Happy holidays everyone! I have a project that took two videos to make! I love making art journals and have made lots of them. What makes this one different is that I use the old book paper for the inside of the journal. In the first video, I make book cloth using lots of stencils and a few different sizes of Gel Press® Plates to create a colorful cover. In the second video, see how the book cloth is attached to an old dictionary book and how I prepare the book to become an art journal.
Video 1:
Video 2:
Front Cover
Back Cover
Inside Cover
Front Cover
Here are some other creative uses for book cloth:
Die-cut into flowers and layer to use as 3-D embellishments
Cover a lampshade
Sew into a brush or pencil holder
Cover a box
Make a cloth journal
See more ideas on Pinterest HERE (I especially love the "quiet book" idea for children)
I would love to hear your ideas for using book cloth. Please leave a comment below.
No matter how you may feel, there is always something to be grateful for. I recently saw a video where American olympic skater, Scott Hamilton, talks about how he is handling the return of a brain tumor. Watch the video Here. His positivity is something to strive for!
I made this little accordion card to inspire myself to be grateful no matter how I may feel. Find out how I printed with real leaves to make this card in my video.
Here are the quotes:
Find something to be grateful for today.
“The first thing I teach skaters at my skating academy is how to get up — because we’re going to fall,” Hamilton says. “And that’s how I live my life: I’m going to fall down, I’m going to make mistakes, I’m going to do all kinds of things that I’m going to wish didn’t happen. But it’s what’s next — it’s how you get up … The more times you get up, the stronger you are to face the next thing, which will happen — because that’s life.” Scott Hamilton
