Friday, October 18, 2013

Travel Journal

                                                                Travel Journal
                                                                   (in process)

These are the stacked signatures for one of the journals I am putting together for me and my sister.  Nothing is sewn together yet and I haven't done the front and back covers.  I am only taking pictures of one journal because they are pretty much the same.  There are a few details that differ in each book.  The teal page is like velvet and I embossed it but you can't really see it in this picture.  It really looks cool in person.
I didn't want to take a picture of every page because they are not complete I just stuck different papers together.  The bright red is an envelope that I sealed and cut a sliver off to make it a pocket.  It was a long envelope I folded it in half  so there will be another pocket on another page. The other journal has a teal envelope in this spot.
 
 
 
 This is a waterfall section as you flip through you can either add photo's here or journal till your hearts content.
This is a side shot of the waterfall section.
 
This is the back side of that waterfall section.

 

I had to hold this down because it wouldn't lay flat.
This red paper was cut using the "on the edge" die

This is a pocket (not complete) I put the paper in the pocket to show but it didn't really show well.

I really like this section.  I stamped on a transparency and love the look of it.


This is what you see when you flip the transparency up.  It is held together with a fastener and the papers waterfall but are all connected by the fastener at the top.  I made a score line at the 1/2 inch mark so the pages will all flip up easier.
I put this paper to show the red is a pocket.  You can't see it but I embossed leaves on this red velvety strip.

This is the opposite end of the red paper from the 5th picture above.

I think I am done adding signatures to this.  There will be 4 (I think).  I need to figure out what covers I will be making so I can get this sucker sewn together.  I still have some tweaking to do but this is the main idea.

These are some trinkets that I have been playing with and plan on incorporating a few into the journals. The disc's are not finished yet.  I want to put some crackle paint on them.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Shrinky dink charms

I have not been motivated to do much of anything craft wise.  I wish I had someone to craft with.  Oh well I guess I need to just shut up and start posting here.  I attempted these shrinky dink charms dipped in melted UTEE.  Here are the end results.


so something went wrong with trying to post the other pictures. I will try later.