Journal for Dorothy

This journal just made its way to the post office today, headed ultimately (fingers crossed) to my cousin in Canada. The cover is decoupaged with spent strips of bleeding art tissues that I had used to dye some of the pages within. I used matte gel medium to apply the tissue, added a layer of glossy gel medium, then coated it with gloss acrylic spray. I had made several of these covers on 12x 12 cardboards from frozen pizza boxes. The cover decoration is a die cut negative mounted on one of the off cuts from one of the other covers.

 

I included several of my collaged cards, some local postcards, and family photos.

Papers colored with bleeding art tissue

Most of the pages are not embellished though I did go back and add stenciling before dashing out to the post office

Moon and Six Pence #2

 

Mixed media cover with a painted Tyvek spine reinforcement, decorated with layered book pages and wildflower die-cuts.

I included several tissue dyed papers.

Collaged pockets which includes a hidden journaling card.

I clipped in some printed images from an ephemera pack I purchased at Shein.

I love this book garter closure.

Thunderbird: A Journal for Elaine

 

This is one of a pair of journals I created for my cousins, mother and son. This is the more decorative of the two. The cover measures about 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and about 72 pages front and back. The artwork is a collage of colored tissue pieces and the eagle represents her spiritual name "Thunderbird Woman". The charms are an eagle wing, two different turtles and the 4th is the Tree of Life.

Many of the images and decor represent the First Nations reserve where they live in Northern Ontario. The photograph is of the Moose River taken by another cousin (Martha).  I totally lifted this off of Marthas FB page. I hope she doesn't mind.

A pocket made from a piece of my junk mail that a bunch of useless coupons came in. I decoupaged some bingo cards cuz well...its Bingo!

Yup...I went a little "Extra" with the feathers LOL.

I used several digital images from ETSY creator Elsie Bells Bookshelf.

My own collage art

Mother and son.

Flight: A Journal for Josiah

 

This was created as a gift for a cousin, a young man of 18 as requested by his mother. I’ve made a couple of guy journals for my nephews and I keep these fairly free of embellishments and decoration.

We are indigenous.

This has a hint of a travel vibe.

The bulk of the pages are plain but not white. I created a bunch of hand dyed papers using avocado, inks, tea, and coffee.