Cafe au Lait Book Kit Finished Photo journal

Hello crafters and creatives and welcome to my blog.

I created a book using my Cafe au Lait book kit printable about year ago and about a week ago I completed putting in photos to make it my most recent photojournal.

I used a long stitch binding from a Marion Smith project which I liked at first, however realised after using the book and adding pictures to it there was a lot of strain put on the binding. I would use coptic stitch in future. 

I hope you liked this project and as usual if you have any questions or comments leave them below.

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Cafe au Lait: Book Kit project

Hello crafters, creative ones and those just stopping for a read. 

I dedicate this blog post and project to the Swapp Family in Utah after their second eldest son took his own life due to depression. 

Remember: depression lies.

Cory is an example for what almost happened to me at the same age.

I have been working on the book kit from the Cafe au Lait collection.

This time I worked on a different style of binding, well not entirely different style. I did long stitch through plaster board mesh. Boy was that fun! Not! I had to redo the binding 4 times because I kept making mistakes. But in the end I was Successful! And it looks pretty awesome to boot. 

I kept the cover simple and plain because I tend to take my books/journals out with me. If they have stuff on the cover after a couple trips all of the prettiest would have been ripped off. So I went with a more practical approach. A Simple book plate from Tim Holtz

I used both the original pages from the book kit as well as the alternate ones that were released last week. Have a watch of the youtube video of the flip through to see how I did the pages. 

Remember to comment or leave a question and as always Happy crafting!

Mixed media Adventures

Hi crafters

Now that I am getting back into crafting mode after my recovery from surgery, I thought I would have a play with some mixed media journaling. 

As a first attempt goes I am rather happy with this. The one downside to doing work with sprays and wet media is waiting for it to dry (and you can't always use a heat tool), so I have worked out a method of working on two projects at the same time. 

Let me know what you think.