Journal Covers

This is my current work in progress.  A painted canvas cover for a journal which is a gift for a fellow coworker's grandmother and the main word was to be "faith".  Used my scanner for the picture so it's not the best (slightly cut off - my camera is recharging). 

I used gesso on the floral stamp and stamped the canvas before painting with a selection of FW Liquid Acrylics.  Stamped "faith" using calligraphy letters from Quietfire Designs, "Blooms" and "love" from a couple of different Recollections alpha stamp sets and "precious" from Hero Arts.  Then I went over the words with calligraphy pens and different colours of the FW Liquid Acrylics.  The diamonds were stencilled in using Golden Fluid Acrylic Anthraquinone Blue and a Dylusions stencil.  Embellishments came next - beads, brads, buttons, charms, paper flowers, fabric hearts etc.  I leave a 1" border at the edges to fold over the book cover - remember that when you start adding embellishments - I did the beading on the front cover and ended up having to remove a bead (you can see the white spot) because it ended up right on the fold.  When it's finished, I'll use Yes glue to adhere it to the hard cover of the blank journal.  Hope she likes the end result...