I mentioned in an earlier post that I was working on travel journals for Mother, Aunt, Sister, Brother and DIL. I forget to photo the first four before giving them to my family. I do have photos of the one for DIL.
I played around with journals a few years ago but did not get hooked. My goal was to create something functional, small enough to carry easily when traveling and make something beautiful from junk, scraps, bits and pieces. I think I succeeded.
The base of the journals is Domino brown sugar boxes (I did a lot of baking last year). Four were covered with faux handmade paper.
Brother's journal was covered with scrunched brown packing paper painted to give it a leather look.
The back of the journal.
From this
To this
and this.
The book plate is card stock with brown packing paper, book pages, lined tea-stained paper, tea bags, foil, sentiment, lace and brads. The monogram is from note cards.
The right side has a paper ruffle made from paper off cuts, and a button made from cardboard, glue, tissue paper, paint and glaze.
The pages inside the journal are tea stained. The embellishments are cut from magazines or old books or maybe just stitching. There are pockets and an envelope for tucking in receipts, tickets, itinerary, photos. There is a removable pen holder and a writing board.
This was a Trash to Treasure project. I loved the process of staining paper, using bits and pieces and things that would usually go into the garbage.
I had most of what I used. I did buy a pad of card stock, some ink for my stamp pad, lace and large eye needles. I have lots of scrapbook paper from other projects, lots of boxes, envelopes, paint, beads, lace and fabric scraps.
Next, I will make a small pocket journal and larger journals with a thicker spine and room for more signatures and dimensional embellishments.
. It's along the back edge of the machined top seam.
