sir vagabond

Hey, all! Welcome back to my little corner!

This week I’m bringing you an art journal I created for the Tres Jolie Kit Club using some of the papers and chipboard gears from this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit along with papers, some embellishments, and mediums from my stash.

I absolutely loved the Sir Vagabond line from Stamperia, and I knew I’d have to make Sir Vagabond himself part of a cover as soon as I saw the paper pack! Check out my video to see how I put this art journal together.

Video:

For my pages I used some homemade tea dyed papers and some printed papers I’ve had for who knows how long! I also splattered the pages with some “Salvaged Patina” & “Aged Mahogany” Distress Oxide Sprays.

My art journal isn’t very think, so I only have two signatures in it. However, each signature has one sheet of the Stamperia paper included! The outer sheet for the first signature, and the center for the second signature.

On the front and back covers I used some heavy gel with two stencils for texture, added my Tres Jolie chipboard gears that I painted with “Steampunk Copper” Prima paint, and some roman numeral before adding the “Salvaged Patina” Distress Paint & some splatters. I backed Sir Vagabond with some chipboard and gave him a “new” moustache before adding him to the cover.

I hope you enjoyed this project and it gave you some ideas of what you can do with items found in this month’s Cards, Tags, and More Kit!

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June 2021 Cards, Tags, & More Kit:

In addition to items found it this months Cards, Tags, & More Kit (*from previous Tres Jolie Kits), I used:

Creative Embellishments: “Rivet” Stencil & “Clock” Stencil; Prima: Wire Thread “Cyan,” & *“Vintage Trinkets;” Prima/Finnabair: *Clear Gesso, *Metallique Paint “Steampunk Copper,” *Mechanicals “Roman Numerals,” & *Mechanicals “Winged;” Ranger/Tim Holtz: Distress Oxide Sprays “Salvaged Patina” & “Aged Mahogany,” Distress Paint “Salvaged Patina,” & Distress Oxide Inks “Salvaged Patina” & “Aged Mahogany;” DCWV: “The Fun In The Sun Summer Stack;” Krylon Workable Fixatif, LineCo PVA Glue, Liquitex Matte Super Heavy Gel, Ranger Heat-It Craft Tool, Ranger Brayer, We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile, Crop-A-Dile II, & Craft Knife, idea-ology/Tim Holtz Sanding Block & paper, Recollection Value Pack Cards & Envelopes “Kraft,” an old book cover, Unknown/Unbranded Eyelets (3/16”), Beige Herringbone (1/2”), 2” Book Binding/Repair Tape, chipboard, tea dyed papers, printed scrapbooking paper, awl, brad

Hey, all! Welcome back to my little corner! Today I’m bringing you my first project for the Tres Jolie Kit Club using the June Cards, Tags, & More Kit!

This project is a “kit only” project, using the Graphic 45 ATC Tag Album, Stamperia Papers, and one of the resin clocks from this month’s kit.

Video:

This project is rather easy-peasy! For all the pages and the cover, I just cut the paper to size and glued it down. I created a custom-fit piece for the spine, using my Silhouette Cameo to cut the bracket shape in the piece of paper I was using.

Here are the measurements I used and the JPEG or, if you choose, the SVG for the tag and spine.

JPEG of the spine & tag cuts.

(Below is a link to my Dropbox for a SVG.)

Measurements I used for the Stamperia paper.

Link to SVG in my Dropbox

(not a Tres Jolie Dropbox!)

A few close-ups:

I really wanted to keep the cover simple so the album could be carried around easy while traveling, so I made sure my cut-out pieces were glued down good and I used some Liquitex Super Heavy Gel to make sure that resin clock was attached nicely!

I cut the lined sheet of paper from the Stamperia pack in half and turned it into a couple of fold-out pages for taking notes.

For some of my pages I did some paper piecing to create the background!

I had originally thought I might cover the tags with the Stamperia paper as well, but then I decided to leave them blank for notes and/or photos.

I picked one of the phrases from the cut apart sheet to put in the bracket. You could also make a custom label describing what the theme of your album is!

This Graphic 45 ATC-Tag Album is so adorable and just the right size to make a little memory book; paired with the Sir Vagabond Papers from Stamperia, and you have a handy place to record a little vacay!

Thank you for joining us here at Tres Jolie, I hope you enjoyed this project and it gave you some inspiration to create your own little album!

Stay Crafty, Friends

C.J.