A Frugal Journey Through January Day 29

Welcome back, thank you for joining me. Can you believe it is Day 29, my journey is nearly over!

 

Today I want to share one of the pages inside my Altered Book Journal. One of the reasons I chose to use this as a journal is I love text, whether stamps, paper or in this case scrap pages from the book. I have decided to stick with the theme and have at least some book print showing on every page.

I started with a very thin layer of Picket Fence Distress Paint, applied with a plastic card. I could use a brush but I prefer the uneven, random look and very thin layers I can achieve using the card as a scraper. I then added layers of Broken China and Bundled Sage.

When dry I put a little Barn Door Distress Paint onto an acrylic block, used the lid of the paint applicator to stamp circles and the plastic card to add lines. I also had a stamps of a smaller circle both open and solid, so I added the open circle in Barn Door and the solid one in Broken China. I liked the colour combination much more than I expected to, especially when I added some Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges!

I die cut some bunting from more leftover book print, stamping the letters and circles for this with Barn Door, then the other letters and circles in black. The letter A was a very old stamp from Hampton Art and I mounted it on a scrap of red card to make it stand out.

The phrenology head and the sentiment are both from Wendy Vecchi's Art Rules set and I added some red embossing to her lips and blue pen to her eye to make them pop. I restamped the flower part of the head and layered that on but felt there was still something missing so I added the half doily, also cut from book print.

I set it aside for a bit and later that day inspiration struck. I had some geek glasses paper lips I had bought for no good reason other than they were quirky, so I adapted them which I think is the perfect finishing touch!

 

I often leave pages aside because I don't feel they are finished, but can't think why, just hoping inspiration will come another day. Do you do that? Or do always complete a page in one sitting?

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my very frugal journal page, all from leftovers and will visit again tomorrow when I will have another project to share x

 

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A Frugal Journey Through January Day 28

Hello and welcome back. Yesterday I shared the covers of my Junk Journal and today I'd like to let you have a peek inside.

My pages are not all the same size and only around six of them are as sturdy as the covers. I chose to do this so I could cut and peel back the surface of the corrugated card for added texture.

You will have gathered I am a huge fan of JOFYJO stamps designed by Jo Firth-Young for PaperArtsy, the are just so versatile!

 

Simple shapes work just as well.

I have added some layers and pockets and tags to some of my pages, all just from leftover paper, stickers and packaging, a few stamps and a bit of stencilling.

 

 

These have been interspersed with pieces of product packaging - I always think Prima packaging in particular is so beautiful it needs to be recycled in the studio rather than the recycling bin lol!

Some pages have some texture paste words from a favourite Wendy Vecchi stencil, and are still awaiting decoration, photos and journaling.

 

My favourite Scribbly Birds stamps from Dina Wakeley had to feature too, each on square pages made from packaging plus some Dylusions stencilling with ink and Crafters Workshop stencils with texture paste which I applied over wet ink so it would steep up through the paste.

 

 

My Junk Journal is by no means finished, it needs some more ink and paint, and of course the photographs from the 1940s and 1950s I have in mind for it, including one of my Uncle's first car and my Grandfather's workshop.

That's all for today, I hope to see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place for frugal idea #29!

PS If you are looking for the February Workshop Schedule then please just scroll down a little x

 

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A Frugal Journey Through January Day 15

WOW, Day 15 on my Frugal Journey, who'd have believed I could blog a different project every day for more than two weeks! Not me that's for sure, but here we are.

Today is all about using up those leftovers from 6x6 pads, you know the ones you fell in love with and just had to have - but now have more than half the paper still in them.

This layout uses five 6x6 sheets of paper plus a scrap to stamp on plus about half an A4 sheet of white vellum. I used an ivory 12x12 sheet as a base and cut four of the sheets of patterned paper to 51/2 inches square, then die cut the fifth sheet into a large label which I cut in half. The papers were from a mix of Prima collections.

I stamped some swirls and the title with Versamark and embossed them with Wow's Vanilla White embossing powder. The year was stamped in Versafine Imperial Purple then the individual numbers were punched out with a 1/2" circle punch. The lace is from May Arts and the mini envelope an old McGill punch. I made the butterfly by stamping the smaller butterfly onto Grungepaper and the larger one onto Clearly For Art, coloured the smaller with Distress Ink, shaped both and sandwiched a Tim Holtz pin between them.Both butterflies are from Wendy Vecchi. I couldn't resist adding a little stamping with a tiny script stamp from Hampton Art that I have had forever.

This layout took me less than an hour to create - once I got the photos the right kind of black and white for the papers, I had to use them as one is the same design as the background curtain in the photo!

I used this layout for a workshop and, as I never make the same thing twice, I changed it around a bit and used entirely different papers, My Mind's Eye this time, and photos in the class.

Of course you could use the same idea on cards or journal page too.

I'll be back same time, same place tomorrow with lots of scraps of all sorts which become a very interesting background.

Hope to see you then xx

 

 

 

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