Frank bag and Handmade journal
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craftgrrlI tried stenciling today. I made a Frank (from Donnie Darko) bag.
I got the stencil from here I think it turned out pretty well. All I did was paint a rough rectangle with grey fabric paint and then painted the stencil on the rectangle with black paint. It bled a little, but I like how it looks.
I will eventually make three of these journals(two for a couple of friends that studied in Wales with me and one for myself). Each one is bound using the Coptic stitch, which you can't really see on the pictures, but it's really pretty. One is bound in white thread, one is bound in red thread and mine (when I get around to making it) will be bound in green thread. White, red, and green are the colors of Wales. The covers are a heavy cardboard that I covered with a map of northern Wales (where we lived) and decoupaged black & white photocopies of pictures I took while we were over there on top of it. The front cover has a one inch square cut-out that lets you see the color photo copy of the three of us at the Bangor train station on our last morning there that is pasted onto the front page. The endpapers (which I didn't take pictures of) are copies of different maps of Wales. There's about 90 pages in each journal.
The front of the journal
The binding
The back
I got the stencil from here I think it turned out pretty well. All I did was paint a rough rectangle with grey fabric paint and then painted the stencil on the rectangle with black paint. It bled a little, but I like how it looks.
I will eventually make three of these journals(two for a couple of friends that studied in Wales with me and one for myself). Each one is bound using the Coptic stitch, which you can't really see on the pictures, but it's really pretty. One is bound in white thread, one is bound in red thread and mine (when I get around to making it) will be bound in green thread. White, red, and green are the colors of Wales. The covers are a heavy cardboard that I covered with a map of northern Wales (where we lived) and decoupaged black & white photocopies of pictures I took while we were over there on top of it. The front cover has a one inch square cut-out that lets you see the color photo copy of the three of us at the Bangor train station on our last morning there that is pasted onto the front page. The endpapers (which I didn't take pictures of) are copies of different maps of Wales. There's about 90 pages in each journal.
The front of the journal
The binding
The back
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