Hi everyone, time flies and with all my good intentions to sit and create, I find myself occupied with other things. Well, for now I am sharing a new "Spooky" Halloween album that I hope you will enjoy peekin' at; here we go... I am listing this new StoryBook journal in my Etsy shop today.
It has been created from a 1929 story book called Fact and Story Reader. It measures 5 1/8" X 7.5 and has 54 pages with a combination of vintage linen, lined writing, vellum, sketch, and drawing papers on which you may journal, draw, paint and glue. The premium double-sided card-stock papers are from Authentique's Halloween collection.
"Spooky" StoryBook Journal Cover
It has sturdy O-Wire binding and a sweet...
Trinket Cluster
Attached to the book name tag which is tied to the binding with vintage seam binding ribbon.
Original End Papers
I love these! Beautiful in the front and back of these story books.
Original Pages
Divider 1
Name/Date Page with a bottom pocket and a Vintage Halloween image cutout ready for a name and date.
Each divider page is a full page pocket with a top opening, some may have a clipped half circle on the top edge of of the divider. Each divider will have a metal, leather, or velvet page turn.
Divider 1 Backside
Each divider is followed by a vellum page and an original book page.There 2 side pockets with a small top pocket. A large tag is slipped in. Every page of this journal is hand inked and stamped.
Divider 2
Correspondence Page. Instead of a full page pocket, this page is divided in two with a half circle cut opening on top, and a mail slit in the middle. There are 4 pockets on top of this page, one is a strip pocket. There are 4 tags tucked in the pockets and 2 tiny hang tags. This page may help you keep stamps postcards and correspondence all in one place.
Divider 2 backside
4 side pockets here; on is paper lace. There are 2 tags slipped in.
Divider 3
3 bottom pockets with 1 large tag tucked in.
Divider 3 backside
Has 3 side pockets with 1 top pocket attached and a large vintage image tag slipped in.
1930's Bingo Card
1 bottom pocket 1 strip pocket with a layered "Rosie" attached to the top. A spooky witch tag is tucked inside.
Bingo Card Backside
With 2 strip pockets and 1 tag
Divider 4
2 bottom pocket and a strip pocket with 2 tags slipped in and a wonderful metal paper clip from Tim Holtz
Divider 4 backside with...
top lined coin envelopes
"Spooky" Open
Thank you for looking, always nice to be back. So much has changed in the paper arts. Paper stores have closed or stopped making papers that have that vintage feel and cost over a dollar per paper sheet, vintage books are hard to find at a cost that will keep my prices down, even supplies like page tabs are scarce or cheep in quality, very odd. But over the last 18 years - yikes! - I've been able to watch the huge boom in scrapbooking and help create the transformation into interactive pages, albums and journals, now I am using the massive paper stash that has been accumulating around here and will continue to create whatever comes to mind when I sit down. LOL.