First Smash Book - Panama Trip

We went to Panama in February, and prior to going, I put together a Smash book to take with, with the idea to add all the memorabilia from our trip to it as we went. I loved the cover of the International Smash book, and had fun altering it with Rub N Buff antique gold stuff, the distress stains from Tim Holtz, and finished off with some FabRips from Studio Calico.

These are just a few of the pages...there are so many in this album, that this post would be huge! I did alter some of the album pages before we went on our trip. I just wanted them to work better with photos from our trip, and since we weren't goint to Italy, or Japan, they didn't work. LOL! Some pages were covered with pattern papers, some were just painted over with distress stains (love these!!) and some were covered with paint using templates, adding washi tape and other items. We love this album ... it is so fun to go back through and look at what we did on our first "international" trip!