Princess Bubbles Creates

This page is painted with any layers.  I stamped the circle shapes on handmade paper and glued them to the page.  I made the stamp myself with cardboard.  It will make an interesting addition to a page once it has loads of layers of paint on it.

These pages I added some gesso through a stencil.  I covered cardboard letters with foil and colored them with alcohol ink.  The gesso worked well on the fabric.  I will definitely use that idea again.

These pages are both in need of something more.  I really want to do something fabric/bead related for these pages but the inspiration has not come.  It is not the end of the world if I don't come up with something.  I could just add some words with a Sharpie.  Until the inspiration comes these pages will just have to wait.

I really enjoy working with both paper and fabric.  I think it is cool to have a journal that combines both.  I will likely do this again.  The fabric page on the right started off a beige and brown print with a lot of texture.  I really didn't want those colors in this journal so I used layers and layers of paint to hide them.

The page on the left is paper towel adhered to a fusible stabilizer.  There's a slight problem with that though - only the first layer of the paper towel adheres.  The second ply separates.  I think I added a coat of matte medium to make sure that the second layer didn't come away totally. The page on the right is many different papers torn in strips and adhered to wax paper with a watered down white glue.  Both sides of the wax paper is covered with  the strips of paper.  When it was all dry I ironed it.   It was originally going to be the cover for this journal but it wasn't big enough.

These are more simple pages and I like them so much better than the busy pages.  The illuminated letter A is not your typical illuminated letter.  I let go of the need to make it perfect and that allowed me to make it my own.  Good lesson.

I used a shell slice, an agate slice, a skeleton leaf, vintage lace and a piece of transparency.  I don't think I could have used so many dimensional items in a regular journal.