Journal Mondays

Wow its Monday already and I thought that I would

post something new that I did yesterday with some

fun papers I got from Kaisercraft Check in Collection.

Since my kids are older and I finally get to travel more I 

thought I would create a bunch of different journals so that

I had a place to record my memories and put bits of tickets

and things I collect along the way.  You see I am so guilty

of not scrapping them right away so having these journals

helps me to get all the info right when I am behind. And

it's a great thing for kids and then you get their version of

the story when they do things and go places too!!

So here is my first one for this Monday....

For all my journals I used an inexpensive Composition

book and I will be doing lots of fun things to change

up the insides of them each Monday.  But today --I 

am sharing this one I did by cutting the different pieces 

of the Travel papers and using a little bit of MME On

the Bright Side to mix in with it. Quick Tip: Cutting the 

papers on their edges will give it more interest instead of

just flat rectangles and to age it a little-- i used a

Making Memories distress tool around all of them.

With all the amazing dies from Spellbinders released

 I always seem to find something fun to add to my projects

 and for this I used Donna Salazar's New Snapshot Photo dies 

and made a cute little camera and a photo edge for the side.

Since Spellbinders dies emboss you can sand the

edges and the designs pop out like on the camera!

It's a really cool thing and is great for vintage projects.

My favorite adhesive for these books is Scor Tape,

Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive, Scrapbook Adhesives

EZ Runner and some sticky glue dots for the flowers.

These work really good and will hold up nicely with wear

and tear on your books through time.  And if you want to 

seal it you can use Beacon's Fast Finish Decoupage.  It's 

thinner and doesn't bubble so bad. You gotta love that!

So that's it for today and hope you go out and grab

a stack of these composition books and join me on 

Mondays to make some fun Journals for yourself and

maybe a friend or two :)

I will have dimensions available on the next ones but

this was one of those creative things that I decided to

do at the last minute so I apologize!  Have a fantastic

day and lots of smiles and hugs to you!

Teresa