Pyrography Junk Journal

I have found over the years that I often have the desire to create something new far after I have run out of space to display the work. I literally have dozens of banker boxes filled with finished projects, tucked away under my work table or in a closet, that are simply stored away. Yet not having space for another pyrography, wood carving, or craft project does not stop me from wanting to create new ideas.

So I have come up with a small solution to my addiction to pyrography wood burning – a Pyrography Junk Journal!

Small wood pieces can be hot glued to my watercolor paper pages to add too my junk journal.

I cut the front and back of my junk journal from scrap, vegetable-dyed leather, then used a leather punch to create the holes for the clip rings. Of course I worked a leather burning on my cover. My journal measures 6 1/2″ x 8″. Next I cut blank pages from heavy weight water color paper. These pages measure 6″ x 7 1/2″. Aligning the left side of the watercolor paper pages to the leather cover I marked the clip ring holes on the pages and cut them with my leather punch.

I wanted to test sample a new set of watercolor pencils that I will be using to add hue to my larger projects. This journal page let me check how well they covered and how transparent the were to allow the sepia shading to show without investing the time into a larger, in-depth work. A fun starting page for my junk journal.

I can work a pyrography wood burning pattern directly on the watercolor paper pages or I can use those pages to mount other media as small basswood squares, chip board shapes, paper mache squares, or leather scraps.

Fun, random, geometric shapes are great when you just want to spend an evening pyrography doodling.

Quick, easy, and so ready to fill with new free pyrography project patterns, experimental texture practice boards, and test sample for the next large pyrography burning!

Hope you have fun with this idea!!!!

~Lora

irish