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Create a Junk Journal from a Vintage Childrens Book

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I love working with vintage books, including pages and images from them in my jewelry, collage art, cards and scrapbook layouts so this project from Jessica really struck a cord with me. She created an amazing junk journal from a vintage Little Golden Book that’s all about her dog. A junk journal, if you’re not familiar, is usually a more artsy and collage take on scrapbooking and journaling, including lots of paper “junk” you find in your life including things like labels, tags, book pages, scraps of fabric, anything fairly flat and is a great way to reuse and recycle everyday items.

For her journal finding a vintage book about a dog was the perfect starting point, adding charms, ribbon, twine, beads and string to the binding on the outside. Once she took apart the book she re-bound it and inside she included pages made of pattern papers along with some of the old book pages and decorated them with stenciling, stickers, ephemera, created a few fun pockets and of course photos too.

See more of the journal and watch a video on how to take apart and rebind the book and create the charm strings over on The Cherry on Top blog.

-Heather

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80’s Inspired Boombox Shaped Mini Album

I was a teen in the 80’s so this totally rad Boombox shaped mini album from Traci really speaks to me! She created a rectangle shaped black acrylic album with rounded corners, adding buttons and a handle on the top with a cover decorated to look like a real boombox with speakers, a tape deck, buttons and more. She used the Totally 80’s collection of products from Simple Stories that has lots of bright pink and teal colors with cool 80’s inspired patterns like black and white check and colorful graphics. There’s also load of fun embellishments like a Walkman, high top sneakers, retro TV, camera, hair spray can and more. 

I had huge hair in the 80’s and am embarrassed to admit how much Aquanet hair spray I used!

Traci has included her totally tubular signature flaps and pockets in the album too for some radical interactive elements too.

Visit the Artsy Album blog to learn more about this bodacious mini album project.

-Heather

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