Saturday, February 23, 2013

A Personal Wine Journal

This can be a quick and simple gift for a friend or family member who loves wine and takes pride in keeping track of their likes and dislikes.  I usually pick up books/journals that are on sale at book stores or office supply stores.  This journal is a taupe color and measures 6" by 8 1/2".  I had left over paper from the masterboard that I created for yesterday's project. 



Sticking with my Vineyard Theme I thought I'd make a journal to go with the bottle of wine!  I cut a piece of paper measuring 5 1/4" by 8", used a corner rounder on each corner.  I rubbed some additional ink along the edges,  in this case I used London Fog by Memento. I then poured clear embossing powder on all the edges and heat embossed it with my heat gun.  While the edges were hot, I bent the right upper corner and the lower left corner up using a pencil.
 I adhered this panel to the blank book using a very strong adhesive.  I cut a piece of cork measuring 4 1/2" by 6" and glued this to the embossed panel.  Now I cut a piece of the masterboard that measured 3 7/8" by 5 1/4" and stamped a Wine Cellar stamp made by Stamp Happen, Inc. with London Fog ink by Memento.  I poured clear embossing powder over the image and heat embossed it.  I matted this to a piece of purple cardstock, trimmed it close and glued the panel on to the piece of cork.


This journal came with an elastic band to hold it shut.  I ran white ribbon across the Memento ink pads that coordinate with my Tsukineko Kaleidacolor Vineyard pad.  In this instance I wanted to feature the purples so I used Lavender Lulu and Sweet Plum.  When the ribbons were dry I tied them to the elastic closure.  The closure was wide enough for me to hot glue a paper flower to it, next to the tied ribbons.  I added a wooden flower with some twine and a lovely self adhesive pearl in the center.
I hope this gives you some more ideas as to the benefits of making a Masterboard.  Many people make these and then photocopy the finished "board" to use over and over.  In this instance I made a couple at the same time and just cut them up for different projects.  Either way it saves you time while you make it and when cleaning up after.  Have a wonderful weekend.  Talk to you soon!

4 comments:

  1. That is a great idea and it came out beautiful. Love the stamp and I had never heard of that company.
    Thanks.
    DianeD

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  2. Lovely! Great idea to use cork paper, cool effect!

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  3. It's fabulous! But is it big enough?!?!? Just kidding. Love the cork and how you tied it up with that stacked flower.

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