Floral Follies

 

It’s been awhile since I’ve made one of these. These repurposed books are slightly larger than what I’ve been doing but I should do more. I like the extra real estate and the variety of page sizes staggered throughout.

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Re purposed book, covered with batik fabric,  9” x 6 1/4” x 1 1/4”, 104 pages

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Among the Wildflowers

I'm clearly a little obsessed with the wildflower die cuts. The soft cover is another mixed media base that has been coated with gel medium. I think I may have given this a spray coat of acrylic as well. The spine is reinforced with painted Tyvek. It's approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", single signature with 60 pages.

There are several bits of handmade embellishments including some bubble printed index cards and guest checks which have been collaged.

Most of the pages have been dyed or sprayed

  

Moon and Six Pence

Well, this has got to be one of my favorite journals. I love the layered cover art and the garter band. I got the garter band idea from  Jessica Rapp’s YouTube channel. She’s a big fave of mine. I love her stuff. I’ve purchased 2 journals from her and several of her French ephemera bundles (which I really have to stop hoarding).

The cover is decoupaged sewing pattern tissue over collaged cardstock then sealed with antique tinted gel medium and the spine is reinforced with painted Tyvek.

 

The medallion is a vintage metal shank button on a Tim Holtz chipboard ephemera

piece on a cluster of distress stained lace and cheese cloth.

Most of the digital pages have been sprayed with either coffee or inky water on the reverse side.

I love the bleed through from an ink jet print.

There are several pieces of hand dyed papers

I believe there's about 64 pages front and back in this journal so there's a lot of space to write and art on.

Bubble printed guest checks with a woven paper cluster and mixed media postcards.   
 

 

A Beautiful Day

I use an inkjet printer and have embraced the bleed thru when the digital page gets wet. I usually spray them with a coffee solution, then stack them and leave them to dry which creates the effect shown on the left side of the page. It also softens the original image on the front.

The purple index cards and guest checks were bubble printed using inky water and dish soap