Black And White Papers, Printable Craft Paper, Junk Journal Supplies

 

Big Black & White Paper Pk

27 Printable Black & White And Grayscale Paper Designs
Personal & Commercial Jpegs 

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Increase your stash of printable craft supplies with this big pack of black and white papers. Use as junk journal backgrounds, wall art, tabletop framed art, gift wrap, laminate as place mats, create bookmarks, use in book arts, paper crafting, scrapbooking, collage, altered art and more!

Print designs on paper, cardstock or fabric. Print directly from your computer files or upload into your image editing program to use in digital and printable projects.  

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I have not given permission for other shops, websites, crafters or designers to sell my products or designs. If you see my printables and digitals being sold other than through Love Romance Marriage, Artsy Craftery Design Studio or Printaphoria, it is possible that they have been stolen. Feel free to alert me and thank you!

Junk Journal Supplies, Printable Craft Paper

Big Paper Pk 1 

27 Printable Paper Designs
Personal & Commercial Jpegs & Pdfs

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Increase your stash of printable craft supplies with this big pack of heart design papers. Use as junk journal backgrounds, wall art, tabletop framed art, gift wrap, laminate as place mats, create bookmarks, use in book arts, paper crafting, scrapbooking, collage, altered art and more!

Print designs on paper, cardstock or fabric. Print directly from your computer files or upload into your image editing program to use in digital and printable projects. Upload to online printing services or take files on flash drive to your local copy shop for enlarged prints. 

Buy here: Big Paper Pk 1 

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REGARDING THEFT OF MY WORK BY QUESTIONABLE ONLINE SHOPS

I have not given permission for other shops, websites, crafters or designers to sell my products or designs. If you see my printables and digitals being sold other than through Love Romance Marriage, Artsy Craftery Design Studio or Printaphoria, and if it is not a collaboration, it is possible that they have been stolen. Feel free to alert me and thank you!

Simple Cake Decorating Ideas

 

Easy ways to decorate a simple cake and make it look elaborate and professional are:

1.  Use one color icing
2.  Make random squiggles and designs
3. Cover the entire top and sides of the cake with the designs

For this two-layer, red velvet mix cake, I spread a thin layer of store-bought, squirt can vanilla icing between the layers. The can of icing had been leftover and stored in the fridge for some time. 

I had three, plastic, interchangeable pastry tips that fitted on the can tip. I don't think I'd ever used them. While I was introduced to basic, cake decorating in home ec, I don't have any experience. I like cake decorating but over the years hadn't taken time to build my skill.

I started in the center making a few long, leaf shapes with one tip. I then added large round shapes, in swirl shape, with the rosette or star tip. These were supposed to loosely resemble flower blooms. I used the same tip to make star designs around the outer border and to fill in.

I used the round tip or liner to make a few long vine shapes or squiggles to fill in. For the outer top border, I used the rosette, or star tip, and the leaf tip to make long designs. I waved some of them to make a somewhat rippled border. I covered the side of the cake with the same long piping strokes.

I like how it turned out because it reminds me of some type of traditional or ethnic porcelain or fabric design. Even if you've never had an introduction to cake decorating, you can do this too. 

Whether you have some old pastry tips back in a drawer or you buy a little set of plastic ones, just make some squiggles. Keep them close together and cover the top of your cake. Make some simple, easy lines around the outside. If you don't have a steady hand, don't worry. Make the lines wavy. Use your skillful, wavy hand to completely cover the side. 

Remember, squiggles, waves, circles and plops! You can easily decorate a simple, little cake. Those who matter will be impressed. Before you know it, people will be saying, That's SO pretty! Will you make one for me? Most of all, just impress yourself and it won't matter what others think!  

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Use tags for gift-giving your baked goods.

Printable Tags

at Love Romance Marriage Shop by Artsy Craftery Design Studio

Decorative Envelopes DIY

Red and gold are not my colors but the warm theme of this decorative Dragonfly Envelope Stationery Set is gorgeous! Years ago, I had greatly admired a mixed media piece in luscious reds and golds at a Thrift store in Georgia. I went back to get it a few days later, thinking that surely no one would want it. Sadly, it was gone. 

That experience inspired me to choose a similar color theme for this project. It started as a mis-printed piece of lightweight cardstock destined for the round file. I used my  We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board to create an envelope.

Most of the print ended up on the backside. 

To make a more neutral background to work on, I lightly sponged white acrylic paint over the print. Leaving some showing enhanced the design.

I began stamping using background and small stamps. 

The #90246 Dragonflies stamp is from Stamps Happen, Inc (could not find a website, shared Etsy search), licensed by Carolyn Shores Wright.  

The Primulars Postcard #3721H stamp is from Rubber Stampede (could not find a website, shared Etsy search), licensed by Sarah Lugg.

The Dragonfly Background #RS4756 stamp is from Hampton Art (sold in 2007 to National Spinning in North Carolina, shared FB page), licensed by Judy Melvin. The clock stamp is one of my eraser, hand-carved stamps.

I bought the wooden floral, round rubber stamps from Aliexpress in a set of 6. 

The Wish Postmark #554E stamp is from All Night Media, Inc., (could not find a website, shared Etsy search).

Because I used light colored stamping inks (my Whispers vintage set, shared Ebay search), I lightly outlined some of the stamped images with black ink. I glued on some red seed beads. 

I began working on the clips. I tied a bow from a scrap of red grosgrain ribbon and painted on gold glitter glue. I also painted the glitter on the top of a clothespin and lightly brushed the sides with red paint.

I painted and embellished 2 love words printed foam hearts elements for the paperclip accessory and added flat rhinestones to the clothespin.

I began to color my design with chalk pastels, using mostly red, gold and peach. I accented with a gold glitter gel pen. I like the pastel set that I bought from Hobby Lobby. It is from Loew Cornell and has 48 nice-sized sticks in a great range of colors.  

I embellished with pressed flowers and flat, acrylic rhinestones. The postage stamp is made with a bead soup glued into the rectangle space.

I sealed the pastel design with spray fixative. I applied glue to the backsides of the foam hearts and sandwiched the paperclip and some silk flower petals between them. I clipped it to dry.

I traced the envelope flap onto a piece of red craft paper, cut out and added for an envelope liner.

The envelope closure is made with a hook and loop dot.

I dry-brushed a bronze, coin charm with a metallic gold paint pen. I embellished the envelope flap with the bow. I attached bead dangles and the coin charm with a jump ring through a punched hole in the flap.

I finished the clips by adding glitter paint, beads, sequins and flat rhinestones. brushing with Mod-Podge to seal. The paperclip has a different design on each side.

This sweet little decorative envelope set could add a garden ambience to a sunroom table or enhance a foyer console display. It could decorate a cabinet or shelf vignette. It could even be used as craft studio decor and do double duty as papercrafting storage.

The next time you want to toss out a mis-printed sheet or a damaged envelope, salvage and alter it. They also make nice gifts ribbon-tied in 3's. But watch who you give them to. Some people don't know what these types of artsy gifts are for. 😄

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Order a mini hearts envelopes printable from Love Romance Marriage. Use them in collage, altered art and journal making. Use to store tiny stamps and ephemera. Use as thank-you notes.

How To Make A Simple Journal

 

Don't procrastinate anymore about making your first handmade journal. My Alone In The Woods And Writing mini journal was quick and easy to make. It's not complicated but very simple. It got me started in my handmade journal projects. You can make a short journal too!

I had a piece of my hand-painted cardstock that was ok but not the best that I'd made. Rather than throw it away, I decided to use it for the cover. I planned to add collage. The size of this scrap did not matter but the journal ended up being about 5 x 4.5". 

I glued a piece of red paper onto the back of the scrap cardstock and trimmed. I folded it in half and I had my journal cover. I gathered together various other scrap papers and those that were too large, I trimmed. This was going to be a journal with even pages rather than ragged and raw. I stacked the scraps on top of each other and folded them in half. Some pages were a little short and I left them that way. 

The front of the journal is collaged and textured. The moon is a circle of paper with a script design. The cottage is one of my odd sketches on a piece of cardstock. I drew in the roof tiles and the eaves after gluing it to the cover. I doodled on the lines and dots on the cover background.

The two black trees are scratched in with a dying ink pen. The white trees and the stars are scratched on with a dying bottle of correction fluid that I wanted to toss. It made a very bumpy texture reminiscent of tree branches and bark. The tree trunks are scribbled on in black. More trees and bushes are pieces of salvaged book paper and my hand-painted paper cut with spikes across the tops and collaged down. 

The title is hastily scribbled words from when I first got the idea for the theme of this little journal. I was looking at the circle of script paper and my sketched cottage as I sorted scraps. I saw a big moon shining through trees onto bushes and a cottage in the woods. 

Notwithstanding the secluded eeriness of it, I thought how quiet and serene it would be to be writing there. I scribbled the words just to see a possible title. I was going to type and print them but decided that using my writing could add character and atmosphere to the design.

I did most of the collaging after I assembled the book. On the inside front cover I glued an image of red flowers that I tore from something, probably gift wrap, then scribbled black curlicues over it. On the first page I stamped a forest in black, with my hand-carved eraser stamp, until the ink faded. I glued a piece of scrap image and handwriting at the bottom.

Any pages with grid lines are patterns from the back of an embroidery book. I was going to toss them but decided to toss them into this mish-mash journal design.

I painted, drew lines, stamped and glued clip art on various pages. Then, I cut the corner off of an envelope and painted both sides with markers to make a corner bookmark, keeping with the night theme.

The pages are fairly pristine compared to an embellished journal that I would create today. I wanted to provide as much space as possible in this one for writing down thoughts.

The pages I chose for this one-signature journal were scraps that I liked and scraps that I did not like very much. I was not concerned with the colors or themes of the papers. I knew that I would add collage and other embellishments to some of them that would reflect the journal theme, Along In The Woods. 

I cut another moon, sketched another cottage and wrote out my title again for the back cover. I chose embroidery thread for sewing the book together. I punched holes in the spine at intervals, pushing through all pages and the cover. There are many types of authentic book binding sewing techniques. I usually like to just sew what I feel. Something unique, odd and eclectic.

For this journal I did learn the most basic stitch, the saddle stitch. After punching the holes, I used a needle and the embroidery thread. Instead of tying off the thread in the inside middle of the journal, I made a tail at the top and attached a decorative shell coin charm. 

My favorite zipper pouch sewing demonstrator, Jan Howell, has made an excellent tutorial on binding with the easy saddle stitch:

DIY Saddle Stitch Bookbinding | Simple Craft Project

Have you wondered what is the purpose of a junk journal other than a creation to look at? Here is a good overview, by Megan at Compass & Ink, of how they can be used. I like the suggestion of using one as a gratitude or spiritual journal. They can also be used as dream journals.

Junk Journal Ideas & How To Make Them

Create tags and envelopes to add to your handmade journal using instant download printables.

Printable Cards, Tags & Envelopes at Love Romance Marriage Shop