E’s new art journal

This was one of the few gifts I managed to finish this Christmas, I had grand plans, honest!!  But only three gifts reached completion in time and this is one of them.  Last year I gave two of Ella’s friends decorated journals with some rock crayons from stubby pencil studio, we LOVED ours so nauraly we had to spread the love… but I never got around to decorating E’s OR photographing the other two that I made. BLAH!  The back story is that I learned early on when the little lady was 18 months or so that having paper out for her to color on  was NOT the best idea!  She spread it out everywhere and I was frustrated with the mess, so I hatched a plan!

I found these 8×8 Kraft sketchbooks at stubby pencil studio, she could color on them any way she wanted as many pages at a time as she wanted and it didn’t get all over my house!!!  SCORE!  They proved to be of super great quality too, I was please to find out that they worked great with water colors to boot…. well the good kind at least– I am not sure how cheap-o Crayola water colors that you have to saturate with tons of water would work.  Anyway, we had one that she colored in all the time, it had finally reached its capacity, and our resident artist needed a new one!  So this year I managed to decorate it for her so 2010′s would not be so brown and boring!

Here are a couple pieces that I took out of last year’s journal done with some water colors, similar to the ones listed here… but not quiet THAT nice. And I matted and framed them up with some inexpensive CLIP frames from IKEA above her new art center!

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