Get sentimental for a Vintage Journey

Hello friends, it's the first Friday of the month and that means a new challenge starting at A Vintage Journey. The talented Nikki has chosen the theme "Get Sentimental", and this is what she would like you to do:

Let's see lots of sentiments on your project, whether they be words, poems or quotes. Just remember to create your project in our preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk.

Well I decided to create a journal specifically to use quotes and also to experiment with different mediums and styles.
Here first of all is the cover:

I had this piece of Stamperia London themed rice paper hiding in my stash and decided to use it for my quotes journal. I also wanted to finally put some of Lynne's Affirmations stamps and stencils to use, so that was my starting point.

I cut two pieces of scrap card to just over 6 x 8  and covered them with the paper. I then cut  7 pieces of A 4 water colour card, folded them in half to form signatures. I sandwiched them between the two bits of card and then wrapped a bit of sports tape tightly around the spine side right along the length. The sports tape is so sticky it holds the pieces in place, so super easy. Then all I did was glue a spare bit of the rice paper over the spine, and that was it.. If ever one of the signatures get loose, you can always hold it in place with some washi or design tape.
Once everything was held together I started to decorate the front cover a bit further.
I wanted to try and get a sort of faux encaustic technique both on one of the inside pages and on the cover. For the cover, I first of all stencilled one of the sentiments of the affirmations stencil with white opaque embossing paste and when that had dried covered the whole cover with a thick layer of thick Matte Medium, using a pallet knife and scratching into it a bit for some additional texture. I then let it dry overnight.

 My new Tim Holtz 3D embosslets had just arrived, so they were put to good use to embellish the cover. I cut them from Kraftcard, coloured them with Distress inks and then highlighted the raised bits with some Whitefire Treasure Gold.

Some of the textural bits in the now dry medium were further highlighted with some Distress Crayon in Cracked Pistachio.

The inside of the covers were covered with some Prima Design papers I had in my stash, I just inked, stamped and gessoed them a bit and then added another sentiment to the front one, using the stencil once more.

Alright, onto the first of the journal pages, another faux encaustic experiment that I messed up rather...

There are numerous layers on this piece, paints, inks, washi tape, gesso etc and then I stamped some of the affirmations stamps onto tissue paper and added them too before covering everything in the thick medium again.

The sentiments got lost against the background, I tried to rescue that by outlining with a stabilo all pencil, but I am still not happy with the result.....

So the next double page was done in a very different style:

I often use this style in my daily and bullet journals, using washi tapes, stamping and stencilling, but again, in this size of journal, the sentiments got lost a bit....

Here are a few close ups still:

I added a few drops of sealing wax for some extra highlights...

I absolutely love these stamp sets, the sayings and additional images that come with them, but ultimately I think they would work better on a smaller format journal or cards/tags.

My final spread is a combination of the previous two: These pages were done in a similar way, Using paint for the background and then adding other elements, background stamping and some of the wonderful bugs from the Tim Etymology set, stamped on tissue paper. To give Lynne's affirmations a bit more prominence I stamped them on scraps of paper first.

And a couple of close ups, to finish it all off:

This time for the faux encaustic I used Transparent Texture Paste, this worked better and if ever I wanted a slightly more waxy look I would probably just add a tiny bit of paint...

Well, that's it, sorry for this mammoth post, thanks for dropping by like always, and if you have not done so yet, do check out the projects of my talented teamies, tons of "get sentimental" inspiration for sure.

xxxxx