Do you want to know how to make an absolutely gorgeous dark leather faux journal cover? Well check out this picture and and i'll share my secret recipe with you lol.
1- I started with a brown paper bag cut to the size I wanted.
2 - I made modge podge by watering down some white school glue.
3- I cut out a piece of white tissue paper that was a little larger that the brown paper bag
4- I crinkled up white tissue paper
5 - Spread a farily even layer of the modge podge like mixture on the paper bag
6 - Glued on the tissue paper which sucked up the glue but I didn't decoupage exactly because the glue was placed on first and I didn't go over the top with glue
7 - I embraced the crinkles in the tissue paper didn't smooth it but did make sure there were no crazy large bubbles
8 - Let it dry
9 - Glued the over hang to what will be the inside cover
10 - Painted it black
11 - Mixed black and brown to create a super dark brown and used this color as a random color around the cover to give added dimension
12 - Used homemade gold tinted gesso to highlight the raised parts of the cover
13 - Let it dry
14 - Did the same paint technique on the over hang and painted dark brown on the inside cover
15- Sealed the cover with thin layer of modge podge like mixture
16 - Let dry
17 - Moved the book open and closed several times which caused some of the cover to "crackle" after making sure it was the right flexibility when back wherever the white tissue paper was showing again and painted black
18 - Let dry and modge podge those areas one more time
And tada!! Beautiful journal cover it really looks good too. Its sorta soft like leather it was awesome. I got the technique from someone on youtube. I will probably make a video to show the technique as well very soon. Until then....have a wonderfully crafty day!!
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