Felted Heart Art Journal
By Vanessa Spencer

The canvas books can be used for an art journal, a memory book and so much more. I haven’t yet done the actuall journal entries on these art journal pages so they have been intentionally left blank. You can easily add some creative journal entries, or even pictures. This would also be a great gift to give to someone special.

Start by spraying the cover of a 7”x8” Canvas Book (5CT-20097) with olive green Glimmer Mist (5TA-OVINE). For the inside pages I alternated the glimmer mist colors by using the Olive Green and the Red Velvet (5TA-REDVEL). For the double page layouts that are olive green just give a fairly even coat of the glimmer mist. For the double page layouts that are red velvet I used some chipboard scrolls (5MR-C016) as stencils for a fun look. To create the same look just place a scroll on the canvas, hold it down and spray around it.

Once all the pages have dried you are ready to embellish. Take patterned paper from the Basic Grey Sultry collection (5BG-CSUL1198) and cut down to 4 ½” x 6” then sew the pieces onto the green pages. I left the pink pages blank so that you can see the scroll stencils and so that I would have some pages with just the stitching rectangle shape and no paper.

On the cover add a chestnut Large Felted Heart (5KR-LGHEART01) and staple the “May Your Heart Always Be Content” tag – this tag was from the packaging the holds the felted heart.