Oscraps

Art journaling can take many different forms. One way that many scrappers are enjoying is the Travel Journal. A Travel Journal is a type of personal diary that you record your thoughts, feelings, and experiences during your travels. It serves as a visual and written account of your adventures, providing you with a keepsake that you can cherish for years to come. If you are like me, forgetting the details of the trips I take happens really quickly. I have so many keepsakes of trips that I thought I would “get to later” and they sit in a pile with the memories gone.

I have seen a lot of people adopt the travel journal in our digs-scrapping world. At oScraps, we have some designers who make templates for these travel journals that make it easy to scrap the memories. There is a standard size of 11x33cm (or 4.33×8.26″) but as with art journaling in general, anything goes! Your art travel journal can be of any size you want it to be! In the scrapping world, we also call them a “Junk Journal”. Vicki Robinson has a post on her instagram with her January Junk Journal. It’s amazing!

Vicki Robinson’s Junk Journal on Instagram

Here is a pack in the standard size by Mediterranka Design

There are slots for pictures and journaling in this particular set if you want to have a premade template to drop your memories in. With Art Journaling, sometimes the templates don’t work well for our artsy work. I recommend if you want to do this style and size that you make your own page and scrap from the blank page.

Here are some examples I found in our oScraps gallery of Travel Journals:

Our very own Sonja is doing the travel journal size for her pages and browsing her gallery, you can see how great she is at this style of artsy travel journals!! Here’s her latest that she has done for the February Art Journaling Challenges.

• Artful Memories Travel Journal Papers by Vicki Robinson
• Floral Grunge (eighteen) by Joyful Heart Designs
• Within Digital Scrapbooking Collection by Lynn Grieveson

She does an open book style for her pages.

Here is another version of a travel journal size layout by *Sylvia*

vicki robinson |  junque journal 03
photo regenerated by me using adobe firefly

I’ve noticed with art journaling that we tend to use the size of travel journals, but they’re not necessarily used for travel memories. That’s one of the wonderful things about art journaling – you can do it any size, any medium…it’s an all around wonderful choice to show our artistic abilities.

Speaking of the Art Journaling Challenges: the new February challenge is up. Week 1 is DISCOVER and it’s the word of the month. Here’s a little snippet of the intro:

“I would like you to reflect (see what I did there – used last month’s theme) on what discovering you have left to do about yourself and your place in the world. Here are some quotes that got me going:

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. 
• As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
• We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God

We already have a few pages and week 2 will be coming soon!

Here is the page I did:

Crafty Button Designs | Stressed Out
Crafty Button Designs | Wings of Whimsy
Crafty Button Designs | Gesso Bits 11
Crafty Button Designs | Rise Up
Crafty Button Designs Rachel Jeffries | The Struggle is Real: Self Esteem
Crafty Button Designs | New Door

Come join us over at the Challenges – and if you feel like it – try a travel journal size!