A bit all over the place…

27/05/2024 by UKMA 2 Comments

Well. I came home from the crop with a rotten cold, and have been fighting it for says. Luckily I had planned a couple of posts on the crop swap goodies so I didn’t have to go radio silence. Now, it is a new week, and I am still not feeling 100%. Also Bank Holiday Monday, and Dear Son and his Pretty Girl are coming for brisket on the BBQ. As such I am going to share something I shared a while back, but which has undergone a bit of an alteration.

I shared some pages form an art journal I was making using recipe cards from Waitrose.

You can see at the side the binding holes that I planned to use, thinking I might do a sort of slip-knot binding, but not in every hole, maybe two, miss two, two, miss two, two or the like. But the more I considered that the less keen I was. Problem? I had already punched the binding holes with my BIA. Ugh.

I do have a disc-binding system, and have flirted with using it in the past

I like the way it lets the pages be removed easily, to work on them, and replaced when done. So I cut off the 1/4 inch or so to remove the binding holes, and re-made the cover and re-punched the holes for the discs.

I think in the end I am going to be a lot happier with this system.

I am hoping to get back to some regular sort of art journaling, after my page-a-day schedule a while back, but not sure how realistic that is with something on the horizon. But I am happy with where this is. I’ve also gessoed the covers, in preparation for probably some gel printing, to keep with the theme of the pages. Like the Transitions journal I expect this one, with the pages already highly decorated, to be easy to work in. I also think I may be a bit closer to finishing off another one of the journals, I need to check. That may sway me one way or another.

Now, if this cold will just fully GO I will be very happy!