Journal Cover

For a long time I have wanted to do a kind of art journal.

My lovely friend Chrissy had produced an amazing mixed media piece

recently and it spurred me on!!

On Easter Saturday I had spent a lot of time out painting garden furniture

(we had lovely high temperatures over Easter)

so the cool of my craft room was calling and I finally started

with a nice cover for my journal.

This won't be like a bullet journal but more of a journal where

I can use stamp sets for the pages and leaving room for writing how I

am feeling or maybe nice or things that happen to me or my family.

Or it might just be where I can try different stamping techniques etc.

I hope to come back each Thursday with a new page!!

I hope you will enjoy them.

How I made my cover

1. I'm using a watercolour book with a black cover.

2. Using a piece of all my love dsp I ripped instead of cutting the size required.

I glued this to my cover.

3. Using lovely lipstick and gesso I mixed up the colour I wanted

and splodged onto my dsp, trying to leave the ripped edges white.

4. I punched myself lots of butterflies in plain whisper white card,

sticking each layer one on top of over until I was happy with depth.

5. These were stuck in place and coloured with the gesso mix.

When dry I stamped the butterflies, bodies and antennas.

6. Using the butterfly gala stamp set I stamped some wording here and there

in lovely lipstick.

7. I used the pretty label punch, again punching a few, layering them up

and covering in gesso mix.

8. When dry, I stamped the sentiment from same stamp set and added

some dots round the edge to highlight it using the lovely lipstick marker.

9. I cut the large butterfly from the Springtime Impressions dies

and covered it in a mix of all purpose ink - frost white and lovely lipstick ink.

This gave it a lovely shimmer. I then added some of the deeper coloured gesso

and stuck it to my book cover.

10. I finished by brushing ink round the black part of my cover

and adding some enamel dots here and there. The butterflies where given

a light cover of wink of stella for some sparkle.

I would like to enter this into:

Stamps & fun = creativity - notes (my book)

Allsorts - blossoms, butterflies, bugs

Cut It Up - butterflies and bugs

CRAFT - distress your project

Simon Wednesday  challenge - anything goes

Product List

Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Bundle

[150599]

£33.25

Pretty Label Punch

[143715]

£17.00

All My Love 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[148576]

£10.25

Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies

[146326]

£27.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

£7.50

Glitter Enamel Dots

[146934]

£6.50

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