Postcard journal

If you're on a budget, this is one of my favorite ways to have keepsakes on my adventures!

Almost four years ago, I wrote a blog post about my lifelong postcard collection . A few weeks afterwards, I organized my postcards into a...

I inherited my great Aunt Esther's collection of post cards and I used a pair of them to create a bit of mail art with some Stampendous birds. One bird was stamped on plain tissue paper, the other on a vintage book page, and both were cut-out and pasted on the cards. I did this mainly because I could play around with the placement and avoid a mis-stamp that can't be undone. The pine trees and leafy dots were also done this way. There's a bit of collage paper and miscellaneous stamping to…

Today Kara is sharing an easy, fill-in-the-blanks travel journal made from vintage postcards. Enjoy! You see, I love the idea of travel journals, but when it comes to actually making a travel journal while traveling… It rarely seems to happen! I usually bring too many supplies and not enough framework to actually journal. I created…

Post card book

You return home from traveling and you're bursting with excitement about everything you've experienced but after a couple days your nearest and dearest are already tired of hearing you say "well, when I was in..." Here's a solution for your next trip...

Whenever my family returns from vacation, I like to surround us with memories we’ve made on our trip. Souvenirs are great, but I’m not going to put salt and pepper shakers of the Eiffel Tower on my kitchen table. So instead of displaying your “My mom went to Italy and all I got was this … Read More