Decorator’s Day Book Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Valerie Burton of Little Maine Cottage, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous Decorator’s Day Book  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 Val introduce herself and tell you all about her incredible project…

The size of this vintage-style junk journal is approximately 11”(inches) x 5”(inches). The spine depth is 2”(inches) with 120 page sides divided into 3 signatures. I was inspired to create the Decoeator’s Day Book when I typed the word “wallpaper” into the search bar on the Premium Membership site and 4 pages of gorgeous thumbnail imagery popped up. I also found the image of the Day Book cover and envisioned perusing through an abandoned attic and coming across a faded dusty old ledger type book kept for decorating ideas for use long ago in the far distant past. I just knew that this cover would be perfect to house those lovely wallpaper images. I also found some antique photos of old homes in my collection as well as invoices for furniture, house painting, drapery, carpeting purchases and the like. The materials I used in constructing this piece are antique, vintage, and contemporary papers and fabrics as well as vintage measuring tapes, laces and trims. The finished journal weighs just under 2 pounds.

I constructed the cover out of several layers of cardstock to which I applied the Day Book image from the Vintage Office Supplies bundle along with vintage fabric and lace
tatting. To give the printed image a flat faded appearance, I used an application of clear gesso and on the reddish edges I used Liquitex Matte Medium to give them a tiny bit of sheen as if they were old real leather corner protectors. For decoration, I used a piece of a vintage measuring tape and applied to the front for a bit of interest.

On the inside of the front cover, I printed a pink and yellow marbled endpaper in two different sizes to construct the endpaper and torn pocket which I stitched together. I sandwiched vintage twill tape to use as a tie closure underneath and secured with glue. This pocket piece was then joined to the printed blue spine fabric and I added a length of tiny vintage ribbon trim to finish it off. On the right hand page, I used a variety of vintage and contemporary fabrics collaged together added a piece of old measuring tape and antique lace and stitched together.

On the left side, the page is made out of an 1877 ledger paper to which I clipped an invoice I copied from my personal collection along with a vintage photograph of a house. Peeking out from behind this page (far left) is a print of a French hardware reciept. On the right side I printed a curtain receipt on vellum and the following page made into a torn edge pocket out of the blue flower image.I added a piece of vintage lace as a belly-band to the red flocked wallpaper page and slipped in some decorating invoices and a journal card made of a piece of authentic vintage wallpaper. On the right side this page is made from the brown floral leaf wallpaper.

This page is created out of a print of stained parchment and along the edge I applied rose wallpaper in a simple punched design. On the right, I printed pink rose wallpaper on cardstock as well as cloth and created a sample style journal card and clipped to the page.

Left side, I made a tall sample style journal card out of one of the foxed papges in the Vintage paperie bundle and added a blue endpaper and floral wallpaper printed on cloth secured with a strip of a blue and gold wallpaper to hang over the page. On the right side I used a greeen and pink rose wallpaper trimmed with antique lace for the page.

I combined an aqua and rose wallpaper from the Tattered Treasures bundle wih a hotel invoice print and added a page with a picture of a bathroom harvested from a sticker book.

On this fabric covered page (left side), I made a cloth covered pocket to hold a small antique Sherwin-Williams paint brocure which I repurposed to hold two paint sample journal cards and two invoices. On the right side, this page is created from a brown wallpaper to which I clipped a sample-style journal card made of cardstock and cloth both printed with a rose wallpaper.I used a curtain receipt combined with a page showing a room setting harvested from a sticker book in which I backed and stitched to use as the center page spread.

Left side, top of page shows the back flap of a blue and yellow pattern from the Guilded Age bundle hung over the page with a whale tale punched out of an abstract endpaper print. The torn pocket is constructed out of a blue flower print. For decoration, I attached a label from the Little Women bundle embossed with a glazing powder. The pocket holds a watercolour ceiling detail and a print of a London Postcard to which I applied an antique stamp. The right hand side of this spread is a flip out page collaged with antique and contemporary fabrics and vintage lace.

I hope you enjoyed reading this and, to see more, take a look at the flip through below!

DECORATOR’S DAY BOOK JUNK JOURNAL SHOW  & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Premium Membership Bundles used in this project:

VINTAGE OFFICE SUPPLIES
RICH MARBLED ENDPAPERS
FRENCH BOUTIQUE EPHEMERA
HERITAGE WALLPAPER
FRENCH BLUE & CREAM EPHEMERA
FAVORITE THINGS SET #2
WALLPAPER SAMPLES
TATTERED PAPER TREASURES
TATTERED PAPER TREASURES 2
COTTAGE WALLPAPER
ON THE FARM
SPRING ENDPAPERS
VINTAGE PAPERIE
BLANK PAPER EPHEMERA

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