Paired journals (Darcy and Clare)

Here are the first photos of the paired journal swap taking place between myself (Darcy) and Clare.

The 2 signatures, made by Clare are just held together with cord for now. We plan to make several signatures, I shall make the next set, and then once we have a few completed we will take off the cord and bind them into books.

We decided to exchange signatures rather than full books, to make the packages lighter and cheaper, plus this way we can use all kinds of different papers in each signature.

So here are the 2 that just arrived from Clare.

The same but slightly different..

with the start of backgrounds and decorative gilding..

No idea yet what I will add to them, but I am looking forward to playing in them both. 

Introducing Darcy

hi, I am 42 and live in the North East, fairly near the coast. I live with my partner and we have a 23 year old son.

I have been crafting forever, first starting with knitting and hand embroidery, moving onto machine embroidery and then onto papercrafts. I am one of those 'jack of all trades,master of none.
I am currently doing the 'Life Book' online course, run by Willowing..

I also love making dolls...the weirder the better..

                                             

I love drawing and painting and generally just messing about. For me , art is all about the 'process' rather than the 'end product'

As with most crafters, I am also a hoarder and stroker of 'stuff'...

My favourite supplies to use are my promarkers, neocolor crayons,alphabet stamps,stencils and gesso. I hate yellow with a passion, it is the colour of bad and wrong lol...

I am also having an undying love affair with Basic Grey, which is not for using...just for stroking.

My other love is cakes, I make great cupcakes. However due to an excess of cakey bakeyness I am now having to go to the gym...a lot.