Butterfly journal

This post is a first for me, two firsts actually - a few weeks ago I won Mrs A's butterfly challenge and part of the prize is you get to pick a 'letter' for an upcoming challenge and then become the Guest Designer for it.

I picked the letter X, mostly because I was intrigued to what it could be. Thankfully it turned out that Mrs A had been sneaky with this, and it actually related to a colour:

X fro Xanthine =  The yellow colouring matter found in certain plants as in Yellow Madder.
(Madder is from the Genus Rubia and has small yellow flowers, whorled leaves and a reddish brown root.)

Yellow..... I can do yellow!

So I wanted to do something special for my slot as GD and I decided to alter a composition/notebook, something which I love seeing but have never done, anyhoo I ended up using a hardbacked, elasticated notebook which had yellow edged pages - the elastic was yellow as well.

Perfect.

I decorated a few pages with images, a few with stamped quotes and a few pages I used Butterfly punches on, which were given to me from a friends mum's friend who had stopped crafting due to illness.

I didn't want to fill it too much (it was hard, I kept finding bits n bobs which would have been perfect to go in) as I wanted Mrs A to be able to use it, if she wanted too.

Just realised the elastic is not round the journal in the photo.

I stuck the postcard images onto handwritten vintage postcards, I have about 150, long story not going there, for a lovely personal touch. Imagine reading a note/or letter sent nearly 100 years ago.

 

front page -  Debbi Moore images

 

Tattered Lace butterfly die

Debbi Moore sentiment

picture from prize goody bag

postcard image from Lunagirl 'Butterfly cards'

 

tag image from Ephemeras' Vintage Garden

 

tuck spot paper Do Crafts

image from the Graphics Fairy

 

image from googled search

 

paper from Debbi Moore

tag image from EVG

 

paper from Antique Pinks pack

Postcard image from Fripperies and Butterflies

 

tuck spot paper doCrafts

image from Lunagirls 'Butterfly cards'

 

tag image from EVG

 

can't remember where this image came from

 

 

back page - Debbi Moore embellishments

Very pleased with the result, I will probably do some more in the New Year.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's take on the letter X over on Butterfly Challenge blog

Amanda