“Mom, would you make a journal for my trip to Mexico?”  Gee, let me think, YES! It was a rush job to get her journal and ones for our other friends on the trip, but I got it done!  I’ll put together a tutorial on the mechanics later in the week.

The journals all begin as old library books. 

I start with stacks of various types of things to insert into the book.  Tags, pages to write on, money envelopes, die cuts, scraps, plastic pockets, mini file folders, really, anything I have on hand.  Since my daughter is prolific writer I made sure she had plenty of places to write. The bumpier things tend to go in the beginning so it is easier/smoother to write on the later pages.

I am becoming more aware of the little touches that make a piece of art look more polished.

Here is my theater from the last post.  I liked it overall but I felt like something was missing.

After a few details with Pitt Pens.  The yellow outlined the words but then I smeared a grey around the yellow.  I also wanted a bit of color on the green edges – so I smeared a touch of grey around it.  Love that Pitt Pens will be stay wet long enough to rub it around.   It was subtle – just what I wanted.