One Soul Book Club

I swapped tags with three people in Jenniebellie's August 2022 art swap.  The theme was butterflies. 1. Tulip tag- I printed a black and white image from thegraphicsfairy.com and then colored it with color pencils dipped in vaseline.  I saw this trick on YouTube and it actually worked.  I then glued the tulip to a black and white background and added a sticker from Dollar Tree.  The granite looking background is too dark in my opinion.  I have more of this cardstock- if I do another tag similar to this I would lighten the background with some splatters of white gesso first. 2. Round tag- Printed another image from thegraphicsfairy.com onto paper I had marbled using shaving cream and cheap acrylic paint.  The background is from an experiment in soap bubble marbling.  In true Jennibellie fashion, the green is mesh from a bag of avocados.  I printed the quote onto tracing paper. The tag needed a strong straight line so I chose the gold ribbon as the tab.  However since th

A friend invited me to see Kraftwerk in concert last night (Thanks Glenn!)  The visual effects are in 3D so attendees got 3D glasses.   In order to put the glasses in my journal I made one of my variations of a Paper Outpost pocket.  There's a second, side pocket in the back where I put the ticket info.  I decorated it with the most Kraftwerk-ish choices in my supplies.

 I am currently working on a journal for one of my best friends.  I experimented with a dimensional college for the inside covers.  I am not sure if this was a good idea or not, but lots of ModPodge was used.

Hello, welcome to my very first blog!  Here I will post about bookmaking/ junk journal making experiments.  I am one of those people who as soon as they learn to make something starts messing around with the directions, before mastering the original.  Sometimes the experiment works.  Sometimes it's a complete disaster.