“Commelina” – Medium Handcrafted Journal

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This journal is ready for you to make it your own!

Commelina is a handmade upcycled materials journal, measuring about 6″ x 5”, and would be a great book to use as a small art and/or writing journal, travel herbarium, glue book, commonplace book, or a mini junk journal!

It would also make a great idea book, gratitude journal, or a list book that can be slipped into your purse or back pack for daily use.

The cover of this handmade pocket journal is made from a scrap of cardboard covered with a vintage dictionary page and a walnut stained doily and features a wrap around silk band and button closure. It looks great as is or could be embellished with a pressed plant, a collaged imaged, or a metal trinket to make it even more special and unique to you.

This journal contains two book marks. Both are secured in the interior of the book. One is made with a strip of lavender colored linen fabric and has a hangtag made from a recycled tea bag label that has been collaged with a Commelina, or Asiatic dayflower, flower and leaf pressing. On the back is the quote “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted,” by Aesop. The tea tag is sewn to the ribbon book mark using the tea bag string and is embellished with three lapis lazuli gemstone chips.

The second book mark is made with a blue and purple colored strip of silk and features three lapis gemstone chips and one glass bead, also stitched onto the book mark with a tea bag string.

This blank art journal contains about 80 pages of various sizes and types of paper, (including a couple art papers)—vintage and newer; some of which are thick enough handle some mixed media art work. Paper includes kraft paper, watercolor paper, vintage book and music paper, and vellum paper.

This small pocket journal contains mostly neutral pages, along with colored vintage book pages with some color.

Some pages have been stained and dyed with plant dyes such as walnut dye.

Most book pages containing text have been gessoed or painted over with acrylic paint and are ready to hold a variety of media, including light watercolor.

A few pages may still contain text that you can collage over, create mixed media on top of, or can block out with your own acrylic paint color of choice to create a blank palette.

There are two large side pockets in this journal which can be used to stash feathers, business cards, notes, receipts, change, or a sprig of your favorite plant found on a walk.

Additionally, this journal has two pockets on the inside cover pages. Please note the butterfly photo in the pocket picture is for demonstration purposes only and is not included in the journal.

The journal has been hand stitched together with waxed thread and has no closure though a simple bull clip could be used to hold it closed.

Your new journal is empty and waiting for you to fill it with YOUR art, thoughts, lists, collages, or whatever you can imagine!

This handmade journal ships for FREE.