Nature Junk Journal cover

Hello everyone, thanks for dropping in!
 I am sharing a new journal I am working on, a Nature Junk Journal. Today I am just showing you the cover.

I used the wonderful Eileen Hull Journal die to create my cover, cutting the pieces from mount board.

The inside has a mix of watercolour and drawing papers, to hold my handpainted and drawn nature sketches, mixed with junk journal style collage. (More of that in a few days)...

I covered the mount board with gesso, followed by a mix of acrylic paints in Titan Buff, Tintanium White as well as some Raw Umber, all brayered on. The edges were stamped with a couple of background stamps by Seth Apter and Wendy Vecchi.

I created a rough junk style collage with teabag and scrapbook scraps as well as some washi tapes.

I also wanted to add some dried lavendar sprigs, to go with the nature theme, but all the little flower buds fell of in the process of attaching them, so in the end I just left the sprigs and adhered the little flower heads with gel medium, just adding a bit of texture like that instead. At least it smells lovely lol.

A scrap of book paper, some ricepaper scraps and a Tim Holtz word band finish it all off.

So far I have finished one of the inside pages, but I will leave that for another post.

I used the simplest of closures for this journal, just some elastic with a few charms attached, through the middle hole that is part of the die. Well that's it for now. I'll show some of the insde on another day.

Have a good week everyone and thank you for your visit today.

xxxxx