The Place Where I Belong - Sue's Ring Bound Journal

Hi and welcome once again to the Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft blog,

For the month of June we are using the gorgeous Carta Bella Farmhouse Market papers. 

My project is a simple ring bound journal that can be added to as you need to. It includes pages to journal on and pockets to add ephemera for future reference. Enjoy!

Materials used (Don’t forget that the core products are discounted for the month of June).

Carta Bella Farmhouse Market Paper – Barn Floral

Carta Bella Farmhouse Market Paper – Wreaths

Carta Bella Farmhouse Market Paper – Tags

Carta Bella Farmhouse Market Paper – Lovely Floral

Prima Finnabair Art Basics Alterable Flowers

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Walnut Stain

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide spray – Spun Sugar

We R Memory Keepers – Eyelets 3/16” assorted designs

Chipboard Sheet

35mm Silver album rings

2 Medium treat bags

2 coin pocket bags

4 A5 ivory cardstock

The first step is to cut your two covers, I cut mine down to 15cm x 22cm.  I then cut a thin strip to use for the holes template.

        

The next step is to cover the covers, I chose the Carta Bella Farm House Market Paper – Lovely Floral paper for the front cover. I cut the 13 inch paper at the 22 cm length and then wrapped it around the chipboard cover from the edge across the front around the side and across the back finishing at the back edge.

Do the same for the back cover using the Carta Bella Farm House Market Paper – Tags paper. 

 

Then glue the paper to the chipboard and if you wish sew around the edges with a zig zag stitch.

 

Cut down 4 pieces of ivory cardstock to fit inside the covers, approximately 21cm x 15 cm.

 

Next is to put an edge piece onto each of the treat bags.  I used the Carta Bella Farm House Market Paper – Barn Floral. I cut each piece 6 cm wide and to the length of the bag. I then scored it down the middle so I could fold it and glue it to the edge of the bag. I glued and used double sided tape and covered about a centimetre of the bag. 

 

Next using the two coin bags I placed them long side next to each other and used the same process of giving them an edge. I used the reverse side of the lovely floral paper. The strip I cut was 4 cm in width and butted onto the ends of each coin pocket. Mine was 18 cm in length. Refer to the photograph below. 

Because the coin packets needed reinforcing I made pocket from ivory cardstock and a small rectangular piece of the Lovely Floral paper.  I attached the pocket using double sided tape and I left the top open to create another pocket. 

 

Next step is to punch holes in all the pages.  Using the thin strip of cardstock place it on the smallest page and mark to places where you would like the holes. I marked mine with a ‘T’ at the top and punched two holes at either end approximately 2 cm from each edge. Make sure that you use the correct hole punch size for the eyelets you have and you don’t punch the holes to far in that it interferes with putting things in your pockets. 

 

Now line up your template and mark on each piece where the holes need to be and punch away. It’s up to you if you wish to put eyelets in every page, I decided that I only needed them in the covers. On the back cover I put the face of the eyelet so that it showed on the back of the back cover. 

You can now decorate the cover using the chipboard and Prima linen flowers.  I used the distress oxide spray to colour one of the linen flowers and added a smaller flower from my stash.  

 

For more detailed instructions please use the link below to watch my video.

 

https://youtu.be/TzOJw8tYM8w 

 

Happy Crafting and Thank you for checking out the AVSC Blog.

Sue