Here's a bunch of pics that give you a better look at the finished giveaway journal. I've captioned most of them, but if there's no caption, it's a pic of the inside pages.
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Beginning to bind using some pretty turquoise thread I got while visiting Julie in San Diego. |
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Finished spine. |
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Detail of cover. Dress tissue, spray ink thru stencils, black paint, gesso, collaged bits of paper, paint stamps with bottle caps and tape rolls, gesso thru stencils, black stamping. Used a lot of techniques on the covers and no particular plan, just added stuff till it looked good to me. |
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Inside front cover and first page. Both inside covers are mostly vintage papers. |
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I added a small envelope with a painted tag. |
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Sprayed this with two colors of Dyelusions ink and got some real pretty color blending. |
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Inside back cover with a couple detail shots below. |
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Those bits of advertising are from a 1946 Popular Mechanics. Wonder how well the 'poems set to music' guy did? |
What a great journal!!
ReplyDeleteI hope he wrote one or two songs for those poems, at least - hahahaha! Beautiful journal - those of you who craft with paper amaze me! Happy Tuesday - Tanya
ReplyDeleteVery neat techniques.
ReplyDeleteAll this is so CREATIVE!
ReplyDeleteWow - what an amazing journal! and lucky recipient. I like that your put a little pattern/color on each page but left plenty of white space for writing or additional work of their own. Beautiful job!
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