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meghan9436 ([personal profile] meghan9436) wrote2023-02-17 01:42 pm

TN Update From Last Night's Stream

This is to quickly update LJ on what I've been working on in my recent Twitch streams. Last month, I started a new custom TN insert based on the California themed one released by Traveler's Company USA. Although these notebooks are printed in Japan, they haven't been made available to the Japanese market to my knowledge. Still, it's quite lovely *_*

This cover feature a stylized map of California against a baby blue background. It features a lot of the major landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, and the Golden Gate Bridge. It is also branded with Traveler's Company USA.

For my take on this cover, I decided to do a version based on my home province of Alberta. The original version has a more limited colour palette, but I ended up using more colour for mine. This is painted Primarily with Sakura Acryl Gouache. Although these are student grade paints, I found them to work out really well. The only problem is that not all the colours are available to purchase separately when they run out. Namely the French/grass green, and purple if I remember correctly.

This custom cover features the province of Alberta on the front with the major locations marked. Other landmarks, and symbols of Canada and Alberta are illustrated too. This includes the Princess Theatre, the Calgary Saddle Dome, the wild rose, the Trans Caada Highway sign, the Edmonton High Level Streetcar sign, the Welcome to Edmonton sign, the Talus Dome, the Calgary Peace Bridge, and the Calgary Tower. The Calgary Tower is still in progress, and only the base paint has been applied so far.

This is the update for my custom planner insert. I was a little late to purchase the Traveler's Notebook 2023 Diary, but I did buy the accessories. But by the time I got to the diary itself, the weekly view inserts were already sold out from my local Loft. I had purchased a ridiculous amount of notebooks in my travels to Traveler's Factory during the summer and the fall last year, so I decided to go ahead and make my own inserts. By having your own customize stamps, you will never need to purchase another diary. You can quite literally use any old notebook you have lying around. 



As a final note, I recently posted a video about my experience at the Traveler' Company Caravan event back in September. You can view that video here.