GPP Crusade No. 40
This month’s challenge from Michelle Ward at the GPP Steet Team is to work in a size out of your comfort zone. She suggests we either work much larger or much smaller than we normally do, just to get out of the norm and challenge ourselves. Since I normally work in a larger sized journal, I decided to make a tiny one.
I used a scrap of cowhide for the cover. I made the pages from some pages I had torn out of a novel. The larger book is the journal I’m currently working in, so you can see that it is much larger than the little one I made.
I have been wanting, for years, to add beads to the stitching on the spine of a book, so I took this opportunity to do that. The coloring isn’t good in the photo but the stones are red coral and turquoise.
This is the first page in the journal. I wrote like two sentences because it’s so small!!
This is one of the spreads. I prepared the backgrounds similarly to the way I prepare backgrounds in my regular journal. I glued papers down then used a credit card to pull dark brown and titan buff paint over the page. I found it very hard to work so small. The results weren’t bad, but I didn’t enjoy the small size. It was indeed a challenge for me. But I’m glad I took the challenge and did work outside my comfort zone. I need to be shaken up from time to time. Otherwise, I find myself using the same supplies, the same techniques over and over, and that is so boring!










