Hi everyone! Welcome back to Where the Gnomes Live. Today I'm gonna do a video
for you that's a little bit different than I normally do here on this channel.
I recently started making junk journals and I'm gonna do a flip through
of a junk journal but it's not gonna be either of these two. These are two that I
just made recently. I'm actually gonna flip through a journal that fits inside
this match box, (and) of course because we'd love miniatures here at Where the
Gnomes Live, right! So if you don't know what a junk journal is you can look on
YouTube and just type it in, there's thousands of videos out there and
tutorials. So I'm going to do that flip through for you but if you're here from
the Facebook group, Junk Journal Junkies, I will quickly show you my
dollhouse that I keep talking about and then you'll see where this is going to
end up. And then we'll get to the flip through. So there's the monsterous house
that I keep referring to and my posts, the gnome stump house. This started in 2014 I
have it's in constant progress. I keep adding rooms. Just when I think I'm done
I'll add another room. There is a video tour here on YouTube. I have a couple,
actually, the latest one I did was last year so I'll put that one in the
comments and you can have a look there. There is 16 to 18 rooms now, so, since
that tour it has changed some. And you'll notice that in that video it's furnished
downstairs but I have since changed the downstairs. But go and have a look, and, I
just wanted to show you the library or the personal reading room I should say
with all the books in it. I've made everything in this house myself, the
books included. I have a thing for miniature books. I just absolutely love
them. So this miniature junk journal, that I just did, is making my heart feel a
little bit bursty (laughs) Okay, so let's get to that flip thru, shall we!
You can see this little journal is just bursting at the seams.
I don't think I could fit anything else in here and I just love that. It's one
signature sewn together and a fabric cover. Forgive me if I get the terms
wrong as we go along. I'm new to junk journaling so I might misuse the terms.
There's a tuck spot with a journaling card. And the word, thinking. I got these
words that you see all throughout the journal, I got them all from a Charles
Dickens book. And a pocket that I hand sewed myself and did a very messy
job at that. And a little letter I wrote when I was just a little girl, resized
it, and put it in there. And a clear pocket this has been glued to lace. I
don't know what this material is. It was just in my stash. It glued nicely
so I just made clear pockets. A little journaling card .. All my pull-outs will have
this little piece of fabric glued on top and that's to make it easier to grab and
pull out. They were disappearing before I did that. Disappearing inside
the pockets. And a postage stamp with a fox on it. And these tags are just
adorable. I love tags anyway but these miniature ones are just the cutest! This
one opens up and uI put the word dream in there. Another pocket. Postage stamp with
a strawberries on it.
Fabric collage from pieces from my trash can (laughs). And the more of that clear paper glued
over scrap paper. I just cut out a beautiful image of a butterfly, stuck it
in there. And another tuck spot with an image I printed off online. Just a
variety of mushrooms I printed it off on coffee stained paper, roughed up the
edges to make it look a bit older. And another pocket. I tried to pass this one
to the sewing machine and failed miserably because it's just too tiny. And
another pullout. And this one has the word Church on it. I chose the word
Church because my mom is actually in this book, and when she was a little girl
she loved Church so I thought the two go together. I'll show you my mom
she's up here a couple pages ahead. Oh and this here is a flip out and this
idea for this type of flip out I got from Amity Bloom here on YouTube and
she has the same type of thing in her journal, a few of her journals, with this
color on the outside and then this colored pocket that matches on the
inside there. I just thought that was a brilliant thing so I had to include it.
And inside is a little letter that I resized, printed it off, and (stai..) glued it
to coffee stained paper. And you can actually read that with a magnifying
glass. I wrote that when I was 9 years old to one of my aunts! Another pocket
pull out. And here's my little mom! That's a piece of lace glued over scrap paper and
the cutest little tag made from a real photo of my mom when she was just three
years old. And on the back I put three words that made me think of her. Goodness,
patient, and love. Definitely all three things could describe my mom very
well. I'll keep it safe, tuck it in there Another flip out. Inside is just
different things, the word connection and a tip-in. I believe that's what they call
it. I tipped it in with a piece of scotch tape. and a fabric flip out. (I'll show how to punch out words inside shapes towards the end)
oh and here's another flip I would I glued that to that clear paper again. So you
can see the image on the other side.And last one, a flip out made of a collage I
made. And the end! So there you go, my first junk journal flip through. I
absolutely am, head over heels, in love with this little thing. Um... a couple ideas for
you. You could make it into a keychain for yourself, or a journal lover in your life.
What a fun little gift to open, I think. I would absolutely love it if someone made
me something like that. Or it could also be used as a charm on the life sized
journal. This one actually matches, I used the same material for both. Um, yea ,as a
charm, or, make it for your dollhouse library like I've done. I know my gnomes
are just gonna absolutely love e that and I can't wait to see what they put in
there. So I'm going to show you one more thing before I go. Those words in there,
umm, there was a heart, there's a couple hearts with words inside
and I'll show you how I got those. So what I do to get that little heart
shape to punch out the word, because you can't see it if you do this, right?
You can't see it. Turn it over and it becomes like a little window and you can
isolate the words that you want. There's a word on here I want to get actually.
It's the word friend but it's too high for my punch right now because it it's
just too high up in the page. I'm just gonna trim this . So where is that word? So
you just isolate it, there it is, friend.
So those of you who like to pay attention to little details like that,
there's an idea for you. So thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed
that flip through. I'll see you soon!