Lovely job! Do you have any process tutorials for your journal/folio?I would love to watch them. Thanks for sharing!

Not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve here but I do like to experiment too! This is quite an unusual technique - I kinda like it. Showing fails is also a good thing as that's how we learn. Keep on exploring and experimenting. 🥰

Amazing work, such deep colors, different textures, I'm delighted! I really like this style.

so beautiful, loved everything about this journal, the dyed papers, cloth, old stuff and wood and leaves.

This truly is an amazing set and Journal Swap and I understand why you want to treasure this forever 🤩🤩🤩. Yolanda made it so gorgeous and added so much ephemera, truly stunning 😍

Thanks for making this wonderful post Rose. You are right, the first book is an ephemera folder with hardback cover and the second is the actual stitched journal. The bright beaded trim can be coffee stained or dyed to coordinate with the journal if you want. I absolutely love the journal you made for me. I felt bad because you did so much stitching in the journal you made and I didn't. Enjoy your journal.

Beautiful!

Great journal, I watch this movie too many times during the holidays😅

So Gorgeous! 🌹

Thank you for sharing your beautiful journal with us! What great inspiration 😁

Beautiful

Gorgeous journal - I appreciate all the work you did on it - amazing! TFS. 😍

It's like going back in time! Beautiful colors and i love all the vintage papers!

Beautiful! 🥰

Perfect as is!🥰

Gorgeous journal! Thanks for sharing.

Your eco dyed paper is so pretty!

Ok, you already know which one’s my personal fave 😂 but this is making me feel all autumnal - and, the way those fall leaves pop against the dark avocado paper is just YUM. Also you should sell those pressed-leaf-on-antique-envelope-notepads in the shop. They’re just so elegant, understated but add the perfect natural touch and they’re useful, too; perfect for hidden journaling. And I know not everyone has access to pressed foliage but would love the aesthetic.

How beautiful! Your leaf printed pages and the touch of blue really look amazing ❤️ your journal is so lovely!

So I’m not understanding, did you just leave it in water for a length of time or just dunked it in until it got wet. ???

Ooooh this is beautiful. Purple is my most favourite colour. Wonderful journal and I’m now a new subbie. 💜

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Maybe using less wax?

That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! We live right off of Lake Erie I wonder if I could add salt and simulate the process by soaking in salt water then taking it to the lake.

Amazing work.

This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing the story of this journal and also your journey to embracing imperfection. I am striving to overcome perfectionism in my journals as well as I call it analysis paralysis when creating and it really slows me down! Beautiful journal! 😊❤

Absolutely gorgeous! I'm in awe of those papers!!🥰

its beautiful! like our life we can be drawn through the ringer! Life is hard and this journal represents some of our life and past. I love the story behind it. Don't iron the pages. The sound and feel of papers with all the salt water in them is medicine to me ears.

What a beautiful book! Have you tried making a book and eco dying it? I call it ‘Cooking the Book’ 😅. Well worth a try and if you do I’d love to see the result. I shall have to make a video of mine soon. 😊

ALSO I forgot to say it looks like a really old ship captain’s log that a mermaid stole away for her grotto and then added to. 😍

Yes Rose! What an awesome tribute to an artist who inspires you, and a productive exercise in anti-perfectionism.

What a gorgeous video, so creative and professional. ❤ Love the cover.

Lovely journal. ❤

Beautiful

Like a fall nature walk in a book. Love it!!!

I think the freezer paper is coated with plastic, not wax. So the iron melted the plastic, sealing your cheque permanently to the freezer paper. Actually I just saw "wax and polyethylene" on the box when you held it up. Polyethylene is a type of plastic.

This is a much better representation - I’m sorry you had to do it twice, and I don’t know what was going on with your camera, but I really appreciate you taking the time to do this! I second the iPad filming rec, provided you have enough space on the device. iPad tripod attachments are widely available and cheap enough on Amazon - I had to use an iPad for years to shoot still product photography for my shop, and have no complaints.

It is a very beautiful journal. I film on my iPad with iMovie and edit in that also.

❤ Beautiful journal and wonderful details.

I know this will sound melodramatic but not a week goes by that I don’t regret not purchasing this journal. (Eight months is a lot of weeks lol). It’s my perfect journal from the papers to the colours to the tabs, charms, dyed laces, and ephemera. I thought the dimensions would be too narrow but I’ve since purchased a smaller journal somewhere else and I’m sure I could have worked with them, especially since you included so much glorious blank space to work in. It’s gorgeously embellished but not overly so. Like I said, my Platonic ideal of a junk journal. I thought about trying to make a similar one with the papers you sent me but I could never reach your level of craftsmanship (main reason I don’t think I could do a trade, sigh) plus I don’t want to copycat if that makes sense. I still have the papers but they’ve been folded and cut down for multiple different journals I haven’t even finished yet, lol.

Peach pink and burgundy… my colours…. This is so inspired, and so awesomely unique.

A very beautiful journal 😍

Love everything about this. 😍

Love all the little details. It's wonderful!

Such a beautiful journal 🤩

Lovely journal 💕What do you use for your glossy accents?

This is gorgeous!

Can you show us how you put your beads at the end on the thread and they dangled I made a joke journal but I don't know how to add the beads on my thread thank you so much

Wow so beautiful 😍

This is awesome XXX