Tag: decorating covers for travel journals

My Completed SOAK Journal

Dear Liza,

Having spent a few days making the cover of the SOAK Journal, I spent another week filling the whole thing up!

The cover got the year and title, just in case I get to go to another SOAK event.

Since I wanted to record my activities and feelings accurately, many of the pages are all about words. Lots and lots of words.

But SOAK is such a visual treat, it would be a crime to leave the Journal un-illustrated. I did what I could while camping,

And did more detailed work once I was home.

Flaps, fold-out pages and pockets allowed me to include parts of the SOAK booklet and the stickers that were handed out.

Overall, I feel like I captured my experience pretty well.

Now, I can put the SOAK Journal on the shelf to enjoy later.

Meanwhile, I have another adventure to prepare for!!

Love,

Grandma Judy

Back to Collage

Dear Liza,

I had a lot of fun making the illustrations for your story, and I learned a lot about composition and color while I was doing it. Now I’m back to making postcards with it.

I used one of the first drafts of the ‘people’ in your story for this one, along with the intense colors from our Portland Art Museum magazine. The words are the packaging from the Awesome Socks I get every month from your dad. I love their motto, “Don’t forget to be awesome!”

This cutie-pie pirate skeleton dude was in an Animation magazine and just needed an acrylic speckled beach and some vivid sky, again from our PAM magazine. The tricky part was cutting out all those skinny bones! The sun helped fill up that bare corner.

Auntie Bridgett’s adorable cartoon of an artist’s mannequin was in a years-old pile of scrap paper. I used it and a page from an out-of-the-garbage Rand McNally Atlas to make this card about heading your way soon.

My most recent project is the cover for my travel journal for the trip. Pages from the Atlas, joined with a fashion eyeglass picture, a scene from the AAA travel magazine, and a bunch of words made it look just right.

And yes, I admit to altering the map of Europe so that Amsterdam and Paris would fit in the same pair of glasses! So sue me.

Love,

Grandma Judy