Journal for Annie Laurie

My niece and I have started a rather delightful pen-pal relationship this spring, and I decided to send her a new journal--it had been a while.  She told me through a series of text messages that her favorite color is grey, and she especially likes it paired with navy and white stripes. I used my twinkling H2O watercolor paints and some masking tape to create the front cover.  The fly-leaves and the back cover are all grey printed papers. The wooden Scrabble letters are glued on with my favorite adhesive for such things: Fusion Glue.  The rubberized leaves (which I bought on clearance back in 2000!) are adhered with Xyron adhesive, and the little felt flowers with navy brads.  I used a grey ribbon for the book mark, and put some alphabet book binding tape on the top and bottom of the binding to help keep it nice.  The pages are graph instead of lined. It turned out pretty cute!

Back in the Studio

Since I am not selling these, I didn't take much care with the photos, but if you click on the image, you should be able to enlarge it well enough to see the details if you like.  I am in the process of building up my own stash of birthday cards, and these were the first ones I made.  I am still working on trying to get rid of old craft supplies, so I rummaged around through many of my little bins to find the pockets and feathers.

I also had a package of 50 metallic smoke colored cards, and a package of 50 pale silver envelopes, both with a leather-like texture on them.  I printed out some "from the desk of tracy miller" insets for the fronts, and now I have a nice set of stationary!  Usually, if I write more than a brief note, I add pages of paper to it, so I wasn't worried about the smaller size.  I think they will be just right.