VINTAGE JOURNAL by Annette

Hello All 

Wishing you a very warm welcome to Meg's Garden 

Today I'm sharing with you a work in progress

An album using the "Vintage Journal" papers 

it will be a memory book of my maternal grandparents

Herbert (Bert) Moncrief & Lillian Mary Gedye.

The base of my book is made with a cardboard box, 

which works out perfectly as the spine is already creased. 

I trimmed it down to 13.5 x19.5cm

to cover I crumpled brown paper & glued down with Gel Medium 

on both sides.

 

 I then wiped stazon over emphasizing the edges & spine 

using distress ink I smeared the pad over & lightly spritzed with water

when totally dry I painted over with gel medium 

the cover now has a look of aged worn leather

I haven't as yet decided upon a finish for my cover, 

it will be held together with a piece of leather with a clasp or buckle ..

making the hinges

  in total & adhered to the inside spine

single pages are then adhered 

all papers are distressed & inked

inside cover

face page 

page 1 .. my grandpa 

page 2 .. my grandma ..

pages 4& 5 with a kraft envelope insert 

reverse side of the envelope

photos stored in the envelope  .. the family photo was circa 1952

my mum is on the R front & aunty on the left celebrates her 90 birthday this month.

pages 6& 7 .. my mum (Margaret Frances ( Peggy)) is the little one seated on the floor

pages 8 & 9

all pages now are covered & ready for pis as I find them 

page 8 flip out

pages 10 & 11

with another envelope

envelope insert

pages 12 & 13

pages 14 & 15

page 15 flip out

back page & inside cover

I am looking forward to finishing this so my family 

has a knowledge of their heritage  

these papers are just perfect for this kind of project 

Products Used:

VINTAGE JOURNAL ...  P1011

TEMPTATIONS in CREAM, CAMEL & BROWN

Thank you for calling by
I invite you to wander through Meg's Garden & see the gorgeous products to play with
&
scroll through the Blog to be inspired by the Garden Girls
Happy Scrapping
Hugz Annette x

 

Gather Your Dreams mini book from Meg

Hello Bloggers

I finally finished this book. It sat on my project table while I had thoracic surgery;  it sat again patiently while I semi recovered; the book itself wondered if it would ever get finished.  

But I had to - other projects to start & complete. Like Christmas papers, a Christmas mini book in traditional reds & greens, a Victorian Christmas mini book, lacy Victorian ornaments, some new Australiana papers, new mini papers with ephemera project & more....

I used the 3 pale lavender papers on the cover, back & spine matted in a deeper lavender cardstock.  The cover was kept fairly plain with lilac velvet violas & leaves & some pearl sprays on the front.  No decoration was done on the back cover or spine but both were matted to match.

 Then the 2 green pages were used. The inside cover has a pocket with ephemera, and its opposite page embellished with a simple transparent butterfly with its wings lifted.

 Pages 3 & 4 were chosen to go together - page 3 has a brass bee with its wings lifted, a beaded pin, ribbon & paper flowers. Words were also added. Page 4 has a transparent butterfly

Page 5 uses the French writing paper with an envelope pocket to hide secret dreams. Page 6 has a beautiful Vintage lady, double matted & embellished with brass corners.

Pages 7 & 8 use the gorgeous pink papers with paper flowers, travel charms & Journey to France Rubber Stamp Collection - the theme being Dreaming of travel to Paris & France.

Page 9 is left as it is.

Page 10 is a lift out with the ribbon pull on the side & uses the 5 blue/green papers.   

The inside of the pullout is embellished with paper flowers & leaves, has room for listing your dreams on the one page & also on the tags in the bottom pocket

Opposite the back of the pull out is a cabinet card ephemera made into a small folder & embellished inside with some of the ephemera in the pack.

Over the page, I have used a page from an old French book, tucked into a mini 

square lace doily with ephemera. Wanted a little bit of very vintage here; also as a break before the last pullout  of the book.

This pullout, with the ribbon  tab, uses the 4 Mulberry papers.

Inside the pullout - on one side there is a round doily pocket with ephemera tucked in & embellished with a musical charm

The other side has a pocket down the side with tags to use for your dreams.

This  is the back of the pullout - the 2 pages allow plenty of space to list dreams.  The 2nd page is the inside back cover or the book

Hope this gives you some more ideas on how to use the Gather Your Dreams mini book kit which is available as a printed product or you can download & print it yourself.

Dimensions:

patterned pages in book kit  4.75 x 7.5"

cardstock for pages  5 x 7.75"

cover - cardstock & cardboard  5.25 x 8"

(matt - 5x7.75")

I use the Stack the Deck method: flaps 7.75" & spine 2.5"

Bye for now

Meg

From Meg's Garden:

Gather your Dreams Mini Book Kit

Brass Charms & Vintage Trinkets

Journey to France rubber stamp collection

Paper flowers & leaves

Velvet Flowers & Leaves - viola

Paper lace doilies - round & square

Forgotten Meadow Mega Book Project by Kerry-Jean Watson

Big project to share with you today. It took me a while to get completed as I was very busy the last 2 months. 

I really liked the Forgotten Meadows collection through Meg's Garden and wanted to make a project that really complimented it. There is a video at the bottom of the post of the entire book.

I managed to use all the ephemera in the Book Kit for the collection. The metal embellishments that were used were all gesso'ed which added a lovely old work feel and totally changed the textures within the page layout.  I used a lot of Imaginarium and kaisercraft chippies and wood embellishments coated in crackle paint and then distress inked after they dried.