The journal above, (featured in the last/previous blog post) needs a cover.
Using two pieces of virgin chipboard, a layer of scrunched pattern tissue was applied with liquid matte medium.
Pattern tissue paper is very sturdy and malleable.
This cover is being made exactly like one made for a gifted journal. The cover turned out so well, it was hard not to keep it for this one, but…Ms. SpoolTeacher was convinced that she could produce it again.
See the slide show below to view all the steps so far.
The final results won’t be seen in this slide show as the pieces, up to this stage, are under heavy layers to flatten them out some before the next phase begins.
The next step will be to apply a layer of texture paste through a stencil of hearts. After the paste dries, it will be painted a color for the base under the final layer of purple tissue paper.
Please come back to see the final results.
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The next step is to create the cover. First layer over chipboard is a layer of pattern tissue. Pattern tissue is very sturdy and malleable. 
Up closer to see the texture that is created by scrunching. 
After cutting the excess edges off to keep from having too much bulk, craft paper from hoarded shipping stuffings is scrunched and applied. It was thoroughly wet, scrunched and dried some before applying with liquid matte medium. 
The layers were pressed together and then pressed down by hand to manipulate the bubbles out. 
Corners are burnished down using a matte gel medium which is heavier and more tacky. 
A thin layer is applied to both surfaces and the bone folder is used to burnish it down as well as fingers! 
Next the edges. 
Burnished as much as possible. 
Glue oozing out from burnishing is brushed back over the tops of things and into the chipboard. 
The pattern tissue was scrunched and made textural as well as the craft paper. 
Chicky flew over to investigate and help. 
Chicky goes from table to table and to the top if Ms. SpoolTeachers head to get a better bird’s eye view of it all. 
Using off cuts, a little mini book was created the day Ms. SpoolTeacher felt a little blah humbug. 
Ms. SpoolTeacher’s paper friend, gave her a bundle of off-cuts from tag making. They were used to create windows with tissue paper and folded in half to create a signature with torn, lined papers in between. 
The cover was a book page collaged with some of the scraps. 
The tissue allows for the word prompts to show through on the next page. 
One magazine was used to tear out words for each page. 
Now the back sides will be worded too. So much fun to just let a thing advance organically.
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