Leanne Shawler, Artist

Well, it seems that the last video has been posted for the Ticket to Venice class, which makes me very sad because the whole experience was quite magical.  If you haven't signed up you still can, all the posts are in chronological order and the instructions are neatly kept on a separate page, and the chatter is still active on the private Yahoo group. The videos of Venice are just gorgeous, so inspiring. And you saw my book so you know how wicked awesome it is. I needed a small journal for a dedicated project, and so I went back to Mary Ann's Full Tilt Boogie (and her class is on sale!) and created a journal using the third binding she taught. And I finished sewing it while watching Laurence Olivier's Hamlet . This is the binding ... it's called Triple Chain stitch. The covers... Paper Source paper covered the  back board of a paper pad The inside consists of old ledger paper and canvas paper. (it's primed canvas) security envelope (turn...

This is my first Full Tilt Boogie journal, a class I'm taking from Mary Ann Moss. Being not quite ready to cut apart a vintage photo album, I cut apart a book Mum had passed along from a friend. "Great Thoughts from Master Minds". I thought this was a perfect title for my journal. Unfortunately, I couldn't quite get the binding to not cover "Great" so it's "At Thoughts..." The "tapes" are velvet brown corduroy with green velvet on top. The center ribbon is some moss greenish grosgrain (I think it is called). The binding wasn't as tight as I hoped and I found one was really really loose, so I made this dangle and twisted the cord around it until it was tight... The saint's medal is of St. Philomena (who is supposed to be an early martyr but this has apparently been debunked) Some pages inside.... possibly my favorite signature... I am in my last signature of the art journal I learned out to ...