Hello there,
if you read my
review of the book Letterpress, you might remember my crazy love for stationery and paper stuff. These are a few things I've been making with my paper, washi tape and other craft stash.
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| A6-size notebooks |
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| notebook |
The notebooks on the left are a very good size for sticking in any bag, they are A6 size (about that of a postcard). I made a lot of those and gave them all away. The one above on the right is very small, I think less than 10cm (3-4 inches), I sent that to my blog friend
Lynn. It has a lot of different types of paper inside, including some cute Japanese paper.
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| handmade journal with prompts |
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| variety of paper inside prompt journal |
I also made a couple of journals like this one, which was also sent to Lynn. I put a lot of different papers of about A5 size inside: craft and scrapbooking papers; free patterns printed from the Internet and
Reprodepot Pattern Book (Flora); some sheets I designed with text or visual prompts for journaling; other papers I decorated with washi tape and homemade tapes and stickers. I also sewed some envelopes from patterned paper like the burgundy one with the leaf design at the top of the pile. Inside the envelopes, I enclosed small surprises and gifts like stickers, tags, postcards and more paper that can be used to embellish the journal.
I really enjoyed making these journals. I loved making up the prompts, which included some quotes I like and that I find inspirational. It was also fun playing with different ideas to come up with designs for my own prompt sheets. I left the papers mostly plain so their owners can fill the journals with their own thoughts and creative works. I don't text journal regularly anymore but I use a journal like this as my own mood board and visual diary, where I paste photos of things I like or stuff I find in my journey through life.
I've been pretty obsessed with washi tape since joining a card swap in June. I ended up buying a whole lot of Japanese and other masking tape, and even made some of my own! I posted the
masking tape cards I made for the swap earlier, here are a couple other things I've been making with washi tape.
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| washi tape-decorated gift bags |
These are good for party favors as they're very small, the bag is only about 10cm (4 inches) tall.
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| cards made with washi tape |
These are 4 different cards decorated with washi tape. I ran my sewing machine through the card on the bottom right ; I thought that flowery stitch went very well with the gold tape.
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| card decorated with washi tape |
This card took me ages to make but I really love how it turned out. I scanned it (as I did my recent creations as I finally bought a scanner - yay!) and I'm going to make patterned paper from it. Maybe even fabric - if I can figure out how to print my own fabric!
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| butterfly playground card made with washi tape |
I like this card, too. I made it over the weekend with my new butterfly punch and an old tree punch I have from Daiso. The card puts me in a very lght and happy mood. I'm going to replicate it with different tapes and in slightly different styles and make a set of butterfly cards. Wouldn't that be cool?
And finally, here are the cards I received in the masking tape swap:
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| card with washi tape decoration from Cheryl |
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| stamps on envelope |
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| another card from Lay Hoon |
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| stamps on envelope |
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| mixed-media card from Wendy |
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by liberal sprinkles
that provide more - and more varied - examples. If you're interested in the design aspect, Paper Engineering is a pretty interesting read. Here are a few pages from the book.
