journal fever ~

MarveLes Art Studios Blogs, Mixing It Up 2 Comments

hi there everyone,

with the big wedding over, this past weekend found me playing around for couple hours messing around in the studio, and well… making a {bigger} mess!

i was in the mood to make some journals, as i received a couple new stencils, from stencil girl products, and i was anxious to try them out.  {great sale, thanks mary beth}.  just a few new ones, and i’m always a sucker for word stencils, etc. i do have a wonderful collection of styles, textures, and images. and it was a great time to pull them out and start messin’ around with paint.

i also pulled out some gelli plate prints from my paper stash {always good to have them ready!}, some thermofax screens, hand-carved stamps, and more for lots of layering.  it a bit of a feverish sprint, just like jungle fever, but without the mosquitos!

and the substrate was just a simple composition notebook.  i think they sell these for around $1-$2 each 
at office supply stores.  
i have tried printing to the cover of these journals, straight from the gelli plate… but it’s not turned out to be something i like the look of.  even if i paint them first.  so i’m covering these with my handmade paper prints:

 i traced around the front cover of the notebook, and then used collage page {a type of decopauge glue} i’ve purchased from joann’s fabric stores to adhere them to the front.  i love this one:

 this one came from my hand-carved rubber stamp:

 and i cut out several stamped images, too.  this flower happens to be designed/from roben-marie.

 as you can see… it creates quite a bit of messy chaos! {time to reorganize, as soon as i retire!

 and this will be a fun blend with this back journal cover:

i hope you’ll be sure to come by in a couple days, and see the finished journals, embellished, doodled, and ready to send out to a couple friends, or maybe i’ll have some to list in the shop, too. {christmas is coming!!}  

have a happy day ~
les

Comments 2

  1. What a great idea; this is perhaps what I need to do for my sketch book to make it more exciting to actually pick up and USE!

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