Round Robin Journal

Well, I didn't get any arty stuff done while I was camping. Nothing new. My friend didn't show up till 7:30 pm then we had dinner and after that it was just too late to pull everything out. So today I worked on one of the projects I wanted to do while I was out there. It's a journal for a round robin doll I'm doing - a Flat Stanley kind of thing.

I had bought a journal for $1.00 at Michaels, it had a blue polka dot cover with a little transparent window. Behind the window was this:

Way too cutesie for me! I forgot to take a photo of the cover before I started, but you get the idea. So I ripped the paper off the inside of the cover and removed the gardening illustration. I glued a vintage photo of a Parisian showgirl on some cardstock and made that the new window. Then I used a sponge and stamped the cover with a Distress Ink in brown. While that was still wet I laid down a coating of Golden's Gel Medium on the cover and pressed violet tissue paper over it. The gel medium acts like a glue. The ink blended with the gel medium and bled through the tissue paper. Very cool effect. When it was dry I sponged some pink dye ink over it. Finally I used a Krylon gold paint pen to outline the edges of the window and the edges of the cover. I did the tissue paper/ink thing to both sides of the cover - and the back cover too.


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I like it. Now I just I have to figure out what to write in it!