In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.
Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.
I'm not sure why I put candles on the page - I just knew I wanted to use the washi tape!
I found various Bible verses about promises and printed out four of them.
Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019. Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post. We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.
Yesterday I went to my local crop. A crop is a gathering of people - usually ladies - who make scrapbook pages. Except that I don't scrapbook anymore so I took my journals to finish. The pages of which featured here.
I ended my last post with this photo of the signatures I had put together.
I divided the 4 signatures into 5 and decided to make two journals - one with 3 signatures in and one with 2. I followed the course instructions (well almost!) and made the cover like a duvet cover. And it was just as difficult to get the stiffening into the cover as getting a duvet into a duvet cover!
So for the second one I decided to have raw edges and not worry about it.
Here's the first one with ribbon machined on for the closure tie.
And the signature stitches on the spine.
This one just has ribbon tied round it. I might stitch it to the cover!
Here's a flip through of the two journals. I went to great lengths to film it so it wasn't wobbly like last time and yet this is the one that YouTube offered to remove the wobbly bits from!
And while I was at the crop I also stitched some more of my 'Tulip' Book - an online class from Ineke Berlyn. But I'll leave that for another post.
It's been a little while since I last posted. I have been so busy but nothing actually completed that I could blog about.
I've been working on Altered Book class for His Kingdom Come and wanted to design some Thermofax screens for it. Shonna kindly drew this for me and this and the other designs she did are currently at the makers.
I've been working on a book study for His Kingdom Come which starts in May. we are going to read The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer together.
And I've been working on a new collaborative class that the Foundation Team are going to put together when we meet up next month in Florida. How exciting is that!
So all in all, I have been exceedingly busy and nothing to show you for all my work.
Last year I took part in a Junk Journal Swap organised by Sandie Cottee. When my pages came and all the amazing bits and pieces I didn't know what to do with it. I knew how to assemble a Junk Journal - I just didn't know what I would use it for and so it got put to one side. Last week a new online friend, Angie, introduced me to an online class called Remains of the Day. And at last I could see what I could do with all the pages an ephemera Sandie had sent me. I resisted buying the class for all of an hour!
So as an antidote to all of the stuff going on above I jumped in and started the class. I found all the pages that I'd been sent in the swap.
I gathered together lots of bits of paper - you know the sort that's too
good to throw away but not big enough to do anything with.
And these bits of scrapbooking cardstock that were cut off some other project.
I sewed these strips together to make pages that are 8 inches by 6 inches when folded.
I sewed bits of paper on the sides.
I sewed lots of pieces on all over the place. I have 28 pages so that's 56 sides and that's a lot of photos - so here are the pages in a rather wobbly video.
Here are few of the pages.
I also included some of my gelli prints and pages where I had cleaned stencils!
I added bits of fabric.
I divided the 28 pages into 4 sets of 7 for the signatures of the book.
But put together they make a book around 3 inches thick. So now I'm wondering whether to make 2 books instead.
I love the process of making things rather than the finished thing. This journal or journals was a satisfying process because I didn't think I just bunged stuff together. I could probably do the same thing with glue and doublesided tape rather than the sewing machine.
And as for the pages I've made. Well, they're not very me and I don't know whether I will ever use it. Still, I have been very creative and that's what matters.
I decided to take up Sandie Cottee's invitation to take part in a Junk Journal swap. You can find out more information about how to do it here. There's still time for you to sign up.
First I made my covers. I used the board from the back of an art pad and stuck scrapbook paper on it.
These are the inside of the covers.
I thought this project would be a good opportunity to use up some of my scrapbook cardstock stash. Here are the 5 double-sided pages that I haven't altered.
And here are the pages I altered.
And the other sides.
And I put together a little collection of bits and bobs to send as well.
I hope whoever receives my pages in their junk journal enjoys using them.
All I need to do now is package them up and post them off to Sandie.
