Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera

Follow along as Milagros Rivera creates this uplifting journal using Dina Wakley Media Transparencies and Collage Papers. 

Are you like me swooning over Dina Wakley’s new transparencies and collage papers? Here’s a way to put them together to get your fix!  

Check out the finished journal here 

 

Instructions:

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 1

Step 1: Use a paper trimmer to cut Abstract Portraits.  
  

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 2

Step 2: The biggest piece is 4.5 x 6.75; this will determine the size of your journal.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 3

Step 3: To create the journal cover, cut a clear transparency to 7” wide, score at 4.75” flip, and score at 4.75.  
   

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 4  

Step 4: Carefully place collage paper around a portrait transparency silhouette. Glue from behind using Gel Medium.  

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 5

Step 5: Once you glue the collage paper, use a paintbrush and Gloss Sprays to add some color to the portrait transparency on the back. Use the Tiny Attacher to add a Typed Ledger sentiment to the transparency, if desired (refer to image in step 11). Set aside.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 6

Step 6: Score a piece of dictionary paper or typed ledger sheet to make the inside of the spine; this will hold your journal pages.  

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 7

Step 7: Once you score, fold in an accordion-like fashion and you should have 4 mountain folds (circled in black). Tape each end (circled in red) to the outside of the score lines on the inner journal cover spine.  

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 8

Step 8: Use a sewing machine to secure the portrait transparency from step 5 to the front of your journal cover.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 9

Step 9: This is the finished front cover with the spine in place to hold the journal pages.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 10

Step 10: This is a piece of fodder I created by cleaning my gel plate on a scrap of paper.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 11

Step 11: Secure the fodder to the back of the front cover.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 10

Step 12: This is the inside of the front cover. Repeat steps 4-5 using another portrait transparency and collage paper to create this look. Attach to fodder on the inside of the front cover.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 11

Step 13: Use transparencies, white cardstock, and gloss sprays to decorate your back cover. Secure those to back cover with sewing machine.  

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 12

Step 14: To create your first page, attach a portrait transparency to a Typed Ledger sheet using the Tiny Attacher. Attach a Typed Ledger sentiment on top of the transparency. Once your page is finished, use double-sided tape to secure it to the first mountain fold of the spine. 

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 12 

Step 15: Apply Gloss Sprays to a transparency and place a tag on the transparency to pick up the ink for a negative effect. Make 3 tags in total. 

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 13

Step 16: (Next spread) To create the left page of this spread, swipe a piece of white cardstock onto excess gloss spray from a transparency for a splash of color. Use the Tiny Attacher to secure a portrait transparency and Typed Ledger sentiment to the cardstock. For the right side, secure a portrait transparency and typed ledger sentiment to a negative tag. When finished, secure your pages to spine mountain folds using tape.

 

 

Dina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 15aDina Wakley Transparency Journal by Milagros Rivera Step 15b 

Step 17: Create more pages using transparencies, negative tags, cardstock and typed ledger sheets. Secure to mountain folds using tape. 

 

 

 

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