The Greece (and Turkey) Album - the start of something

Many of you know that for my 40th - we did a huge trip to Greece and Turkey with family and friends.  It was amazing. The scrapbook is going to be amazing too!

This September's scrap retreat was all about the trip album. Angelia and I were going to work on our books together at the retreat and planned to create things side by side with slightly different photos but the same basic idea.

We started with the My Mind's Eye Hello World collection - we got most of the pieces. This set is travel themed, but not obnoxious. Then we added in random papers that we felt coordinated to add to the pattered paper stash since we couldn't source a ton of the collection and rounded it out with packs of 25 sheets each of Bazzill cardstock in the following colors: Typhoon, Arroyo, Watermelon, Kraft, Turquoise Mist, Navajo, and Beeswax. I found the cardstock at OfficeSupply.com for about $12 a package - I was pretty excited about that.  

We picked up a few other things at the most recent CKC in The Woodlands and then I used stuff from my stash and the 2-3 most recent Cocoa Daisy kits that I had keep myself from using (will power!).  

The other thing we decided up front was to have a few themes. Aside from the coordinated paper colors, one thing was to have an airplane on every page since we flew a ton on this trip. We found this airplane punch on amazon and I'm loving the way it looks.

We also picked up cloud diecuts in several shapes and a set of kraft tags to mark the beginning of each day. We have made it midway on day four and think the combination of things is keeping it pretty cohesive.  

Here is what we got done at retreat. (Clearly I need to add some journaling to come of these - and I will come back and edit this post with some other comments on supplies and thought process when I have time.  But at least these are all photographed!)