Lady Falcon Travelers Tagged "a6"

Painted Traveler's Notebooks...

May 23, 2015

Á while back I discovered you can paint Leather Travelers Notebooks with acrylic paint, my all time favorite medium. Regular Acrylic paint will work, however special acrylics for leather are better and give a much nicer result.

Since then I have made quite a few Traveler's notebooks that were painted, among which are my painted lady and some nebula's. I tend to show some of the TN's I make in my facebook group, Lady Falcon Traveler's Notebooks and on my instagram, @LadyFalconTN, but somehow seem to forget to post them here...

So without further ado, here's my latest Weir Tree TN. It's an A6 Traveler's Notebook and it has one, larger/older , brother, or sister, in the world =)

These are hand painted and since the leather doesn't take kindly to pencil, I can't sketch it out before hand.

As you can see in the next picture, it's a rough sketch with paint, after which the rest gets painted, slowly building layer after layer.

I love working like this,

Feeling my way to the final stage.

Trying to capture the light and how it bounces off the tree.

The stars in the sky are an extra challenge =) and usually leave me all starry looking as well.

Here it is next to my own A6 Traveler's Notebook.

And the insert I made to go with it.

I always leave the inside with just the leather dye/stain, because this way I can brush the inside to make it nice and soft and suede like.

Positively pettable =)

The last few pics are from the previous Weir Tree, which is an XL Regular Size, a bit larger.
I would love to see both next to each other someday =)

I hope you enjoyed watching this and I wish you a wonderful weekend.
xx Monique

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A6, Fieldnotes/Pocket or Passport booklet making tutorial

February 05, 2015 3 Comments

Just a quick post today, with a video tutorial I made about printing and making A6, Fieldnotes (Pocket), Passport sized booklets when you onlu have A4 sized paper. I don't think this will work with letter sized paper, because the dimensions and proportions are not completely comparable to A4 paper. However, the templates for FN and PP booklets might work. If you do get it to work, please let me know =)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEssAIdOvto]

I also have a few pictures of the little passport I made.

I made it last night after I came home from work and drove for 1.5 hrs through a whole lot of snow....

It's so much fun to make these.

Definitely feel like everything is coming together.

I can take everything I've learned in the past years...

And pour it into these notebooks =)

This little passport traveler will go up in my shop soon and if you want to make your own booklets, I have several templates freely available. I also sell templates through my Etsy shop, as instant downloads. Please remember, there's a difference between the A6/FN/PP templates for A5 printing and those that are A4 printing, as I showed in the video. If you want a specific template, but can't find it, you can always drop me a line and I will try to make it together with you and for you. I hope you enjoy making your booklets. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. I will do my best to answer all. Have a wonderful day.