🌺 Forget-Me-Not Friday (Idea No. 11)

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

House of Mahalo - Where "done is better than perfect"

Hey there Reader

I'm back with another Forget-Me-Not Friday idea!

I'm also back from my trip to Madeira with my husband (we had a lovely time even if we did miss the Northern Lights making their appearance back home lol)

Anyway, this week, I thought I'd change things up a bit. In this series so far, I've shared various ideas for embellishments and ephemera.

But I've been feeling a little nostalgic about some of my earlier journal covers, which involved having fun with patchwork...

First up are these sweet little notebooks I made using the "Franken Paper" technique, which I think originally came from Nik the Booksmith.

These were fun and easy to make and are the perfect way to use up some of those scraps lurking around your craft space. Here's my process video to show you how I made mine.

But you can also use this same technique in other ways. Such as the time I covered a chocolate box with cardstock scraps to create this cute little journal cover:

Seeing as we're talking about patchwork, I also wonder how many of you have seen the very first full-sized journal I made back in 2021.

Let's just say I had a lot of fun with scraps and colour... check out this blog post for a flip through video and photos.

One more thing...

Some of you might've noticed my website has had a little facelift this week.

I probably still have various kinks and whatnot to work out with it, but I hope you agree it's looking a lot more "me" now. I also hope it'll be easier for you to find what you're looking for.

And I look forward to writing some more blog posts very soon. As always, I have a bunch of ideas, so stay tuned for those...

Speak soon,

Justine xoxo

PS:

If you want to try some different ideas for your next journal cover, then I've shared various ideas in this blog post.
And... if you want to catch up on my previous Forget-Me-Not Friday emails, I've created this page to keep them all in one place for you.

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