these pages feel really wonderfully thick from several layers of gesso on each side, plus the paper! the paper is pretty thick anyway. there's between 4-6 layers of gesso on each side of every page + the paper itself. kind of plastic-y, but without being sticky, since it's watercolored and sanded. you'd have to feel it to really get the picture.
i am awaiting maralena's package in the mail, which has my journal in. i will switch out that journal and send her this journal when it arrives! well, as soon as i can get to the post office. so i think i will have a couple more days to work on these pages. i have a few more sets prepared for color.
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Oh I can't wait to see this! It looks great and sounds like heaven to touch... (haha, isn't that a song?)
Your just to good to be true...
Can't take my eyes off of you...
You'ed be like heaven to touch...
I want to hold you so much...
At long last my journal has arrived....
And I thank God I'm alive...
Your just too good to be true...
Can't take my eyes off of you...
LOL
Enough of that.
I can't wait to try this technique when I get your journal back.
I was looking at the aluminum edging again. I know I've seen you do this on other pages too. I have some heavy aluminum (pipe tape) and I am going to experiment on that too. I'll look around and see if I can find something interesting to texture the tape with - crimping wise.
hehhehehe.
oh, the edging is just aluminum tape from any old hardware store or Harbor Freight Tools. it's mega cheap!
i have been trying to get my hands on some that is printed with text on it, but i couldn't find any =/. all i have is the plain stuff.
to texture mine, i usually use small metal tools from a scrapbook/stamp store (i have one), and i have a pen that a ball popped out of that i use for drawing, too.
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