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3 x 5 Projects, Ephemera, Grunge Style, Junk Journal Cards/ATC, Junk Journal Ephemera, Junk Journal Making, Tink's Tips for Junk Journaling, Tools and Supplies
Using Dictionaries in Junk Journaling
One of the best sources for Junk Journal supplies is thrift stores. 😉 Quite often people donate partial boxes of stationary, games with cards, partial spools of ribbon… pretty much anything you can think of. We have a great Goodwill store the way home from the dentist. My husband jokes that is how he bribes me to go… lol Many thrift stores also have books. Tink Tip When you are thrift store shopping, remember to look at the used books, but not just ones with pictures. I have two wonderful vintage dictionaries I got from our local Goodwill. The older one – not sure of the year, maybe the 1940s?…
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3 x 5 Projects, Ephemera, Junk Journal Cards/ATC, Junk Journal Kits, Junk Journal Making, Tink's Tips for Junk Journaling
Vintage Penmanship Junk Journal Cards
I recently got a Silhouette Cameo 4 as a gift. I’m happy to say that I love it. I REALLY LOVE it. I’d been having hand problems, so being able to cut out ephemera without scissors has been wonderful. Anyway, as one does, I have been cutting out all the digital ephemera I have been collecting – both my designs and that of other designers. Here are a couple of Junk Journal cards I created using some of my ATC cards. NOTE – I did resize them so I could cut them out on my Silhouette. This year I have been making a LOT of ephemera based on the 3″x5″…
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#100DayChallenge, 3 x 5 Projects, Ephemera, Grunge Style, Junk Journal Ephemera, Junk Journal Making
Field Notes Booklets – Tim Holtz Grunge Style
Field Notes Booklets I made eight of these and sent seven off to friends and family. This one went to a cousin, because the picture on the front reminded me of one of our aunts as a young woman. It isn’t her, but still… These were a lot of fun to make. Jeffrey did the stitching for me on our vintage Singer 401, a gift from my Baby Sisty, who also was sent one. 😉 I am currently working on a similar mass make of a triple fold tag, the first of which was used as the base in Memories of Mocha. I’ve focused on the 3 x 5 format…
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#100DayChallenge, 3 x 5 Projects, Grunge Style, Junk Journal Ephemera, Junk Journal Making, Mini Books, Tink's Tips for Junk Journaling
The Mini Stitched Booklets are Ready
I initially wrote about the Mini Stitched Booklets concept here: https://junkjournalephemera.com/how-a-junk-journal-idea-starts/ The first of the Mini Stitched Booklets are ready to go to their new homes tomorrow. We have two good friends we eat lunch with about once a month, so they are the recipients. 😉 I decorated the envelopes last night. The Stencil Ephemera are for a new product I’m currently working on. The ones I had cut out and ready to use were a squinchy bit too big for the envelopes I had, hence the staggered layout. Thank goodness for Junk Journal forgiveness. 😉 Tink Tip – Punching a Cut-Out (Pun Intended) 😉 I used an UltraFine Sharpie…
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Picking Accent Colors for Junk Journals
One of the many things I love about Junk Journals is how creatively free you can be. There are few rules and little pressure to follow them. I tend to finish off my Junk Journal Projects with a final touch/layer/whatever… I was looking at this group of Mass Make cards and realized they’d be a good example of one of the different ways I do this. 😉 In these examples – part of my projects for the Junk Journal #100DayChallenge – the final touch was stamping with a vintage Business Stamp I have (and yes, it’s a fav! 😉 ) I chose the ink colors I used for this final…
