Quirky Dutch Summer

Quirky Dutch Summer is a series of weekly blogposts at Marit’s Paper World with inspiration and tutorials.

In the first week Marit showed us how to make a journal from a cheap canvas. Unfortunately the size I needed was sold out, so I bought a smaller canvas for a small journal. I just couldn’t wait to get started!

 It took me a few days to decorate the outside of my journal, . . .

. . . after painting the inside.

Then it was time to make my signatures. Luckily I had some good drawing paper in my stash in the right size. After binding the signatures into my cover I decorated the ends of the threads with some donut beads as a nice finishing touch.

In the meantime I bought another canvas in a bigger size for a second journal, which will be a variation. But first I get started with the second Quirky Dutch Summer week, which is a great guest tutorial from Jenny de Bode.