Journals to the People: Midnight Garden

 

Midnight Garden

Lurex and blue velvet fabric cover

This is the first of four journals I just mailed off to Lindsey at Nevermore Creations for her Marketplace. There were four digitals required for this particular journal that is part of her first challenge for 2020.

The theme is Peacocks, Blue and Purple

I finally found a use for a paper pad I'd purchased at Michael's a long time ago.

I included some originals and prints of my gelli printed papers.

Journals to the People: Gift Bag Santa (Holiday #5)

This journal was a lot of fun to fumble my way through though it did vex me at the start just trying to manipulate the bag...well the image on the bag... into a manageable book.
 

This became a stash buster/ glue book. I used up a bunch of scrapbook paper odds and ends...

...and used up the remains of my Christmas bits.

For a Christmas curmudgeon this turned out pretty cute I think.

Journals to the People: Angel (or Holiday #3)

 

I have been hoarding this image forever. It was from the cover of a Common Ground magazine, a free publication that I found in my neighborhood coffee shop.

This is another Christmas themed journal for The Marketplace at Nevermore Creations. These journals will be shown on Lindsey Zenor's YouTube channel and listed in her shop sometime in November.

Scrappy booklet

Pages dyed with food coloring

Artymaze digitals

An eco-printed envelope pocket.

Journals to the People: Christmas in October

Whew! If this wasn't the challenge to beat all challenges. The October challenge journals for Nevermore Creations Marketplace is Christmas themed.

Truth be told I'm not a great fan of the holiday season in general. I don't like the dark. I don't like the commercial bombardment and I don't like the pressure, among other things. This year it appears I 

might get a free pass on all of that...well, except for the shorter days.

Anyhoo, I decided to challenge myself and do my best to embrace The Challenge. I took it one journal at a time and looked to explore some new ideas. Six journals later. Done. Yaaay! I have to say this was quite a feat because my Christmas stash is next to nothing.

I made 3 four paneled Travelers Notebook sized books (inspired by Rosemary Morris), 2 "standard" sized ( 5 I/2" x 8 1/2) and the last one was a total experiment, making a cover from a Christmas gift bag with the idea of it being along the lines of a glue book ( light embellishing). That was hard because I love to embellish.

So I'm getting these off to the post office tomorrow and though I keep telling myself I need to move on to the journals I'm making as gifts, I'm seeing a lot of videos that are inspiring me all over again. We shall see...

Birthday Week Stay - cation: Marketplace Journals in Progress

I’ve got four journals in the works to send off to Lindsey Zenor’s Nevermore Creations Marketplace consignment shop by the end of July. In the last couple of days I got all of the machine stitching done on all of the pages and embellishments and then yesterday I sewed all of the signatures in. I haven’t committed to attaching the cover plates nor have they been named.

I’m really in love with this cover! I’ve been hoarding this paper for nearly a year. It was a one-off find from my local S.C.R.A.P. therefore ridiculously cheap, like $2.00 for the 20” x 24” sheet thereabouts. I loved the original olive green color but...anyhoo...by much trial and error and scaredy-cat hesitation I ended up with this cool cover.

I’m using three digital kits with this vintage hot air balloon themed kit as the primary focal.

 I could only manage one printing of each set so I did a lot of deconstruction then reconstruction to stretch them out over 4 books.

  There’s still some detailing to do...perhaps some stamping and stenciling.

Journals to the People: Peacock

 

The Deets:

June Challenge Junk Journal for The Marketplace at Nevermore Creations

Soft (ish) mixed media cover-collaged scrapbook paper, painted and stenciled

5  1/2” x 8 1/2” x 1 1/2”

2 hand sewn signatures 

144 pages

Digital images from Nevermore Creations:

   Wisteria and Hydrangea 

   Wisteria and Roses

   Hydrangea and Butterflies 

   Button Labeled Botanicals

Copies of my original art

Faux handmade paper belly band

Avocado dyed paper

small collages

larger collages

tri -fold tuck ins and Eco-printed tuck spots

more tri-fold tuck ins

so this was a fun collage... I trying to find more ways to use up my mulberry paper scrap stash.

The botanical in this collage is a reduced copy of my original watercolor.

Another copy of my original watercolor. I did some detailing on the copy with Prismacolor pencils and Staedtler Triplus Fineliners.

I managed to include a bit of my embellishment stash. The belly band is an old watercolor background with scraps of decorative napkin decoupaged on top.