A long time ago I saw the limited edition teal Leuchtturm notebooks – teal covers with gold accents. It took ALL my strength not to buy one right then and there. Instead I went for a different fun (and perhaps more expensive) option of personalizing my newest teal Foxy Notebook – with PAINT.
I know, you’re probably thinking I’m crazy for wanting to paint my beautiful foxy but it’s not as scary as I thought it would be! Plus, I’m only doing a gold edge to add that flair. Here’s the quick and dirty of how I did it.
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It seemed silly for me to put this whole post up to really highlight this ONE step, but I know that I personally like seeing it happen to help my own confidence in the process. I just went in very carefully with the paint brush, edging the side of the Foxy. I ended up removing the tape because this particular leather was easy to just wipe off any paint that smudged onto the front of the cover.
LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL THAT GOLD IS?! I didn’t have any issues with dripping or anything – just carefully dabbing on that color all around the edges. At some points I propped the whole piece of leather up on my knee because I didn’t want to rest it on the table and smudge any of my progress.
I went over the edges about 3 times – not because I desperately needed to, but because I wanted to get a good coat on it, and get the gold as opaque and bold as possible. I did NOT seal it, and will have to report back on how well it stands up to the elements once I actually use it!
Just another simple way to personalize your leather covers – and it took me about 20 minutes! Have you tried painting your covers? What else have you done?
Jessica
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So gorgeous! A nice, subtle touch that really enhances the look of the notebook. I love it!
Riley
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Lovely! Curious why you used ink vs paint? I’m starting to see many art journalist using Liquitex Inks, what are your thoughts? I’d love to have my BuJo pages with this gold, so cool!
I was surprised by how easy it was to paint it on with liquitex! I haven’t used it on the pages though
You are very brave but it looks gorgeous. Well done!
That looks lovely. Great colour choices. Though I confess i have a serious case of envy re your watermelon foxy…
I’m curious re the ink v paint too? I recently made myself a travellers notebook style cover from vinyl and I coloured the edges using a fluorescent pink acrylic paint pen. Acylic stands up fairly well without sealing, and something like an edge will be easier to touch up rather than seal imho.
Hmm I don’t know about ink because I used acrylic (albeit a liquid acrylic).
Ooh it looks stunning!
Thank you!
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