Hi friends, I'm Tamsien from Babbling Books and today I'm going to be sharing with you
my 2018 Traveler's Notebook.
Now, there's actually two of them because the Traveler's Notebooks are split into two
6 monthly journals.
I started this at the very beginning of the year.
If you've watched my Traveler's Journal haul and set up video you'll know exactly what
I am talking about.
If you haven't you can watch it, the link is in the description box below.
You might've also seen my Japan travel journal, I actually bought both of these journals while
I was in Japan, and I love them so so much.
For the first time in, I think, my entire life I've managed to actually keep a journal
for the entire year.
So I am pretty proud of myself for achieving that.
What I'm going to do in this video is take you through page by page every single spread
in my journal for 2018.
And at the end of the video I am just going to leave a little bit of time to show you
a couple of my favourite spreads and some of the techniques I used to put them together.
Because I think that the way I have put these journals together is just a little bit different
and I'd like to share that with you.
So, I hope you enjoy.
If you keep a journal or a Traveler's Notebook I would love to watch your videos, I'm really
really obsessed with watching flip throughs, so please let a link for me down below.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed that.
It was really fun to share all of the pages of my journal with you.
Now I'm going to share with you a couple of my favourite pages and as I mentioned at the
beginning of the video, some of the techniques that I used to create the page.
So the first one is from January, I really love this spread.
There's something about it which is just all of my favourite colours all together.
So on this page I've used a really cool washi tape that I bought in Japan.
So I tried to match up some of the items that I bought while I was in particular places
with the pages that I put them on.
I've also used the official Traveler's Notebook stickers, which are different designs every
year.
This year in 2019 they are actually music themed, but they were sort of train and travel
themed in 2018.
I also used some little cut out details from a box of cookies that I bought while I was
in Japan, and of course I've made some notes up the top here.
I really used this journal, as you would have seen, in a really flexible way and I didn't
write on every page, and when I did write there wasn't necessarily writing in the correct
sort of sections.
Another on of my favourite pages pops up in April.
I love this spread, this was actually for Easter, but as you can tell there's not a
whole lot of Easter details.
There is a little Good Friday thing over here which I cut out from a State Library magazine.
And what I really love about this page, if you can kind of see, is that I've included
some fake gold leaf on this page, just to give highlights to a couple of little details.
And I just love the effect.
It's not something that I did on every page, because it was really fiddly to try and get
it to stick in the right spots.
But I kind of love the effect.
Also over here was one of the first times that I made this kind of little flap using
some washi tape.
That was a technique that I used on a lot of pages, you probably saw me flipping them
up and down in the flip through part of this video.
April had a lot of favourite pages because I also really love this page.
Now I am not super happy with how this turned out.
I tried to make a piece of white paper look kind of vintage-y by using some watercolours
and it kind of turned out a little bit orange.
But what I do love is this up here.
This is a drawing that I did based on a photo I took when I visited my Grandma, which is
what this little note down the bottom is referring to.
So I painted this in watercolour and outlined it in a waterproof fine-liner.
And I've actually put it on a piece of an envelope which I received in the mail.
So it's go this really cool Royal Mail sticker on it.
And over here is the broken pieces of a leaf which I collected while I was at my grandma's
house as well.
So this is a real leaf, and I've just stuck it in with glue.
And I just love the texture that it brings to the page.
Another one of my favourite pages this time in May.
What I love about this, aside from the blue colour scheme, as blue is my favourite colour,
is that I've included this little pocket here.
So you can see it's attached onto the page and I've used that to keep some tickets and
business cards from a restaurant that I went to.
It was a really nice way to keep those in there without having to cut them down when
they didn't actually fit on the page.
And I'm really happy with how it turned out.
The other interesting thing that's on this page, which is probably included to better
effect on some other pages, is the wax seal.
So I have a couple of wax seals, you might even be able to see them behind me in the
video here.
And I really enjoyed putting wax seals in different places throughout this journal.
Again with the blue colour schemes, this page from September is a big favourite of mine.
I love that I came up with the idea of using a pattered page for the background on this
side and the sort of textured brown paper as the background on this side.
But if you look quite closely you will see that the little tabs that I have made to hold
down these little things are actually pieces of this background paper, so it kind of ties
the whole page together.
And I really love the effect that it's created.
Also over here I've used a little vintage ticket as a little tab to hold down this.
And I just love how this page looks, it looks like something off a pinboard or a memory
board.
And another technique which is a little bit hard to see in the flip through, so I thought
I would share it with you now is sewing.
So on this page I've actually sewn some threads onto a piece of paper.
I didn't actually create this with the intention of putting it in my journal, I was just testing
out stitch widths while I was sewing a dress.
But I love the look of it and I just kind of left the little strings on the end here
and it looks really cool.
Another spot where I did some sewing was actually a couple of pages later where I made this
little 'beside the sea'.
I found this little piece of cotton in the box of a pair of earrings my sister gifted
me and onto it using some blue thread I have just hand stitched some words that were meaningful
to me on that day.
And I think it's just a really fun and interesting way of getting some more texture into your
journal.
Though what that does do is make a very thick journal at the end.
The last technique, or things that I used in my journal, that you might have noticed
are these little instant camera photos.
I have a little polaroid instant camera and I didn't take it with me as often as I should
have in 2018, but I'm going to try much harder to do better this year.
These were taken on a little trip that I did to Malmsbury, and I actually made a video
of my reading habits while I was on that trip, so I'll put the link to that in the description
box below as well.
And on this page as you can see I've also included more leaves.
I was really interested to see that the green leave didn't actually change colour, I was
expecting it to go a sort of a browny-yellow colour, but I love that it stayed green.
So that's it, those are my Traveler's Journals from 2018.
Thank you for taking the time to have a look through them with me, and I hope that you've
enjoyed them.
I hope that you've enjoyed seeing the way that I've recorded all of my memories for
the year.
Now if you have created a video similar to this or if you are a journaling fan like me
please leave a comment below, I would love to check out your work, whether it's on Instagram
or here on YouTube.
I'm really keen to make more videos about journaling and I also have some workshops,
potentially even some online workshops coming up, to do with travel journaling in particular.
So I'm going to leave a link to my newsletter down below, so you can subscribe and find
out more.