Beginners Junk Journal

 

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

The Happiest Place & DIY Cute Paper Clips

 

Hiya,

Lisa here playing with my new travel journal and the cute collection from Simple Stories - Say Cheese - Happiest Place, which you can see here. 

I do also have a YouTube video making this spread which you can see here.

This is the paper that inspired this journal spread.

I had a lot of photos from our Disneyland California trip but I didn't want to overload the page with photos, so I created lots of flips. Lots of places to hide them.

This is when the DIY clips also came in as I needed them to hold things down in place LOL
I had a lot going on.
The clips are so fun. I have 2 on this page.
And I added one to this tag too.
Just using paperclips and a hot glue gun to attach fun things to make the clip.

Here I have a flair button, I also used a button and a fabric embellishment. 

These tags are so handy. I've used them a lot for hidden journaling and photos.

The top piece then flips up and there's lots of photos underneath.

And more underneath.

I love all the bits and pieces.

 

I used these pieces a lot which were so handy.
I created this flip with the Mickey piece. 

And then on the other side.

Another flip at the bottom.

You can see more of the clips that I made too here.

4 more : )

And I've used lots of these matching stickers too.

They really make the page.

I love adding extra colours and details.

I hot glued a piece of ribbon to create a bellyband and this held in more photos and journaling.

  There is a lot going on here, but I love a busy full journal with lots of colour, so I love it : )

I hope this has inspired you today.

Have fun

Lisa x

Starting A New Travel Journal

 

Hi Lisa here and I'm about to start this new travel journal.

I turned this old vintage book into a journal last week.  

If you'd like to see how I made this, here is the video.

So today is the start.

I loved this contents page from another book so I stuck this in but covered the actual contents with some patterned paper to document the contents of this trip.

Page one, our pre travel day before our big 5 week USA Roadtrip.

I'm using lots of pieces from the Simple Stories - Say Cheese Happiest Place which you can find here.

 

I love cutting up the die cut papers and combining with the stickers.

You can see these pages being made in this video here:

Little Tip - I add wording to my photos on Instagram Stories and screen shot and then print.

I had lots of photos to include but didn't want to overload the page, so I cleverly used 2 small envelopes overlapped.

Both are used as pockets and the right side flips.

The next day which is our travel day page I used a combo of the same papers and stickers along with some memorabilia that I picked up.  

I'm so pleased how these 2 pages came together, a great start to our new travel journal.

Are you documenting any travels this year too?

Have fun.

Lisa xx