A Colorful Journal

Good morning - Teresa here. Today's project was so much fun. It's colorful --- and EASY. 

A journal - made from a plain old composition book. You know - those that have the marbled black and white covers. 

See - isn't that FUN.


Here's what you need.

- Enamel Adhesive
- Deep Blue Sky Enamel Powder
- Enchanted Aubergine Enamel Powder
- Gilded Rose Gold Enamel Powder 
- Mardi Gras Enamel Powder
- Mossy Glen Enamel Powder
- Shamrock Dreams Enamel Powder 
- Peacock Accent Piccolo 
- Glastique Matte Glaze 

Additional Materials
- Heat Gun
- Scrap paper for the scallops down the edge of the journal
- sheet of paper to cover journal front
- your favorite adhesives (i used YES paste to cover the journal front)
- small flat back pearl accents (these are from Sweet Stamps)
- detail paintbrush

The peacock cutout is beautifully detailed and I immediately knew I wanted a multicolored effect on it.

Here's how I approached that process -

I poured a bit of enamel adhesive into a bottle lid and using a detail paintbrush painted the area I wanted my first color on.

Pour the embossing powder in that area and heat to emboss.

Repeat process for the entire bird. In the picture above you can see that I am painting the middle area of the feather fan.

Above is a color detail shot as I was almost done with the process

Don't freak out -- it took about 15 minutes to do ALL of the embossing details for this entire project.

I used Mossy Glen on the bird body - Gilded Rose Gold for the comb and feet - then starting at the center area of the feather fan - Aubergine - Deep Blue Sky - Mardi Gras. The "eye" of the outer feathers was embossed in Shamrock Dreams.

 After I covered my composition book with the background paper, I wanted to pull the colors from the bird onto the cover. I cut half circles of scrapbook paper and embossed them using those same powders.  From left to right - Gilded Rose Gold, Mossy Glen, Enchanted Aubergine, Deep Blue Sky, Shamrock Dreams, Mardi Gras. I used  just plain glue stick to attach these to the binding area.

Then, using Glastique painted on the back of my bird, I glued the shape to the corner of my journal.

For a final accent - I added flat back pearls to every other eye on the peacock's outer feathers.

There you have it --- ready to record your memories, hopes and dreams, or gratitudes. Maybe even a new design idea or two.