Re-emergence and Journaling

Hello again, it has been a while (ages, more like it…). I hadn’t planned for such a long break, but well – life happened, you know how it is… But here I am, stretching my creative mind\fingers again and hoping to share some of my ideas with you.

I usually don’t share things from my shop, but lately my mixed media experiments made their way there and I thought some of you might be interested in the process, so here we are!

Today I’m sharing my latest launch: journals.

They are basically altered notebooks and I just LOVE making them! There are endless possibilities and each one comes out completely different.

There’s Night Shimmer, that has a lot of texture and dimension and a dreamy quality thanks to the metallic gleam and sleepy moon.

The cat lover in me (oh, about 120%...) melts before this curious kitty, and I do love the colourful background, makes me think of the Cheshire Cat, even if it looks completely different from the familiar imagery.

The Golden Mandala journal has lovely texture and metallic sheen. Though it may not seem so, all the elements on the cover are paper, it’s amazing what die cutting and paint can do.

Vintage Rust is… well, rusty. I love the texture on this one, and the colours, there are so many layers I’m not sure I remember them all... It was so much fun making the little closure belt, it went through a LOT to get that used look... LOL

And finally – Faery Dance. I’m not a glitter girl, but a magic journal needs some glimmer, it’s the rules. The background texture was created with a mixture of glitter paste and paints, and I have to admit I really love the result. It subdues the glitter a bit, giving it a dreamy quality, but there’s still enough shine coming through and it catches the light beautifully, changing colour in different angles. I tried to catch it on camera a million times, but no luck… The leafy frame is a die cut and I like the fact that the shape can be understood as an opening in the greenery or a magical mirror showing the little fairies enjoying the night.

I used a whole selection of products: Distress Oxide inks, Finnabair waxes and molds, Nuvo pastes, dies from Tonic, Tim Holtz and Birch Press Design, some stamps from Visible Image and Hero Arts, among others. The list is quite long, but I’d be happy to give more details if you’d like.

One of my favorite things about making these journals is thinking how people would fill them: notes from lectures? Bullet journal? Art journal? Poems? Dreams? Recipes? Memories? 

I do love a pretty notebook. It gives a special air to whatever you write inside, even if some of it are shopping lists... ;)

Till next time 

xx