Journals to the People #4: "Create"

Part 4 in my documentation of journals sent to Lindsey Zenor's Marketplace.

The Deets:

Soft cover  "Frankenpaper"

collaged pocket on the cover decorated with a cluster

5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
single signature
96 pages
Handmade ephemera

Cover lined with batik fabric. Lots of collage.

Coffee dyed/decorated index cards for jotting down brilliant ideas.
Avocado dyed papers for more thoughtful meanderings or doodles.

This jumbo tag was fun. It's an old watercolor background experiment gone wrong, covered in decorative napkin scraps and embellished with a fiber/button cluster. Still a hot mess but kinda cool.

I had pretty good success at my first attempt at dying paper with food coloring. I unearthed a very old box of Wilton food coloring with 8 different colors.The bird is stamped on a tri-fold piece of paper with a very organic looking mottling of pink and green. Love it. Probably couldn't achieve that again if I tried.

Journals to the People:#3-Explore

The Deets:

Hard cover repurposed book covered with batik cotton
layered cover plate with ecoprinted paper, handmade paper and raw silk
raw silk tie closure
Art journal
2 sewn signatures
6 1/2" x 9 1/2" × 1"
92 pages
Misc. Art papers
Somerset Studios pages
Avocado dyed papers
Handmade stamp charm hanging on the cover

hand made ephemera including a lot of collaging

Somerset Studios magazine pages here and there

a floating pocket collaged and machine stitched

art tissue dyed envelopes

several art museum postcards

matchbook style tiny sketch book

Journals to the People: #2-Le Deauville

This is the second journal preparing to go to The Marketplace. I'm calling this "Le Deauville", from the photograph plate on the cover. It's one of my original  photographs from a trip to Paris many, many  years ago. It's a completely eclectic book.

The Deets:
Single signature
Soft cover
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
96 pages
"Frankenpaper" ( aka paper crazy quilt) cover
Anything Goes/ no theme
Handmade ephemera

All of the scrapbook paper in this book came from my last trip to my local S.C.R.A.P., the creative re-use center. This resulted in a mash-up of papers I would never have put together (or ever bought for that matter). It's pretty cool.

I love this journal!

Journals to the People #1: Magical

 This will be the first in a series of several journal shares as I prepare to send off journals to Lindsey Zenor's Marketplace.
She has a website "Nevermore Creations" which includes a consignment shop.
These posts are essentially meant to archive my ideas so I can remember what I've done.

The Deets:
Anything Goes/Hybrid

Re-purposed book
5.25"×8.5"×1.5
3 signatures
136 pages
Decoupaged napkin cover with a layered front plate
Fabric covered spine

 Original arty paper backgrounds
Handmade ephemera
Art book pages
Assorted art paper
Graph paper
Ledger paper
Lots of collage!

Did I mention collage?

The end...but stay tuned!