JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 25 Embellishments In today's studio session, I added embellishments to several of the pages of the journal. There were also a few running repairs that needed to be done, mostly where the previous glue had failed, before I bought the E6000 which works much better…
CLUSTERS AND ALTERED PAPERS I am currently working on producing some embellishments for my "Make a Joyful Noise" junk journal as it approaches completion. Rather than making one-offs, it makes more sense to bulk-create, and generate some ready-made stash for future projects in the process. I recently made some butterfly clusters, following Luise…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 24 Starting the final embellishments Now that the book is bound, all that remains is to add some final embellishments. I began with the fold-out envelopey thing in the second signature. I originally intended filling the two triangular pockets with smaller tags and ephemera, but…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 23 Binding At last I have reached the point when I can bind this book! I have chosen to use a 5-hole pamphlet stitch binding rather than the standard 3-hole, because I wanted to be sure that all the different sized pages would be firmly…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 22 The cover I have now more or less completed both signatures. All that remains are some additional embellishments once the book is bound. The cover needed work before I could proceed with the binding. Cover construction This soft cover is made from a large…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 21 Additional embellishments before binding I knew there would be further embellishments to add after binding the pages, and thought these would probably just be tabs and danglies. However, when I flipped through both signatures again, I felt the need to add some page borders,…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 20 There was a blank page in this journal that I wanted to work on. This was a page I'd used when I sprayed some punched medication leaflet paper which then acted as a stencil. This looks like a blot-off sheet where you clean off…
PACKAGING PAPER CLUSTERS WITH GOLD HEAT EMBOSSING - COMPLETING THE SET I have now used up all the die-cut butterflies I made for this project. I still have quite a few of the gold heat embossed base pieces left but consider the butterfly project complete for now. I shall store the bases for…
JUNK JOURNAL - MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE PART 19 Working on the gold page, front and back in folio 3 of the second signature of this album. This page is made from gold foil, and I've always been a bit concerned at how flimsy it is. I have added a few bits and…
PACKAGING PAPER CLUSTERS WITH GOLD HEAT EMBOSSING I am indebted to Luise Heinzl for her layered moths on heat embossed coffee-stains tutorial for this project. I have adapted it slightly for my own use. She used a cup dipped in coffee to make her circular marks for the base layer of her clusters,…
