Floral Journal

February 02, 2026

Floral Journal

Hellooooo and welcome to my February Blog! This month's theme is in collaboration with Grafix Arts! So as well as Eileen's dies, you will see products from Grafix Arts! I loved working with their products so much!

As you can see from the images above, I have created the journal cover and some inserts for the notebooks. The die I used for the journal is the tall journal die which is available over in Eileen's Etsy Shop;

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/525463403/sizzix-journal

The Shrink sheets (Bloom Flowers)are available on the Grafix Arts website, I have added a link below;

https://www.grafixarts.com/

Now for the step-by-step tutorial...

Step 1: I cut out the journal covers using matboard...

Step 2: I coloured quite a few of the flowers on the bloom flower sheet using Acrylic paint pens. I kept the colours along the same theme to match my journal covers that I will be doing...

Step 3: The most fun bit was watching the plastic shrink with the heat gun I used to shrink the flowers down!

Step 4: I used the gel plate and acrylic inks to create these patterned journal covers. I added texture used die cut shapes and a lid to apply paint on to create the circles...

Step 5: I then used the acrylic paint pens to add further texture and shapes to the covers to give it more interest...

Step 6: How fascinating is it to see the original size of the plastic then, check out the size of it once the plastic has been heated! Amazing! I haven't really used shrink plastic until now, but I had loads of fun doing this journal!

Step 7: For the journal inserts I created these notebook covers, this one using the bloom flowers - I am so pleased with how it looks! Further down the blog, you will see that I have added more texture to these covers with the acrylic pens and the Sizzix Effects Liquid Gloss - I love this product, I use it a lot on my projects, as you have probably seen!

Step 8: I used Eileen's Fan Favourite Stamps 666770 to add wording...

Step 9: I used the negative from the die cut, added acrylic paint with a sponge, to create the word 'Journal'. Then highlighted some of the lettering with white pen....

Step 10: The 2nd notebook cover was created using Distress inks and more pen and mixed media texture...

Step 11: I used stencils, to add some splash marks onto the background...

Step 12: I added acrylic paint flowers, flower embellishments and pen to finish the floral ink cover. And finally, as mentioned earlier in the blog, I added white pen and Sizzix Liquid Gloss to the background of the first notebook cover!