How to Make a Road Trip Scrapbook Layout

Print your photos small, you are likely to have lots from your trip and printing them slightly smaller will allow you to use mor eon the layout. I choose a contact sheet option I had on my printing software.

Choose a few highlight photos and print them larger.

Find a map that covers your road trip journey either by using an old map or by finding one on the internet and print on to thin white card / thick white paper (as thick as your printer will allow).

Use a pin or paper piercing tool to prick holes through the map to show the route of the road trip. Double over a length of red cotton thread and sew through the holes using a back stitch.

Choose four sheets of patterned cardstock and trim them to 12 x 6”, then trim the side edge to give you an even border all around. Use a craft knife or paper trimmer.

Glue the top piece of patterned paper (the plaid) to both sides of your double page spread first. On the left hand spread, glue the bottom piece of patterned paper in place so that it overlaps the top paper. Make sure you have an even border all around the outer edge.

On the right hand spread, put double sided tape along three edges (the two short sides and the bottom). Glue into position, it will look the same as the left side, but there will be a pocket in which to put your ephemera from the trip.

Place a strip of tape on the top paper, along the join of the two papers. Place two strips of thin tape below this on the lower paper.

Glue the map on the left hand spread and add the title of your trip with medium sized letter stickers.

Arrange the larger photos around the map on the left hand spread and glue them in place. Add place names below the photos with mini letter stickers

Type your journaling and print on to light coloured patterned paper or white card so that it fills three rows. Trim the journaling into three long strips.

On the right hand spread, add the countries in mini letters stickers below the glitter tapes as a secondary title.

Cut out the small photos and glue them in rows, with a journaling strip positioned between each row. Finally add your ephemera into the large pocket.

When using a spiral bound scrapbook album it's best to not to use anything too bulky, like thick letter stickers. The black puffy letter stickers used in this album aren't very bulky and therefore provide eye catching definition without the bulk.