This is the 6th part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working on creating the front cover with a super shaker panel and adding a simple but effective closure. The journal is now finished and ready for me to use, come back next week for a flip thru and how I journaled and tucked away lots of memories from our recent holiday.
Continue readingThis is the 5th part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working on creating tags, clusters and a notebook which continues the theme of NO SEWING!
Continue readingThis is the next step in the Ocean/Beach themed junk journal I am currently working on. This is the 4th journal I have made and, like the others, I am experimenting with different ideas and techniques from those I have done before. I wanted this journal to be a NO SEW one so in the accompanying video I work thru decorating the various pages and pockets and adding flaps, pockets and belly bands to hold all my goodies!
Continue readingThis is the 3rd part of creating this Junk Journal. As you will see from the video I am working out how to create pages and pockets to attach to the NO SEW hinges from part 2 (see link below)
Continue readingThis is the next step in the Ocean/Beach themed junk journal I am currently working on. This is the 4th journal I have made and, like the others, I am experimenting with different ideas and techniques from those I have done before. I wanted this journal to be a NO SEW one so in the accompanying video I work thru creating the hinges and attaching them to the cover I made before.
Continue readingSo thrilled with the result after finishing my green foliage themed journal I wanted to start another straight away – and I wanted to try some new ideas and techniques. This time I am making a ‘NO SEW’ journal and starting with the cover before moving onto hinges and signatures (pages).
It is my plan to finish this one a lot quicker than I did my last journal (that took about 18 months with all the stops and starts with moving from one country to another!) So please plan to follow my journey with this series of posts and accompanying videos. 🙂
Continue readingI really enjoyed working on this journal, I set out to experiment and I did…………. from working out how to create different types of signatures (pages) Pockets, Master Board, Tags, Journaling spots, cover and sewing technique. I loved every minute of its creation and I loved that I shared it all thru my blog and videos.
I am starting to think of the next journal I want to make and deciding what format I want to use, I plan to share its creation with you once I get going………. So watch this space 🙂
Continue readingThis is the last but one post on this journal!!!! What with one thing an another, it has taken me about 16 months to get to this stage, but I did not want to rush it and by taking my time I learned more techniques and had more ideas for experimenting with different types of signatures, sewing techniques and embellishments and I have bought all of them to you in my posts and a series of videos.
Today’s video shows how I added the various embellishments I have created over the months, my thought in placing them and a few tweeks along the way!
Continue readingThe other day I shared how I created the open spine cover for my Foliage Junk Journal, after working out how to create the cover I needed a few days to work out how to sew in the signatures (pages) especially as most of them were not standard as part of this project was to experiment with different formats.
I worked it out ! and in todays video I walk you thru the method I chose………… enjoy! OH! BTW I have decided to call this an open spine journal cover!
Continue readingIt has taken me months to get to this stage……….. to summon up the courage to make the cover for my green foliage themed junk journal. It is an unusual cover to go with the unusual signature (pages) I created. I have used fabric as I think it will be more robust than paper
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