I've been toying with the idea of sharing my own art journals here on Monday's. Sharing one (or all) of the spreads I do in a day.
I already have a collection of art journals, but thought I'd make Journal Monday here at A DIY Day even more special by making my own journal for it.
So today, between playing with my boys and going to see Ghostbusters, I managed to make this:
I think it is quite lovely if I do say so myself! But can you guess what it started out life as? Keep reading and you'll find out!
After watching a YouTube video where a woman was challening people to make 5 Junk Journals a week for 5 weeks, I thought I'd like to make one. 5 a week seemed a bit too much for me, but started with 1 seemed okay.
So I ran to my recycling box and I rescued this:
That's right, the base of this beautiful journal was a Kraft Mac and Cheese box!
First I opened up the box and cut off all the tabs like so:
After that I used some prints I had pulled off of my Gelli Plate using a live fern as a mask.
One print was used on the outer cover, the second was used on the inner cover. I used Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue to glue the pages down. I love the fast grab because it sticks quick and I don't have to clamp thing down, but it is SO thick. I think I'm going to try to find a thinner glue next time.
I cut the scraps to fit my book (which is tall and narrow).
I made 4 signatures of 4 pages and each, and bound them in the book using a 3 hole pamphlet stitch. I didn't use waxed thread, I just grabbed some DMC floss in yellow.
The words on the front read "Where I take a break from my day" and they were taking off of a magazine page. I used paint the same colors as the journal cover to take the white off of the wording.
Once it was all said and done I thought I did a pretty good job.
What do you think?
That is really neat. I am going to have my daughter look up art journals on Youtube. I think she will really get in to them.
ReplyDeleteI need to do this! thanks for the ideas.
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