Stranger Tools Happen

[gokuma]

Journaling / planning / scrapbooking makes you broaden your horizons in some very... unexpected ways. I've started laughing today when I noticed I was customizing my journal cover using: a) a cross-shaped screwdriver, b) a long nail, c) an upholstery needle I bought once in some stroke of brilliance/foresight.

What's the weirdest tool/medium your journaling/planning made you use?

Comments

[lunabee34]

I am extremely vanilla so far, but I'm looking forward to other responses.

*camps out in post*

[gokuma]

"Vanilla Journaling" sounds very curious XD

[lunabee34]

LOL

:)

[used_songs]

Well, I once experimented with writing on clear sheets of plastic (like the old overhead transparencies) with a permanent marker. I was going for an overlay look, but it was very difficult to manage and smeared a lot. I've also covered things in foil ... and then lots of tape when the foil started to rip. When I was journaling in giant scrapbooks, the pegs would always pop out under the mass of stuff I would insert in the book, so I had to tie everything back together.

[gokuma]

I once experimented with writing on clear sheets of plastic (like the old overhead transparencies) with a permanent marker. I was going for an overlay look, but it was very difficult to manage and smeared a lot.

Perhaps it was the plastic's fault (or the marker's)? I've been using the same method to make my transparent tip-ins and the writing doesn't smudge

[used_songs]

Maybe so. I think it was probably the plastic - some of the overhead transparency films have a coating so you can print on them and I think I probably had some of those mixed in. I was using the leftover bits of boxes of them.