Free Range Show Notes~

FINALLY.
Here are the notes from last week's Paperclipping Live Show!
Free Range Art Journal
Click here for the material list post~

This is the list of links that were discussed in the chatroom during our show.
Our favorite site to buy art supplies~ Dick Blick
This is a great place to get your gesso. There is also a good description of what gesso IS and why artist's use it.
Matte gel medium-- is what Jackie and I use as an adhesive and a clear coat. This works great if you are going to be painting over your collaged images.

Material Whirled~ Unique fibers and embellishments! Handmade albums and journals.
LiveTeachCreate~ scrapping supplies
2Worlds~ Mini Art Journal made from Toilet Paper Rolls (love this)

If you were watching the live show and know of any links I have missed (as I mentioned before- I was a bit of an A.D.D. mess so I am sure there are some I missed...) Please put them in the comments and I will add them to this entry.

The show was a LOT of fun, let me know if you make yourself a Free Range Journal!

Stay tuned for a binding tutorial.... I need to organize my brains and get one put together.

xo
reenieout.

Reenie's Remains Journal

I am taking an online class, taught by the magnificent Mary Ann Moss called

"Remains of the Day".

Today I completed the cover, which I am fantastically, exuberantly excited about.

I took a kajillion pics, but only posted a few here... the rest are in my flickr.

I will narrate for you...

Here are the fabric pieces, all sorted out and chosen ( I spared you that step),

with some of my handspun foozles to go along.

Sewing in process... the bird embroidery came from my gram's crazy (OCD) stash... and I love how the edges are all yellowing with tape marks, so I let them show.

Mary Ann, I put this pic in for you,

because I cannot work without help from one of my babies, same for you it seems...

This is Rufus, helping me choose yarn placement.

I couched the handspun strands by running zigzags over them willy nilly.

I love the line and texture the yarns add.

Some of the yarn foozles were beaded.

I created loops from the handspun all over for fun.

Here it is all finished and closed. I still need to decide on a closure of some sort...

There is a vinyl pocket sewn to the flap, I put a pic of my rascals in it to show it is a pocket.

This is the back... with the bird embroidery. See the vinyl pocket? I put a moo card in it to show where the pocket is. I just cut up some of those vinyl bag thingys that pillow cases and such come in. Friends now save them for me, which is good as I don't buy a lot of things that come packaged that way and the vinyl gets upcycled!

Plus it is stronger than transparencies or page protectors.

Detail of vinyl pocket with moo card...

On the inside cover flap I used vinyl to make some pen and marker holders.

I put a piece of old denim on the back of the printed fabric before sewing the vinyl down to give it some stability to help hold the weight of the pens.

Backside...

On the other side of the liner I sewed a denim pocket and again secured it to the back of the fabric with a piece of denim.

Backside...

I was thinking this pocket can hold Petunia, my beloved Storm.

Finished book is 9x12... so I have to re-figure my pages before making them.

I prefer working in a larger book and know if I made the recommended size I will not use it.

Go big or go home I say! haha.

I am looking forward to getting my pages sewn together... I have started to select book pages and such and was surprised how much larger format paper and books I have to use! YAY for hoarding.... haha.

MORE in my flickr Art Journal Album here.