* Thank you ladies at The Play Date Café for choosing my journal as Cream on Our Coffee this week!*
This past week I've been sort of in a "creative funk." I still make myself go upstairs and work on something, anything each day and just keep powering through! I needed grey fabric to work on this week Play Date Café's challenge so Cheri and I trooped to the fabric store yesterday and played with our fabric purchases in the afternoon. I had been working on beanstalks for our next swap over at Funky Mixed Media, but priorities! That's not due yet and this challenge needed to be posted TODAY! I created a journal with an appliquéd flap with some Moda charm squares and grey batik fabric. I played off the circles and lines while incorporating the blanket stitch I just learned to use on my sewing machine. I quilted and appliquéd with rayon thread. The front of my 5 X 7 (appr.) journal:
A bird's-eye view to show the two signatures; I used Basic Grey's "Oh Baby Boy! line for the folios and my favorite pamphlet stitch with ribbon to sew them in. I usually place tabs on the right edge of the pages, but since the flap closes over the right side, I place them on the top of the pages instead.
Penney, so glad you had time to take part in our challenge at the Play Date Cafe this week - this journal is awesome!
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ReplyDeleteAn awesome journal I took a class with Donna Downey and loved it, you inspire me to go back to it! Just awesome.
ReplyDeleteOh my!!!! THis is awesome and soooo creative WOW!!! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so fun, Penny! LOVE that you were able to use our color story, for this week, to make such a fantastic project! Thank you so much for playing with us, this week, in the Cafe!
ReplyDeleteOoh Penney, I love this! I love the colours and the textures, it's fab! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe this week!
ReplyDeleteGET OUT! This is amazing! I just love the modern funky feel to this and such a neat idea to use fabric for this week's colors. So glad you played along in the Cafe this week.
ReplyDeleteThose fabrics are just PERFECT for our color challenge this week! Neat idea for a journal jacket. Thanks for playing with us at The Play Date CAfe. :D
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful project! Looks like, to me, that you've got a handle on the creativeness! This journal is beautiful and fits wonderfully with our color challenge. Thanks for joining us over at the Play Date Cafe!
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