Scrap, Paper, Scissors

 

Hiya, Lisa here and it's time for a new trip which means a new journal to document our memories.

This time we are off to the Midwest, USA.

It's a special one as we are going to visit my Dad.

I've made quite a basic journal this time, so I thought I'd create a video with step by step for beginners. So if you'd like to see, the video is here.

This old book was £1 from a house clearance store.

You'll see in the video me cut it apart, replace the spine, bind in the pages and create this new journal.

I will be creating lots of fun additions, including dangly charms but I'm hoping to find pieces on our trip to bring back and use.

I love that it has such a vintage feel.

Once made, I did want to create the first couple of into pages.

Somewhere to write the details of the trip.

Who, where & when's.

I ordered the Simple Stories collection, Pumpkins & Plaid which you can see here.

I loved this sheet here.

and also this one.

I used a couple of the pieces to create this pocket here. 

Rounding off the corners, stocking down the sides, leaving the top free to create a pocket and I love taking my circle punch to just cut a half circle half way, Doesn't that look great?

Then another piece becomes the journal card to go inside.

The half circle that I punched then got flipped and stapled to the top.

I also added some of the stickers from this collection to finish off.

And here I used the original contents page, but covered up the wording so I could create my own.

I will fill this out as I journal.

One little tip, I love cutting the stickers in half.

I added half at the bottom here,

And half at the top.

The stickers really make a difference.

I'm so excited to get going wit this journal when we get back.

This collection is so perfect for this time of year.

Have you ordered it too?

Enjoy.

Lisa xx