stickers ESC – 168 Chipboard Spinner ESC – 195 Dimensional Stickers ESC – 220 Fabric Favorites ESC – 221 Wood Tags ESC – 222 Felt Stickers ESC – 230 Clear Cuts Shapes ESC – 279 Chipboard Shapes

ESC – 303 Mini Flag Kit ESC – 304 6x6 Paper Pad ESC – 1100 Tear-out Tickets LYB – 107 Canvas Album Turquoise Mist Adhesive/Glue dots ¼” Hand-Held Circle Punch Paper Trimmer Border Punch (3) envelopes (size A2) (3) 12x12 coordinating colors of cardstock

Instructions: Prepping the Album Cover: 1. Remove canvas covered chipboard covers from LYB – 107 Canvas Covered Chipboard Album packaging and place into a shallow box or on a surface protector with newspapers. 2. Mist both covers with layer turquoise mist and allow drying. Once dry, you’ll notice the color softens because it soaks into the canvas. Repeat the mist & dry process until you are happy with the color saturation. Prepping the Album Innards: (NOTE: While the mist is in the drying process, you can work on building the inside pieces of your album.) 3. Remove all papers from ESC – 304 6x6 Paper Pad. 4. Go through the stack and flip at least one paper of the duplicate prints over before continuing to add a bit more interest to your overall album. Just make sure when flipping that you don’t also rotate your paper 180 degrees because that will result in some patterns being upside down for the next step. 5. Choose 3 colors of 12x12 cardstock that coordinate (I used a light teal, mustard yellow and kraft) and cut them into 6x6 pieces using your paper trimmer. Add them randomly into the stack of patterned papers taken from the paper pad. 5. Remove one of the chipboard insert pages from LYB – 107 to use as a template guideline for punching holes in your stack of papers from ESC – 304 and cardstock. You should be able to punch through 4 papers at a time without much hand strain. 6. Using your paper trimmer, lay ESC – 122 12x12 Deco Edge Cardstock in your trimmer so that the outside edge of the white border is on the 6” marking and cut in half. 7. The piece with no banners printed on it in will become a pocket. Fold it in half, carefully matching up the die-cut edge. 8. Place adhesive (I used mini glue dots on each postage-stamp edge) around the decorative edge and close to the fold, but DO NOT PUT ADHESIVE along the straight edge. 9. Place the folded edge of the pocket page over a chipboard album insert page and use your hand-held punch to create holes. 10. Cut the remaining half of the ESC – 122 12x12 Deco Edge cardstock in half. Punch holes using the chipboard insert page as a guideline and insert punched pages randomly into stack of papers. Embellishing the Decorative Edge Cardstock Pages: 11. Before continuing, remove the papers from ESC – 133 6x6 Decorative Edge Cardstock and line each of them up carefully with the chipboard insert page from the album and punch holes---with the EXCEPTION OF the light turquoise page with the triangular

notch. Because of the shape of some of them, you will only get 1 or 2 holes punched, not all 3.

12. Embellish pocket page with a pleated grey chevron from ESC – 160 Vellum Tape Stickers, phrase stickers from ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Stickers, sunshine from ESC – 230 Clear Cut Shapes and the grey cloud from ESC – 222 Felt Stickers.

13. Embellish the square deco-edge page by first cutting the yellow chevron print on the ESC – 133 6x6 Deco Edge Cardstock packaging down to 4 ½” W x 5 ½” H with the chevron running horizontally. 14. Adhere the chevron packaging to the deco-edge city print paper leaving the skyline visible at the top. Then, pleat the green printed ESC – 160 Vellum Tape Sticker to embellish the lower edge. Add red phrase sticker from ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Stickers at the seam between packaging cardstock and the cityscape. Embellish further with the house, bus, ‘go’, cloud and sunshine pieces from ESC – 279 Chipboard Shapes.

15. Embellish the cloverleaf shape with the suitcase layered over the yellow banner, both from ESC – 279 Chipboard Shapes. Add “explore” sticker from ESC – Fresh Verse Stickers.

16. Embellish the scalloped circle page with a simple ‘wish you were here’ banner sticker from ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Stickers.

16. To create another pocket page, find a light blue page in your stack of papers and place a strip of adhesive along the right, left and bottom edges starting approximately 1 ½” from the top. Adhere the light turquoise deco edge page from ESC – 133 6x6 Deco Edge Cardstock to it approximately 1 ¼” from the top. Trim off overhang of the deco edge cardstock along bottom edge. 17. Embellish the page with a ticket from ESC – 1100 Tear out Ticket Book, with a ‘getaway’ sticker layered on top from ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Stickers. Further embellish with the camera sticker from ESC – 195 Dimensional Stickers. Tuck a few of the tickets from ESC – 1100 Tear Out Tickets into the pocket.

Finishing the album: 18. Insert a couple envelopes (or 3 or 4) into your album and embellish with a ticket from ESC – 1100 Tear Out Tickets or with a sticker or two. Use the chipboard insert page as a template to punch the holes. You can hold the envelope flap closed with a paper clip.

19. Here’s another envelope page. Attach the ticket from ESC – 1100 Tear Out Tickets to the flap so that it overhangs the flap slightly, then embellish with a tree from ESC – 279 Chipboard Shapes.

20. Take your favorite border punch to the edges of some of the patterned papers and cardstock pages throughout the album to add some interest. 21. Put your album together using the binder rings in the LYB – 107 Canvas Covered Album packaging. Open the rings and place the back cover on first, then your pages/envelopes, then your front cover.

22. Embellish the front cover with the ‘off we go’ sticker from ESC – 220 Fabric Favorites at the bottom edge and the ‘are we there yet’ from the same package at the top. Add the chipboard vehicle/camper from ESC – 279 Chipboard Shapes and finish it off with a little confetti (leftover from punching all the pages) and a felt cloud from ESC – 222 Felt Stickers.

23. Embellish the back cover with the phrase stickers from ESC – 140 Fresh Verse Stickers and the traveling bird from ESC – 230 Clear Cut Shapes. 24. Finally, finish the inside of the album off by taking the remaining embellishments and filling in the blank spaces with a sticker or two on each page to add a little more character to the album.