Recycled book Dayplanner/Journal - 2014

Wow, this was a great project to work on

but my goodness it took time to make it!

Waiting and watching paint drying only makes it take 

twice as long to dry i'm sure! 

I did help it along a bit with my trusty heat tool,

but you have to be patient when working with old book pages, 

they are so dry that they suck up a great deal of the paint, and retain moisture

but i wanted the finished pages to be a bit firm so

I chose specially old books with thick pages.

I mean you couldn't have a dayplanner with flimsy pages, 

it just wouldn't do!

I tryed to document the 'birth' of my planner, and for once whilst

 making a project i think I've managed to capture each stage! 

Could it be cos I am super eager to use my 

Canon EOS 7D

and my gifted  

to dye for  

Canon EF 50mm

ILOVEIT!!

This might be my longest post to date...

SO get your scroller finger ready 

for a workout! 

(want to see an image larger? 

just click on it ;O)

 

well that was my 2.5 inch thick (!) dayplanner.

I ended up using 3 old books and had to really rack my brains

as to how to hold it all together.

Its so damn thick! 

I had orginally decided to use my bind-it-all machine 

but soon found out that the biggest spirals they 

make for the Bind-it-all where going to be WAY too small.

I considered splitting it up into 2 or 4 parts for the 1 year,

but decided it would be easier to keep control 

over dates etc if it was kept as 1 book.

SO the search began to find binding rings that were large enough.....

....not something I manged to source nearby i hastend to add!

These well traveled 3.5 inch puppies arrived on my doorstep the other day

sent all the way from HONG KONG baby!

(and here was I trying to be green!).

Now i'm looking forward to decorating each and every one of the 365 pages,

I'm hoping my boys will help me too.

(A fun way of keeping track of how much they improve on their

writing and drawing skills throughout the year).

Thats all for now folks,

thanks for stopping by :O)

Nina x

Art Journal page - Time

Time to show the next page in my Art Journal.

I had fun making this one,

as I do with all of my pages actually,

but i did enjoy playing around with this one.

I have had some lovley star tissue paper I 

got from panduro ages ago, just lying around 

shouting out to be used.

So I made a wrinkled background with it.

Thanks for
stopping by!

Nina x

Inside cover of Art Jounal nr 4

We've been doing ALOT of drawing and 

colouring in here at home.

My husband sits and draws his designs in his book.

My two boys sit and draw their 'gadget cars'

 and people in their books.

I was inspired by my boys to join in and 

do a kind of childrens type drawing 

in the front cover of my Art journal.

Its really not that easy to remember that the arms 

and legs don't have to be the same legnth.

why bother with a neck?  

Whats that good for?!

Fingers are fingers, 

sometimes there are 5 sometimes there are 3.

'Anything goes and everything is ok' 

 Is what I tell them.

It was fun to hold my drawing pen 

the 'wrong' way 

and colour in 

'trying to control an over eager hand' 

spilling over the edges.

I reccomend giving it a go!

Here's what I drew:

'My family on a sunny day'.

I sprayed/painted the clouds and sun using dylusion spray.

Thanks for stopping by,

Nina x

Art Journal Nr 4

I said I was going to post about this Art journal 

ages ago, well here it is.

I made my new Art Journal out of a old childrens 
book I picked up at a 

secondhand shop a while back.

As I tend to take my journals around with me on holiday etc

I opted to decortate the cover flat 
ie nothing sticking out that could get 

ripped of when taking it in and out of my bag.

I used different washi tapes in strips 
all over the from and back cover.

I had decided to use clear rock candy on the title part,  

to give it a glazed slightly crackled effect

over where I stamped ...

.....'ART JOURNAL'

So I stamped and painted on the rock candy

and whilst it was drying the ink from the stamp started bleeding!

Only slightly at first and then more and more!

So I quickly scraped off the rock candy before it was completly dry and hard,

and just restamped the words.

As you can see some of the rock candy had 
dryed around the edges, 

which I think gives a cool effect as

a kind of shabby frame. 

I rubbed distress ink into the cracks to make them more visible.

The last thing I did was to paint over the washi tape 

with thinned down gesso to 'dampen' the colours of the wasi tape, 

giving it an overall more uniform and shabby look.

I love the tall shape of this journal. 

It measures 13x23cm.

I'll post some of the first pages soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Nina x

 

Art Journal 2. What if your fears...

Here is a finished page in my second and smaller Art Journal.

I have been building up the background for ages,

by stamping my stamps clean on

a gesso prepaired page, before I decided it was ready 

to actually work onI love how the text in the book 

is still visable in some places, and the random stamps.

The sweet house stamps I have painted 

using distress inks are borrowed from Mettepip, 

and are by Dyan.

I am entering this into:

Papirdokkene - Maling/mist. (25/3)

Have a lovely weekend.

Nina.

Art Journal Nr2. Timetravel

Here is a page I made in my Art Journal.

Timetravel.

I really enjoyed playing with lots of acrylic paints,

stamps, an old credit card, washi tape and my Posca pens.

The 'eye of the storm' is a lump of dry paint 

i took off my paint tube.

Its been a while since I entered any Challenges

so I decided to enter this for 

Trykkpressa's monthly challenge

Their theme for January is Time and want to see clocks

 on your project, I think this suits the bill

like a glove.

Travel journals and Washi tape.

Earlier in the year I made a Travel Journal each for my boys,

For them to draw pictures, glue in tickets and leaflets etc.

They were so happy to recieve their very own personal  

Travel Journals!!

Washi Tape..... 

I LOVE IT!!

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT!!

SO EASY TO USE!!

My collection just keeps on growing....

EEK.... and theres more on the way to me as I type.....

Have a lovley week 

Hugs Nina x