 Hey guys, so I am back from my vacation in Las Vegas, and I am here to work on the last page for that trip in my year of my life journal. I always save the last page until I get home because there's just too much other stuff to do with you know packing all your stuff up and getting to the airport and you know our flight was early in the morning so on Saturday So I saw a Friday's page to do before I do the page. I'm gonna use my LG pocket Photo printer, which I got on Amazon. It's by LG. It looks like this. It's in a case right now Hang on my phone's going to sleep it's hooked up to my telephone via Bluetooth and You use an app that you download for it on your phone or your iPad to Print whatever pictures are in your camera roll on here So and I haven't printed Friday's pictures yet. So I thought I would get on and I would Print them for you. So here's one that I want to print of my husband when we were having our last lunch out and I'm going to let me zoom in a little bit so you guys can see Okay So I've got him here and it's going to print sideways, but I'm I'm and I'm okay with that So we were I'm gonna hit okay, and it's gonna Paired device not found really So you got to make sure the Bluetooth is turned on Let's see So evidently I turned it off by mistake. So now it's connected I'm going to go to LG pocket photo printer app and This is called an LG pocket photo printer and you can get them on Amazon and you can get a package deal What comes with the printer and a case and the charging cables and everything? So here's this picture. So I'm gonna just hit the little print icon and then click okay, and Then it is gonna print. There we go. Is that successfully? It prints little small pictures. They're perfect for working in your journal and Let's see and I and it's not real big so I can bring it with me on my trip and I don't have to worry about Printing pictures while I'm away or printing a bunch of pictures and then trying to get them into my journal when I get back I Got it for my Christmas and my birthday. I don't remember last year. I think and on our last day in Las Vegas we had lunch At this really great restaurant called the Earl of Sandwich, which is hilarious. The name just cracks me up But they had really great sandwiches. I really liked it They were inside plan at Hollywood and then we also had dinner, which are the pictures. I'm printing at Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich's restaurant burger and beer and it is Overlooking the part of the Grand Canal in the Venetian And I got to tell you if you guys have a chance to eat there To do it because the view is just amazing So I am going to finish printing all my pictures. I've got a print pick I've got to pick the ones I want to print but these are all views. Can you see these? These are views from our table at the restaurant That's one. I'm probably gonna print That's from when I got home All right, so I'm gonna finish printing my photos and Then I'll be right back and I'll show you what kind of little bits of ephemera that I brought home to use on the page and that I normally collect a lot on my trip That and most of the time the little bits of collect are free. I'll Talk you through what I do, you know how I ask for things and all of that stuff because I do ask All right, I will be right back Okay, as it's printing the last couple pictures for this page I did earlier in the week We'll zoom out again Where we went to see the Frank Sinatra tribute show I started to run out of Paper for the little printer, so I started to be pretty Careful about what I printed which I'm not normally to be perfectly honest So there were a couple of pictures. I wanted to print when I got home and stuff in here This is one of them This was the curtain before the show even started and I love not only the colors And I don't think you can see it on camera as much as in real life. It's like hot pink and purple with a blue It I just thought it was inspiring. I would make a great Journal page background at some point. So I print I took a picture of it before the show started This was my grilled salmon dinner at Buddy V's Oops, it looks like I have to print one more photo. So let's do that And it can just be printing it doesn't want to print it Got a low battery All right, well, we'll just let it charge and then I'll print it later And that goes in there All right, so we're gonna skip ahead here so when I'm traveling I collect things from everywhere and Take pictures when I can using my cell phone. These are the three I printed for this spread. This is my husband We're sitting back relaxing waiting for our dinner And this is the view as I said from our table And this is a picture of some of the architecture designs. I thought we're really pretty and inspiring So when you use those on my page, I always ask for when we go out and especially when we're traveling For a bit when we walk into the restaurant or we're leaving do you have a business card for the restaurant? They always have them rarely are you going to run into one that says no and then you can use the card on Your journal page, you know it makes a great little keepsake to put on your page to remember where it was the eight and Usually they have the phone number and the address or the phone number in this case in the website And this case this card is double-sided and has this picture of the cow on the other side So I actually have two of those cards Here's another one because I wasn't sure if I wanted to put them on the page, you know something like that If I'm at a restaurant eating and they bring me My meal on the plate with an interesting piece of deli paper underneath the food You don't really want to use that deli paper in your journal because it's got food and grease and all kinds of Not fun things for your journal on it, but I always ask the waiter Do you have a piece of that deli paper that I could have? And I just they usually give you a funny look to be honest, and I just say you know I'm a mixed media artist I really love a little piece for my journal and they almost always say yes. This is a little piece I actually got when we went to Buddy V's and you can see it here in the background. I tore the piece in half and you can see it here We got an appetizer with this underneath it, so I like that When I'm on the airplane, you know, you always get pretzels or peanuts or whatever I usually save the bag I Did in the beginning of the trip? Here's my peanut bag, and I used it to put pictures in They make good little holders For photos or pamphlets or brochures. You also can just cut the part of bag apart and use it as collage material in your page. I Always ask if they have a copy of the menu. I can have these are from the Earl of Sandwich And I also when we were at the Earl of Sandwich our sandwiches came wrapped up with these labels on them. So before we got too far into our lunch and Because they didn't have any food things touching them. I asked my husband. Can I have a label of her sandwich? He like my husband knows me by now, but he looked at me like really, but he gave it to me anyway these are the Claim tickets from our luggage from the flight home So they make good collage fodder, you know, we're walking around the casino and You know, there's always people trying to hand you stuff, you know, this was you know Little booth they had win instant millions and you know, you're like really like you're really gonna win instant millions But they had these funny, you know two million dollar bills They were handing out and I don't know if I'm gonna use it my page But I did think it was funny enough to bring home and show you guys When we were at burger and beer and I asked if they had a copy of the menu I could have they gave me the ones that they give out when you go there to sit down So I have the drink menu and the food menu and I probably won't use them in this journal But boy they make good collage Material good pages for a junk journal. They're nice thick cardstock. So I love that I Brought home lots of bags and this isn't even all of them But a lot of them had great artwork on it would make good junk journal covers. This is a skull candy bag we went food shopping while we were there and to Whole Foods and You know, I love the watermelons on this bag. So I brought the bags home. We have Whole Foods here It probably has watermelons on their bags too, but you know, I'd have to go spend more money We went to Carlos big shop a few times Unfortunately, I was at the gym this morning. I brought home The bags I have this one bag from breakfast that we got there And I have a couple of big bakery boxes because I did bring treats home for the family My daughter and her boyfriend and so I brought the bakery boxes home last year when we went to Las Vegas I turned I had a box like this and I turned it into a junk journal. So I will probably do that again with these Oops. All right, and most of these, you know, didn't cost me anything. They were, you know from things that we were going to do anyway or Places we just were you have to eat while you're on vacation and most of the time you don't cook you go out So if that's going to happen Then why not ask for little bits and pieces that you can use in your journal and that's what I always do I Always come out with a handful of business cards Even if we end up not eating at those restaurants like we didn't go to this one, which maybe next time we will this is a great little Betty page inspired dress shop that I really like I didn't buy anything there this time But I did get the business card the neon museum. That was all that place is a lot of fun This is one of the other restaurants we didn't get to go to but the card is really cool We went to more than a couple of parks and one of them had a pay Do it yourself pay instead of somebody at the ticket booth You had to pay the entry fee yourself and they had these little envelopes You dropped it in a box after you put the money in and all that and I thought the envelopes were cute And I probably it's probably some sort of federal offense to steal the envelope, but I took one. I'm sorry I Always take the little pads of paper from the hotel or resort that we're at and the pens because The paper is really great for your junk journals or just to make notes on in the kitchen And the pens usually are only don't last very long. They're inexpensive But you know again, they're just a good kitchen pen to make some notes with or something like that We had these that were sticking out of some food that we got. I think these are From burger and beer These are really great picks and they were fairly clean when we pulled them out. So I brought them home and there's always a big pile of Maps and magazines and I don't bring all of them home But I pick the ones that have interesting images in it that I think I might want to cut apart when I get home for Collage or maybe words and phrases this one. I just love this image on the front This is hello, beauty. I love that so There's another card. So I know I'm gonna want to use that in something at some point And a lot of these throw away little magazines I even get them here at home And this is where I get a lot of the words and phrases and the occasional image that you can use in collage Those girls would be cute on ATC cards, right? We have a Hawaii themed ATC Swap coming up in Crazy Island family. I could see some of these girls in the swimsuits and some of those Cards that would be cute. See I didn't even know that when I brought it home But I always pick up things like this Bring them home and then and then disassemble disassemble them basically. So when you're out and you're traveling You can find stuff to use in your journal without spending a lot of money. I did get some Tissue when I was out This I found at the local Target in Las Vegas They may have it at my local Target, but I hadn't seen it there, but I did see it in Las Vegas It's American greetings tissue and I love The neon dots. How do you just not love the neon dots? So I had to have it. It was only like $1.69 or something. I don't remember. It wasn't very expensive So, okay. Now, let's put our page together And I'm not gonna fast forward. I'm gonna just do it and you guys are gonna see my process Let's see. I want to start with I Think with lunch the day before we left Let's see. I Don't think I want to put a flip out But I think I want to cut this top off. I just try to follow my instincts. Now, let's get some gel medium out. I Usually use heavy gel or extra heavy gel. I Do bring collage podge or Mod Podge on vacation, but most of the time I'm sticking Business cards and other things that are made out of card stock in here and the collage podge just doesn't stick them very well I do have some Photo paper for my printer that is sticky back and some that is not. I love the sticky back So when I can and I remember to I try to pack the sticky back because it works really well And I'm just going by my instincts and I am Just going with what feels right and that's Really what I do with this journal my credit card. Let's see My squeegee here we go I'm still coughing and wheezing from the trip because Las Vegas is not good for my asthma And then I got home and it's kind of icky here too. So Asthma is kind of acting up now. I don't throw these extra bits away right away I usually just set them to the side until I'm sure that I don't want to use them I'm going to put these on here. I think like that And that kind of balances out the page having all of this heavy stuff over here and then Having more down here and then travel your eye travels kind of around the page I always leave for my trip with pages pre decorated and painted So I'm not working with a blank page And I don't usually bring lots of paint with me on my trip I bring a little bit but not too much and if I do bring paint it's usually watercolor And it's not usually something that I use in this journal It's usually for my watercolor little watercolor journal. I like that So I'm going to put these on here. These are the luggage claim tickets Well, this is the kind of thing that's just good to just save these stickers You might as well use them. I think I want it down here. Okay, and then we have our photos Now this one is has a white back because this is a sticky back paper. These blue ones are not sticky I Love the sticky back. I said that already didn't I? I'm running a little low on paper so I have to save up a few pennies so I can get some more paper Husband and then I just said these aren't sticky. So for these we have to use a The gel medium and a lot of times I print too many pictures, and then I have I don't have any place to put them So then I end up putting a pocket on the page and just putting pictures in the pocket You could use tape runner or something else to put these in if you're worried about getting glue on the photo you can Make sure that Whatever you stick them down with that you wipe it off with glue. I Got some glue on that one. I'm but it's fine. I'm not too worried Put the picture in push it down Make sure this is clean Swipe it one way To push it into the glue the medium then wipe it off and pull it the other way and Then there you go nice and stuck down really well All right We are going to let that dry and then I will be back to do some journaling on the page and show you how I finish it off and I will share my other pages with you. I'll be right back Okay, I always finish it off with a stabilo pencil and some journaling So let's do that and I I usually try to highlight like the parts of the page that I think are the most important to me With the stabilo pencil which is usually the photographs not always but usually and it's not completely dry But I think it's dry enough. I always have a water brush in my kit And I usually have my watercolors in it in with me, too So if I forget the water brush, then it's there's one in the Watercolor kit. I want to go around this too Not because I think the cow is important, but I think in my balance of page We spent this trip pretty much eating our way through Las Vegas, so now I got to go to the gym But it was fun. It's what vacations are for right to eat too much and gain some weight All right, that's good. Let's give it another quick drive now when you're using When I'm on vacation, obviously, I don't have a heat tool with me So I never use that but if you're doing something like this with pictures printed on the LG photo printer Be careful about getting them too hot because it does affect the paper and the picture Um, so don't do that I guess how I know that Do some doodling on the page and then I'm gonna do some journaling and this is what I always do And I usually just have a black and white pen with me. I usually don't have anything more than that I just do some quick doodling nothing, you know complicated Just easy Don't overthink it. This is about you just documenting your vacation not about Creating the next masterpiece This is just about, you know, having fun and documenting things We're gonna leave that I'm not gonna go too far with that black pen because we're gonna do our journaling with it But first I'm going to just add some little pops of white gel pen Usually I just do dots not always but usually I just do dots At least I did on this trip. I don't know why that's good. It just gives it some interest. I think Okay so now we're gonna just do some journaling about What we did on these last two days and you know, basically how much fun I had on the trip and This journal always ends up with pages that are glued together Because I'm just not careful. This is how my pages start out though before I leave on the trip I make sure I have enough of these done plus a few extras more than I think I might need So that I already have some backgrounds are ready to go To work on All right, so let's do some journaling See and again nothing complicated. Just you know, you can go into lots of detail or not Just journal about you know your trip and how you felt about the different places that are documented on this page Why do pens always run out of ink right when you're in the middle of something? What is with that? And I write every which way I constantly turn the journal as I'm writing in it and I It makes the page more interesting if the journal is not what you expect Sometimes if I'm writing a comment about something in particular I'll draw an arrow to that thing on that page that documents that so I can remember Screaming kids, which is what I just wrote. What was talking about? Oh, yeah, the flight home Lots of screaming kids. So there you go. I would probably leave it at that. That is good I would probably just do this down here because it seems like it needs something but I don't want to do any more journaling and Go back and show you This is and then I also date the page. I'll let it dry a little bit more and I do I do date the page Maybe not necessarily the date these things happened, but I do try to include Bits and pieces of things that have the date that things happened on them But I try to complete the page soon after and then date it the day it's completed So the date is always the day I completed the page and did the journaling And this is from the beginning of the year just different pieces of different things Different bits and bobs things people gave me things I picked up Since I've got a wax a couple pages again, and I you know pick up postcards, and then I'll do a flip out You know tickets to things that we did and this is the first day of the Las Vegas trip This is a little envelope that I had with me, and I put my extra photos in there. I Did a lot of smash pennies on this trip They're inexpensive to do and then stick in your journal, but you have to use gel medium or they won't stick more flip outs. I Really like the mob museum. That was a lot of fun We also went to the Clark County Museum. I'd recommend that that if you like history I would recommend that because that was a lot of fun As I said the Frank Sinatra tribute show, which was great This is our trip to Red Rock Canyon And also that day we went to the Neon Museum Valley of Fire State Park Which is gorgeous people. That's just absolutely gorgeous, and this is today's page So that's it. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do with a small travel journal Now this journal is not going to close at the end of the year I just don't even bother even worrying about trying to keep it flat. That's me if you want to keep it really flat Then you need to put Be careful about how much stuff you collage in here how much stuff you collage in towards the spine Or use a different kind of journal for me. It doesn't matter I have last year's on display and it sits like this and I kind of like that it does that I think that's interesting. So there you have it. 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