Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a bit of a compulsive traveller, and love to visit new places as often as I can. So over the years I have managed to accumulate quite a collection of foreign notes and coins that document the countries that I have visited. This was a collection I decided to start when the euro started to come into use and I realised there would soon be countries that I had been to in Europe that I would no longer be able to get the currency for!
So after returning from my last trip away I set to work putting together something to house this growing collection of mine and instantly realised the Journaling stamp set and Pattern Blocks set were perfect for creating fake passport stamps to tie in with the whole travel theme and from that little spark of inspiration this project was born.
Starting with printed panels which I quickly put together in word to record the important things I wanted to remember about each of the countries I began randomly stamping the circular and square journaling spots and bar-code pattern stamps overhanging the edges of the panels in brightly coloured inks (its best to do this with a piece of scratch paper underneath!). Repeating this for each different currency I had.
Whilst these were drying I moved on to making the front panels for the pockets using the Steelfish Outline (lower) alpha stamps to add the country name onto a plain coloured cardstock panel measuring 3.5x4". Making a finger notch with my small circle punch, rounding the bottom corners, and outlining with a fineline marker. The back panel of the pockets are made with a 3.5x4.75" pieces of patterned paper with rounded corners and a hole punched in the top left hand corner. To complete the pocket these two are then sandwiched together with foam tape first attached to the smaller front panel. (You can use one or two layers of tape depending on how deep you want your pocket to be).
To finish I then simply attached the stamped info panels to the back of the pocket with double sided tape, and outlined with a fineliner. Repeat the whole process for each pocket and each country, bind together with a book ring and Voila! Now where did I put those spare Baht!!
Very cute project. Thank you for sharing it.
Posted by: ConnieC | May 09, 2008 at 09:43 PM
lovely idea . where did you get the box from please ?
Posted by: jayne | May 13, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Hi! Thanks guys, glad you like. Jayne - the box was one I made myself. I used a cofee sachet box(one of those with a variety mix in) as a template and just made it from from plain white cardstock and covered it with the patterned paper. I can try to get the template to you if you like.
Posted by: Zoe Goode | May 23, 2008 at 11:27 PM