AMANDA'S BASKETS: JOURNAL MAKING PART TWO

Thursday, June 26, 2014

JOURNAL MAKING PART TWO

Last week I demonstrated how to make a journal with both pages to write on and pages with places to hold keepsakes. Today I will show you how I made a cover.

I began with two pieces of bristol paper which I folded in half using a bonefolder to crease the fold...

I also cleaned and dried egg shells...

I spread tacky glue on the areas I wanted to add egg shells. Once the glue was down, I placed small pieces of the egg shell on the glue and pressed, breaking up the egg shell...

To add color, I painted both the front and back cover with red and white acrylic...

I painted the inside of the covers with white and beige acrylic paint...

Next, I glued drawings which I found in my stack of old papers to the inside cover both front and back...

I sprayed the front and back cover with a gold shiny spray, added a sticker to each page and using a gold pen, I outlined the front cover and added the word Journal...

Finally, I attached both the front and back cover to the accordion spine and added gold to the front spine...

ZENTANGLE CHALLENGE: DAY THIRTY-FIVE

Three more organic designs...

And finally I did add something to my journal page...

Temperatures turned cold throughout the day as the weather promised storms (which did not materialize here). Hope the weather is nice where you live. Thanks for visiting...

See you tomorrow...

CRAFTING IDEAS

I am always looking for a small piece of paper to write down something which will later be disposed of. I decided to use some of the scrap paper of which I have a ton. I mostly use the paper for glueing projects. I decided to cut the paper into a small size. (Six pieces from a piece of copy paper.). But just having them sitting on my desk would get messy without a container. So, using a cardboard box, I cut it down to size and using a hot glue gun I glued the ends together. Using a picture from a magazine cut into pieces and stick craft glue, I glued the pieces to the box inside and out. I also used some decorative tape for the outside edges. And to finish the top corners which were not covered, I used straight pins with colorful tops. Looks nice and works well.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So in looking over your habits what did you find? Some popular good habits folks have are: Meditation, exercise, journal writing, flossing, reading and walking up early. Some not so great habits included smoking, saying yes, swearing, tolerating folks, not sleeping enough, always complaining and constantly making excuses. Do you have more good habits or more bad habits? Is it time to change? If so, start with the easiest bad habit to change, not the hardest. This will give the best chance of success. Decide on the best way for you to change your habit. Worry too much? Set a time to worry and then stop. You may have to stop yourself several times at the beginning but keep it up and you will worry less. Or, alternatively, write the worry down as well as options to stop the problem. Just figure out which way to stop is best for you.