Pen and Ink Junk Journal

Hey, everyone! Emily Oliver of Pinkpaper A4, one of our amazing new Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous Pen and Ink 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 introduce herself and tell you all about her incredible project…

Hello everyone, my name is Emily Oliver from pinkpaper44 I am new to the graphic fairy design team. This month’s journal is called Pen and Ink and it will be available in my Etsy shop there is a link below. It took me a while to decide on a theme they have so many choices on their premium membership site I changed my mind on the theme every time I went and looked at all the beautiful options I finally decided on a vintage writing journal. It measures 6 1/2“ x 4 3/4” with a 2” spine. It has 6 signatures with 5 to 7 pages in each signature, double side. It has lots of creams and vintage dark tones, great for journaling.

The cover I made with a marbled image front and back. The spine I used an empty rapping paper roll and covered it with a brown paper bag that I distressed with inks to make it resemble leather. There are tutorials for covers on the Graphics Fairy website as well.

In the inside cover, I have a notepad, and a few images from the Graphics Fairy with a little flip down envelope that I made a wax seal for, then I filled it with ephemera from one of the  printable kits.

Here I did a collage with a vintage floral image along with a vintage postage image from the Graphics Fairy site to create a love letter with these envelopes.

I took one of the printable coin envelopes and another envelope and a cut some windows in them. I added some vintage glassine and then filled them with stamps and labels from the parcel post kit.

I created a little pocket with a vintage glassine sleeve. The photo is from my personal vintage collection and then the little tag on the side with the key is a tag is an image that I downsized and did some stamping on. I thought it looked nice with the key.

This page I created a tuck spot with a junk mail envelope that I covered with some washi tape and then very carefully cut around the window. I added a collage tag with some other blue ephemera from the kit, ‘The Author’

Here I created a tag, cut out a pocket from a vintage book cover from their images then in the pocket I put some labels and some cut outs also from their printables.

And at the back, I created a file folder stack with gusseted pockets that I put all of my remaining images from the printables in with some other vintage ephemera.

There is a full flip through video available at the bottom of this page.

PEN AND INK JUNK JOURNAL SHOW  & TELL VIDEO TOUR

Premium Membership Bundles used in this project:

◦ The Artist

◦ Antique French Ephemera Postcards

◦ Vintage Office Supplies

◦ The Typesetter

◦ The Author

◦ Parcel Post

◦ The Florist

◦ Little women

I hope you will visit me here:

Emily’s Instagram

Emily’s YouTube

Emily’s Etsy

Emily

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