Journals with Stylish and Unique Designs To Feature At La Simero Handmade

Selling cute and stylish journals are our thing. So, after depth research and inspirations from other crafters in the world, these are just one of the outcomes of these combined ideas. These are already sold to different clients in different places.

Designs featured here are in accord to their requests. What we really do is to make their demands [to the styles they want for their ordered journals] and how it should appear on the covers. With the help of great imagination and research, I came up with these truly unique journals. All produced at La Simero Handmade.

These journals are bind through Coptic Stitch binding method and Perfect Binding. You can search these techniques in YouTube through searching Sea Lemon's instructions. She has a lot of clear tutorial videos on these methods. So you can see them through clicking the links below.

Sea Lemon's Binding Method Video Tutorials: 
How to Make a Sketchbook: Coptic Stitch
Perfect Binding Tutorial 

Anyway, these are the products produced by La Simero Handmade.

1. Gothic-inspired Journals
-Stylish amulet placed on the covers
-Purple, Pink combined in the covers

2. Altered Cover - Mesh Combo with Silver Lining

-These are made from old pages placed to make an altered look

3. Gothic-Inspired Journal with Skulled Crucifix

-Key made as a bookmark for the page

4. Strawberry-Owl Feathered covers

-Ribbon are placed as requested by client

-Cute heart charm placed as a bookmark

5. Tribal Ribbon Lock
-The tribal covers make it look amazing for a journal activity
-pages are actually lined and recycled from an old notebook

6. Blue Covers with Ribbon Lock and Tribal Spine

-This is purely hand-stitched. Since we don't own a sewing machine, we sewed every cloth by hand using back stitching to achieve the machine-sewn look outside. 

-Ribbon bookmark is placed on the book spine.

7. Dream book-inspired journal
-Quotation is placed on the covers
-Cool charm placed as bookmark on the spine
-The pages are bind using Coptic Stitch binding method.

8. Gothic-Inspired Journal - The Green Version
-Handmade crucifix placed below skull charm
-Gothic key placed in the book spine
-Edges are placed with cool designs
-Pages are stained to achieve a more Gothic feeling.

9. Strawberry - Owl Inspired Brown covers
-This is as requested by the client.
-Metal "H" charm placed on the spine
-Pages are stacked together and bind using Coptic Stitch Binding Method.

Me and my younger sister both managed to make journals and helped each other especially in designing the journal covers. So, every client really is assured that the journals they received are really unique and above all, affordable. 

If you wish to know more about our journals, you can leave comments below. Thanks for visiting our blog! Wish you a nice day! 

Elmer's Glue-All To Arrive With Stronger Formula

Elmer's Glue has been one of the most trusted providers of crafting adhesives. It may come with merely crafting like journal making like I personally do or perhaps, any school projects like in the art school.

The regular Elmer's Glue has been with me along the years since childhood (that's around 5 years now). So, I know how it is and how effective it is to my works of art. It is really that recommendable to all the crafters out there who wanted a much more durable adhesive or glue to their projects [whatever it is].

Currently,  I am using the Elmer's Glue-All because of its stronger formula and fast drying ability which I really, really love. Because in my journal making business, I need each time that much, and every minute is counted. So, since the time I used this product, I love the results and the kind of durability it does to my work especially when I am using them in the book spines and journal covers.

I am still exploring to how would the Elmer's Glue-All can do in my work. So far, I discovered that it can be good for final coating to protect the paint for my covers, because sometimes with my paper mache in my journal covers, I use it to strengthen the tissue paper. Plus, at the end of the painting process, I end it with brushing it with pure glue mixture directly through my paint brush to further strengthen the covers.

The result is really amazing. It creates a long- lasting durability ability to my journal covers and it makes the covers stronger than the usual glue mixture. So, personally, I highly recommend Elmer's Glue-All for your DIY projects! See it yourself!