Geez, that's what happens when you stack months worth of LOs to put in binders and then your kids get home from school and go through the house with cyclonic momentum and pretty soon the stacks aren't stacks anymore and you can barely see the carpet. Ah well, putting LOs in binders is overrated.
I'm participating in a circle journal w/ some friends…mine is ready to pass on! This is the book opened up so you can see the front & back covers…
Front cover…notice I screwed up the stamping, but considering the theme I thought I'd just let it be…
My theme…
My entry:
Disclaimer:
Okay, here we go.
See that there bit of fabric? That's the spine for my book. Normally you'd attach the covers to the spine before you sew in the signature(s), but I was waiting for some gel medium on my covers to dry so I kinda did it in reverse order.
That's the top view of my signature…see how the pages are folded in half?
You need to punch holes (evenly spaced) through all of your pages so you can sew them into the spine. See the holes?
Use waxed linen thread to sew the signature into the spine. I used the running stitch. Look in the center of the spine above & you'll see the black thread. I left the tails of the thread to the front so I can attach some bead & fibery goodness to them later. For more details on bookbinding stitches, I recommend any book by Shereen LaPlantz.
Here's the back cover for my book.
Sew the back cover onto the side of the spine. See how this would have been easier if I had done this before I sewed in the pages? Well, I don't do things the easy way sometimes because I'm impatient. Repeat with the front cover.
Voila, the pages are now in a complete fabric cover. I left enough room in the spine so that I can sew in at least one (maybe two) more complete signatures (which I will work on at a future time…room to grow).
from my "words from mom" art journal…and I promise Jenn that I'll take pics/post directions of how I'm gonna sew the pages into the fabric cover. 🙂
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There I go again, making up words. I have finished the pages of my fabric-covered journal…and have decided not to use the fabric cover I made in the AU class for it. The cover is fun and it was a great learning experience…but the bottom line is it's not my art, it's DJ Pettit's art (we used her sketch on it). So I am going to create something else for my journal…more on that in a bit.
Here's the cover we painted in DJ's class…we traced her image onto artists' tissue paper, and then used Golden matte medium to put the tissue onto cotton duck fabric (on which we had already painted some backround color). The tissue just sort of disappears into the fabric seamlessly. Then we painted the image…so fun.
And um, yeah, I really do sew on everything.
So, on to my journal pages. I'll share a few here & put them all in a photo album (see sidebar). Some of them are a hot mess, some I love…isn't that the way it always goes? The theme of this journal is words of advice to my children…things I want to tell them. I didn't plan for that to be the theme, it just sort of evolved…and I love it.
Sherine had a post on her message board about the 5 things you want to accomplish this weekend. This is what I wrote:
1. Work on my art journal some more.
2. Get the laundry done.
3. Clean, dust, vacuum.
4. Go to breakfast w/ a friend.
5. Finish reading "The God of Small Things."
Now, what I will actually probably do:
1. Go to breakfast with a friend.
2. Vegetate.
Um, yeah.
This is what CJ's hair looks like after he's been at recess (a.k.a. spikes a la sweat & sand)…
Um, yeah.
because the chance to get an inaugural presale subscription to Kenner Road starts tomorrow at noon PST. What is Kenner Road, you ask? It's a vintagey scrapbooking kit (with both paper & digi elements) from the uber talented kl. She's a scrapping & design goddess, and I'm sure her kits will sell out super fast.
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and in between trying to do housekeeping damage control from the summer, I am eeking out more pages for my AU journal…here a couple of peeks…
Challenge 6 is to scrap your likes & dislikes. Check out the Inspired by Amelie blog for all of the projects. Also…there's an open DT spot at the blog…I'm just sayin'. And one of my fave artists, Debee Campos, was our guest designer. She rocks.