Starting the New Year off with New Creations

I ate at Golden Coral to celebrate the new year and picked up a couple of cute bags they use to hold the silverware and thought, "What can I do with these?"

The original bag

became a Valentine stuffie with 2 pockets and a tuck spot.

Tuck spot and mint handmade.

Center of the little booklet inside with tags.

Nearly a New Year

Here it is almost 2019 and my little blog sits here almost ignored. It serves as a depository of past projects and memory nudges but little else. Mainly because I am unwilling to add advertisements and other superfluous adornments.

I may up my game in 2019 and then I may just stick to the status quo.

In the mean time here is another form of that pocket/card I made for Christmas.

Creating more and more these days.

I made this cute Xmas card in less than 30 minutes.

Card consists of a pocket with a small tag and card tucked into it's folds.

I used the same yarn stitched to the spine of the card and as the tags tassel.

Here is how I made the pocket.

Score down the center of a standard sheet of copy paper.
Turn the paper and score at 4¼ and 8½.
Make your folds then open paper out flat.

Fold each corner into your score line.

Fold the two sides together like this.

Tuck the short end into the long end. and you have your pocket.

I added the paper doily to the back to close the opening there.

12 Days of Christmas

Creating a grungy junk journal is not as easy as it sounds, as I found out after starting this project. Everything takes twice as long because you end up having to make everything look grungy, antique or vintage. Lots of coffee/tea dyed papers and lots of inks.

My cover is still in pieces because to add the dimension before the end would make it so much harder to handle.

The leaves and pears are just laying in place.

The pages are crinkly and blotched throughout.

Now to create tags and tucks and maybe a mini booklet somewhere.

Back to a Tag (super tag)

 

 When your tag is a tri-fold, contains various smaller tags and even has multiple pages to journal on it is either a mini journal or a SUPER TAG.

The insides began with pockets, lots of pockets.

And ended up looking like this.

Rather sad front.

PDC IMO.

This new group is good for my creative inner self.

I've been making paper bags into "stuffies".

Stuffies seem to be any bit or piece of art work used inside or to enhance a junk journal.

These I made out of flat paper bags folded into a card and enhanced. I added pockets to some of the insides. And teabag shaped booklets to the pockets. One I even made a book to fit inside the pocket created by the bag.

I ended up making 5 stuffies

This is the only one that has fabric as the focal point

The layering is not as easy as it looks. For me it is a struggle for everything not to be perfect.

I was gifted this pink burlap ribbon

I ended up making 3 with the pink pockets and teabag booklets

This is the only one made so the pocket formed by the bag is to the back

2 tags for the book-page pocket and a fan folded booklet for the bag pocket

The Creative Bug Just Keeps on Biting

Two very different results to the same concept. A tag with a side pocket containing a little attached book.