You make me smile

Journal page created from the 3rd prompt at Journal 52 : You Make Me Smile. Started with a page begun in Taupo last year

and the page evolved to be full of many of the things that make me smile and appear often in my journal pages. Click on the photo for a closer look.

Flowers, butterflies, feathers, transparent layers, stamping, peacocks, turquoise, pink, gelli printing, tape, curves, tissue, music, words, and cards from friends that I can cut up and put in my art - all come together to make a layered page of things that make me smile.
Hope you find lots to make you smile this weekend.

Work diary transformed

I was really tempted to take part in the free Documented Life Project this year - the planners they are working in look so yummy.

Then I reminded myself that I already do my weekly calendar journaling, and it would be silly to split my energies and be repeating this process in my home appointment diary.

Happily, I've just started a new job and got this diary for my work planning and appointments.

One night's play with my tape stash and a Bic white-out correction pen and now I have a work diary that will make me feel happy every time I open it :-)

Colourful sari ribbon stitched over the original
black ribbon place marker

Watercolour Journal Cover

As I showed you in my last post, I have started my next calendar journal on a pad of watercolour paper.

The only problem with using this is the glossy paper front which isn't going to be any good as a cover. Problem easily solved because this pad is spiral bound and I have options!
Step 1 : Take a piece of Pelmet Vilene and paint or spray it as desired. I'd created this piece last year with ink sprays and stencils just for fun, and it was waiting for the perfect project

I like the sparkle where I added glitter to the heart and leaves

and the inks I used bled through to the back which are a lovely effect for inside a book cover

Step 2 : Bend the teeth of the spirals out enough so that you can remove the covers

Step 3 : trim down the Pelmet Vilene to size (I trimmed it so 1/4 inch bigger than page measurement so will only be about 1/8 inch bigger all around) then clip the paper cover to the Pelmet Vilene and using that as a guide, use a stiletto to pierce holes in the Pelmet Vilene.

Step 4 : Thread the new Pelmet Vilene cover over the open teeth, and then the Cardboard for the back cover. Squeeze spiral binding together and you have a completed journal.  

Completed front cover

Inside front cover

Inside back cover spiral all back together

Really happy with the look and feel of this.