Hand Made Journals

Hello everyone!

I hope you're having a lovely day and

that you are happy and healthy.

Today I'm showing you a couple journals

that I made recently. 

Mike Deakin is one of the artist/crafters

that I follow on YouTube and he posted

this video showing how to make these 

journals.  As soon as I watched his video,

I knew I had to make some of these journals.

For this cover I used a piece that I had drawn

and colored with colored pencils.

I also learned how to draw these

stylized poppies from another of

Mike's videos. 

This one I used some eco-print background

pieces that I recently made.

These prints were made using some leaves

from a Japanese Maple tree.

I put these eco-prints on both the front and

back of the journal.

One of the things I really love about these journals

is that they open flat, there is, of course, a crease in the

center of the page, but it opens nicely and lies flat.

Making a layout or painting or whatever across the 

2 pages is no problem at all, it isn't interrupted by the binding.

The reason that they open so nice and flat is because

the binding is fabric.  I had some fabric in my stash that

was the right color and that's what I used. 
I love the look of the fabric binding on my journals.

Thanks for stopping by today, if you are interested

in making a journal, I encourage you to watch the

video linked above, it's really pretty simple, you 

can make then any size you want and

they turn out great.

I hope you've been inspired in some way today and

will be returning soon to see what

will be next for

Kristie Kreates.