This and That: Dream

I took a break from the series of challenge journals I’m finishing up for Nevermore Creations Marketplace (see the last pic below) feeling a need to do something with the pile of stuff that didn’t make its way into those books. I switched gears and decided to make this Catch-All.

There was another method to my madness. I wanted to see how long it would take to complete one journal from start to finish. I usually work on several books at a time, completing each phase on all journals before moving on to the next. 

So. No overthinking. No theme. No distraction. No stash shopping. Use what’s already been pulled out.

I figured it would go pretty quickly since I already had both cover and the image plate made, they just hadn’t met yet😉 

I made two fat signatures determined to not re-file anything and find good spots for my extra pockets. I anchored each signature with some gelli printed card stock.

I made some floating pockets and envelopes

The detailing of the “Frankenpaper...

This is a fattie. 172 pages front and back (that’s 43 sheets of paper so 21-22 sheets per signature). The time drain was trimming down the pages.

The up-side to the fattie was that I was able to use a lot of the printed ephemera I’ve been hoarding that I usually find too one dimensional. I love it but find it hard to use on its own. Anyhoo...I was so happy to get it in this book. Staying true to my challenge, my ephemera books were already out😉

These cut apart postcards were from the first paper stack I ever bought from my first trip to Tuesday Morning. So happy they finally found a home. 

A belly band made from a beer box. I bought it because I loved the graphics.

Gelli plate play.

So how long did this take me? Somewhere between 13-15 hours. All day yesterday and about 3 hours this morning.

These are the journals I’m finishing up.

Project Share: Mixed Media Journal Pages

 

In the art bubble today, I've been making these tri-fold tuck-ins for the current series of journals I'm getting ready to send off to Nevermore Creations Marketplace next week.

I printed off copies onto parchment paper and cut them down the center to create stationary pages.

These are the masters 

Gettin' creative with the coffee...

Collage, handmade stamps, stenciling and stitching.

The collaging includes some pieces from my deconstructed sketchbooks.

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!