A7 - Ambidextrous Refillable Small Mixed Media Journal - Dyed, Kraft, and Painted Paper
You are unique. Your thoughts, the images that pop into your head, the things you experience, and your words: believe in them. I never want anyone to think a journal is “too precious” for their words. Your words ARE precious because you are! You are rare and individual and deserve a journal to match that eccentric and eclectic energy to give to others!
I didn’t photograph every page but I wanted to show how every page is not your standard copy paper. The pages are a combination of coffee dyed, tea dyed, and “rain” tea dyed papers (where I left paper in the rain with a variety of herbs and then allowed it to dry), some are painted magazine pages with spray paint—which provides a fun tooth for different media, some are patterned with a thin layer of tissue paper attached with gel matte medium, and also kraft paper. Each of these papers reacts differently to mixed media usage—as well as handles a number of types of pens!
The covers are made out of polymer clay and varnished with a polyurethane varnish. They are attached together with book rings! The perk of using these book rings is that you can remove and/or add whatever paper that you want to inside the journal cover, to use multiple times or increase the thickness with larger book rings. Each journal has some tucks, pockets, a belly band, and a few flips here and there—and I purposefully tried to have the add-ins equally in either direction so that the journal isn’t partial to right-handed folks, giving the same experience for lefties!
These journal is an A72-15/16 x 4-1/8 in journal size: 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in (see photo with ruler—I tried to get close-ups because the lens sometimes warps the photo and it won’t show exactly where the edges are lining up against the ruler). Each journal has 42 sheets of paper—or 84 pages once you count both sides of the paper.
You are unique. Your thoughts, the images that pop into your head, the things you experience, and your words: believe in them. I never want anyone to think a journal is “too precious” for their words. Your words ARE precious because you are! You are rare and individual and deserve a journal to match that eccentric and eclectic energy to give to others!
I didn’t photograph every page but I wanted to show how every page is not your standard copy paper. The pages are a combination of coffee dyed, tea dyed, and “rain” tea dyed papers (where I left paper in the rain with a variety of herbs and then allowed it to dry), some are painted magazine pages with spray paint—which provides a fun tooth for different media, some are patterned with a thin layer of tissue paper attached with gel matte medium, and also kraft paper. Each of these papers reacts differently to mixed media usage—as well as handles a number of types of pens!
The covers are made out of polymer clay and varnished with a polyurethane varnish. They are attached together with book rings! The perk of using these book rings is that you can remove and/or add whatever paper that you want to inside the journal cover, to use multiple times or increase the thickness with larger book rings. Each journal has some tucks, pockets, a belly band, and a few flips here and there—and I purposefully tried to have the add-ins equally in either direction so that the journal isn’t partial to right-handed folks, giving the same experience for lefties!
These journal is an A72-15/16 x 4-1/8 in journal size: 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in (see photo with ruler—I tried to get close-ups because the lens sometimes warps the photo and it won’t show exactly where the edges are lining up against the ruler). Each journal has 42 sheets of paper—or 84 pages once you count both sides of the paper.
You are unique. Your thoughts, the images that pop into your head, the things you experience, and your words: believe in them. I never want anyone to think a journal is “too precious” for their words. Your words ARE precious because you are! You are rare and individual and deserve a journal to match that eccentric and eclectic energy to give to others!
I didn’t photograph every page but I wanted to show how every page is not your standard copy paper. The pages are a combination of coffee dyed, tea dyed, and “rain” tea dyed papers (where I left paper in the rain with a variety of herbs and then allowed it to dry), some are painted magazine pages with spray paint—which provides a fun tooth for different media, some are patterned with a thin layer of tissue paper attached with gel matte medium, and also kraft paper. Each of these papers reacts differently to mixed media usage—as well as handles a number of types of pens!
The covers are made out of polymer clay and varnished with a polyurethane varnish. They are attached together with book rings! The perk of using these book rings is that you can remove and/or add whatever paper that you want to inside the journal cover, to use multiple times or increase the thickness with larger book rings. Each journal has some tucks, pockets, a belly band, and a few flips here and there—and I purposefully tried to have the add-ins equally in either direction so that the journal isn’t partial to right-handed folks, giving the same experience for lefties!
These journal is an A72-15/16 x 4-1/8 in journal size: 4-1/8 x 5-7/8 in (see photo with ruler—I tried to get close-ups because the lens sometimes warps the photo and it won’t show exactly where the edges are lining up against the ruler). Each journal has 42 sheets of paper—or 84 pages once you count both sides of the paper.