Ephemera holder #1

I made this one for a friend, she and I exchange Christmas tip-ins

a type of piano hinge spine

front

back

there are more pages but I think you get the idea ...

Large Ephemera keeper for me

This I saw on a YouTube and thought I really need that and since I use to make handmade books I had all the stuff I needed to make it ... I used Tim Holtz cardstock and has 2 signatures of the same cardstock ...

looking down into it ... see how messy my desk is ... 😁

this is with the front cover pulled out

one page of pockets made from vellum

another page of pockets made from vellum ... the book is 9" tall and uses 2 12x12 cardstock with a 2" matboard spine ... there are 24 pages and the front and back cover both open up to 2 big pockets each ... lots of room for paper ephemera and I am about to make a 2nd one since I have run out of space in the first .... yep way to much stuff

June Junk Journal page

Another Junk Journal page ... the theme on this one is "As Time goes By" ... I watched a YouTube from Bohemian Crafting and she did this swing closure, I loved the idea so much I had to try it out ... I think I will be using this quite a bit ... oh the images are from her Etsy shop ...

Cleaning up the scraps form my desk ... again!!!

ok I had way too many scraps again so ... I had watched this video on YouTube and decided to use up some of the scraps and try this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmsR2ynI5Wg ... they open and you can journal inside ... I thought they were a pretty neat thing to add you a Junk Journal ... oh yes that is embossing on the packaging plastic like the Tim Holtz thing come in ... 

Fronts

Backs

Trying out a Loaded Envelope

An online group I am with wanted to do stuffed envelopes of goodies to send out and we were directed to a YouTube channel ... https://youtu.be/OEBiwR8k6mo ... so I signed up and tried it out, well with a few of my own touches ... it's made from a 12x12 piece of double-sided card stock, I used some G45 card stock I had and loaded it with little goodies I have made ...

Some coffee for AlteredBookLover T for Tuesday

Elizabeth over at AlteredBookLover has a T on Tuesdays and I have been invited to join today ... the one requirement is to post something to do with a drink ... either tea, coffee, or some other drink ... so I decided to post from one of my teaching Altered Books a gesso and melted crayon technique that I decorated the spread with a European Blend coffee ... visit Elizabeth's blog and enjoy her work and T Tuesdays ...

A fun little Embellishment for Junk Journals or whatever ...

take a PostCard or make one then add a coin protector glues only on 2 sides, now add a tea card with a bit of lace or ribbon ... now you have a fun bit to add to a page as a journaling card or ephemera ...

A couple of Junk Journal Pages ...

I am really having fun making these ...

Art Retreat via ZOOM

Well, my annual art retreat got canceled but our leader worked up a ZOOM retreat and it was a success ... we weren't able to hug and laugh like we always do but we did have a good time ... here are a few of the things we did ...

these were called "scrapies" which were just made up of little bits left over from other projects and things left on our tables .... they can be RAK's or ephemera for a junk journal ... just fun to make

Decorated envelopes, first one had to be with a flower as a focal point, the second one had to be recycled from a bill-paying envelope with a window, third was stamped and able to mail something in ...

this was a hanging tag with the images and idea provided to us ...

this is a trading coin with a theme of "Things with Wings"

these were thing from a Scavenger Hunt of our studios/craft rooms

the ZOOM meeting were fun, Bingo was played and plenty of talking was done ... all in all, it was a great substitute for our event being canceled 

Card from Scraps on my desk

 I had been working on a Junk Journal page for myself and realized when I started putting things away I had enough scraps to make a pretty good card from several projects ... so here it is

Made from scraps

ok, another YouTube that helped get my creative juices flowing is "The Firefly Studio67" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OavTe35oaU&list=PLcS5_CvUn--pz0s9fuJk8SfAFGcBCnxS5&index=5 ... she has several things to make with book pages we all have leftover from projects ... and using up scraps lots of us have done the altering of paperclips before but these are the BIG ones so you can use them in journals to hold several things or just as a pretty on a page or tag

the 3 I made yesterday

one in a journal just as a pretty

this one on a tag ... IF you notice they are on opposite sides and this means you have to turn your paper clip over and attach that way or it will be decorating the backside of something on the right, or at least that is what I decided 

Another Junk Journal page

I was really liking the little envelopes made from scraps so yep I used them again ... put some tags and journal cards in them so there would be journaling space ... the background is a digital print by Artymaze from Etsy called Printable Collage Sheet .... then on the back, I did the lined paper I had from an old journal of mine and the leftover from the digital print on the front with a G45 postcard to use for more journaling put in a tuck spot made from scraps ...

Little Holder

for Ephemera ... I watched a YouTube by "Wendy's Journal Adventure" for a stamp holder but I did the pockets a little different so I could use it for taking Ephemera I wanted to have when I went to art retreats ... her YouTube tutorial is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_PufXgKZ4I&t=24s 

I used sari silk for my ribbon tie and a book page from " The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady" by Edith Holden that I got from Amazon

I added a pen holder because some of my labels are blank that I might want to use

as you can see I managed to stuff quite a bit of ephemera in mine ... oh I made an actual pocket for extra space where my lace and ribbon go ... the background paper is just scrapbook paper 

this is what it looks like without the ephemera in the slots & pocket

this is the back which has one pocket and 2 slots all of these are made from vellum so you can see what is inside ... the front and back cover are from the book and the 2 middle ones have G45 card stock

this shows the pocket and slots better ...

She got a Ticket to Ride

this was for an online swap I did ... the theme is "She's got a Ticket to Ride" ... we were to do to strips of 5 tickets alter them and send to two different people ... I just did the card as an extra, using some of Tim Holtz collage paper and the little envelopes made from scrap paper and inked with Distressed Oxide inks ...

Sweet little card

I love this embossing folder ... I borrowed it from a friend so sorry I don't know who makes it, and I had to try out some of the Art Alchemy Metallique Wax, I used Bronze Age but first I did a few hits direct to paper with black soot just on the top of the embossing and a bit on the sides, let that dry then rubbed the wax all over the card, cut out the center with an oval cutter and put the image behind the cutout space ... I was very pleased with how it turned out ...

Lets go to the Circus

I have been doing some things just did take the time to post them so today I am trying to catch up ... this is a Junk Journal page using G45 Circus paper they did a few years ago