My Travelling Notebook, CAME HOME!

If you've been a reader of my blog for a while you may have heard me talk about travelling mail before. If you want to find out more about this hobby then take a look at this blogpost, as I go a little more into how it all works over there.

But I'm excited to share a finished notebook with you today. I set this notebook off on it's travels on the 27th of March 2017, and it arrived home to me on the 5th of June 2018. For a notebook, that's pretty quick! It is a really dinky notebook though, and that's one of the reason's I chose it. I gave this notebook a theme, it was 'favourites' so everyone taking part could share some of their favourite things. I thought this was a pretty simple theme, so again would help with making sure it wasn't travelling for too long.

The notebook has travelled all over the UK, and also made it's way to the US, Italy and Germany!

I didn't give it any specific goal on where it had to travel too, but it was nice to see that it went out of the UK a few times!

Below I've posted a full flip through of the notebook, it's an unlisted video, exclusively for this blogpost, so I hope you enjoy! I also hope everyone who took part doesn't mind me sharing this!

If you want to take part in travelling mail, feel free to join the Facebook group and set off your own notebook or postcard! Travelling mail takes a lot of patience, this took 1 year and 3 months to make it home to me, but that's fast in comparison to some. The waiting game is tricky sometimes, but it's so rewarding in the end when you get something like this arrive home to you.

I hope you enjoyed taking a quick look through this travelling notebook, thank you for reading/watching!

- Daisy X

Travelling Notebook Page Decoration!

I spent so much of my time at the end of 2016 sorting things out with the house, I didn't have a chance to fully appreciate my Brimbles Boxes during those months. So this month I decided to dig everything out and just go to town with my Brimbles Box goodies!

Today I'm sharing a page spread I created, in a travelling notebook! This is someone else's travelling notebook, and about 4 or 5 people had already contributed to it. I chose to decorate two pages in this notebook as the owner had let the contributors choose how many pages they wanted to do.

I dug out my October Brimbles box, a few bits from my Brimbles Advent Calendar and also some things from the January box.

The October box was very autumnal themed, so there was plenty of orange popping up! I decided to go with this as the main colour, and then choose things to work with that. 

I used some of the orange washi tape and placed it randomly on the two pages. I used this floral jar sticky note from the Advent box to stamp one of the positive phrase stamps on to (from the January box). I tend to use decorative sticky notes, more like ephemera, than I do as sticky notes.

I used one of the marble sticky notes from the January box, along with a red circle spotted die cut from the October ephemera pack behind the stamped sticky note.

Once I'd arranged and stuck all these down I popped some enamel dots around the place, and stamped an arrow from the same clear stamp set in the January box, across my layered ephemera.

If you would like to find out more about how I decorated the opposite page, then go and check out the rest of this blogpost on the Mrs Brimbles Blog, just click here!

Be sure to take a nosey at the Travelling Mail Facebook group here. 

I hope this helped to show you how you can incorporate all your boxes together, no matter what time of the year it is!

- Daisy X