POUCHES FROM EMBOSSED TOILET PAPER ROLLS – ADDING THE EMBELLISHMENTS

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on how to make little pouches and hidden paperclips from toilet paper rolls.

Here are the pouches after I had finished constructing them.

Time to have some fun with embellishments! These are the fronts of the completed pouches.

These are the backs.

Looking at them individually, I will show what I used to embellish each one, and how I made the closures. These little pouches are mostly designed to be free elements in a junk journal, and would be attached with clips to the pages, or put into pockets. They are very small, but each one can contain bits of ephemera or photos.

Industrial pouch

This is one of my favourites in the collection. I love the embossing folder that creates that industrial metal flooring surface – I’m not sure what it’s called, but the raised metal pattern is supposed to be non-slip.

On the front flap, I added a metal label holder, attaching it with brads, and glueing a stamped label inside. The legs of the brads on the inside of the flap were covered by the lining piece. I also glued a piece of black twine between the layers, to which I attached a little metal key. Also between the layers is a magnet. The other magnet is glued and taped in place on the inside of the pouch. It closes with a satisfying click.

I also added a whale-tail page tab on the side.

The back of the pouch:

On the back, I attached a piece of embossed metal I made years ago, which was coloured with alcohol ink, and cut from a larger piece. It is glued over a scrap of grout cleaning cloth, and one of Luise Heinzl’s digital printouts of a rusty metal number label is glued on top. All nice and grungey!

Industrial Butterfly pouch

This is the other pouch made using that industrial flooring embossing folder.

I embellished the front of this with some letters cut from my recent experiment making faux copper typewriter letters from embossed card. There is a scrap of patterned gold ribbon and a bit of paper mesh packaging, and a scrap of lace, topped off with a stamped red label. The closure is made from a disc of card attached with a brad, with a cord tied on, and you wind the length of this around the pouch and then wind it round the disc to keep the pouch closed. I also added one of Luise Heinzl’s 3-d butterflies on the flap.

The back of the pouch:

I had a piece of kitchen paper covered with ink, paint and glue, all scrumpled up and ripped, and deliciously grungey. I’ve been tearing bits off this to add as embellishments! Nothing like this ever gets as far as the bin chez Shosh. The rest of the embellishments consist of a couple more labels, and a single layer butterfly also from Luise Heinzl. You can see the cord wrapped around the pouch.

Brown Leaf pouch

The first of two pouches made using a background embossing folder of a leaf texture. I kept both these pouches relatively simple, with no embellishments on the back, and with closures that did not involve the back of the pouch. This way they could be glued down onto a page.

Leaves from my stash which I made ages ago with my cutting machine or with dies (can’t remember which) – inked and hand-embossed, two under the flap and one on top. The closure is a plastic snap fastener. I love how the ink and rust water have brought out the gorgeous texture of this leaf embossing folder.

The back of the pouch:

Green Leaf pouch

This was coloured with distress ink, and again it’s a simple pouch, with a plastic snap fastener closure. More paper cut leaves from my stash, and the addition of an eyelet and a small metal leaf charm attached with jump rings.

The back of the pouch:

If you look closely at these two pouches, you can see that on the front, the leaf pattern is embossed, and on the back, it is debossed.

Floral pouch

Another brad and cord closure. I used white cord which I dyed with Distress Ink, and I frayed the offcut and glued it under the floral embellishment on the flap. The tiny flowers are more elements from my cutting machine stash and the centres are glitter glue. They are stuck down over a fragment of black fabric with gold flecks – part of a garment I bought recently in a charity shop. Without the contrast of the fabric, the flowers looked lost against the background.

On the main body of the front of this pouch I have glued down some lace, a fragment of book page mounted on black cardstock, another of Luise Heinzl’s faux metal number labels, and a fragment of turquoise plastic mesh glued down with spray adhesive. There are spatters of turquoise and pink ink on the background which is why I chose those particular colours for the embellishments, but they are mostly covered up.

The back of the pouch:

More of the scrunched up inked kitchen paper, another fragment of book page to match the front, and a further faux metal number. There is also a fragment of scrap printer paper which I’d painted with gesso.

Butterfly pouch

The main embellishment on this pouch is a larger 3-D butterfly from Luise Heinzl. I have also added three punched gold stars on the right-hand side, one of which is on the flap.

The closure is formed by two decorative brads and some ink-stained dishcloth cotton yarn to which I added a faceted gold bead.

The back of the pouch:

There is a fragment of the black and gold fabric along the bottom of the pouch, mostly covered with a fragment of lace and topped with some gold braid. There is another 3-D butterfly, and a page tab on the side, glued over some more of the grout cleaning cloth. With all the fabric stuff on this pouch, it’s pretty bulky!

This completes the pouch part of this project. I had so much fun embellishing them and adding the closures. In the next post, I will show the embellishment of the hidden paperclips.

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