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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Graphic 45 and COFFEE !!!

Good morning!

Welcome to Crafters Corner and I am Rupa here, sharing with you something different. Not an altered project but yes the main part of the project has an up cycled item and it is this....

A cloth lined envelope that we use to courier documents! Keep thinking for a while till I disclose what I did with it.

When I got the DT kit with this Graphic 45 couture collection paper, I was not sure what to do with it and kept postponing until I got my new toy!

Guess what!!! A sewing machine, lol...and then I knew that this paper was just meant for this project!

So the discarded cover and the Graphic 45 paper became this.....

A vintage junk journal using a whole lot of scraps! Have a look at what all I have used to make this and yes, it is another story that I ate up half a Mills and Boon to do the inside pockets and flaps!

Stay tuned for a picture heavy post and hope you can smell the coffee too, lol!

Yes, I stained all the papers and pattern paper scraps with coffee and dried them in the micro wave. It just gives it a crisp feel and dries fast too.

To start off, I stitched the pattern paper to the cover on the edges and attached the burlap lace as an extension on the front cover! It blended so well with the vintage paper.

The closure is a metal brad to which I have a metal butterfly and a minibottle hanging. On the flap is an eyelet and an elastic hoop to seal this book tight. I have stuck a lace flower to pretty the flap too!

And the book opens and you get the whiff of coffee smell...

I could just keep smelling it all day!

There are 2 signatures all with papers re cycled from my daughters old school note books and left over pattern papers from other projects.I have sewn in laces here and there.

All pages have been rounded off in the corner or have used MS punches andcorner punches.

I have stamped flourishes on all pages with Archival ink brown.

The pockets and flaps are all pages from the Mills and Boon and I have sewn in PP strips as a decorative element!

I have also modge podged some lovely vintage images and flowers on to card stock and aged them with tea dye DI.

Here is an interesting envelope made with text paper

and when you open it, there are some ticket tabs with lovely messages.

This corner flap is a flip open to secret journaling spot! No space wasted in spite of the corner pocket!

Here is a tag pocket decorated with piece of lace, coffee dyes and I have made the tags for journaling from paper strips that I have been hoarding!

The banners too have been made with text paper and can be used as a tuck spot.

Loads of stitching here and I am falling in love with this idea of making a journal than going about sticking with glue!

That brings us to the end of this journal journey and I must say the coffee smell does not allow me to close this one up!

I hope you enjoyed this post and do look up to some lovely embellishments here at crafters corner than can glam up any project! This is also a great way to use up your scraps and I hope you give it a try.

Until my next creative journey,

Happy Crafting and recycling.

Cheers,

Rupa

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Tim Holtz Junk Journal Tutorial -Start to Finish

Namaste Guys

It is an honor and a pleasure to be offered the chance to Continue as a Designer for Crafters Corner for another glorious term!

So, I would like to treat you guys with a Super-duper bumper post:- A Start to Finish of a Junk Journal. All the supplies used are listed below for your perusal .

This is super fun and quick project to do over the weekend as a gift or a personal journal for to carry round in your purse in my favorite Travel Theme and vintage colors.

Watch the full video of the Start to Finish here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuCTVkJdPY&feature=youtu.be

Here are some peeks into the finished Junk journal

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Monday, 8 December 2014

Unique Vintage FInd!!

Hello Everyone

I have a very exciting project to share with you guys its really really unique and what makes it unique is the papers its the new Spellbinders Ephemera Papers One.

This papers are so beautiful and I wanted to showcase them alone!!

I used the papers to create the pages and used Coptic Binding Method To stitch the book (This way of binding is hundreds of years old!!) The cover that looks like leather Is not leather but heavy weight cardstock I have used several layers or techniques and materials to get that leather look.

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Monday, 24 November 2014

Travel Junk Journal - What and how My style!!

Namaste Guys

Time for festivals and holidays and everyone will be heading for vacations and I want to inspire you all with a Travel themed Junk journal. Before I show you the finished Project lets talk about what is a Junk Journal or Junque Journal ?? A junk Junque Journal is a journal made from found items papers and scraps and pattern paper etc! It has many a functions you can use them to store your favorite poems or draw in them or add photos and write in them.

I have come up with a unique style of Junque Journal to take on my travels and the save all my travel memories and memorabilia and instead of using scraps and leftover found papers I use good pattern paper.

So, this journal I have designed for my upcoming trip and Ii have used the Far and Away Line from Teresa Collins. This paper collection is awesome to make a travel themed journal as It has some really great patterns and also a Die-cut sheet, and some sheets of Atc's and Journalling cards. A lot of the thinking and the work has been done for you.

Without further ado here is how I design and make my Junque journals, I divide the Signatures Day wise and add tons of pages, pockets, flaps and envelopes. So in terms of texture and page sizes there is a lot of variety and scope for adding elements like brochures and also for writing. You must be wondering as the pages are black how I do my writing I use a simple white gel pen to do so.

Just look at all the pages and the real estate so many places to write and add photos and brochures! So, you can get everything about your holiday and preserve your memories for ever.

As you can see This book is huge and I have made it 12 x 6 to get two full 4x6 photos on the pages !! and there the pages gradient from large to small to create movement fro the eyes that I think is attractive and adds to the charm.