Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Creating an Ephemera Journal Part 1

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  We are doing good.  This week I have an ephemera journal that I created to put some of my ephemera in and use when creating journal pages and other projects.  I saw one that 49Dragonflies created and was using in one of her projects, so I decided to make one for myself.  I decided to use an old book for the cover and some page protectors to create my pages and pockets to put my ephemera in.  The plan was to keep the book cover as is and perhaps add some ephemera to the front to decorate it.  However by the time I was done creating the inside, I noticed the spine was splitting so I ended up having to completely redo the outside of the cover as well to fix the spine an decorate it.  The video was so long that I had to split it into 2 parts.  The first part is showing how I created the inside and the pages, part 2 is how I fixed the cover and decorated it and then I also created a part 3 showing how I filled it up and the types of things I included in mine.  Here is a picture of the complete journal filled up with ephemera.


 And here is part 1 of the video showing how I created the pages, decorated the inside and bound the pages into the journal.

I am really happy with my ephemera journal and know I will get a lot of use out of it.  I now have one place where I can go to for a variety of ephemera to use in my projects.  If interested the video that I saw from 49Dragonflies is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpdwMsMHJI  Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Until next time, happy creating.


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