Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Road Trip Junk Journal

 

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I haven't made a junk journal in ages, and as I have heaps of scrap and left over paper from various collections ................well, time to use some of it up!
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I started with a base of Eileen's Notebook cut out from matboard and covered in papers from 7Gypsies. The inside covers have a layer of scrim adhered to them for a shabby look. The pages are made from various ephemera cut our using deckle edged scissors.
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The front of the cover has a left over book plate sat upon left over stamp shapes. Everything in this book is a left over :) or a scrap.
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The spine of the journal has sari ribbon and square glass beads, and has been woven on Eileen's new loom.
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Weaving the beads is definately a learning curve but well worth the time as I love the effect they give.
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Happy Crafting.

Elizabeth x

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Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Stacking Drawer Gift Box

 

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It's the time of year when school exams are taking place and the children are getting ready for the summer break. We all like to treat those fantastic teachers to a little something to say thank you, and what better way to wrap that little gift than in a little reuseable drawer. I assembled the drawer from Matboard, and die cut the drawer front out of my patterned paper.
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The back of the drawer is visable so I measured the space and cut a piece of paper to size and glued that on.
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I measured out a piece of paper that would wrap around the entire drawer, positioning the Butterfly on the top. Using Eileen's double sided tape I carefully wrapped the paper around using a bone folder to keep the corners crisp and square.
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To finish off I adhered a couple of pieces of paper lace to the top two sides, one to hide the paper join and two because it just looked so prettty!
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It's a great size for a small gift as you can see it fits in a bottle of my favourite nail polish, but could easily hold lip balms, chocolates or other small gifts such as stationery.


Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x

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