Forest Walk Junk Journal
Hey, everyone! Henriette van Mierlo, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous Forest Walk 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 Henriette introduce herself, and tell you all about her lovely project…
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share my next junk journal with you all. This time I decided to do a forest themed journal with a different kind of cover. The cover is made from five pieces of card board; the front cover, the spine, back cover, another spine for the front and a flap.
I covered the front and back of the card board pieces with fabric with a fern pattern. The front of the journal is decorated with wooden branches which I inked up. On the wooden branches is glued a fabric owl (the owl is from the camping trip bundle and I printed the image on fabric). There’s also a piece of fringed green fabric with a wood circle, feather and two charms (leave and tree). The closure is a metal latch hasp.
On the spine I added a brad knob and a tassel made from all kinds of fabric, laces and threads.
PThis junk journal has three signatures and as I do in all of my journals I used all kinds of different types of paper in it. For example tea dyed papers, scrapbook paper, old book pages, wallpaper, old receipts, digital printed paper. All in green and brown tones.
Some of the tea dyed papers have leaves imprint on it and I also did some stenciling using leave stencils I had in my stash.
To fill up this journal with ephemera was very easy. The Graphics Fairy premium site has lots of nature related bundles available. You can find many flora and fauna images just type in words like woodland, birds, forest, mushrooms, ferns, trees, deer etc. and you will see many search results.
Below this post is a list of all the bundles I used to create this journal. I like to add fabric and laces to my junk journals. I have sewn all kinds of fabric and laces to some of the paper edges. They give the journal interest and are great to attach bulb pins with charms or beads. There are also pieces of fabric with some sewing on it in this journal. My sewing machine has some great leave embroidery stitches programmed in it.
Using Photoshop I combined the vintage postcards bundle with images from the woodland wonders bundle and that way I’ve created unique ephemera pieces.
The Graphics Fairy Premium site has some great step-by-step digital tutorials available on how to make different ephemera. There are many vintage forest themed collectors cards in this journal. They are from a collectors album from 1940. People could collect the images when buying chocolate or bonbons. I was lucky to find a full album at a local thrift store.
There are also forest related charms on some of the fabric edges and in the middle of the signature treads along with some beads. I love dangling elements on journals.
Photo 12AI included a handmade woven tag and I did some cross stitching of a cute little fox.
You can watch everything in detail in my flip through video on my YouTube channel.
FOREST WALK JUNK JOURNAL SHOW & TELL VIDEO TOUR
Let’s take a tour of it together:
Graphics Fairy Premium membership bundles used:
- A forest stroll
- Camping Trip
- Oh deer
- Owls and mushrooms
- Pressed wild ferns
- Woodland creatures
- Woodland wonders
- Marbled endpapers
- Winter greenery
- Birds and nest ephemera
- The ornithologist
- The lepidopterist
- Vintage postcards
This Journal is available in my Etsy shop.
Hugs,
Henriette
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