Fun and functional Journal

Journals make a great addition to your home or office, and also a fabulous gift for any and all reasons.  This started as a small school notebook with lined pages.

I primed the cover with white Gesso, then applied Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains lightly, using the brayer and foam blending tool to give it a soft base of color.  Once it was dry I took a few colors of distress ink and blended that in where I wanted more color.  Then came a mix of stamps.  The Toad was heat embossed with a metallic black powder, the powder also sprinkled around the toad to give some depth - love the effect.  I used other stamps randomly on the page, let dry, added some more distress ink with my foam blending tool.  Had tons of fun!

Here's a close-up.  To add a bit of extra texture I stenciled a bit randomly, using 3D ink (Paper Effects, from DecoArt), and also used a bit of silver foil sheets to rub on here and there, and added some metallic studs as well.  

I adhered the fun fairy tag, book page piece and flowers with clear texture gel - which is an absolutely amazing product to use for this purpose.  Then I did a bit more blending with distress inks. Love how everything turned out!

The inside pages were sprayed with Distress Stains and stamped very simply.  Every page is a bit different, some stamped with butterflies or dragonflies.

This little book will make a great garden journal, just need to decide if I want to give it away or keep it for myself.....





Products used:

Hillroy notebook
Studio Gesso by Claudia Helmuth (Ranger)
Distress Spray Stains and Inks by Tim Holtz (Ranger)
and Ranger Archival Ink
Paper Effects 3D ink from DecoArt
Liquitex Gel Medium
Stamps from Stampendous, My Favorite Things and Technique Tuesday
Stencils from Crafters Workshop
BoBunny Paper
Prima Marketing Flowers
Bling from Studio G and metallic studs from Queen & Co.

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