Julene By Design

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Rainforest Gully Mini Book.

I had quite a few papers left and a set of 12 photos on the one theme I wanted to scrap.

I decided to make a mini book.

First I covered some strawboard for my cover.

Next I measured up the inner pages,ensuring they were all the same size. (26cm x 12). I adhered them in pairs, back to back.

I decided where my ribbon would thread through and with a sharp darning needle pierced all pages on the middle spine. I threaded the ribbon through and tied it. (NB : This might need to be adjusted after you've finished crafting.

Starting with my front cover I began decorating and adhering the photos.

I used paper strips, ribbons, ,Darkroom Door words, stickers, wood veneer logs sliced, 2 blackboard labels and white pen, green painted wood veneer fern, a paper frame and thickers words "adventure" and "smile".

Here's the finished product.

This used all my remaing paper from the kit including 3 x12x12 sheets of vellum.

I'm please with how it turned out.

Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Freaky fast formula and Paper Issues Surgical challenge.

My next layout is a simple one for The scrap room.

I used all green tones on this layout including some vellum and a doiley as my 5.5" circle.

I also used a small and large brad plus words and as a special feature I sewed the 3 wood veneer pennant pieces at the top left hand corner. The title black 'beaitiful" has tiny beads on it.

Scrap our stash.

At Scrap our stash there is a remix challenge

Lori's lovely layout is to be scraplifted.

I started with a wooden look background.My circle is pale green spots. The strip down the right hand side is red and white, so there is a touch of Christmas. My washi tape top and bottom features tiny gold Christmas trees.

I added a new Cocoa Vanilla flair that says "Love this".

I wanted to use 3 photos of the food so trimmed them as much as I could.It left an uneven top to the photos, but it doesn't worry me. My journalling explains what was going on. The hostess that day offered one of each. I managed the pudding and the pavlova but not the cheesecake. It was too much.

My alphas are a mix of stickers, yes,no,maybe was cut from a journal card; the black title is kaisercraft.

My photos are on a slight lean. Sorry!

Monday, 4 January 2021

Paper Issues -Cards against Humanity

Another challenge at Paper Issues this month is to use some 4x3 cards from our stash.

I started with an AMM Herbanella paper I had in my kit.It was muted colours and up until now I've been uninspired to use it. These 2 photos from Boxing Day at a friend's house suited it well.

As they are religious we said Grace befpre the meal and the journal card featuring the prayer went perfectly with the word "grace".

I matted the photos on olive green to keep the subtle tones. Teo of those cards I actually made using scraps from a previous kit years ago. The white one was handy to journal on and the spotted one has a centre from another paper. My only other embellishment is the large wood veneer mandala/doiley shape.I lightly inked it with sage to mute it as well.

Sunday, 3 January 2021

Paper Issues Jenga!

I'm using the 2 blue papers from my kit to scrap-document a phenomenon in the sky recently.

Jupiter and Saturn aligned on 20th December 2020 for the first time since the 1600s. First noticed in 1226.They are calling it "the Christmas star" as to an ancient eye it would appear bright in the sky.

Jupiter and Saturn will come within 0.1 degrees of each other, forming the first visible "double planet" in 800 years - CBS News

I was able to copy this photo at the time, it is not one of mine.

There is a purplish touch to this photo so I used mist on my background paper.Next, I layered the torn spotted paper with black lace. I found a couple of purple scraps, plus silver so used those as layers under my photo.

I did some hand stitching in navy thread and added blue brads at one end.I had a couple of darkroom door words that suited this and a wood veneer mountain to allude to the mountain in the photo.On that I used blue liquid pearls to add a night time shadow on the mountain.I also used a star stamp and black ink to stamp some stars.

Saturday, 2 January 2021

White with One (Garnet)

The colour for December and January is garnet (red). There is also a sketch which I tried to follow despite the fact that my photos are 3 different sizes.

I used a striped paper from my kit, mounted on white card.

I placed the photos on vellum then positioned this to the left and a journal card to the right.I layered a red doiley under the right hand side. After writing my journalling, I added my title then added 3 cream bow wood veneers as my embellishments.