Recycle jeans part 2

Another fun drama free Friday with Barb Owen. This time we created this fun little journal with sewn in pages. A first time for me to create a booklet with signatures and so on.

If you feel like making one hop over to Barbs website and have a look at the many inspiring creative projects. How To Get Creative - Barb Owen


 Materials I used are;

• Old pair of jeans 
• We are memory keepers - Crop A Dile
• Eyelets
• Sizzix Bigz Die Tim Holtz - Tattered Florals
• Twine, fabric, button

My Travel Smash Book

The Smash Book idea is from K & Co, they introduced it in 2011. Unfortunately I have not been able to get my hands on one of their books... so... I made my own version.

ATC booklet

Creating ATC's is a great way to praktice new techniques, I love making them and I started swapping them too. But where do I keep my swaps?

I made this little booklet using the Graphic 45 collection Tropical Travelogue... don't you just loooove the colours (my favourite Turquoise!). The covers are made from chipboard covered with the paper on the outside, for the inside I used embossed and painted cardstock.

The pages/pockets are made with Bazzill Kraft cardstock. The Tropical Travelogue is a beautiful collection and with the Lumiere paint I used to make the inside cover a perfect match.

Materials I used are;
Graphic 45 - Tropical Travelogue 8x8
Lumiere paint - Pearl Turquoise,  Halo Violet-Gold
Tattered Angels - Regal Ornate Frames
Bazzill - Kraft cardstock
7 Gypsies - metal corners
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder 5x7" - Deb Devine

Simplicity!

Just finised a new journal spread :)

New journal pages

My art journal - I started in October 2009 - is almost full... for most drawing I used watercolour pencils, Derwent Aquatone, Faber Castell Pitt pen and Uni Ball Signo.

Hope

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

Happy Thoughts

My new moleskine...


I had a bit of a down day and started to cheer myself up with positive words from A to Z. I never compose something this busy but it worked :)

I used watercolour pencils and a FC artist pitt penn.

Freedom

I know why the caged bird sings

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
can seldom see through his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
of things unknown but longed for still
and his tune is heard on the distant hill
for the caged bird sings of freedom

Maya Angelou

To see within

More pages in my 'Soul' art journal.

To live your life

My first art journal (Cachet by Daler Rowney) which I started November 2009.