Custom Decorated Journals

These custom decorated journals were an idea given to me by a friend who asked if I could decorate some composition journals for her. She used the composition journals because they’re a little bigger than other journals and college ruled. She didn’t give me any direction aside from her basic sense of style, which I already had a good grasp of, the rest was left up to me. After I finished her two journals, I received multiple orders for more custom decorated journals including a honeymoon journal to Hawaii, a family reunion planner journal, an autumn themed journal and recently finished two Disney journals (one for me for a trip to DisneyWorld!). All the journals I have used so far have been simple composition books and college ruled. Both the inside and outside of the front and back covers are decorated with coordinating papers and embellishments of all my journals.

Materials: Materials used have varied from journal to journal. The first two journals were decorated using basic grey paper and chipboard letters from american traditional designs. The tropical journal used a variety of tropical and summer patterned papers and embellishments from ki memories, k & company and deja views. All journals were put together using Tacky glue.