I am inspired just paging through this book, but of course I couldn’t just flick across these beautiful pages.
The Art of the Travel Journal makes me want to journal about all kinds of things, not just travel. The information and ideas here allow the reader to do just that.
Abbey Sy makes the art and craft of travel journaling accessable and achievable with her gorgeous pages which include other artists and travel journalers for even more inspiration!

This is the perfect book to buy if you want to get started on travel journaling. It is full of informative photographs and step-by-step instructions that make it easy to get started, especially if you have never travel journaled before. It covers everything you could possibly want to know, such as ideas for composing the ephemera you have collected, different ways to document your travels, how to create themed pages and journal spreads, as well as hand lettering advice and making zines and postcards. The author even includes advice on how to stay committed to your journal once you have begun, and looks at the materials you will need to get started.

The artwork and journal examples that accompany the book are simply stunning - the reader is left in no doubt that they are in safe hands being taught journaling by Abby Sy. The book itself is cleanly laid out and straightforward to follow. Even if you are not specifically interested in travel journaling, there is plenty in this book to give ideas to daily journalers or scrapbookers.

With thanks to Netgalley and Quarry Books for providing an advance review copy. All opinions are my own.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ -- Great cover on this book!

I love to journal and I love to travel, so I knew that I had to get my hands on a copy of this book. 🙌🏻 This book is divided into the following seven chapters...

- Getting Started
- Materials
- Telling Stories
- Collecting and Composition
- Journal Spread Ideas
- Honing Your Habit
- Guest Artists

Each chapter is broken down into sub chapters full of information, essentials, lessons, and more. The graphics are visually pleasing and the layout is clean and easy to navigate. I am about to start a "bucket list" travel journal using the techniques I learned from this book and I can't wait to get started. 👍🏻

**ARC Via NetGalley**

What a great compilation of tips and ideas to create a travel journal. It can be as easy and basic or as intense (in a good way!) and sophisticated as you want it to be.

Really enjoyed flicking through these pages - including not only a wealth of layouts and inspiration for the actual journal - but also some bits around pre-planning the trip and why it's a positive idea to journal/document.

I enjoy journaling anyway and have always planned my trips and written up excursions etc but this will take it to the next level. I'm fully on board with making a scrapbook now of my next trip and including lots of photos (that literally never, ever!, get printed) and ephemera such as leaflets and tickets to make something memorable to refer back to.

This is a great resource, with something for journaling newcomers and old hats alike - I will definitely be referring back to it and recommending!

My many thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read this advanced copy which I have reviewed honestly.

A lovely book full of so many useful tips and lots of inspiration. A very useful addition to your art reference library.

This little book is a great way to get your wanderlust pumping and get you thinking about what you can do. I really appreciated the different styles and types of travel journaling that was covered. Not everyone can or wants to do full art spreads of each place they visit, which seems to be the Pinterest mold. But this encourages you to do whatever feels authentic to your own skills, interests, and experience. Very approachable. Made me even more excited for my upcoming trips than I was before.

The Art of the Travel Journal sparked my love of traveling again, with its fun capture of fun trips through painting, drawing, mixed media, and lettering. I'm a writer, not a visual artist, yet I felt sure that I could document my beach trips the year I met my husband in an entirely new way. Highly recommended for travelers on the road and wannabes in an armchair!

I have always carried a notebook with me on all trips hoping that I will journal my travels. But alas, I have always hesitated to ruin a page, a precious notebook, or drawing a blank when it comes to putting down thoughts.

I got the ARC of this book from Netgalley hoping that I feel motivated to create a travel journal soon. The book is easy to read. It gives an insight into what 'travel journaling' means before getting into the details of it. More than everything, what I love about Abbey Sy, is that she gives you several options and ideas and tells you to do what you love and can do. There are no strict steps to travel journaling in the book. It makes you ask yourself why and how you want to create your travel journal along with ideas on what your travel art kit should contain (really helpful), what kind of things you can collect, different kinds of compositions, layouts and forms of travel journaling. There are also photos of stunning layouts which are so inspiring.

The book has most definitely inspired to create journals for my recent adventures and hoping that I explore journaling while travelling the next time. Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley for the ARC.

I enjoy journaling and have several different books that I record my life in. This book is about creating a travel journal, but really the ideas could be used just as easily in a journal of any subject. Her style is one of a travelers notebook. There is much inspiration, her pages are beautiful, it’s worth purchasing just for that. I will definitely be applying some of her examples and style to my journaling.

This is a great book for beginners to travel journaling! It has great inspiration, ideas, and step by step lessons. There are beautiful pictures of the author’s journals throughout. If you have any experience with travel journaling, this would be a bit simplistic for you. I am moderately experienced at travel journaling, so while I didn’t really learn anything, it was still enjoyable to read.

Such a fun book! I took it with me on vacation to spur some creativity. My library has quite a few journalers that I think would love this title! Can't wait to get it for them! I will be continuing the lessons learned in this title on my next adventure!

The Art of the Travel Journal is such a cute introduction to the world of journalling! The book did a fantastic job of explaining travel journalling, outlining tips to starting, and providing examples to get people started. It was nice to have a cohesive introduction for beginners!

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I found this book to be very helpful, full of great ideas for not only travel journals but for any type of journal. Well written and illustrated

This book is a wonderful way to show you how to keep your memories alive after you have traveled to a special place. The author gives you lot of ideas and examples of how to preserve the memories. I highly recommend this book to any fellow traveler who wants to document down their experience and treasures.

A very basic intro with chapters for beginners on topics like picking the right materials, hand lettering and making color-coordinated collages.

Recommended for anyone who's interested in travel journaling but has no idea where to start.

I really enjoy travel journaling, but I've always felt a bit overwhelmed by the options and decisions on how to make it functional and beautiful! I love the tips from the book ( e.g. washi tape sampler - genius!) and can't wait to be able to try these out on some upcoming trips. There was so much information on things I'd never really considered, like digital photo journaling that will now be an option in my range. A wonderful guide to inspire you to create those lasting memories!

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for giving me this eArc to review.

I really liked this as it gave me a bunch of inspiration for when I journal. I liked the layout of the book and how easy it was to follow.

This is a marvelous A to Z book of information and inspiration for any traveler interested in digital, and/or analog self-expression. It appeals to the motivated young adult, the experienced journaler, the artistically inclined traveler, blogger, or basically anyone wanting to keep an inspired record of a trip. It’s hard to think of a question not answered in this book from the range of materials and those recommended for various styles of illustration to collecting and displaying souvenirs. This book is a perfect bon voyage gift.

This lovely book is alive with color, illustrations and fun ideas to help you launch or enrich your own art journaling practice. As the title suggests, the focus of this book is on journaling as you vacation, with suggestions for collecting ephemera such as maps, tickets and brochures to incorporate into your journal, but the book could serve as a guide for art journaling in general.

The author, Abbey Sy, is a talented hand-lettering artist who has written seven books on creativity. In this book, she covers hand-lettering (the subject of several of her other books); layouts, page and photo composition; themes, such as keeping a journal of the architecture you encounter, the meals you eat, the highlight moments of a trip, the places you visit, etc.; mediums, such as gel pens, fine pens, watercolor brushes that contain their own water (and instructions for how to make your own to-go watercolor palette), markers, etc.; writing/blogging/vlogging; and collaging and collecting elements to use in your collages. She also has a couple of fun sections on making your own postcards and, my favorite, making your own envelope out of found material to glue into your journal to hold other scraps you pick up on your journey.

I love the end of the book, which is a chapter titled Guest Artists and features delightful journal spreads from a dozen other art journalers, plus their websites so we can follow them for more visual ideas. I was going to take a star off because the book also has a bit of padding in the text (e.g., information on how the first commercial flight was a Florida "air ferry" in Tampa) that seemed irrelevant to the subject of travel journaling, but these brief digressions are easily skimmed, and the book is so packed with great layout examples that it deserves its full five stars.

So much creativity! I think I have been composing travel journals in my mind most of my life. I have photos, post cards, souvenirs, scraps, bits, and pieces from all over. I keep thinking that one day I will get to it and write copious notes, so I won’t forget. The thought of putting it all together has always been a bit daunting. I love the creative options and suggestions presented here. I never would have thought of mixing art mediums like paint, pencil, marker, stamps, and stickers with all my treasures. I love all the journaling ideas as well. There is no right or wrong way, but a good source of inspiration can get your own creative juices flowing. That is what The Art of Travel Journal by Abbey Sy provided for me.
It doesn’t have to be perfect. It is more important to just get started and capture those moments before they disappear, while the essence of them is still alive in your heart and mind. Thanks for compiling a great collection of ideas, suggestions, and tips. I especially love the Guest Artists provided at the end.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.