Okay, you guys are probably thinking I'm getting a bit obnoxious with these journals. I'm sorry! I can't quit making them! I had to try the mulberry spine and the paper fasteners.
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2004 GMT Views: 1748
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Stamps: All Natural, French Script
Paper: More Mustard, US White
Ink: More Mustard, Old Olive, Basic Black
Accessories: Paper Fasteners, Mat board, Mulberry Paper, Sponge
Registered: January 13, 2004 Location: Issaquah, WA Posts: 2137
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 11:04 AM
Love the paper fasteners! Yes, you are the journal queen - keep them coming they are so much fun to see and so now I'm going to have to give it a try. The one's your kids did are fantastic too - I can see my 10 year old wanting to do something as well. Thanks for sharing. EllenH
Registered: April 29, 2003 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 19297
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 11:55 AM
I love this one. But I am very partial to the EE colors...and I love that set. You did great. And Ellen is so right. You ARE the Journal queen. Don't you make your husband mad at me now for starting you on this. It's not my fault. Really, it isn't. I didn't know.....LOL
Registered: March 4, 2004 Location: hanging' with all the other sassy sistahs! Posts: 5152
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 12:22 PM
But I love to see the beautiful designs that you come up with! Don't stop! You are so very creative! Thank you for introducing the journals to all of us.
I am a subscriber to the website that you found the original design on, and would have never thought to use the journal pattern in all of the wonderful ways that you have shown us! So please, keep the ideas coming!!!
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Registered: January 5, 2004 Location: Brooklyn, WI Posts: 5465
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 2:30 PM
I learned everything I know from Beate! And Beate, my husband is thrilled to have me out of his hair! ha ha ha! I show him the journals and he says, "you should go make another one! Or two even!" Why do you think I made so many! You gals are so fun!
------------------------------ Lana Lepinski Basement Stamper
Ok, I'm hooked! I went to the craftsmag.com link Beate gave and followed those instructions but I think you know a better way! Please share!! I cased one of yours (stamp set and colors!) and I can tell yours is smaller than the size at craftsmag.com. I like yours better and would love to duplicate that size...
Another question too, do you wrap the mulberry around the ends for the spine?
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Registered: January 5, 2004 Location: Brooklyn, WI Posts: 5465
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 3:34 PM
Journal Measurements & Other Tidbits:
Front Cover: 5" x 4 3/4"
Front Spine Piece (the part you put the eyelets in): 5" x 1"
Back Piece: 6" x 5"
Inside Card Stock Piece (that you attach to the mat board covers): 6" x 5"
Inside Pages: Regular card stock 1/4" smaller than the covers. So that makes them 5 3/4" x 4 3/4". I score the side edge at 1" to make the pages easier to turn when in the journal. I put about 10-12 pages in each journal.
*Use mat board for the covers from any frame department. I bought mine at Michaels. They sold it to me by the sheet right out of their frame department. I cut it with a utility knife and then used my Carl Cutter Rotary paper cutter to cut the pieces down to the exact sizes I needed.
You can buy any color mat board. you can stamp on the white or cream pieces. You can sponge the color on it to make it any color you want. I have also turned the colored mat board over and used the backs (which are white). Everything goes! I have chalked on the mat board. I have used my markers on the mat board! Oh, the possibilities!
------------------------------ Lana Lepinski Basement Stamper
Registered: June 13, 2003 Location: Franklin, IN Posts: 1810
Sun, May 02, 2004 @ 10:41 PM
Thank you sooooooo much for simplifying the instructions for us instructionally challenged people!! I love your journals! I love it that you have made them so different-some elegant, some cutesy, different colors-but so similar that they look like something I think EVEN I could do! Bless you, deary!
------------------------------ Emily B
"I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4: 1-2