Journal Monday 2

Today is my second in 6 posts of Mondays to share

some fun journals that I am creating.  This week I made

a fun tropical journal to take with me on my trip to Hawaii in

the future.  I am trying to use all the scraps and bits

of things I have bought so that I can put them to good

use and not just storage again.  And making these 

journals does exactly that. And.... it's really fun!

This beach themed journal is using papers

from LYB 2012 Summer Collection and lots of

flowers and chipboard pieces.  I basically start

by cutting pieces to cover the journal and glue

that all down well and then I take the chipboard and 

flowers that I made from the set and start laying them

 out like a puzzle on top of it.  When I get them where 

I want them I start gluing them down with glue dots 

and foam dots to make it pop up and look really fun 

and 3 dimensional. It's alot like making a collage.

Just grab lots of things and see what goes together 

that you really love and then the magic happens!

I had some rhinestones that matched with this

so I added them on the flowers and around the page.

On the edge of my book I tied lots of twine and a bit

of fuzzy yarn and added some cute little flowers.

And don't forget to add the year and/or the date so

that you can remember when all the fun happened!

Here is the glues that I like to use.  I thought this would

be good to share because some things stick and some don't

and I have tried them all with all the years I have been doing this.

I love Scor Tape, Scotch Quick Dry, Glue dots and 

Foam dots the best.  Another great product I just found is Xyron

Mega Runner the permanent one.  It's awesome and it's refillable.

So that's it for today, I hope you liked it and

be sure and check back next Monday for a fun 

School journal filled with fun pockets and such!  

Have a very wonderful day,