craftgrrl | (no subject)

I've been keeping journals all my life. I'm on my seventh and decided that I wanted this one to be special.

I was thinking about taking pictures of all my art work and collaging it ontop of the cover, it's a Borders regular big black sketchbook, but the problem I'm having is how will I make the pictures stick? I was thinking of printing them out on computer paper so it's thin enough and using double stick photo [attachers] to stick it onto the top. As a protective cover, I don't want to use modpodge, it peels and turns sticky, so on a whim I was thinking about a reisen coat?

Is there any way possible that I could put the pictures on, melt reisen and then dip the front/back cover and let that harden up? [it's already a hard cover book, i just need it protected now].

is that a rediculous attempt? if it is, is there any other way to keep the top protected and strong?

and so that this is not a text only, some pictures of my