Princess Bubbles Creates

I wasn't going to buy them.  It was really easy to have self control when no one in the area sold them.  But now Curry's is carrying Pan Pastels and I really do love pastels.  I love the way they blend so I did it.  I purchased a five pack.  I think I can live without buying ALL the colors but I will NEED to get a few more colors.  I think I need to buy some more of the tools as well.  The tools really do help to blend the pastels nicely.

I am really enjoying my hot summer journal!  I added some sparkly sequins to these two pages!  Don't you just the glitz!  Some people might call it garish.  I call it fun!

Here are a couple of more journal pages from my hot journal.  I used transparencies on each of the pages.  I really enjoy playing with transparencies!

I mentioned in an earlier post that I scored a ton of silk pods.  Many of them are colors that I would not normally use in my art.  I decided to see if I could change color to make them more useful to me.  The ones pictured above started off yellow, you can see a tuft of yellow sticking out of the one at 6 o'clock.  I used Adirondac Color Wash in terra cotta to color these.  It worked really well.  I watered it down a bit to get a gradation of color.  That's hard to tell from this picture but it does work.

Here's a few pictures of the inside of my animal skin journal.   It's my take on a 'Remains of the Day' journal.  I haven't taken the workshop but I've seen enough of them on youtube to know how to do one.  I really enjoyed using my sewing machine to stitch everything together.

This is the cover of a new journal I am making.  I used a padded mailing envelop as the base.  I machine stitched different animal print fabrics to both sides of the envelop.  I think this makes a great cover and I really enjoyed making it. 

We made these two small journals in Sandra's workshop yesterday.  The orange one is a simple pamphlet stitch.  The other a concertina journal.  They were quick and easy to make as Sandra had all the paper cut and folded for us.  We just had to join or stitch it together.  Unfortunately I did not get my larger journal stitched together.  I started to but it was too fiddly. I will have be in the proper frame of mind to mind to accomplish that task.