French Chocolaterie Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Jack Ravi, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous French Chocolaterie 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 Jack tell you all about his incredible project…

Hello everyone, this is Jack Ravi. This is my last journal as part of the Design Team of the Graphics Fairy and since it’s nearly Valentine’s Day, I thought about creating a chocolate-themed journal.

This journal is softbound and is made of five signatures that are stitched directly to the cover. To achieve the effect of the old chocolate wrapping of the cover, I boiled and stained some metallic wrapping paper. Inside the journal I incorporated vintage chocolate and coffee advertisements.

I also included some actual chocolate wrappings, foil and chocolate coins.

Throughout the journal there are images taken from some vintage fashion magazines. I combined 1950s Italian fashion with recipes and original ads from the time.

There is a little booklet that can be used to write recipes, as well as a bookmark/tag that says: “Count the memories.”

I used a variety of brown and creamy fabrics alongside the different papers, and some of the scraps left behind were combined in tiny bundles that I attached to some pages.

I labelled some pages with names of famous chocolate cakes and desserts from across the world.

I chose original photos from my collection that showed picnics, birthday and Christmas parties, and even a wedding with a lovely lady having a cheeky drink.

If you’ve seen some of my other journals you’ll probably know that I often like to scent the pages, so obviously in this case I chose a cocoa butter fragrance oil to soak the paper.

The oil was also handy in helping reveal some of the image transfers.

I hope you like my journal and that it makes you a little hungry ;).

Thank you for reading!

FRENCH CHOCOLATERIE JUNK JOURNAL SHOW & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Bundles used:

Mocha & Java Ephemera
­ Mexico
­ Bittersweet Hues
­ Coffee & Cream

A new bundle called ‘The Baker’ has been released since I made this journal; full of beautiful imags that would work perfectly for a journal like this!

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Jack’s Etsy 

Jack

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