Just note that the paper becomes very fragile when soaked with liquid. Below you can see I also spattered random drops on some after they had dried. I also save the tea bag itself to add to the pages for texture and the tea inside to make a texture paste. You can use more or less, just play to find the look you like. My favorite method is soaking paper in a shallow cookie sheet filled with tea. While tea gives a more delicate vintage effect, coffee gives a darker, richer, sort of sepia look to papers. My favorite trick to have instant age is to stain the papers using coffee or tea. 😉 How do I make the Junk Journal pages look vintage? Now, let’s get dirty…I mean let’s get our vintage on. You can find a Junk Mail Tutorial HERE by Heather Tracy. Remember, you can recycle junk mail letters that are this size too. Although I prefer to use a heavier weight paper in my journals, you can go with what you have handy. Therefore, the easiest size to accomplish quickly is an 8-1/2″ by 11″ piece of paper folded in half on the longest side to form a 5-1/2″ by 8-1/2″ signature. I found it at Dollar Tree.Įveryone has access to regular copy paper. My cover measures 5-3/4″ wide by 8-3/4″ tall and is 1″ deep. We will talk more about the cover later in this tutorial. So, it can be any size you wish it to be. Our pages will be trimmed to fit approximately 1/4″ smaller on the outside edges of the cover you chose. Your junk journal will be the size of the book cover you decide to use. Let’s get started by deciding what size our junk journal will be. But there is so much more to do…stenciling, stamping, tearing, aging, inking, dyeing, crumbling, cutting, scoring, accentuating, embellishing…you get the picture! What Size Will Our Junk Journal Be? You can see some of the ideas with our TGF ephemera below. Does this sound like fun? Then join in the mixed media merry making explorations with us. In September we return home to review our travels and bind our memories. The River Seine, The Left Bank, and Brocantes will fill our heads in August. We are off on day trips to Versailles and the Loire Valley in July.
In June we will begin by arriving in France and taking in all the new sights, smells and sounds. Our journal will recap an ‘imaginary’ exploration of Paris including day trips to surrounding points of interest. I bet you have a similar stash! 😉 Tell Me About Our J unk Journal You can see I have quite a stash in the photo above. Those pieces of junk mail, catalogs, old greeting cards, appointment cards, magazines…almost anything can be used to make beautiful pages in order to create a junk journal treasure! You can also incorporate bits of fabric, buttons, sheet music, ledger pages, rusty things, nature finds…truly anything goes. Are you ready to take a journey with me? Let’s begin by discovering what a Junk Journal is… What is a Junk Journal?įor those of you who may not have heard of this phenomena, a junk journal is a bound book created with things you have on hand that otherwise might end up in the recycling bin or the landfill. I hope to have a ‘sort of ‘ virtual gallery showing of all of our books and see/hear what stories you have to tell at the end. That was a doozie and a story to tell at a later time.Īnyway, I am thrilled that Karen agreed to this wild idea of creating a Travel Inspired Junk Journalwith you. I even created a case bound book, one that looks and feels like a hard bound one you buy at any book store. I have mastered some difficult binding techniques and created a few of my own bindings. I just flat out love making books… I have been creating them, large and small, for many years. In the final tutorial we will bind My Vintage French Junk Journalusing a super fun, and easy to do, binding technique. We will finish with three signatures filled with magical pages that tell the story of our imaginary travels together. Twice each month I will be sharing a new 4-page layout that you can copy exactly or use as inspiration for your own version.
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Today I am sharing the first in a series of tutorials of a vintage bound junk journal capturing an imaginary trip to France in a bygone era. Together over the next few months we will fashion a Travel inspired book called, ‘ My Vintage French Junk Journal!’ How cool is that? (You can call your anything you like…no pressure to name yours the same as mine.) How My Junk Journal Series Works Well, at least she will be supplying the ‘Oh So Very French’ images and ephemera we will be creating with. On a Special Fantasy Junket & Junk Journal Journey It’s one of many creative things I love to do. I want to extend a very special invitation to you. Parsons, also known as Cre8tiva, and I am a life long journaler. This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission, you can find our privacy policy here.
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