Travel Journal Flip Through With Tips: How to Enjoy Your Journey AND Keep Up With Your Pages

The first, biggest challenge in keeping an illustrated or travel journal is how to enjoy and be fully present in your experiences while trying to get them down on the page. Here are some tried and true ideas that help me keep from getting overwhelmed. And remember, these work whether you are on a trip or if your sketchbook journal is of your everyday life.

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[BookandPaperArts]

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[lisamorice]

I love your assertion that we should live the moments, get down a reminder or bring home a souvenir and enjoy filling in the details later.

[meryleerobinson]

I was inspired when you said something like “I don’t draw well but I do it anyway”. Needing to do something well always stops me beginning in the first place. I am going to dig out a book now and journal my day. Thank you x

[chandnisahi]

I love this video, everything you say, and the beautiful vintage vibe of your journal. Grande!

[susanflemingcoaching]

Thanks for making keeping a travel journal simple enough that even I can do it!! You are an inspiration!

[nathalieernst]

Superbe !! J aime beaucoup😉😄 I m glad to see I m not the only "mad girl" to collect many papers, maps, food packings and every kind of ephemeria!! I also collect wine bottles etiquette when I enjoy good wines during holidays and I paint grapes and bottle with the wine it self! Coffee is also a nice médium 🙂 I sticked a tourist map in the last page of my sketch book to spot with nice lettering the places where I sketched last summer holidays. Merci for sharing your tips and ideas. No doubt they will inspire me for my next Carnet de voyage !

[MichelleRaeLandry]

So how does one keep up with their pages while traveling……???? OH WHAT A RELIEF when you showed only a few pages and highlighted what was important! YES YES YES! I loved your thoughts, sketches, and details of your travels! Beautiful! ❤️🇫🇷

[judyhammond]

Thank you. I can paint and draw and do make travel journals. Travel can be busy and fun, so I get behind, so try to finish up when I get home. Thank you for the tips for quickly capturing memories.

[silviainthislife]

It's lovely to see a journal that is given life!

[creativestudio]

Glad you had a good time on your trip. It makes me sad that we cannot go to Europe at this time. Good suggestions

[MissDaisyParsley]

Wonderful video! I loved seeing your travel journal and hearing how you fill it in! Your art and calligraphy is fabulous! I really like how you tore the paper bags for your pockets! This is very helpful and inspiring!

[lynnparise]

Yippee!! She's baaack! I'm just now starting this vid Kelly, but I'm so happy to hear your voice, and to see this lovely book up on my screen!...Thanks for all your French updates over the past few weeks, and I hope you brought back tons of cool memories as well as lots of stories, and goodies!

[NolaTheAlamoChiliQueen]

How lovely! I feel as though I've had a quick holiday via your journal.

[laracraft]

Love love the floor rubbing beautiful 😍

[laracraft]

Lovely journal will be using a few photos in my journal for the letter T for travel when went to Torquay in Devon for example

[nicolaj]

Great video, love the loose style Kelly. I love postcards too.

[keeperofwords]

I do enjoy you! You have a zest for life and an appreciation for everything around you! I am inspired to really journal more with drawing and watercolor. I express myself with poetry but now want to up my game!

[theresapalmer]

This was super, showing your gathered materials from the trip and then how you decide what to spend time on while experiencing the moments sounds like what I've been trying to do. This is an instruction on never giving up the experience by trying to make perfect reflections but things that "conjure" the memories to return. Thank you

[josydebieuvre]

Bonjour Kelly, je découvre votre chaîne et j'adore comme vous les livres et les papiers. C'est très sympa de voir votre carnet de voyages sur Paris. Je suis française, du Sud, près d'Avignon mais connais un peu Paris et le quartier du Marais... Merci pour toutes ces idées !

[PatyLavir]

I love it! That's so inspiring! I don't travel much but I would like to put more visual stuff on my journal. And now, I think that I going to start drawing on my journal. It was very nice of you sharing your ideas and process with us. Thank you!