Trailer Tales

Happy Summer everyone!  I hope the sun is shining down on you wherever you are today!

When it comes to summertime in our family, we think of camping.  Since I was a young girl, my family always camped a few times a summer somewhere in Ontario.  So when my husband suggested we find ourselves a little Boler trailer to camp in, I was in whole heartedly!

So after much searching and a little bit of good luck and good timing, we managed to get our hands a little cream and gold Boler trailer…

My husband has been hard at work fixing up for us to use.  Since I knew we would taking our little “golden home on wheels” on vacation this summer, I thought I would make a cute little journal that I would keep in a safe place in the trailer for all of us to document it’s travels.

I first designed this simplified Boler type trailer shape using my Klic N’Kut software and then I cut a series of pages and a couple of thin chipboard covers…

I started creating my mini album by decorating the covers.  I cut out a cream page for both my front and back covers and then I applied a “map” patterned paper bottom and a charcoal grey cardstock body divider.

To decorate the cream part of the trailer body, I used my trusty Road Trip stamp set and some inks that matched the colours of my patterned paper “map” base.

Here is the back cover…

For my first inside page, I wanted to create an area where I would write where we traveling to, who was there with me and how we were traveling.  I used some of the fabulous stamps from the Passport to Adventure and Snapshot stamp sets to achieve this.

Then I proceeded to create each double page spreadt…

Each double page set is slightly different…

I incorporated whatever stamp images that I associated with traveling…

I even stamped some camera images… you never leave for vacation without your camera!!!

Each page I managed to use the same ink colours (just tints and tones of the same 4 inks) but never quite the same stamp combinations…

No two page spreads are the same!  It’s so much better that way!  I left the centers of the page open and unstamped so I could either attach a photo or journal about our trip.

I even managed to use my Review Time stamp set by using the word “Travel”.

And finally, I had to include a simple pocket at the end to save any neat items like brochures or random photos to go along with the journal.

I used the Review Time stamp again to add some more journaling type details to the final page.

I hope my little mini album has inspired you to create something fun today!  Remember stamps are a fabulous investment as you can use them again and again… and again!

You can check out more inspirational projects by the entire team by visiting each designer’s personal gallery by clicking the Design Team button above and clicking on the appropriate team term.  Check our current team’s creations here!

Have a great Tuesday!  Keep inkin’ and stampin’!

Allison Cope