Birthday week Stay-cay wrap up

Back to work tomorrow. I’m ready. It’s been a great week hearing from so many friends and family sending out birthday wishes and just chilling out and indulging myself in my art bubble. 

I have yet to master Procreate and the ins and outs of my new iPad but I’ve navigated through some fits and starts. I’m finishing up a set of junk journals to send out to The Marketplace but the big news is that my first set of “Journals to the People” (in the photo) was listed in  The Marketplace this morning!! Two of them had sold before I had even checked the website. Several hours later the video was up (nerve wracking to watch) and when I checked the website around 6pm they had all sold!

It’s seriously surreal stalking around the internet watching how other people who know nothing about me are responding to my art. What a day!

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.