Creative Ways to Showcase Your Travel Photos

What To Do With Those Travel Photographs

If you’re like us we love to talk about our travels and isn’t that one of the reason we buy all those souvenir tee shirts? Our tees often start a conversation about where we’ve been? Also like most families our house is full of family photos but a close second is our travel images. Every trip adds to our travel decor.

Make Travel Books

Decorating With Travel Memories

Make Tee Shirts

You’ve got hundreds of great travel photos – why not show them off?

Our living room bragging wall

Decorating Accents That Celebrate Your Travels

Revisit those amazing places and remembered adventures by adding travel print accents to your home decorating. One of the joys of travel is the memories it creates and adding travel photos to your decorating brings those memories back every day.

Even if you don’t have a home printer you can easily order prints at dozens of convenient and inexpensive locations. You can get photos printed at drugstores (Walgreens, CVS) for fast, same-day pickup, major retailers like Walmart, online specialists like Shutterfly & Snapfish, office supply stores (Staples, Office Depot), or local professional photo labs for higher quality, in sizes that range from quick 4×6 prints to large formats and even online services that produce framed and ready to hang prints like Frameology and keepsake Frames.

Travel Themed Tee Shirts Are Easier Than You Think

Tell The World About Your Travels

Your image collection of iconic and stunning photographs from around the world can easily be used to create amazing tee shirts for very little cost or effort.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list”
Susan Sontag

One of our hobbies is creating tee shirts for sale in local stores and selling online and we’ve learned a bit about what works and what doesn’t.

Our favorite is vinyl transfers. All you need to create spectacular tees is a photograph, an inkjet printer and an iron. For less than US$1.75 you can print on a sheet of transfer vinyl and transfer it by dry ironing onto any tee shirt. As simple as 1,2,3.

We recommend a material from Avery that you can order from Amazon HERE*. There are a number of similar items but we’ve been very happy with this product. Print on this opaque vinyl with any inkjet printer and it can be transferred to any tee, even dark colors, using a dry iron. The resulting shirt is guaranteed to last through 20 washings without any fading or cracking.

“What a great idea. We love the idea of decorating with travel memories. Picked out several of our travel pictures and had them printed locally (Walmart). The prints were beautiful and really look great on our wall. Liked the idea that each print was from our travels.” Sue M

“We’re interior decorators specializing in offices and these prints seemed a great idea for clients spaces!” William & Megan James

Start A Travel Library Of Your Trips

While we’re on the subject of travel photographs we should mention our travel books. For over fifteen years we’ve been in the habit of recording our trips in custom printed, hardback books. We use Shutterfly, but there are a number of other options (Some computer photo applications often offer this in the app). It only takes a couple of hours to organize our photographs and design a book. Costs can actually be as inexpensive as US$24.00.

In our books we don’t just add photos but also record information on hotels, restaurants and tours. Our library includes over 30 books and we have neighbors that often borrow them to help in planning their travels. I even find them a great reference when working on this website.

* We currently earn no commission or advertising payments from any companies mentioned here including Amazon for references or links to products.