For August,
Eileen Hull's Design Team is making Junk Journals focusing on embellishing the pages. I used her
Tiny Book Die to make my journal and I decorated the pages with recycled cardboard slide frames, a fun technique I learned from
this YouTube Video.
I used a piece of Belagio Cork Fabric for the cover and for the slide on the cover.
I covered and decorated a recycled slide for each page, adding various Chat stickers and rub ons to the pages.
I colored the Paper Dolls with Ranger Distress Markers.
I left the slide below uncovered since it was red and went with my patriotic theme.
I left the last pages blank accept for a butterfly rub-on and a Small Talk Sticker
The Sizzix Hinge Clip was just the right size to use as a closure for my Tiny Book Junk Journal!
I learned how to do the slides on
this YouTube video.
She used slides that you could easily separate the front and back.
The front and back frames of my slides (old slides inherited from my parents attic) were glued together. The only issue with this would be if I wanted the back to be clean, but I attached the slides to a page so it didn't matter for me.
First you just push out the negative - it comes out easily.
Then I cut a piece of what I wanted to cover the slide with (I used Balagio Cork Fabric and Tim's Floral Collage Tissue Paper). I adhered the slide to the material and clipped the corners as shown.
I put glue on the flaps and folded them onto the slide.
I cut the fabric covering the slide opening with an x-acto knife, corner to corner.
Added glue and folded them over the slide frame.
If you had a slide that easily separated - you would then glue the back of the slide back on, covering the material.
Here's the back of a slide covered with the Floral Collage Tissue Paper (with the negative adhered onto the front of the slide cover)
And here's your covered slide frame!
After I covered the slides, I adhered the negative back onto the front
so the sprockets show, you can also adhere it to the back - if you
don't want to see the sprockets. For my cover - I didn't use the
negative at all - I just let the book cover show through.
These are the 5 slides I made for my journal
(the one used on the cover - top left wasn't covered yet!)
Three are covered with Tim Holtz Floral Collage Tissue Paper and one is left uncovered as I liked the red!
I die cut the Tiny Book out of Matboard that I had adhered a piece of Belagio Cork to using a sheet of ScorTape.
I show two pages below, but actually ended up using 3 pages - cut 4 1/2" x 2 3/4" scored at 2 1/4".
I colored the pages using Distress Oxide Inks in Twisted Cintron and Frayed Burlap, rubbing the inks on my craft mat, spritzing with water and then pressing the pages into the inks.
I looped a black elastic cord through the center of the 3 stacked pages and knotted it on the outside of the binding.
The binder clip holds the book closed nicely.
My Tiny Book - Junk Journal is a small 2 1/4" x 3".
Please check out
Eileen's Blog every Wednesday in August to be inspired by the rest of the Design Teams Junk Journals!
You'll also find inspiration with Eileen on her twice weekly Facebook Live shows at
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I'm also linking my Tiny Book to:
Anything Goes
Paper: Black Matboard - Sizzix, Rustic Cream and Midnight Blue Cardstock - PTI.
Ink: Ranger Distress Oxide Twisted Cintrol and Frayed Burlap.
Supplies: Tiny Book Die - Eileen Hull/Sizzix, old slides that were my dad's, Paper Dolls, Small Talk Occasions, Floral Collage Paper, Big Chat Stickers, Quote Chips, Remnant Rubs Special Delivery and Botanicals, Industrious Stickers:Borders, Hinge Clip - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, Belagio Cork Fabrics, black elastic cord, Beacon 3 in 1 Glue, iCraft Ultra Bond Adhesive, Ranger Distress Markers Worn Lipstick, Ripe Persimmon, Forest Moss, Carved Pumpkin Tea Dye, Stormy Sky, Brushed Corduroy, Spiced Marmalade, Pumice Stone, Spun Sugar, Peeled Paint, ScorTape 6x6 sheet, black Stabilo Pencil, Gold Stargazer Star Confetti - Honey Bee Stamps, star punch - Sizzix.
