Dear Liza,
Ruthie Inman has done it again, showing me a new way to make an art journal.
This one starts with an old magazine. Since magazines have really thin, cheap paper, you spread glue (or Mod Podge) and fold each page over on itself to give you a thicker page to work on.
I started with the cover, using a Payne’s Grey craft paint and some silver sparkly paint. Then I slathered craft paint over the pages, making sure to let each one dry before pressing the whole thing flat under a pile of books. This step took a few days.
But what sort of art should be in this journal? At another suggestion from Ruthie, I started using the idea of “The Exquisite Corpse”, a drawing game Cousin Kestrel taught me, to play with a new kind of collage.
Cutting different people, animals and things from magazines, I join them together to make some pretty cool Exquisite Corpse style images.
Is there no end to the nonsense I can get into with art supplies? I sure hope not!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 
*hon,… you might want to swap out the photo you used in the blog… it has Bridgett’s address showing… *
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Thanks!!!
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Ok… NOW I have to tell you….. I found out that the wrinkles… were caused by using ‘wet’ glue…. if we use just Glue STICK… no wrinkles… Sorry
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Granted. The wrinkles were less awful when I spread on the ‘’ inner part’ of the page, instead of the ‘outer’. It had more stability or something. But yes, glue stick will be better. As a former teacher who spent 30 years hating glue sticks for falling apart, drying out, and losing the caps, I may need to adjust my thinking.
Judy
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