tiny journal, shinsetsu, ormai li adoro questi mini journal

 Ciao a tutti breve post per parlarvi dell'ultimo "tiny Journal" che ho realizzato. Devo dire che ormai sono innamorata di questi journal piccini, li trovo adorabili, In questa collezione c'è una corver per un blocchetto/quaderno che ho realizzato nella versione mini con carta invecchiata col tè invece nella versione grande con fogli a quadrotti. Nella versione piccola non ho pensato che una tasca che potesse contenere il quaderno sarebbe stata scomoda per scrivere sulle pagine di sinistra quindi ho occupato lo spazio restante con una specie di libro più piccolo a fisarmonica che ho decorato con carta riso, giapponese e con alcuni elementi decorativi della collezione di Joey, e poi ho arricchito il tutto con dei fiori che ho ottenuto con l'aiuto di uno stancil e del distress ink. Per quanto riguarda i journal piccoli non puoi aggiungere molti abbellimenti o clips varie, quindi è molto semplice. Aggiungerò nel video il link della versione grande appena sarà anch'essa on line e nel video del journal "normal size" aggiungerò il link di questo piccolo, riguardo al post sarà unico, questo. 

Nella versione normale ho potuto aggiungere molte clips, tasche e tags realizzate con dei maxi collage, altre tasche le aggiungerò in seguito, almeno un paio, e devo dire che mi piace. La nappina che è fuori non è una nappina ma era una specie di corda lavorata all'uncinetto per chiudere un journal (ne ho fatta una anche a tema Alice per il prossimo journal che farò su quel tema...) Siccome per questo journal che era in programma da un annetto circa, non sapevo esattamente come sarebbe stato, le idee mi sono venute mentre realizzavo il piccolo, questa "chiusura" che avevo realizzato non la potevo usare come tale e quindi ho pensato di utilizzarla così e devo dire che mi piace moltissimo. Se non vedi ancora il video della versione grande sotto vuol dire che ancora non l'ho pubblicato. Spero comunque che entrambi vi piacciano. Un bacione grande. Con affetto Betty.

Hello everyone, short post to tell you about the latest "tiny Journal" I made. I must say that I am in love with these small journals, I find them adorable. In this collection there is a cover for a pad/notebook that I made in the mini version with tea-dyed paper and in the large version with squared sheets. In the small version I didn't think that a pocket that could contain the notebook would be not confortable for writing on the left pages so I added in the remaining space with a sort of smaller accordion-shaped book that I decorated with rice paper, Japanese paper and some elements decorations from Joey's collection, also some details with gold leaf and then I added also some flowers that I made with stancil and distress ink. As for small journals you can't add many embellishments or clips, so it's very simple. I will add the link to the large version in the video as soon as it is also online in the "normal size" journal I will add the link to this small one, regarding the post it will be unique, this one.

In the normal version I added many clips, pockets and tags made with maxi collages, I will add other pockets later, at least a couple, and I must say that I like it. The tassel that is outside is not a tassel but was a kind of crocheted rope to close a journal (I also made one with an Alice theme for the next journal I will make on that theme...) Since for this journal it was planned for about a year, I didn't know exactly what it would be like, the ideas came to me while I was making the little one, I couldn't use this "closure" that I had made, so I thought of using it like this and I must say that I like it very much. If you don't see the video of the large version below yet, it means I haven't published it yet. I hope you both like it. Love, Betty.

Victorian Gentlemen journal

 Hello everyone, today a post in which I show you one of my latest creations. For this I used Joey cardmaker's collection of ephemera. I wasn't sure whether to use just one or both collections, yes because there are two collections of these ephemera, Victorian Ladies and Victorian Gentlemen. For this cover I found a image in Pintarest, an old car.

I will make another one with more than 2 bindings and I can add more pages and I will use both collections. For this I put only Victorian gentlemen.

I'm writing this post while thisjournal is on the road... this is a gift, and I hope it's a surprise, I'll post this when it arrives.

When I talked about journals and junk journals, I wanted to only use small snippets of my scrapbook creations like cards, mini albums, and so on. But this world fascinated me a lot because you have no rules, in the creations of the albums you have to be perfect and measured, everything closed in some rules that make them all quite similar to each other, diaries and junk diaries give you much more freedom to express yourself. I'm not that bright but I'm slowly improving.

Talking to a friend of mine I opened a box where I keep my first diaries, I laughed about it and I saw how I improved.

For this diary I used coffee dyed paper and tea dyed paper, some pages are my attempts with the gelli plate, I keep trying with the gelli plate because I find it difficult, I mean I don't get the result I have in mind, I need practice.

I took more than 140 photos so adding them all here is too much, I thought I'd make a photo video to show you all, I also filmed a video, but for me speaking in English is not that easy so I filmed 2 videos in Italian one is more long and detailed the other shorter, I don't know what video I will upload to YouTube.

I tried to leave a lot of writing space, this time I wrote down all the ideas I wanted to add in a note I tried to add all or so. It's not easy because I wanted it to be masculine, and I don't know if it's me but I always find it very complicated to create something masculine, even when I made jewellery, the same thing when for birthdays, anniversaries etc. I have to make a gift for a man it's difficult.

For this journal I tried some techniques I watched in some Youtube videos, I made some tags that I saw making from Gayle Agostinelli, "stack 'n whack tags for example, I added to the video all links in decription box. I think it's important to mention all sourses of my inspiration. 

About my photo video I didn't find a music that could fit with video, so I left it without music PHOTO VIDEO 

I added a pocket made with envelope, you know the ones with a window, and also another kind of pocket made with a book page and a window on it, as "glass" of the window I put a cereal bag, because is not trasparent but gives a nice effect. For this idea I let me inspired by Barbara (49 dragonfly) she use a piece of a pasta bag, it's easy and fun to do. what else? I hope to improve more each time. I send you a big hug. love. Betty

TINY JOURNAL, un mini journal che ho realizzato in questi giorni

 

Salve amici, oggi voglio condividere con voi, un'idea che mi è venuta per caso. 

Questo è un piccolo Journal che ho creato in pochissimo tempo, tra stampa, ritaglio, incollare le pagine tra loro, e tutto il resto ci ho impiegato tipo due giorni. Che per me è da guinness dei primati, visto che per un journal mediamente ci impiego mesi e alcuni sono là da finire da 3 anni o piu'.

Questa è una collezione di Joey Cardmaker, in realtà io avevo iniziato il journal delle dimensioni normali a settembre forse? Non so ma tra i colori di carte che avevo usato, non avevo inchiostrato le pagine bene, non so la copertina neanche mi convinceva, quindi era rimasto fermo per mesi, ora l'ho disfatto e ho sistemato le pagine e ho ristampato tutto in modo da aggiungere altre pagine della collezione... Ero alla ricerca di idee carine da aggiungere. Queste carte sono molto belle, ma per me non è semplicissimo trovare idee che non lo rovinino. 

Mentre ritagliavo gli effimera della misura normale pensavo tra me e me "le fate sono piccoline, pensa a Trilly, pensa alle fate che c'erano in quel cartone o in quell'anime... Perché non stampare in versione ridotta? Se realizzassi una versione piccina come le fate?" Così mi è venuta l'idea. Come ho detto anche nel video io ne ho realizzato uno così piccino 2 anni fa circa, dove ho scritto frasi motivazionali e un paio di citazioni che mi piacevano, all'epoca creavo senza carte digitali, ma solo con carte invecchiate con té o caffè oppure con carta velina colorata e qualche ritaglio di carte scrap.

Sarebbe anche un'idea carina da regalare volendo, o da tenere in borsa, io adoro i journal in formato A5 perché stampando su carta A4 piegata a metà ottieni un journal formato quaderno (A5), ma i piccolini fanno tanto "effetto puccioso" e mi piace 💓

Per ottenere questa misura di journal ho stampato 4 pagine su ogni pagina, in pratica ho selezionato 4 pagine e ho fatto stampa scegliendo tra le opzioni 4 per pagina, cioè non ho ridotto, sono abbastanza in difficoltà con le impostazioni della stampante, e specialmente adesso con la nuova con la quale non abbiamo ancora fatto amicizia, ho voluto fare una scelta più ecologica ma rispetto a quella che usavo e ancora uso da 5 anni non so... spero di imparare ad usarla presto (ce l'ho da meno di un mese e ho stampato forse 3 volte), Per questo mini journal ho usato la vecchia, perché mi piace di più come qualità del colore, con la nuova è più spento e annebbiato, ripeto sono io che non ho imparato, perché chiunque la usi si trova bene e  e me ne parlano come una stampante ottima, ma io ho ancora difficoltà ad usarla. 

Torniamo al Journal, ho usato una busta di amazon 4 strati per la cover e altri 4 per la spina, la rilegatura l'ho cucita sulla spina internamente e poi l'ho incollata sulla cover. Esternamente è carta, la stessa che usai tempo fa per rivestire le scatole di cartone di cui realizzai un tutorial. Ho fatto due punti, uno dritto e uno a zig zag per decorare e poi ho incollato internamente il merletto tutto intorno e un pezzo sulla spina (esternamente). Per non rovinale il merletto intorno ho forato, aggiunto un occhiello e con un anellino, che ho usato come fermo, ho aggiunto la chiusura che è un nastro di organza color oro. All'anellino ho aggiunto 3 charms di cui 2 stelle e un campanellino. 

Non ho tantissimo da dire a proposito delle pagine, oltre a quelle della collezione ho aggiunto qualche pagina invecchiata con il tè altre con il caffè qualcuna schizzata con gli acrilici, altre invecchiate con la carta velina, non ho aggiunto abbellimenti particolari come altre tasche o clips ecc in quanto le dimensioni sono ridotte, ma nelle pagine invecchiate si possono aggiungere volendo altri abbellimenti piccolini, io ho pensato a quelle pagine come spazi per scrivere, io credo che ci scriverò frasi riguardanti le fate nelle prossime foto vi mostro la differenza di dimensione tra le dimensioni normali e quelle del journal. 

Dimenticavo la pagina aperta è 11.5x 9 cm quindi ogni pagina misura 5.7 x 9 cm. 

tags e journaling cards

il journal internamente

questa pagina con la multi tasca 😀

qui si vede la parte della spina dove ho rilegato

le card grande e piccola

ancora una pagina del Journal

differenza tra una pagina "regolare" e la pagina del journal

Ok credo sia tutto un post abbastanza breve stavolta. Spero che l'idea del Tiny Journal vi piaccia. 

Buon weekend. xxx Betty

Alice Journal is "finished"

 Hi everyone, today I'm here with this post, after 3 videos and another one I have to film yet, I finished or it would be better to say completed my journal, because for me "finished" is when you have written in every single page and journaling space.

Collection from Etsy CrafyCat shop. 

You see, probably here in Italy there are very few of us who create this type of diaries and we all follow English, American, Australian  and other foreing channels, so I don't know if I have to make videos or not, maybe I should make them and trying to talk in english, even if for me is not confortable, and I'm afraid to make mistakes, but I'd like to share my attempt, I think that every crafting thing we make help us to grow, I mean when I have a look at my very first creations I see how I changed and bettered

 I will try to make a video in english, to be true I recorded it one yet, but I forgot a lot of things and I made a lot of mistakes in pronunciation, surely, so I will film again and here I try to say all at the best. I hope foreing friends will appreciate it. 

 In my videos I show you some steps of this journal, pages, how I joined with coffee dyed and the dyed paper and with other dyed papers made with tissue paper, I show you how I made cover and binding. For this journal i made 3 bindings.

I start by saying that for the cover I used two sheets of foam glued together and I must say that compared to felt it is much better, because the Journal that I made with the other collection tends to make the pages bend, this one is more sturdy,  it is not cardboard so it doesn't rip and it is not all fabric which is too soft. It's a system that I liked very much. I saw this idea from Cristina of "una tacita de scrap".

 I sewed a streight stitch all around the cover and than I sewed a second stitch, strip with white hearts that I used to close journal, I sewed with a zig zag stitch, one stitch jumped so I added a label on back cover

 For front cover I diecut a doily in foam and I glued Alice on it and some flowers as focus point underneath I glued a kind of fabric, is not a fabric to be true, but forgive me I can't say what it is, is like a web, I got this web from a favor bag, I bought them in several colors because I find them really decorative and make it see what is underneath, I love them. All around I added a lace, some bows, flowers and leaves, number 12 and a label with "journal" on it, this is a dies I bought recently a very cute alphabeth. (see first photo)

tassel and how I hang it on this journal, well I hadn't a jump ring so large or an oval one to put on eyelet, so I took a jewel nail and a flower that I add at beads to embellish jewels, so from inside to outside I add nail and this flower (top for beads?) and on outside of the cover I made a eyelet turning around to it, we call this kind of knot  "nodo ad orefice"   goldsmith's knot. 

usually with the round tip pliers you make an eyelet and then cut it, this type of knot instead, turning around the tack ensures that it does not open with the weight of the tassel

Usually I make this kind of tassels with threads and laces, adding bells and beads but it's really difficult because I have most of beads have a thin hole and to make thread pass trhrough is a mess.

So for this one and also for previous journal I made a tassel as I made jewels, with chains, nails and beads, some leaves, and I always add to each tassel some little bells because a tassel have to sound absolutly I love when you move journal and it sound, I also added a key and a tea pot (charms) 

I closed everything in a jump ring and I added a lobster clasp* (*we call moschettone) to be able to hang it in the eyelet created earlier

I fussy cut everything out with my precious 5 diopter lens, because guys I can't see well anymore, unfortunately my eyes continue to lose diopters, slowly, ok I'm not so young anymore but I know it's not only related to age there are other reasons...

I printed twice the ephemera in the collection, because while I was printing I forgot to change where it says "fit to page" so some elements has been cut, I fussy cut them anyway and than I bought another additional file with a lot of lovely fussy cuts as mushrooms and butterflies, twins (Tweedledum and tweedledee) I hope I wrote right in Italy we call them Pinko Panko and Panko Pinko, other flowers... To fussy cut everything it took me a loooooooot of time 

what is left I will use it to create other ephemera for the other journal that I intend to do with an Alice theme, I bought a collection from Stamperia, in this journal I added some elements from that collection too, see some cards and playing cards

Let's go inside the journal, as I was telling you before I sewed a second stitch later, after I glued a piece of scrapbook paper inside and than a pocket, on both inside covers.

I also added a trim of lace and an edge I diecut in blue (always a new die) I glued 2 doilies and an image of Alice from the collection, in pink envelope I keep quotes and all left over of fussy cuts of the collection

in previous videos you saw 2 envelopes a pink one and a sky blue one, well here pink one I embellished with a doily some flowers and stickers and a quote, there are a lot of them in the journal, see next pic.

For first page I glued a tab only. For second one as you can see in videos this is a page I printed with gelli plate, all in gold color with some flowers, I added a image of  Mad Hatter,  a faux rice paper made following a Treasure Books tutorial, another quote in a frame and a stamp of a tea pot with some cups, a rose.

this page has an angle pocket, really good for high tag, this one was a premade one, colours was good 

for this journal.

to this page, I added another page I printed with gelli plate too, one side is purple and other side red with hearts, as you can see I glued on it a mushroom and I added texture with a paste (with a little squares stancil), gluing page I created a sort of little pocket where I added a little card.

on edge I glued a butterfly, another flower and a little label with numbers. As you can see quotes from Alice book and movie are everywhere. On right side of this flip page I glued a tiny trim, inside I glued a corner pocket, another trim of lace, and inside this pocket a journaling card from the collection, in corner pocket you have extra journaling space.

 

let's see right page, flower in the window is a true flower I laminated and put into a frame and here glued on 2 sides to have a window pocket, quote at the top of the page(some pic up) I printed with a mini printer I bought recently from a market here called Lidl, but I saw them in Amazon, Temu, Shein... You can print from smart phone or tablet with an app where there are some templates and drawings and you can print photoes too, but in black and white, is a thermic printer, not like a printer, but for some notes and little photoes for journals, diaries, to leave a note somewhere it's really funny, in this journal I printed some notes and labels with it. Funny

heart on corner of this frame is made with handmade paper, I showed in a video, and I diecut some shapes and I embossed them too, I keep them in a jar that contained a hair mask, so they are really perfumed.

On this page in my last video I glued a ruffle only, than I made a bigger card and on background with a stancil and Stormy sky distress ink I made a clock. I'm not very happy with this card I don't know why maybe background too dark, If I have a better idea I will make something else, maybe when I print with gelli plate again, I guess it would bettere a color like orange or sky blue or anyway a lighter green.

In next page I embellished a craft colour sack, with stormy sky distress ink and a stancil I made some squares shape, glued some flowers, a vellum piece, Alice and an half frame, inside a tall tag, mini playing cards are not fussy cut but real mini cards, I think they are cool, I bought them from Aliexpress, I'd like to find something bigger than these and smaller than other I have and I altered... 

 For this page, on left side we have back of sack that I embellished with a trim of lace and some stickers. On right page a belly band  made with a scrapbook paper where I glued some fussy cuts of the collection, a card and a tag kept here.

For this page I also added a page after with a scrapbook paper and back I glued coffe dyed paper and a fabric tape.

Here one of the page that I fold not in half because of Mad Hatter at the center of the page, so to don't hide him in the binding I folded not at half, on flip you can see another note, this is on adhesive thermic paper I printed with mini printer, on left page a image with bunny and a little window pocket, flower on it is a sticker. It's not acetate but laminated piece of sheet, I keep left over pieces of laminated, I like them more than acetate ones.

Page open, you see Hatter... 

a secret place to write :)

fabric flip

With the same kind of dyed paper (with tissue paper) I made a sort of waterfall where there's a lot of space to write, I embellished every page with some elements of the collection.

Some tags and cards and mini journaling card was in "premade ephemera box" and I have to make others and I have to think at next journals I want to make and for others I have to complete,  here I looked for ones which went right with these colours.

 As I said several times I'm not so bright but I experiment every time, so I try to do better than before each time. 

I add all pictures but I don't write under each one because are more than 100 photoes, a very long post this time.

 

This card was for that page where I said I wasn't very happy,  well this one I added here because of colours stay better in this page, clip on it I made in these days, because a clip if is embellished is better. I glued a label under image of Red Queen and a Rose, from other side of card some cookies they are from decoupage paper trasparent container is a sticker, forgive me I don't know name of that, I don't know its name in italian neigther, but I liked a lot because remind me table where Mad Hatter and his friends take tea and treats

other envelope sky blue you saw in videos, I glued here

here another note printed with mini printer

As you can see there are a lot of pages free, a lot of journaling spaces, this page remember me a scene fo the movie and of the cartoon inside Red Queen castle,  with walnut stain and with a stacil with a nice wall shape and another with roses I made this page, I like it a lot.

Here is too empty, I don't know if I make a pocket or a belly band or if I will make something with texture paste and colors and some stickers, this one and next one to be true.

left page other embellished paper clip

Page with big flowers too empty too, same story I was telling you before. I don't know, maybe when I write on this journal I will decide to write on this page or to add stickers or to make a collage like  I make in my "exercice layout books"(art journals)

 This is a junk mail envelope with window, I embellished like this and it's a triple pocket a side one, one little in front of and another back because I glued across 3 sides of the envelope, at the moment nothing in that pocket (back).

 Here cards that are inside that pockets, one is a double card, the smaller one is a negative of my diecuttes I keep them and I make little cards adding a background and some embellisments like stickers or labels, other one is an altered playing card.

 In the movie, Hatter sews some hats for Red Queen, and I don't know why but in this page I wanted to remeber that scene, so I added a needle with thread and a scissor and a spool of thread I also have a diecut of sewing machine but too big for this page, what's pity.

wax seal with White Rabbit

 Here another corner pocket with an extra space for the diary, I should use more of these bottle caps, if I'm not mistaken I made a video about them... I also add a wax seal, with the White Rabbit

other altered playing card

Mat  side A

mat side B

That's all for the moment, a very long post this time, I hope you enjoyed this journal, I send you kisses and hugs. Thank you if you read it till here. 

Lot of love. Betty