Floral Journal

This is a floral themed journal I made for a swap on the MyMakes.net forum.  The cover is a birthday card from my Mother-in-Law and there are flowers galore inside.  This really was a lovely journal to work on, just right for the beginning of Spring! There are lots of pockets, tuck spots and tags and plenty of  journalling space.

Thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed a breath of Spring too.

Christmas Tree Tag

I've learned how to make an origami Christmas tree for a tag swap - very simple but I liked the technique so I made another one to go on the front of a card too. The background of the tag is an embossing folder from Couture Creations and the card background is the Snowflake mask from Artisan Design Group UK.  The papers were magazine cover mounts from my stash. I learned from a video on the Newbie Junk Journal Facebook group, but there are instructions on YouTube and Pinterest if you search for origami Christmas tree. Do have a go, it's very easy to do.

Tag

Card

Pocket Tag

The April RAK Challenge on Newbie Junk Journal Makers was to make a pocket tag using a number of randomly selected prompts: whimsical/humorous, the colour blue, using a punch and recycling a tissue box among them.  I thought, pocket tag - what has pockets?  Inspiration came in the form of an apron, with some whimsical tags, and I managed to use all the prompts.  

Trifold Tag

 This trifold tag was made for the #NJJM Crazy 8 swap - we were given a number of prompts to and I managed to include them all.  Lace - is used to tie the tag.  Butterfly - there are some on one of the papers and I added a sticker to one of the tuck spots.  Purple - there are some purple touches to some of the cupcakes.  Glitter or foil - I used glitter card for the diecut on the front and as part of one of the smaller tags.  Washi tape - used to adhere the journalling section. Ink/paint/marker - I've edged with Distress Ink.  Book paper - covering the back. Eyelet/brad - on each of the main tags.

The images came from a couple of old birthday cards, I was inspired by Melodi Huey's live video where she was going through some old cards and I just got some out and found exactly what I wanted straight away.  Thank you Melodi!  If you don't know the Newbie Junk Journal Makers FaceBook group, please do go and check it out, it's a fun place to hang out and make new friends.

World Mental Health Day tag swap

The Newbie Junk Journal Makers Facebook group are running a tag swap for World Mental Health Day.  We had to make two tags with a positive mental health aspect (affirmations, quotes etc.) and swend to our swap partner.

These are my tags:

I blended several colours of Distress Oxides to make a blue sky effect.  For the first, I stamped a sentiment that I am very fond of, and added a book paper cloud with some tiny sequins as raindrops, a die cut sun and rainbow (coloured with Promarkers) and a tiny wooden bird.

For the second, I added a stamped and coloured image, some positive affirmations and a wooden butterfly.

These are the wonderful tags I was lucky enough to receive in return from my swap partner Kelly: simply stunning!

Quilt Block Tag

Another recent tag, also for the Newbie Junk Journal Makers Facebook group (NJJM) was for a challenge - the tag had to be an interpretation of a quilt block.  There were some wonderful entries, some were actually quilted in fabric, but I chose to use my favourite hexagon quilt patch in coordinating papers.  I stuck them onto a card backing and drew "stitches" with a pen, then used an embossing folder to add texture and highlighted it with a faint application of distress ink.  I then glued it to a slightly larger tag and added paper lace and a sentiment and then finished it off with an eyelet (I love my new Crop-o-dile!) and some fibres.

Woodland Journal Tags

I have recently joined in a tag challenge on the Newbie Junk Journal Makers group on Facebook. I designed three Woodland themed tags: I'd decided that was going to be the theme of my next journal and making these was a good way of getting started on sorting out the papers and stamps that I would be using on it.

The tags all use up scraps from my stash of offcuts and magazine freebies, on a base of blended Distress Oxides stamped with some cute little wildlife stamps. I've used a die-cut stag on one, and a skeleton leaf on another.

And here are the other sides, I have added a die-cut squirrel to one, a fabric and glitter ivy leaf and a stamped sentiment to the others:

The yarn is variegated in lovely soft autumn colours, with a super crimped texture, again it came free with a magazine and I will be sorry to see the end of it as it is so unusual.