Crafting again!

Here are the in depth instructions for making a Galaxy themed Journal.

You will need:

Two paintbrushes or one paintbrush and a toothbrush. Make sure the brushes are THICK

Black, White, and Red acrylic paint The wait paint should NOT be new!

Blue or white glitter paint

An old journal that you want to decorate

An old blakent to work on (I used blue paper instead which was NOT the smartest idea)

Clorax wipes and napinks (Unless you used the old blanket)

Tape (If you want to be extremely neat)

Colored ducktape (Optional)

Anything else you want to add like stickers, glow in the dark stars, etc.

A silver sharpie

Step 1. Fold over the covers so you can paint both of them.



I seriously should have used an old blanket because
cleaning up excess paint on hardwood is a pain!



Step 2. Paint it Black



The acrylic paint I used was OLD
so when I tried dumping some out
it EXPLODED and I had to clean most
of it off the floor.



Note: When painting the cover a composition notebook you will notice as the black dries it becomes lighter and the original design shows through. To fix this you could go over the entire notebook in black sharpie before painting but if you're like me and you can't stand the smell you'll just have to deal with painting 5-8 layers of black paint. I actually did that because my black paint exploded.

Step 3. Wait for the black paint to dry. Unfortunately I skipped this step but the journal still turned out alright.

Step 4. Using the sparkly glitter paint, paint over the black and spread it out evenly to look like stars. Another way to do this is dump the paint ON the cover and spread it out with a brush

Step 5. The reason you need OLD white acrylic paint is to make stars. When you squeeze an OLD bottle of acrylic paint it comes out in a pattern. A new bottle just sprays a snake of fresh paint which is what we DON'T want.

This is a video of how you apply the white paint from the bottle

Another way to add the stars is by sprinkling on the paint with the thick brush OR a toothbrush. You put the bristles of the brush on the white paint and run your fingers over the bristles. The excess paint will fly off the brush onto the cover and create a beautiful spray effect.  You can do this with the rest of the colors.



The paint takes about 30 minutes to an hour to dry depending on how much paint you used. Don't let your brushes dry out while you wait. You can also paint the inside. If you want to be neat use scotch tape and a seperate piece of scratch paper to protect the exposed paper.

If you have a broken earring you can use those pieces for a pencil. I stabbed the earring hook into the dead eraser after hooking the earring pieces onto the hook.

"The rest is up to you. Life is an experiment full of possibilities."

-Just Jane