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.   
 

 

Blooms and Botanicals

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I had a day to indulge my creative mojo, inspired by this lovely journal I bought from Nikki Adegun aka Musings by Nikki:

I’ve been wanting to make some nature journals and I was fortunate enough to catch her flip-thru video just as her YouTube posting appeared and nabbed this beauty. I can spend hours and hours watching crafting videos and journal flip-throughs, but there is nothing like having your hands on the tangible piece of art.

I had to study her book really closely to figure out how she made her cover, very different from my work. So here’s my take on Nikki’s journal:

Journals to the People: “Josephine”

 

Josephine is one of my mixed media soft cover journals approximately 8 1/2” x 5 1/2”. This is getting ready to mail off to consignment at Nevermore Creations 17.

It's an eclectic journal. No theme, just stuff I like.

The food imagery is from "A Year at Chez Panisse", a very popular local restaurant.

Several digital collections were used.