Gelli print mini

I had a fun afternoon printing pretty papers from my Gelli plate, using leaves from the garden as masks but at the end of it I had a stack of papers with no home to go to. This is turning out to be a common thing as I generally get carried away taking prints and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

By folding as simple accordion spine I could glue the pages into the folds until I ended up with a small journal.

An easy construction but now I've got a mini journal or Instagram album.

I added some pink duct tape around the spine to hold it all together and used some of the left over pieces of gelli print papers to die cut shapes. The sentiment on the front is from the Echo Park Capture Life kit.

 What will you make with your Gelli prints?



Jaine x

Sketch book project

 

At the end of May I'm lucky enough (or crazy enough, not sure which) to be going to Austria with my best friend on a week long hike of the Tyrolean mountains. Despite having to carry our stuff in our back packs (real hiking) there's just no way I'll be able to last the whole seven days without journaling it.

I decided the easiest and lightest way was just to purchase a small A6 size sketch book but it was just far too plain and crying out for a bit of a tart up.

An earlier Gelli Plate session had given me some great background fodder so I chose this piece which had an amazing retro feel to it. Just created with two Distress paint colours Peeled Paint and Salty Ocean and a Dina Wakley stencil from Ranger called Mod.

I had originally planned to do lots to this one but on seeing it peeled from the Gelli Plate I fell in love instantly and was reluctant to add anything at all to it.

So it became my starting point to cover my book. To add some detail and interest to my cover I used the Echo Park kit Capture Life which has some brilliant stickers and great papers to layer and also has it's own retro feel.

I think this and a couple of pens will be sufficient and should take up no space at all in my back pack even if I have to throw out something else like a pair of socks!

Jaine x

Travel journal

 I'm off to Portugal in a couple of weeks time and I can't wait. Whenever I go away I like to take a small journal with me and this one was a pre-made one with simple plain pages and bare card covers.  To personalize it a bit more I covered the front and back with some Basic Grey Spice market paper and rubbed some gesso along the edges.

The striped tape running across the front is from My Minds Eye and is from the necessities range which is gorgeous. For the letters I dug out my old faithful Grungeboard which I haven't seen for years!!  If you own a die cutting machine there are plain Grungeboard sheets in the shop too.

Jaine x

Big tag mini journal.

Ha ha it seems to be tag week here!!

 

I love manila tags and to find out that Ranger have made them bigger is fantastic. When I say bigger I mean BIGGER!!

This one is 22 x 10.5cm and it's not the biggest.

I started out wanting to make a decorated tag but given it's size I thought of a tag card which then developed into a mini journal.

I thought I'd emboss it first of all and so started by folding it in half to find the centre.  This way I was able to fit it into my Sizzix embossing folder one half at a time. 

I used a Prima chalk fluid edger in Lime pie to rub over the raised parts of the embossing to show it up and add some zingy colour. 

The inside page is a piece of Glitz Colour Me Happy paper, a doily and some die cut stars. 

The middle pages were coloured using Caran D'Ache Neo Colours  by just scribbling on the page then wetting it. 

This is a closer look at the front where I die cut some flowers from left over scraps of Glitz papers and added a Prima Metal paper clip.

Happy thursday

Jaine x