Technically this is probably not your typical smash book for various reasons... the main one being that the idea of the smash book is to take it with you and fill it with all your bits and pieces whilst you travel... well, I wanted to make one and use up all the bits that I had hoarded from my trip to New Orleans so it wasn't going to be filled during the trip but after the event. I used chipboard for the covers and 1" o'wires and bound it with my Bind It All.
I always buy lots of postcards when I go anywhere... sometimes it is the best way to get a good pic!
I bound some of them as individual pages and used the backs for photos or journalling. Pockets are another good way to be able to hold all the brochures etc that you pick up while on a trip.
Maps are also quite fun and the right hand side of this is a map folded.
I added pics and journalling to the back of the map to strengthen it.
and you can mark the places you visited and where you stayed.
I kept ads of the restaurants we ate in and photographed the menu of the local alligator place but didn't actually eat in there!
Both these pages have pockets to hold tags with photos.
Fold outs are always handy for adding extra bits and pieces.
This is the page opened fully.
This page has a pocket of sorts... made from the chipboard covers you put on your hot drinks from places like Starbucks.
I used the back of the postcard for a photo and added a thinner journalling page.
Another pocket formed by folding and glueing which has tags and leaflets in it.
I had to laugh because the museum had less African masks than I do...
Normal pages with a postcard bound in the middle.
Back is used for journalling.
I kept some adverts and used these on the pages.
Another pocket page for leaflets.
Made this postcard into a pocket and added some tags.
Photos and journalling of the cemeteries - nobody is buried under ground in New Orleans because of the risk of flooding.
Postcard back for journalling and photos of the Mississippi.
Rear of postcard for photos and journalling.
Large photos of the city.
Another of the coffee holders made into a holder for tags.
