Paislee Press blog editor Liz Tamanaha recently shared this album filled with pictures she compiled from her trip to Italy and Paris with her husband. Using a Kolo Riva album, she carefully designed each spread by selecting a picture of a place that they visited and then paired it with her favorite portrait taken at that landmark.

The opening page of the album highlights a quote from T.S. Eliot, “The journey not the arrival matters.”

I love how the pages in this album are designed. The individual matted window frames makes each page an instant work of art and pages are designed for ease of use - a regular 4x6 photo fits perfectly in the slots.

I originally set out to create more of a art journaled look - with little notes, random thoughts, dates, location info, scrawled all over the pages. I attempted this on one page (with a pencil) but the results were disastrous so I ended up going really simple and straightforward.

Visit Paislee Press for more great album ideas from Liz.

-Kate