Another Junk Journal Page

For the front of this junk journal page, I added one of the journal cards that I made previously with a decoupaged napkin. I glued a wide piece of lace to the top and folded it over the top of the page to form the hinge.

When this flips up, you see the full front page, collaged with various papers and a botanical image as the focal point.

On the back I added another strip of the same wide lace at the bottom for a pocket. Inside that I inserted the double pocket I showed in my last post. It fit perfectly! The back of the pocket as well as the backs of the two tags offer lots of journaling space.

Double Book Page Pocket and Tags

This is another easy pocket to add to a junk journal. It uses three book pages for the base. They are stacked one on top of another; then the first page's top right corner is folded down to meet the left edge of the page; next the second page's top left corner is folded down to meet the right edge of the page. These are all glued together which forms two pockets.

I then decorated it and added a tag and a journal card made, again, with collaged book page bases. This will be added to a pocket on the back of a junk journal page I will share next.

Triple-stacked Pocket and Tags

I found a tutorial for this cute triple-stacked pocket on Yvonne Preston's YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bna2jv-WSMo) and just had to make one for my junk journal.

I used three pieces of tea-dyed copy paper about 4" wide x 9" long, folded them into pockets and glued them together to form the "stack."

The little tags are bases of book pages glued together and then collaged with scraps of papers and embellished with botanical stickers I purchased quite awhile ago from Ali Express. They are about 3" x 3.5."

This was easy and fun to create. Yvonne's tutorial is very good if you want to try to make one.

Journaling Cards

These journaling cards were all created on bases of book pages, collaged with small scraps of various papers. Then pieces of napkins were decoupaged on for the focal points. I added bits of lace or labels and tabs to finish them. They are all backed with tea-dyed paper. They are approximately 4" x 6."

I also created this envelope from a napkin decoupaged onto a sheet of music paper. 

Napkins are a great source of beautiful images to use in your artwork!

Junk Journal Page Swap

For this month's vintage junk journal page swap I chose a French/Paris theme. The page is about 5.5" wide by 7" high with a fold out slightly smaller. I used a junk mail brochure for the base, collaged with several papers, book text, music page. The focal points are from some digitals I purchased.

Front of the fold out

Front with a large altered paper clip

Open page - on right is a flip out pocket made from an envelope

Journal cards inside the pocket
(vintage postcard reproductions from an old Stampington magazine)

Page fully open with altered paper clip in foreground

I had so much fun making this - I love all the interactive elements. I hope my partner will like it.

Life happens...

It's been a crazy few weeks. The weekend before the fourth, my husband was in the hospital for three days due to his ongoing atrial fibrillation. He was then scheduled for an ablation on July 2. Long story short, it was his 7th ablation and the doctor said going in that if they could not ablate the flutters, they would do a pacemaker. After 10 1/2 hours, they did end up installing the pacemaker and then he developed some complications. He stayed in the hospital for 5 days alone as I was not allowed in due to Covid. He is now home and I'm nursing him to recovery. Needless to say, I have not been in the art room much through this!

I will post more art soon.