Journal Pages

Just a few Pages I am working on,,,,

Art Journal Part 2

I have my art journal already to take on our next camping adventure. We are going to be camping at Jamaica Beach RV resort in Galveston  for a few days.

I made up the signature for the book from drawing and mixed media paper combined with gelli printed and tea died card stock and sewed it in the cover with a simple pamphlet stitch. Then I glued in a few illustrations from the original book, I left a lot of space blank for doodling and adding art later.

I covered the book with gelli print paper and added the little man from the book and an elastic closure with a lampwork bead.

I am so looking forward to using the book on our trip.

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Starting New Nature Journal

So I found a book at Goodwill that is the perfect size to make a little art journal to fit in my purse to take camping with me. It is about 8 and 3/4 by 7 and 1/2 inches. 

It is a children's book in Spanish with damage to the inside cover and writing on a few pages but the spine and covers are intact. As you can see it has lovely illustrations that I will keep for inspiration.

I took out the pages and planned on making one register with mixed pages of watercolor, drawing and mixed media page from these pads.

In the end I decided the water color paper was too thick so I left that out and added some graph paper.

I made the graph paper just a bit smaller than the pages. The pages are 8 by 14 folded so they fit way beneath the book cover. I may add some envelope or pocket pages before I sew it to the spine.

 

I glued some printed tissue to the inside covers that I plan on decorating later.

This is where it is right now. When it dries I will get the pages sewn in and leave the cover to decorate last.

Dollar Thrift Store Journaling Treasures

 I keep seeing people on YouTube making incredible DIY projects with things they found in the Dollar or Thrift stores. I thought well they must have better dollar and thrift stores than I have in my little Texas town.

So I decided to buck up and give myself a challenge to make a travel journal out of found objects and Dollar and thrift store finds. I went today and was amazed that I found a few items that I could use to get started. I am thinking of doing a video and uploading it to YouTube to record the process. So here are the items I found today.

A rubber matt to use as a stencil, 3 stencils, butterfly and leaf embellishments, drawing paper, photo paper and two large rubber erasers to carve into stamps. I plan on going to the Goodwill and Thrift store tomorrow to see what else I can find. This is going to be fun.....