Elements: Self Guided on Book of Days Premium

So stoked to be starting a new Art Journaling Course on Book of Days in the Premium group...

Elements: Self Guided

We'll be working through the elements (air, fire, water, earth and spirit) as the coordinating seasons come. 

Today I got my composition book prepped and ready to go!

 

I'm a gomer who suck-eth at slowing down long enough to take 'as I go' pictures so there isn't much 'in progress' to show.

This is the Book pre-makeover, with the binding taped as a guide. I cut handmade Mulberry Papers in the matching colors to make blocks on the front and back.

Wanted a circle for the spirit spot so I traced a CM cutter template with water and ripped it out.

 

 Then *poof!* we're out of 'in progress' pictures and it's all done. lol 

Attached the blocks front and back with glue stick. Was really pleased with the Air/yellow, it's very thin and the book shows through underneath, luv it. Between the blocks I laid down strips of black cardstock and also 'framed' the outside edges with thicker pieces. The spirit spots were a bit sheer so they are layered over smaller printer paper circles. The spine is also recovered in black cardstock. 

The following the instructions in the course I tied cords through much of the book (about every 7 pages) and tied then off along the spine. I used embroidery floss is the 5 colors (red, blue, green, yellow and white) plus a deep plum.Once they were all tied on I used a comb to separate the threads. 

Yes, I combed my book! lol

Then I *really* had some fun with the tabs. They are folded over black cardstock, punched out with an image to match the element and 'filled' with a scrap of printer paper colored with rubbed ink in the element color:

air-star-yellow

fire-sun-red

water-umbrella-blue

earth-leaf-green

spirit-swirl-pink-ish

Glued pages together for each 'tabbed' part. In the end there are 8 pages for 'arting' after the 1st tab and 3 pages for 'notes' after the 2nd in each element. 

The final touch was the Hearts which are a broach I tore the pin off the back of and glue-gunned on. 

I'm soooooooo in love with this book. *squee*

It turned out waaay better then I had pictured it. Go Muse!

and I Sarah... am a Mulberry Paper Addict. Love the texture, colors and look so much... 

My book is fuzzy.

Just want to love it... 

and cuddle it... 

and call it... 

DONE. :O)