9: put together the fortune journal

a couple of months ago i tried making a cover for a purse calendar out of fortunes. the results were not satisfactory. the fortunes were laid out in perfect rows, and it was too boring for me. so when i started this journal cover, i pasted down about a dozen fortunes in a haphazard, random fashion before deciding i didn't like that either. after all, part of the fun of using the fortunes was being able to READ the fortunes.

so i went back to lines. but i gave them an angle and mixed in some colored stripes. the stripes are cut from paint chips i picked up months ago when i was thinking about painting my office. i haven't painted the office - but i do still like the colors. :)


here's a view showing both the front & back of the finished journal. i'm quite pleased with how it came out. everything's covered in mod podge, so it's a tad hard to photograph without crazy reflection of the flash, but it has a fabulous feel to it. it's smooth, but you can see the brush strokes. and the fortunes are all different thicknesses (thanks to some of them being part of the original & second failed attempts), so there's a neat texture to it, as well.


there's one fortune on each side that's sitting on top of the color stripes. the front says "your dream will come true."


and the back reads "you're transforming yourself into someone who is certain to succeed."

i don't know about all of that - but i do really like journal. :)

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