In May I took a trip with my parents and brother to Germany last month and I’m working on documenting our trip using My Digital Studio. I kept notes in a journal, and kept brochures and tickets, etc from the trip. I started working on it while I was on the trip but didn’t get anywhere close to what I thought done. Partially because some days I was tired and ready for bed when I got back in the evening and partially because we did so much! I thought I would share some of the pages with you this week.
I decided to use one of the Stampin’ Up! Digital Templates for this book – and since I knew I would have lots of pictures I choose one that used lots of pictures on each page – The Best Year Photobook Template. The template is set up to have a two page spread for each month of the year. It looks like this –
Mine is a layout for each day/activity – this first layout is from our journey over the ocean – our flights – from Atlanta to Amsterdam and then on to Berlin – and our arrival.
This is the left page and I kept the layout pretty much the same – but I changed the top left section to reflect our trip rather than the month of the year. The strip at the bottom has the exact date and in the top corner – I was adding modes of transportation that we took that day. On some I changed the paper fill in the punch.
For the right page I changed a few of the decorative pages to photo boxes. In most cases I removed any embellishments that were over-layed on the photo boxes.
The trip there was long and I didn’t get much sleep on the flight and basically at the time we were arriving was the time I would have been going to bed at home. So I was a very tired traveler once we arrived.
I hope you can see how the templates are flexible and you don’t need to use the as they were designed. In fact – the original template is actually a 12″ x 12″ photobook and I converted it to an 8″ x 8″ book for my project. I’ll be printing 4 of them when I’m done. One for my parents, one for my brother, one for my Uncle, and one for myself.
Thanks for stopping by today.