Altered Journal Project ......

Hi Girls...

Well, it's time for another photo heavy post..Do you recall a few posts back when I showed a vintage journal/ledger book that I had recently purchased with the idea of using it in my first attempt to create an altered journal, one similar to so many that I have seen and admired here in blogland and on Pinterest?

Well, I dove in and got to work on it shortly thereafter, altering the inside pages of the journal in what I consider to be phase one of the project.  This first phase would involve creating a base or background of sorts, to which I will eventually add more elements as time and materials allow.

I did this by using two of my favorite products.  Gorgeous scrapbook papers and Modge Podge, turning those boring inside white into pages like these....

This project allowed me to use up some of those smaller leftover pieces of scrapbook papers that I had been saving...

I wanted this journal to have a shabby/vintage look to it, so I tried to stick to that theme by using scrapbook papers that fit that theme and I think I succeeded.

It's far from being perfect.  If you look closely, you can see air bubbles and such on some of the pages, but  I think that just adds to the overall vintage look I was going for.  The journal actually looks much better in person than it does in the photos.  The photos really don't do it justice. Because of  terrible lighting and my poor photography skills, they don't show the true colors or finer details in the scrapbook papers.

Well, I hope you made it to the end of this post without getting too bored, and I hope you enjoyed seeing my latest project, even with its imperfections.

Well, that's all for this time.  Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

See you again soon...