Cleaning House

A new period in my life means a new journal. Until reciently, I’ve been creating my collages in a bound volume that was more journal-sized; each page was a bit too small to house the collages, and so, I was working over two pages, meaning there was a seam in the middle. Not only did the book begin to grow thick, but the pages became uneaven because of all the added paper and paint.

In previous trips to Michael’s, I’d seen spiral bound memory books that had pages made out of acid-free card stock instead of notebook paper, and thought it’d make a good journal. Of course, the cover needed to be decorated.

I love image transfers. It makes for fun, vague images that leave more to the imagination then the original. I just had to use one on the cover of this notebook; one of my favorite images, as the cover’s what I’ll be looking at the most! Making the cover was a ton of fun, and tying ribbons on the sides just is a bit of added fun.