Summer is in full swing; what better way to remember your fun summer adventures than by making a journal you can draw and record all of your memories?
This journal can also be made into many other things: a diary, a scrapbook to hold photographs or even a nature journal to store dried flowers and leaves.
Materials
• 2 to 6 paper lunch sacks/bags
• Scissors, glue
• Assorted colored papers
• Colored pencils, crayons or markers
• Hole punch
• Assorted Rubber stamps and inks (optional)
• Sequins, buttons, photos, stickers (optional)
• Raffia, ribbon or yarn
• Rubber band
• Stick, popsicle stick, pen, or pencil to hold book together
Steps
• Decide how you would like your paper sacks to face (remember the folded bottoms can be used as flaps for secret compartments)
• Punch two holes on one of the short sides of the stack of bags
• Put a rubber band loop through one hole in the stack, from back to front. Push other side of rubber band through second hole of stack, from back to front.
• Pass popsicle stick, through both rubber band loops.
• Draw or trace, color and cut out pieces of paper to decorate front and inside of book
• Optional: you can also use rubber stamps and inks or sequins, buttons, stickers and photos to decorate your journal
• Tie raffia, ribbon or yarn around popsicle stick
• Write title on cover and author on back of journal
Dawn Sorem teaches adult and children’s art classes in the DIY Lounge at Collage. She is also the owner and designer of Envelop Cards, www.envelopcards.com
