Journal Making Class -- Journal #2

Journal 2 is a sketchbook with removable pages. I used pieces of my hand-dyed fabrics on both the outside and inside cover of this one. To cover the closure, I stamped a piece of the fabric trimmed from the body of the journal with a sun stamp by Sherril Kahn.

I had fun with the watercolor washes -- about half of the pages are done this way. I alternated washed watercolor pages with plain sketchbook paper.

The hardest part of this project was the grommets -- not installing them but finding them. I looked all over and finally found them at my local Ace Hardware store. After spending several hours running around Fort Worth looking for grommets, I spent about 10 minutes putting them in.