I wanted my album to be 'all-in-one': a combination of handwritten diary pages, pages with with watercolor paintings and – of course – scrapbook pages with photos. I used different papers for the three different categories. When all pages are finished I will decide about their ultimate order and bind them.

My album is a little bit wider than a traveler’s notebook, but for the scrapbook part the papers from the notebook edition from studio forty did fit nevertheless, as you can see here with this sketch:

Two pages arose from this:

Normally I dye the chipboards with watercolor, like this one on the first page.

For the second page I wanted to have black chipboards – deep black, not watercolor black. So I tried to color the chipboards with a marker – so simple! 

And I like very much how this came out.