Book Making: Personal Journal
Making a Personal Journal or Diary
It may be no surprise that I love art journals and junk journals. So I decided to make my own personal journal. I've been wanting to start a journal again but couldn't decide on all the beautiful journals available out there. I wanted something a bit more personalized and less formal - allowing for daily entries, lists, drawings, etc.
For the text block of the journal, I used 35 sheets of white printer paper, 5 sheets of lavender, 5 sheets of a soft mint green, 3 sheets of light blue, 2 sheets of another blue, and 2 sheets of blue cardstock, 2 sheets of purple card stock, and 1 sheet of green cardstock.
After folding all the sheets in half with a bone folder, I arranged them in signatures of 5 sheets each.
I made a series of holes of 7 on each signature. Again, I used the light lavender thread to stitch the text block together.
Look at all those colors!
For the covers, I used chip board and covered them with cut down 12" by 12" paper with a teal on the edges; I had to add some color to the covers. For end papers, I used 2 sheets of the soft mint green paper.
I've been using this journal for a few days now, and I absolutely love it!
Happy creating, and happy paper crafting!
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