Fun Free Journal!

 I adore LK Ludwig and had so much fun in her Big Time Book journal class at Artfest, so I was super excited to see her free online class, the Free Flip Flap Free Journal class. It was a great exercise for my muse and for my budget, since the supplies to make this fun book are free! The pages are made from fold-out paint brochures from the hardware store. The ones I used for this book were tri-fold. I rounded the corners with a corner punch. LK teaches you everything you need to know if you follow the link above!

Here are my pages right after they dried...

 ... and stacked up all pretty!

The binding was a little tricky for me since I hadn't tried a sewn over cords binding technique before. It felt a little bit like wrangling an octopus. The "cord" I used is actually a cord with a wire inside, meant to be used in candlemaking. I bought the spool at a thrift store not realizing it had a wire, but it ended up working just fine! This is the front cover.

 Here are some inside pages partially unfolded.

...and here's the back cover...

 

I had soo much fun with this project that I have already started on my next one. I haven't yet decided how I'm going to use the finished book(s) yet, though!