I removed the number 2 plastic caps and spouts from my paper milk cartons before recycling and collected any pop bottle caps I came across (although those should be left ON for recycling), shredded them using ordinary scissors, and then used my craft heat tool to melt the shreds in a silicone mold. Number 2 plastic melts at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 175 degrees Celsius with no fumes.
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Stampers Anonymous offers a chipboard version of this exact shape if you would only use it once, or don’t die cut.
Strip of stamps die is Elizabeth Craft Designs from the Planner Essentials line and no longer seems to be available, nor can I find a current alternative from a major craft line. There is this one on Amazon:
This is my entry for today’s prompt in Junk Journal July. Find all the prompts on Instagram or YouTube @megjournals if you would like to craft along.
Most charities with thrift stores will take clothes, small household appliances and housewares, toys, small furniture, and some will pick up larger furniture. What do you do with the other stuff?
This is a detail from my Junk Journal July spread for the prompt “very vintage.” Junk Journal July is hosted by @megjournals.
This is outside my normal style, although I can’t resist buying the products when I watch Tim Holtz live on YouTube! I took this as a chance to try something new!
random tissue from packaging, and cream 2” wide mulberry paper ribbon
Mulberry paper ribbon is a craft supply that had a moment in the early aughts. I cannot find it anywhere new. The larger Stampin Up “waffle paper” rolls seem to be available on eBay, but I’ve tried every search term and gets me nowhere on any other website nor does it return any other brand. Flat mulberry paper is readily available, but not this crinkly paper on a roll.
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I’m doing the prompts out of order, so this is coming near the end for me; I have only “letter to myself” and “photograph” to go. I’ve been keeping my supplies together in a box, and I took the little bits and scraps and made 10 layered tags with a journaling spot on each one. I then shorted some 4” x 6” glassine bags to suit the size of the tag, attaching the bags in a waterfall down the page. Finally, I decorated the edge with some leftover layered, sewn trim.
This is a photo of foil from a magazine ad! Short process video covers this method, plus vellum and paper bag pockets with glassine inserts from junk mail : https://youtu.be/8fjn8NS6MIY
Stampin Up vellum cardstock – let me know if you need a rep in the greater Houston area, happy to refer you to mine.
Vintage Stampin Up punches – check thrift shops and garage sales. These are out of fashion, and are heavy and bulky to store so crafters purge them. I used a 1” circle for the thumb notch, a 1 1/4” hexagram, and the “curly label”.
This is my spread for the Junk Journal July prompt “contrast.” I started with the fastest ink blending, using liquid drops of Distress Oxide reinker on mixed media paper with a light coat of gesso.
As of this writing, cheaper from Sizzix on Amazon that from the Sizzix website, so always check. Sizzix does offer a new customer 15% coupon. Stampers Anonymous also offers this as a chipboard piece if you would not use it frequently or do not die cut. https://stampersanonymous.com/tim-holtz-etcetera-cathedral-windows-thetc-015.html
Stampin Up vellum cardstock. Let me know if you need a rep, happy to refer you to mine.
Stamping inks from Altenew and Stampin Up
Notebook page stamp is Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz School Desk
A hinge is just a piece of paper joining two other pieces of paper. I use a heavier-weight paper, scored and folded. You can score with a straight edge and a pencil or pen with the lead / point retracted, and fold against the edge of a table.
Stampin Up dye reinkers in Flirty Flamingo, Blackberry Bliss, and Rich Razzleberry
Homemade gold sparkle spray (gold mica powder and water in a mini-spray bottle https://amzn.to/44nWeFt )
Stamp Stampendous Q130 Fresh Bloom
This particular vintage wood-mount stamp is discontinued and Stampendous has since been acquired by Spellbinders. Just about every stamp line has a large floral image, though.
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Watercolors are Prang (https://amzn.to/444RN1R ) and Distress Oxide reinkers in Blueprint Sketch and Tumbled Glass. Paper is Mofuny mixed media (https://amzn.to/444RN1R) and Stampin Up vellum cardstock.
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About the painter:
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Active during the late 18th and early 19th century, primarily known for landscape and marine paintings. He came from a lower class family and started his career as an architectural draftsman, then went on to success as a painter during his lifetime. This painting is Norham Castle, Sunrise from 1845 during his modernism period.
The vast majority of his work, including this painting, is in the Tate Britain. In the US, Yale has quite a few works, as does the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Smaller numbers, or single paintings, can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Huntington in San Marino CA, Metropolitan Museum in NYC, MFA Boston, National Gallery in Washington DC, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati.
Papercraft Crystal 