Hello everyone, lovely to have you drop by here! Can you believe the month of May is nearly halfway over already? With the weather turning ever warmer, I sometimes love to do little sketches outside, and needed a little journal that is easy to just pop in your bag or even a large pocket.
I found a template online on Marion Smith's site (so I can't share it but you could check it out if you are interested) and then started to think how I could decorate it with Artistic Stamper stamps. The template itself is for a little wallet type booklet to be used for recipes or similar, but I decided to make it into a little journal instead.
I copied the template onto strong card and then used some
Graphics 45 French Country paper to cover the different panels.
Next I stamped one of the stamps from the
Architecture 3 set in
Sepia Archival ink, cut it out and adhered it to the front of my little journal together with a decorative brad.
The inside was covered with a piece of scrapbook paper from my stash. I then created a little booklet out of
Ranger Water Colour Cardstock, as this is so thick I could only fit in one signature, but that is alright, it is only meant to be a little journal.
Below you can hopefully just see how I stitched it straight into the cover.
The flap, which is also the closure was further enhanced by stamping the word Artist Journal from the Classics 1 set by Tim Holtz.
For the back of the little journal I stamped two further images from the Architecture set in sepia, cut them out and adhered them to the cover.
The booklet closes with a little magnet
Once it is filled, it will be easy enough to create another one. Well, hope you like it, I am sure it would be easy to do something very similar with a # 12 manila tag.
I die cut two decorative corners for the front and coloured them with the same ink and of course I also inked around all the edges of the journal as you probably saw.
Thank you for visiting and stay inky!
