Creating a Space to be Creative

I started working on my new altered journal this weekend.

I am having fun creating decorative pages that I will eventually fill with art.

I like making a space to be creative without needing to fill it right away. It will be ready to show off art that is not quite here yet.

The first thing I did was to create a fabric book cover that slips right over the old hard cover.

I chose a Japanese fabric I bought on Etsy. The creatures are supposed to be dogs, but I think they look like kitties too.

For extra texture and pugginess, I created a beaded pug patch from another piece of fabric I bought on Etsy to add to the front cover

Here is the inside of the book so far.

Most of the book has not been sectioned off yet.

Here it is closed.

You can see the seed beads I sewed in that actually makes a pocket inside the book.

I will keep you posted on my progress. :)