Autumn Flora Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Emily Oliver of Pinkpaper A4, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous Autumn Flora Junk Journal for us this week. As you know, we feature one new Junk Journal project each week created by one of our creative team of artists. Our Design Team Members select from the 100’s of Vintage Image Bundles on our Premium Membership Site, for their creations, in order to show you beautiful ways to use those images. We hope you will be totally inspired by this series!

Therefore, please make sure you check out the video tour at the bottom of the page…please scroll all the way down to see it. Are you ready to be inspired? I will step out of the way and let Emily tell you all about her incredible project…

Hello everyone, my name is Emily Oliver from @pinkpaper44 and this is my second journal for the Graphic Fairy design team. For this month I really wanted to create a fall journal, but we still have a little summer so I made a specimen junk journal with both flowers, mushrooms and birds a perfect mixture of summer/fall. This journal is listed in my Etsy shop.

I found a vintage receipt/coupon organizer in my stash. That was just the right size for the cover. I did a little forest fairy collaging on the front adding a few labels here and there. And I couldn’t help but add a little mushroom dangle on the spine to give it that finished touch It measures 7” long, 5” wide and 2” thick.

This first page I created with a junk mail envelope that I had folded and created two pockets, one that flipped down and then the larger one that has a window. I made a large tag to go in the window pocket, collaging it with some brown tissue paper, and adding images.

I have a file folder die that I used to cut these out then did a collage on the front here with some of their mushroom and other images to create a specimen file folder pocket, then filling them with tags and other ephemera.

This Journal does have lots of tuck spots and pockets filled with ephemera and tags. Here are some tags that I did a digital collaging with some of their images than printed them out.

The specimen box is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while, and was very inspired by Nick the book Smith. I first created a large box, then making the smaller boxes to put inside I put all of the extra labels in here with a few specimens, pinecones,a feather and some dried lavender. I think it would work great for a field trip to add some of your own specimens. I will definitely be making more like this in the future.

Thank you so much for reading this post! I hope you enjoyed it and found some inspiration in this junk journal

AUTUMN FLORA JUNK JOURNAL SHOW  & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Premium Membership Bundles used in this project:

◦ entomobogist’s Field Guide
◦ Enchanted Forest
◦ Vintage Garden
◦ Woodland Wonders
◦ The lepidopterist
◦ A Forest Stroll
◦ wildFlower Field Guide
◦ Owls & Mushrooms
◦ The ornithologist
◦ winter Bird

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Emily’s Etsy

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