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.