My Valentine gift to you

We are in the middle of the NBA All Stars weekend, but I had to take time to wish you a lovely Valentine's Day.  It's time I share this visual journal with you.  Be aware this is an extremely LONG post, even longer than my usual ones.  I'll try to keep my comments to a minimum, so you can peruse this quickly.  Feel free to ask questions in your comments, though.  I'll drop by YOUR BLOG and give you the answer.

You might remember the front cover of this visual journal from a review I wrote back in 2013.

At that time, I explained I used felt for the covers and dyed some of the felt per the book's instructions.

I never got a good picture of the "Lover" definition on the heart on the back, though, mostly because my camera wouldn't take close-ups properly.

This is the inside back.  I dyed tyvek and cut a piece of the fabric I used on the outside for the pen/pencil holder.

Over the colored tyvek, I added a dyed hand wipe (not baby wipe) that I had quilted.  On the hand wipe, I added a tyvek heart.  The entire assembly was then sewed to the front so the recipient has a place to add ephemera or notes.

I think I'm most proud of the spine, because I have NO feed dogs that I can drop for free motion stitching.  This was made the "old fashioned way" of twisting and turning the fabric in order to make each letter.

There are a total of 96 pages in the book.  Unlike the other scrappy journals I have created, this one is all about love.  It is also the least decorated of all the journals I've made.  This journal is designed for someone who likes to doodle and create her/his own designs.  The owner of this journal will not be interested in lots of added art, preferring to draw her/his own.  This is for the journaler who wants the plainest (and most redundant) scrappy journal I own. 

Now onto the contents of this scrappy journal in page order (I hope you can see how I create these journals from scraps, leftovers, as well as new product and materials). 

The inside front and page 1.

 

Page 96 and inside back cover.

I can assure you, it took me a whole lot longer to scan and enter these into Blogger than it took me to scroll through the pages.  I hope you enjoy them, and if you like what you see, I'll scan a few more next month when I have the covers finished.  Thanks for looking, because, sadly, this is the only Valentine you'll get from me this year!

Don't forget.  Today is the final day to leave a comment on my "Grow Your Blog" giveaway.  I will close the drawing at 10:00 pm CST (see my right sidebar under Wichita) and announce the two winners in the morning (2/16).