Holding Memories Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Valerie Burton of Little Maine Cottage, one of our amazing new Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous  Holding Memories 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…

Holding Memories is my Graphics Fairy design team Journal No. 1. My name is Valerie Burton, but Val is what my family and friends call me. My Little Maine Cottage Studio is a place in my home in Maine where I create journals and other arty pieces. I must say I am so honored to be a part of the Graphics Fairy Design Team!

Now, back to Holding Memories… I named this journal “Holding Memories” because of a snippet of leftover cloth that I collaged on the bottom of the front cover which reads “…so good Holding our breath and then is strength”. Plus, a journal can be a special place for holding our thoughts and memories or whatever we need it to.

This journal has 3 signatures with approximately 168 page sides and measures about 6 5/8” x 6 5/8” square with a 1 ¼ spine. On the front of the cover, the beautiful lady image you see peeking through the mica, came from 4” Square Coaster Collages Printable. I transferred this image to cloth and stitched her onto a piece of heavy torn black paper. I pierced a thin mica shard with 4 holes and installed 4 bronze brads in which to sandwich the image. I then glued the finished piece to a variety of vintage fabric remnants I had collaged to the cover along with an antique stamp and various tiny labels comprised of fabric and paper.

The button is one of my prized vintage buttons which I felt was just right for the closure. I added ceramic beads to black elastic cord which I strung through bronze eyelets that I placed into the back cover. The bronze metal corners worked well to complete the cover.

The inside of the cover I lined with contemporary cloth in an antiquestyle manuscript pattern. I constructed a triangular pocket out of cardstock and vintage fabric that I stitched together and in which I placed a large journal tag made from a vintage card along with one of my handmade business cards as well as two ephemera pieces, one from the Wildflower Collage Tickets Printable and the other from the Fern Gift Tags Printable.

I created a bellyband out of an off cut of the Forest Folk Journal Pages Printable along with a butterfly that I die cut out of black cardstock and backed with commercially printed cloth. I used CD Sleeve Printable in a floral pattern in which I glued 2 pieces of Steampunk Aesthetic Notepaper together for extra journaling. I also added one of the A Rose Is A Rose journal cards and backed with coffee-stained paper. For the companion page on the right, I used 6×8 Printable Journal Cover Phoenix to which I added a vellum window. The tag that peeks out of the ‘window’ was constructed from one of the Typesetter Bundle collage papers to which I added Ex Libris Printable tag along with various collage bits. The tag is hidden in the pocket with the Ex Libris-label peeking out of the vellum window.On the back side of the ‘Phoenix’ page I used floral print #5 from the Attic Paper Stash Bundle in which I constructed a pocket and applied a tuck spot for a journal card created from a vintage book illustration.

Using the Delicate Endpapers Bundle Image #6, I constructed a flipout page with an integrated pocket for a journal card. I also used Image #21 from Attic Paper Stash Bundle as a tuck to hold a single page from a vintage guidebook and a printable from the Sage Meadows Ticket Journal Tags.

The left page is constructed out of blue daisy print from the Spring Endpapers Bundle, Image #8. In the pocket page on the right, I placed 3 printables, Fern Gift Tags from Pressed Wild Ferns Bundle, Wildflower Collage Tickets, and Sage Meadows Ticket Journal Tag.

The left page is a flip-out with a side pocket created from image #6 in the Pink, Gold & Green Ephemera Bundle sewn together with image #13 of the Beaux Papiers Bundle.

Using various pieces left over from both the Attic Paper Stash image #5 and Spring Endpapers image #8 (blue daisy), I made a small pocket on a tuck as well as a journal card to place in the tuck spot. I placed an antique image on the front and stitched 3 sides to form a pocket. The smaller page in front is image #5 from the Beaux Papier Bundle. On the right side, you will see a journal card placed in a vintage postcard pocket. I constructed it by placing two of the same images from the Steampunk Aesthetic back-to-back, machine stitched together and embellished with vintage cloth remnants and a paper label.

On the left, I created a full-size floral page using image #9 from the Little Women Bundle and attached a cluster I had made which holds a piece of blue paper for journaling. The smaller floral page is from a vintage plant book. The page on the right is image # 1 from the Attic Paper Stash Bundle.

On this left page, I used a vintage book page and collaged a leftover bit of the blue daisy print (Spring Endpapers Bundle) along with an image from the Bohemian Butterflies Printable and added a label and a bit of torn washi tape. On the right side, this page is printed from the Attic Paper Stash Bundle, image #7.

Here you can see a bit of the blue printed page (#5 of the Delicate Endpapers Bundle) to which I added a strip of vintage lace. The page on the right is daisy print #6 from Rustic Tattered Treasures Bundle along with a torn bit of green print which is image #3 from Beaux Papiers Bundle.

HOLDING MEMORIES JUNK JOURNAL SHOW  & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Premium Membership Bundles used in this project:

BUNDLES USED:

• Forest Folk
• Steampunk Aesthetic
• A Rose is a Rose
• Typesetter
• Attic Paper Stash
• Delicate Endpapers
• Sage Meadows
• Spring Endpapers
• Pressed Wild Ferns
• Pink, Gold and Green Ephemera
• Beaux Papiers
• Little Women
• Bohemian Butterflies
• Rustic Tattered Treasures

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