A Secret Garden Within An Altered Journal

Yesterday I wrote about the pretty mess that happened in the middle of creating.



I sat for hours painting birds,

nests,



and creating tags.



I added tiny glassine envelopes to house secrets only found in a secret garden.



Vintage ribbons dangled from tags hidden in pockets,



found on decorative papers.



This journal and some lovely tags were purchased in Nesting On Main,



on Sunday,

and I could not wait



to fill this with altered adventures.

The book has lovely papers, three rings so you can add or remove pages.  Each page has been stamped at the bottom using my custom art stamp of my Parisian Dove, and a distressed blue ink pad.

The book has a beautiful hard-cover of sheet music and birds, which I later decorated with lovely green silk ribbons and a bow. I found beautiful silk ivy leaves from Homespun Garden in Falmouth, and it added just the right highlight to the cover.

So, I added some more favorite decorative papers and pockets everywhere.



You will find hand-painted birds sitting on top of hand-made papers.

Measuring 5 inches wide by 7 1/2 inches tall,  it contains 78 pages. The rings allow you to add or remove pages.  Allowing you to frame the hand-painted pages.



I just put this Secret Garden of Bird Inspiration altered journal in my Etsy shop in the category A Scrapbook of Inspiration.

Because I love creating journals, this was surely a labor of love, the song for this post is still All About The Heart.