Junk Journal fun.

 

I bought this kit from Artstacks to give it a try. I've long been an admirer of Lisa Oxley.

I recently started a Junk Journal so here are the pages I made with this kit.

Junk journal paper bag conversion.

 I started with a small bag from the donut shop.

Next, I glued muslin on the top of it.

Then I edged it with antique lace making a frame. I added paper across the frame and added smaller tags

I glued it to the left-hand side of the page.

In the top pocket (bag) I put a matching tag.

The tag top peeks out of the pocket

Tic tac toe (again)

 

After making the last card, I realized I missed the cut off point for that challenge. This is the current one.

I chose to go across the middle row. I used gold cardstock then added a yellow spotted paper. I made another embossed piece of card and added fine pearls. My sentiment says it's the little things that count.

tic tac toe

 

My 85-year-old neighbour (a widow) met a man last year and has now announced her engagement.

I felt I needed to give them a card.

Using my cuttlebug, I put some card through to make a script embossing. I inked it with opera pink Versa Colour. I added a strip of that on my pink background. Next, I added a flower strip and my sentiment. All this is on gold card, so it looks extra special for the occasion.

Sketches in Thyme #710

 

This layout is for sketches in Thyme.

My daughter wanted to find her school reports. I searched the house but couldn't see them.

She looked in the garage and threw out quite a lot while searching (hooray). They were found eventually in a box. I used black as my background with ferns instead of flowers. I added bling to my title to add a bit more colour.

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I used a scrap of leftover paper to make this card for Make my Monday.

They want flowers.

Paper Issues sketch on board ship

 

I had 3 photos i took from the top of the ship to scrap.This layout suited that.

I started by doing a purple wash on the background white paper..Then I cut strips from mainly blue papers in my scrap bag. I also added a strip of antique lace. The photos are double matted on card and vellum.

I use stickers from Cocoa vanilla summer fun. Somewhere, I have a lifebuoy, which I will add to bottom left-hand corner when I find it. 

Making vintage tags.

 I'm finished with Counterfeit kits for the moment so I'm playing catch up with some long awaited projects. 

At the moment I'm working on vintage tags using up scraps of paper and shop tags I kept because they were interesting.

During covid and just afterwards I stocked up on new underwear and leisurewear etc and threw out quite a lot. I kept these tags.

I'm combining those to get the wavy edge on to tags I can use in future.

Some came with tassels, so I used those too.

While decorating the tags I've opened Pinterest to an appropriate page for inspiration.