GREAT analogy - a book a hobbit would own. You have captured the mystery of imagination which forces our minds to think outside the box. Just adore this!
GREAT analogy - a book a hobbit would own. You have captured the mystery of imagination which forces our minds to think outside the box. Just adore this!
I'm not sure I have the words to express how magnificent this is. Reading your description and seeing the beauty of this book in the photo just reinforces to me what a skilled artist you are.
This entire project is amazing!!!! Love the pages (kudos to your DH!) and the stitching.... And your covers, with all of the layers of process and just jaw-dropping!!!!
Well, I wish I could've been there to watch you do all that because I don't really understand all that jargon you used!! LOL Sounds very complicated and fascinating! Definitely mixed media work. I'm anxious to see the finished product. Is this the project you wanted some of my lace flowers for?
Came in for another look, I just love love the coffee stained pages!!!
If hubby does Any tea bag staining, I'm sending my papers to you! LOL....
Hugs:)
Oh my goodness, just reading the process for the cover made me tired, but love how it is turning out!! I love that your hubby helped with the coffee stained pages. This will be a work of art when it is done to treasure. Looking forward to seeing the end results!:)
This journal is a project that I am still working on. I finished sewing my signatures yesterday and attached them to my cover. I was so excited about the way it is turning out that I thought I would share what I have done thus far. Moreover, my dear friend Laura was anxious to see what my coffee stained pages look like. I made the covers for the journal using strips of plaster gauze over cardboard. I then painted the cover. The next layer to be added was bees wax with damar resin (encaustic medium). After it was coated in wax I did some mark making in the wax. I then used some raw umber oil paint to fill the marks, nooks and crannies, etc. after wiping away the excess oil paint I Heated the surface with a heat gun to fuse the paint into the wax. I added some white oil paint to highlight some of the ripples and the area where I wanted to put my focal image. I added another layer of wax and pressed my image into the wax. The image was torn from rice paper by Ciao Bella. I added one more coat of wax over my Image and sealed it by heating.
The first photo shows the spine of the journal, back and front. I used butterscotch waxed linen to sew my signatures together with Coptic stitch.
The second photo show the page view of the journal. I alternated signatures with coffee stained paper and signatures of Ciao Bella Brocatto Estense scrapbook paper, to which I have added pockets and envelopes. I am in the process of finishing the pages adding lace, journal cards, tags, etc. I decided to post a pic of this side unfinished because I just love the look of the curly coffee stained pages unembellished. The color of the pages was the inspiration to use the Brocatto Estense paper because the blue looks beautiful with the coco brown. Note: my DH made most of my coffee stained papges for me as he was working in the kitchen.
This project was inspired by the work of Nellie Wortman. If you happened to see the journal I posted a few days ago you will note that the style of this journal is so completely different. This one feels like a book that a hobbit would own. I will post the finished journal in a few days.
Thanks for looking. I truly appreciate your comments.
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