hello everyone it's Shel C from PapaerOcotilloStudio and today I'm sharing with you a
mystery envelope collaboration this is the second one that I've done with
artist Bea Grob and she sends a mystery envelope full of goodies that's what I'm
opening right now there's a lot of vintage things like some vintage fabric
and illustrations and ribbon little metal pieces things like that glass
glitter and she sends out these envelopes to everyone in the group and
then everyone makes a project and we have a video hop so below the video down
in the description box where it says see more down there there's links and you
can hop from one person to another and see what they did with the things that
they were sent but I decided to make is a Here I am holding my quotations up
junk journal I don't think this is a real junk journal because it's not made
out of junk it's made out of ephemera so really it's an ephemeral journal and
that you know to me a junk journal is something that's made out of junk like
what I've been using all month for my hashtag events all month I've been using
a page is made out of junk mail and that to me is what a junk journal is but
there is a whole nother genre of people out there that think that just making an
ephemeral journal out of things that you have you know like even even out of a
package that was coordinated to go together like one from crafts box or
something is a junk journal so that's what I'm making is that type of a
journal and I had this this journal kit thing it's like a three-ring bound 8
page little blank journal that I got probably a Tuesday morning a long time
ago I don't know it's been sitting in my my box of stuff forever and I decided
that I was going to use it to do this project so what I'm going to show you
basically today is how I made the front and back cover
using the items that bear scent with the addition of a few items from the recent
craft box that I got which had it was called vintage seamstress and had a lot
of the same type of things that just I thought went with what Bay essence so I
used those to fill in because there wasn't enough things in the mystery
envelope to do the entire journal I definitely use them all up inside the
journal and I made all the pages but if you want to see the entire flip through
of every single page of this journal I can do that and I'll just do it in my
vlog for December first because this videos already way too long I don't have
time to show every single page but I did complete the entire journal so it's made
out of like some sort of chipboard I guess is what you'd call it it's kind of
a thick paper it has holes already punched and then it has these weird
little tabs all along the edge of it which is supposed to make it cuter I
don't know if it's cuter I don't know if I like the tabs but I
left it and the first thing I did was take the first and last page to make
them into the covers and I'm using the the fabric that baya sent it's a kind of
a brocade fabric and that maybe you would see a fancy old-fashioned dress
from you know vintage times made out of it it's a very nice fabric and that's
what I received in this package so I'm using it to cover the covers to begin
with and then I'm carefully making sure that everything is glued down I've I've
taken the edges and wrapped them around the edge of the covers and into the
inside I'm using liquitex matte gel medium to do all this the first piece
that the first piece which ends up being the back I kind of stretched the fabric
on accident and made it kind of crooked so the stripes weren't quite as nice so
I ended up using the other piece for the front because the stripes were a lot in
a lot better shape they weren't distorted I'm not sure how that happened
but it did then for the backsides of the tabs I want
them also covered with fabric so I'm just taking a little piece and gluing it
down on there to cover the little back and edge of the tab and then I'm
covering the rest of the insides of the covers with some cardstock this is olive
cardstock and I've got a potting soil archival ink pad and this stamp it's
called linen graph it's from I'm stamping up from a long time ago it's a
big background stamp so I stamp that on the covers and then I'm distressing the
edges of the paper using this little tool I guess it's called the paper
de-stresser I don't know how look it up for you when I do my links for all the
products in the description box below like I always do for you guys I think
people use them so I continue to do it it does take a lot of time so then I
went around the edges with the ink pad as well to kind of darken the edges and
then now I'm I've misted the card stock and I'm wanting it up and then going
over the crinkly edges highlighting the tops with that same ink pad and it kind
of gives the idea of a leather sort of like if you did it with brown paper or
craft paper it looks a lot like leather and you can you can wad it up again
highlight it again wadded up again I mean you could really get into this
process but I just wanted it to look a little bit distressed looking so that it
wasn't so new in this very vintagey book there's some dictionary pages that are
definitely old dictionary pages and I think there may be in German that I'm
going to be using for the insides of the books and those came from Bay in a
couple different packages remember I did the mystery envelope before and I got
some of that dictionary paper back then so I have a few pages of it so I'm going
to be using that so then here is the illustration that she sent this is a
fashion illustration and it has something about Paris on it so I'm
calling this the Parisian fashion junk journal or Paris fashion junk general
and I do use some other images of Victorian era ladies in their fashions
throughout the book that I printed off the internet and then you just use those
here and there but this one is a very nice very nice illustration and it's
it's on a page so obviously from a book and um I I trimmed her out and I'm going
to put her on the cover as the focal image so then I need some other things
to add to make the cover special there's this little metal piece that looks like
it should be on a corner of a book and I thought that it would make a cute kind
of like a little crown on the top of her head I'm using some some of that same
olive paper that coordinates with the inside covers I'm using some of the
extra pieces of text from the page that I trimmed out tucking them here and
there and then this this were these words in French which say something
about Paris and fashion and I don't know an illustration or something oh no I
don't read read French but yeah then I still have that box of things left over
from crafts box UK which sent me this box that was called vintage seamstress
and this little die cut piece is one of the things that was in that box there's
still a ton left I mean I made a whole whole mixed-media assemblage canvas and
still had a tongue left of that box so I decided to use that little because
because the book because the idea of the theme of the book is about fashion Paris
Fashion Week or whatever in the olden days obviously people don't wear these
clothes anymore and decided to use that dress form because I thought that that
was a cute addition and then I have a metal leaf that was in
the package from baya and this illustration then a piece of dark paper
that has some printing on it that was packaging that was left over from that
craft box UK bucks and what else there was some glass glitter like I think it's
like with a crushed up glass like old glitter before they made it started
medium making it out of polyester and stuff so I have gonna use that and oh
here's some crackle paste I wanted to you know crackle paste looks looks good
with distressing vintagey things the only color I have is white so I have to
color it after the fact but I'm adding a little bit of crackle paste here and
there and allowing it to dry on its own because if you heat dry crackle paste it
gets smaller cracks and if you let it dry on its own it gets bigger critics so
I have some I craft mixed-media glue from thermal web brand that I'm using to
glue down the metal pieces this this copper colored leaf is really cool I
kind of wished I could just save it I use it for jewelry or something but I
went ahead and glued it on the front also under the leaf I put like a little
randomly wound up wadded up bit of thread which you know kid continues that
idea of seamstress and fashion and you know those type of things then I added a
little bit of that that's media glue here and there and sprinkled on this
clear crystal glass glitter on that bassant to give a little bit of bling
kind of on the crown it looks like diamonds it also made my copper leaf
even heavier and it wanted to fall off but then I'm just kind of breast
brushing away the X and saving the excess back into the
little package for later for some other projects someday then with my little
dress form I'm using some copper paint it's a PBO iridescent copper paint to
color it and then I decide that it's not quite the right color and I add a little
bit of gold PBO and dirt iridescent paints with it as well and that kind of
turns it into more of a bronze color which is similar to what the leaf color
is sort of a the copper II was just too bright so once I put the gold over it a
little bit it looked better I managed to tear that thing into four
pieces it's not very sturdy so thank scuse me I did sort of have to glue it
together in separate pieces but I crafted mixed-media glue has a tiny
little nozzle so it makes it easy to apply glue to the back of small things
like this you know small little filigree pieces and stuff that's the best use for
this glue and it's strong as well it'll hold the metal pieces on once it's dry
so I got my little dress form on there and then I think oh yeah I I got out
like a little framed gem I think and put it on there that Jim was also from the
craft box UK box and I also used a few scraps of their papers on the inside
pages and maybe one little thing from their ephemera pack but anyway it was a
good combination BAE is mystery envelope and the craft box UK vintage seamstress
and I'll I'll link my card above and probably in the links at the end of the
video that other video where you'll see all the product those products from
crafts box so here's some tattered angels shimmer
glimmer mist glimmer mist and I started with the color DeJohn and then I ended
up adding some olive vine and then some vintage leather colors to color that
crackle paste that I put on there was way too white it was just white white
plus you when you're use crackle fish you want to emphasize or highlight the
crackles because that's the whole point why would you use it if it you didn't
have crackles it's the whole point of it so you want to make sure that you can
get some type of media down in those crackles and sprays are a good choice
for that because they're thin and you can kind of force them down into the
cracks to make those stand out a little bit better as well as coloring the paste
so I alternatively applied it by spraying it I applied it by just taking
the little plastic straw from the inside and using it to to shake or or scratch
it on there and then also with a little bit of a brush as well in places where I
couldn't get underneath the dress form and stuff so that adds some more
dimension to the whole thing by having some color variation and that worked out
really well so happy with that gave it a good dry
I had to blot it a little bit in places and spread it a little bit with some
water spray but after that once it was all dry I was pretty happy with the
cover I don't think I've put my little gem on there yet maybe I get to that
later you know I remember what I did I don't remember what order it was in
there's little gems there like a little plastic or glass gems framed with a
metallic looking frame around them so I thought that went on there pretty well
it looks like something maybe one of these fancy Parisian ladies would have
had to wear as a choker or something oh yes and then I thought I needed a
little piece of lace so I was trying to figure out where to put the lace I ended
up just taking one little section of it and adding it
over by the leaf at the end but that's pretty much for the front cover what I
did and of course I had to keep punching the holes on all the pages using my
crop-a-dile to make sure and when I was punching through the fabric then I just
used my stylus and kind of pressed down from the top and the the fabric settled
down into the holes pretty well because it was still wet with the matte medium
and then it just kind of looked like you it was gluing itself down inside now
that piece those two pieces that base sent that is a it's a clasp it's
supposed to be a clasp and I was thinking oh and maybe make it the clasp
of the book but I just couldn't figure out how to do it
so I decided to just save it for another project that would be something you'd
use like on a bracelet or something to you know the bar goes through the hole
and then it fastens a bracelet or necklace so that's what that is in case
you were wondering now here's the back you can see this is the back is where
the lines the stripes are a little bit out of whack because the fabric got
stretched when I was attaching it so I'm adding some different pieces of paper
there's a little scrap left over from the fashion illustration and there's
that scrap of packaging some of the olive colored paper that I used and I'm
just kind of making a little focal area to put that really cool Monalisa piece
of plastic I think it's plastic it could be
porcelain but I think it's plastic but it has an image of the Mona Lisa on it
which is really cool it's a neat thing and he neat little like the inside of a
brooch type of an idea without the frame so then I'm adding some of the glimmer
mists colors onto that as well and a little bit of water to blend them at
some point I realized that it's upside-down and I need to flip it so I
had to Paul Monalisa off and put her the other
way wasn't dry yet so it was okay that the tabs are confusing yeah that's when
I figured out there we go okay turn her around and add another little piece down
here because now that that little section of dress is upside down but
doesn't really matter it wasn't a whole image anyway so it was just kind of
background so that's the back and then I set those aside to dry and start on the
inside pages I guess not quite yet I guess I wanted
to put some copper on there a little bit and I found that other little scrap that
was from the fashion illustration and I thought that would go on there to add a
little bit of interest so I put that on there
as well just kind of tuck it under it's that the top part of her hat that got
torn off because if the illustration was larger than the 6x6
okay so for the inside pages I covered them on the front and on the back using
very papers I used up all the dictionary pages that I had in in what I think is
German they're old like ancient pages had this tissue paper that I thought
matched pretty well it was from the inside of a package like spa mask and
moisturizer and all that stuff I thought that matched pretty well has like this
print on it that's in kind of a rust color there's some pieces of this map
that the map piece that she sent was really interesting it had like a mesh on
the back of it like maybe it it was wallpaper like old wallpaper or
something I don't know it's it was really interesting and cool piece of
vintage ephemera it just neat stuff I didn't I didn't end up using it all up I
still have a little piece of it left for another project because I just
I was kind of hoarding it a little bit I know I was supposed to use everything in
the mystery of a lip but I was like ah this is cool I wanted to save it so
here's some of the vintage texts so I just I'm making them very simple and the
idea is that you can add journaling or photographs on the inside of this to
make this into your own journal so this would be a cute idea to give as a gift
at Christmas you know now it's time to start making your Christmas gifts and
your Christmas cards and all that stuff so that's what I'm gonna use it for or
else I might if somebody really wants it I can sell it to them I don't really
know who I would give it to you at this point who might like vintage vintage
vintage a journal like this in my own family so I'm thinking about it but if
somebody would like to purchase it just contact me so yeah I just show a couple
of these and then I show you how I finished them so a good way to finish
the edges of something like this when it's made out of chipboard is to use a
sanding block and these vintage papers and the tissue paper are very light and
you can just trim it right off by using the sanding block and then it makes it
the perfect size and perfect finish on the edges of all the pages and then I
went around the edges of them with the potting soil archival ink and if they
had things glued on them I used a brown like there's the there's
the playing card that that she sent right there I used a brown pit pin and
went around and made shadows so for though if you guys want to see the flip
through just leave it in the comments below and I'll be sure to do it on my
December first ish vlog I'll give you the flip through of the whole book so
there you have it I hope you enjoyed this make sure that you go and use the
links below the video to click and go see what the other people made using the
mystery envelope number two and if you like this video please remember to give
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this junk Journal this 'junkish' Journal and here comes your close-ups bye bye
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