Memory Journal

I made this for a friend's Birthday. It's an amalgamation of a few things I have seen and filed away either on my laptop or in my head!
The idea is that you have a journal and when you have a few spare minutes to write you pull a memory reminder out of the jar and write down your memories or thoughts.

I have used an ordinary spiral bound writing book from Asda for, I think, 28p. Cut a piece of brown card to fit the front cover and glue together.Choose about six co-ordinating papers and cut them into oblongs of different sizes to fit the front of the journal. Glue down leaving a small gap between each paper.

 I then downloaded various questions from the internet and cherry-picked what was relevant to my friends life. I grouped them into sixes with a different font for each group and double spacing between each question then printed them out onto matching scrapbook paper.

Cut the papers into strips and fold or curl in a few different ways then put into the kilner/mason jar. I added a tag decorated in the same way to match the journal and finally tied three pieces of matching raffia around the top of the jar. I also covered a pen in matching scrapbook paper to go with it. Again it was a cheap pen from Asda, a pack of 10 for 90. Simply cover with an oblong of paper and stick a flat bottomed jewel on the top.

Double Rainbow

This was outside of my bedroom window one morning.

A Journal

I made a journal for my daughter. She was so taken with it she asked me to cover some more books for her to use when she goes back to university.
I started with a plain note book and just covered it with nice paper. (from Paperchase)

 

The doll is a stamp by Julie Nutting.  I stamped it onto brown paper then stamped the dress onto patterned paper, this way you get the lines of the dress superimposed onto the paper. Glittered shoes and a hair band complete the doll. I printed out the saying and added the embellishments including extra glitter onto bits of the background.

Inside I stuck an envelope for bits and pieces onto the back of the front cover and a paper ruler. On the right is a cut down envelope that belonged to my daughter with her nick-name on it. This holds three different sized tags that she can use to write on or as bookmarks.

Evenly spaced out inside the journal are two more decorated pages. The top one has post-it notes stuck on and the other is decorated with a nice poem and a picture of our dog. When you decorate these paper pages you need to stick about three of them together for strength. Each page has a marker tag sandwiched between the pages as well.

This is the inside back cover. I made a pocket with a cut up sheet of printed paper and printed out another saying.
I enjoyed doing this and may do some more in the future.

Well, I knew this would happen. I am always short of time to do what I want to do. I have been crafting since my last post though and I will try and put them all up as soon as possible.

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I've just made these to share with some friends tonight. I wanted to use my new "toy" that I brought back with me. That's it in the picture, if you saw it at a car boot sale you wouldn't have a clue what it was for but it's for putting a different mixture in the middle of a cake. I've added yellow colouring and lemon juice and zest to the middle part then decorated them with chocolate butter icing and little eggs as it's Good Friday. I'm glad this worked as I had my doubts, I thought the mixture might stick but it was fine. Well worth £3.40!

New York

I've just gotten back from New York after spending a week there with my friend, Gloria. We went primarily to go around the craft shops and managed Michaels (twice) The ink pad, Paper Source, Paperie and I think it was A C Moores. We bought lots of craft stuff, things we hadn't seen here, different papers, some beautiful stamps and embellishments. We walked for miles but also used the underground and the bus, which wasn't as scary as we thought. Then we had to buy another case to bring our stuff home!

This was the view from our window