Harry Potter Journal

 Hi everyone. I hope you're enjoying your weekend. Mine has been "fairly" quiet, and yesterday I spent a lot of time on the couch reading. I'm actually hoping for another relaxing day today. 👍

Those of you who have stopped by my blog for a while might know I like to make journals when I get home from a trip. In my travel journals I include all kinds of paraphernalia I pick up, as well as other items. My trip to Universal Studios at the end of last month is also getting a journal.  I decided it would have an overall Harry Potter theme, since that is how we spent most of our trip. This journal has some paraphernalia  pages, but also some pages made with Harry Potter stickers. I had a book of stickers  that I bought a few years back at Costco, and they work  with the theme of this latest journal.

Here's the cover. I am using a little chipboard 3 ring binder that I painted Hufflepuff yellow (or what the most people would call mustard 😏.) I covered the binding with some brown book binders tape.

I added a Hogswart's sticker from the sticker collection, sanded the edges and then rubbed a bit of paint on those edges. The key is a souvenir I bought at the Gringotts (bank) store on my trip. I still need to add a title, but I haven't decided what or how I want to do that yet.

And this next page is my inner cover. You can also see I painted the inside of my actual cover green. That's because when I've been sorted in Harry Potter schools, I've been sorted as both a Hufflepuff and a Slytherin.  The green stands for the Slytherin and the yellow outside for the Hufflepuff.

(And if you're not into Harry Potter, sorting decides which of the 4 groups/houses within the Hogwarts school you belong.)

I made my page with some stamped stars, a die cut center block, some stickers, confetti dots and some smudging.

Since we rode the train between the 2 Harry Potter parks several times, I made a page using stickers, a stamped and fussy cut train and train ticket, a paper clock, a die cut pointing finger and a paper crown. I used a stenciling brush and a red ink pad to slightly smudge a bit of color on the background.

And on this next page I used stickers, an acetate frame as well as a white Posca paint pen and some little brown plastic dots.

In my travel journal, I try to make pages or include items that bring back memories. Hot butter beer was definitely something I wanted to remember.  On this next page I covered the background with  striped paper.  The cups are stamped, fussy cut and lightly colored with watercolor paint.  The butter beer heading is cut out of the koozie from an actual cup of butter beer I had. I also added a few other embellishments.

Some handwritten journaling, a big sticker, a small sticker and a stamped postmark are used on this next page.

And finally for this post (before it gets too long), I have a  page for  Vicki's Keeping It Light challenge at Art Journal Journey. This time I have a black and white(ish) page which I think shows the contrast between dark and light quite well.

We had lunch one day at the Three Broomsticks, which is what the above page is all about. I added the clock because neither my friend nor I were quite sure about the ordering process, and so a quick lunch took a lot longer than we planned. 

I die cut the center black and white paper as well as the fork from silver paper. The stars are hand drawn. The sticker is from my sticker book but I first put it on some black paper and then trimmed it. 

I have quite a few other pages done, but instead of making a long post, I’ll share those another day. 

I'm also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

Enjoy whatever is left to your day.