Here is a great handmade gift idea for someone in your life that loves to watch birds. A blank journal like my sample provides places for notes, sketches, photos, memorabilia and more. Here is how to make one.
First download my free template, Square 6×6 Journal. Print it out and use it as a guide.
Cut out two pieces of chipboard for covers. Make a collage of bird related images for the front cover. Cover edges of cover with decorative paper. Cover inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover with decorative paper.
To assemble front cover, cut out a piece of acetate and punch small holes. Punch small holes in front cover collage and attach to cover with brads. Make pockets and attach to both inside covers with double sided tape. Cut out a number of pieces of cardstock for inside pages. Embellish with brayered backgrounds, sponged backgrounds, decorative papers, Project Life cards and rubber stamps. Punch holes in all pages and covers and compile together with binding rings. Open rings and add new pages as needed.
Here are some sample page spreads to give you ideas for the interior pages.
Stamps: Small word stamps are from Carolyn’s Stamp Store, other stamps are from 7gypsies.
Here are links to other products you can use for this project:
Where do all those fantastic sampts come from? Which countries I mean? I live in Canada. Beautiful country. Worlds most boring sampts. Do you have penpals that send them to you? I’m literally swooning over them!
The journaling word stamps come from my own catalog –
http://carolynsstampstore.com/catalog/unmounted-stamps-journaling-planner-words-p-1264.html
The bird and egg stamps, the word “Beautiful”, the pointing hand and the “line” stamps all come from 7gypsies – http://shop.canvascorpbrands.com/pages/7gypsies-collections
https://issuu.com/canvascorpbrands
I have a wholesale account with 7gypsies, so if you need me to order anything let me know. I also have a wholesale account with http://www.productperformers.com, they carry some of their stuff. If you want me to order anything for you just let me know what catalog it’s from, the name of the item and an item number for the item and I’ll let you know prices.
I agree Canada is a beautiful country, by the way. I went there for the first time last summer. I shouldn’t have waited so long to go! Pics from my trip – https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10207251874999426.1073741835.1360719899&type=1&l=7be47e8ba0
Would you like to send mail-art to an exhibition?
I like your work.
And if you like the project Black and White, please promote this among other artists.
witter-mailart.blogspot.com
I used to do a lot of Mail Art in the late 80’s and the 90’s. You can probably see some of the influence in the Art Journal pages I’ve been making lately. I’ve collected a lot of them on this Pinterest board – https://www.pinterest.com/chasenfratz/art-journaling/
Some of them were influenced by Mail Art and some of them have pieces of old Mail Art worked into the collages. Do you recognize any of it?