I completely made this journal using recycled materials i.e. Newspaper and tin foil !!!
I got my inspiration from a dvd that Donna Downey had produced. I tore newspaper into squares and then with a glue stick attached about 10 pieces together to make one page. I continued in this way until I had 10 pages and 2 covers. I made my pages into 5 signatures by adding strips down the side by gluing and machine stithing them. I covered my front and back with tinfoil that I had embossed in my Vagabond. I then used ten second studio tools to add a bit more detail after coating with black gesso I rubbed most of it off to leave a worn and weathered look. I coated all my signatures with white gesso and did some machine stitching on them before attaching them with a coptic stitch to my covers.
I completed my first 2 pages using pan pastels, stencils, stamping and images. They were both finished off with text
Pretty pleased with the result and will probably make more - might make one out of an old dictionery or telephone directory
