September KOTM.
Today I worked on putting together my travel album from a trip to New Zealand and Australia last August - using the September Kit of the Month. This is one of those trips where I took along a travel journal (with great intentions like past trips - see my March 2006 Studio A column about Scrapbooking on the Road) and only ended up with a big pile of photos + maps + collected stuff rather than coming home with a completed journal. The truth was I just didn't feel like working on it while I was traveling.
Here's where the September kit comes in handy: it can be used after your trip OR during your trip. If you have an adventure coming up you could take it on the road and it has everything you need (including cool stamps) all ready to go in a tin that doesn't take up too much space. Or, if you want to just wait and create when you come home you can collect stuff on the road (including journaling which is always so much fresher when you are writing on the road) and just put it together another time.
This would make a good gift for someone you know who has an adventure coming up as well.
The album comes with all the pages inside the spiral but I went ahead and removed them so I could add in brochures, photos, etc and make changes to the order (for a how-to on taking minibooks apart and putting them back together click here). I am really into page size variety right now. I also added a transparency sheet on the cover and as one interior page (an 8.5x11 cut to size). For adding pages I created holes using the Bind-it-all and my Crop-a-dile.
One thing I was so happy I had were blog posts related to my trip (in addition to some handwritten things I had written in my travel journal). I printed those out onto the paper from the album and added them back in - definitely tells a more complete story than I can remember off-the-top-of-my-head a year later.
Here's a look at what I made with the kit (the rub ons were my favorite):
Fun project. Excited to add it to the basket.
In addition, I want to give you a sneak peek of next month's KOTM which should go on sale next week.
The concept? Hope & courage:
Just ordered three of these kits earlier this week. We are taking a family trip with our two grown daughters to Cuba for Christmas. Can hardly wait to see what we all do with them!
Thanks for all the inspiring ideas and the little tutorial on taking them apart.
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Love this Ali!! I received this kit awhile back-now I jsut want to go somewhere really cool so I can put it to use! This is a fantastic album! TFS! And I can't wait to see next months!
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I love love love it! Thank you so much for sharing all the pages and the inspiration!
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I love what you did with the September Kit, now I feel so inspired to take a travel log type thing on my upcoming trip to California next week. Always an inspiration, thanks!
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lovin' that travel album, Ali! TFS!
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Why am I so short on cash right now? I have the perfect trip pictures for this album! Anyone want to lend me the $30?
Nice work Ali!
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Wow! We're planning a trip to Ireland next June where we'll spend 13 days touring the entire country. I purposely bought the travel journal for the trip. You've given me some great ideas on how to make my journal above average and an original work about our journey. Thanks for the inspiration!!
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love all the angles to it very cool and the transperencies to gorgeous ali as always !!
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that looks great! how do you keep the rub-ons from scratching off of your transparencies? that seems to be my most difficult task when using transparencies.
thanks! LauraP
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I've been checking the kit of the month site to see if you were going to have an album posted. I'm so glad you posted here!! I love what you did with it and love that you got so much in it!! Can't wait to get started on mine.
Davean
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That is so cool.
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Love the different page sizes - thank you for sharing !!
Carole / Sharin' Memories Olympia Wa
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you never cease to amaze me! This album is so cool!!!love seeing all the pages!!
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Your work is so so great. I always love to look at it!
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totally cool! you never cease to amaze me! you are the scrapper's energizer!! love it!
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I, too, LOVE what you did with this book!!! The KOTM has been tempting me and I have resisted so far, but may not be able to anymore!
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Thanks for sharing your album. I love it! I just went and ordered one. I can't wait for it to get here so I can get started.
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luv it, as always, your constant creative mind inspires me...thank you!
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Very, very cool! Love how you used the kit and I am so very inspired to get mine out and use it! Thank you so much for posting this. :)
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LOVE it!!! Very inspiring!
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love what you did here - feeling so filled up with inspiration!
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Ali
Love what you did with the book. I just got mine yesterday and I am going to use if for a mission trip to Haiti. I was debating whether to take it with me or not or work on it before hand. I think now I will stick to my original plan and just take a journal and do it after so I can take it apart and really have fun with it.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Cheri
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fun album. . . makes me look at the kit differently. on a side, don't you love wagamamas!
mary
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that is a schweeet album! love every itty bitty detail of this!!
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Wow! Phenominal, amazing book. I wanna be you when I grow up!
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