What to write in a handfasting card
The Betrothal - A Fairy Journal and Ephemera Folder
hey everyone so I've got this journal
set finished and I want to show you
inside and as I was finishing it some
elements started to come together and I
decided to just call it the betrothal
it's just the word that came to mind and
I'll explain why in a minute so first I
want to show you what I ended up doing
with the cover of this Reader's Digest I
used a few pages from my collection
called miss lady Faye in here and so I
wanted to showcase the element of wings
and I did some layers and I used a Tim
Holtz cabinet card frame and then I put
the little wings in the middle there
with a button now it's on layered
cheesecloth and fabric and lace there so
the fabric was kind of too bright for
what I had in mind so I just dipped it
in my coffee mixture that I had left
over from some of the coffee dyeing that
I had done for this project and also I
wanted a closure that was attached to
the cover so what I did is I glued it
down and then just to hide the little
glob of glue I put a little flower a
lace flower there and I did the same on
the back so I this is sort of like just
sitting there it's not glued down it's
only glued here and then I covered the
little glob of glue with another flower
there so that allows me to have a
closure that's on the outside of the
book but that's not in the way of
putting a layered element like that on
the front
I also before attaching this layered
piece I added a strip of lace along the
separation between the spine color and
the pattern color there so I just put
that underneath there so the reason that
the word betrothal came to mind was
because as I was adding these al
this little piece of sorry ribbon just
reminded me of the hand fasting
ceremonies that people in some cultures
and ceremonies do wear a ribbon is tied
around the the hands of the couple so
that was one of the elements that just
it just made me think of the word
betrothal so I do enjoy revisiting some
of my old collections and miss lady Faye
is one of my favorites especially at
this time of year because of all the
bright colors and it's just reminiscent
of spring and how butterflies are
starting to arrive when the flowers
start to bloom and stuff like that so I
used some of the pages from that and
then just a combination of my usual some
pattern paper I have wallpaper in here
and a few envelopes things like that so
on the front here I've got a CD envelope
and it just opens up at the top so you
can slide things in and then you've got
the window there the colors are
obviously some greens and some pink I
printed on the back of my pattern paper
I just designed a grid and made the grid
a kind of a pinkish red color and this
is some wallpaper there are birds
somewhere on these wallpaper samples
on this plain colored paper I also did
the grid and then I dipped it into my
coffee mixture after I had printed and
this was printed on an inkjet so what I
wanted was to fade to fade the graph
pattern and so that's the effect you get
when you use a inkjet and then you dip
afterwards you'll get a little bit of
the sort of fading out so that turned
out perfect we've got some butterfly
book pages in here as well
gorgeous colors there's also miss lady
face on the ends of my little strings I
just wrapped some washi tape and then I
cut it on an angle so that I've got
these little pointy bits there
so this is a writing journal I left it
blank didn't decorate there's the
beautiful bird there lots of writing
space I believe there are 144 sides and
when you've got a patterned image if you
want to do some journaling on that page
you can just like tape a an extra little
journaling spot or staple or glue to the
patterned pages this was a timekeeping
logbook and this actually has some
penciled information in there here's the
built in lace bookmark
I love this image right here this is the
other side of my bag another wallpaper
very pretty isn't it
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this is just a little element that I
made I didn't attach it to the cover and
it's just an old postcard with a stamp
on there there's some handwriting and I
knew it was a postcard I wasn't going to
use on this side so I didn't mind using
it for the visual appeal of the stamp on
this side instead and then there's some
lace there on either side so this could
be used on here if you were to use this
as a cover or if you were making another
journal with something else you could
use this on the cover and you could add
additional layers of cheesecloth or
fabric or anything
the sorry ribbon on the cover
could be the ribbon that they used for
their handfasting ceremony so I stuffed
this one the same as I did with the
other ones won't start in the back I
made a little pocket and put some
catalog cards in there a Tim Holtz paper
doll there's a playing card here that
has some butterflies and then three
little tags made out of wallpaper
and then there's a couple of pages from
some botanical books
this is butterfly every mom couple more
here I've got three of the inventory
tags this little glycine pocket I coffee
died and then just to go with the the
page from miss lady fey that has the
little dog with the top hat I I'm
including this little card as a photo in
this little organza bag there are some
stamps another paper doll and this is a
German die-cut of a butterfly this was
cut out of an Edith Holden book it's a
strawberry blossom and this little
pocket is attached and I've got another
German die-cut there I've got the Tim
Holtz little dog and some ticket stubs a
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photo slide and some small merchandising
tags there
and on this side I've got another
envelope with a coin envelope in the
back some assorted receipts and ephemera
and another little pocket I've got the
Apple Blossom image from my familiar
trees collection three of these guests
check this with a gorgeous stamp there
there's some doilies these are all
coffee stained as well this was also
from Edith Holden playing card and in
this little bag we have three of these
and they're from the familiar trees
collection and these are from eco prints
that I did last autumn I think this is a
beautiful tree illustration on the bag
here there's some trading stamps a
little ticket and another die-cut German
scrap they call it and then these round
tags I've been coffee stained there's a
leaf here and a small flower charm and
they're all just pinned on the lace
pocket so it is available now in my Etsy
shop it might be something that would be
nice for a wedding as a wedding gift or
as an anniversary present something like
that or just if you just enjoy fairies
and spring so I absolutely enjoyed
putting this one together it's been
refreshing to work with some of my old
digital kits I do like to revisit them
every now and then it's kind of like you
know meeting up with an old friend
I start remembering how I design them
and why I designed them and I just enjoy
the color combinations and things like
that so anyways if you have any
questions let me know and I'm not sure
when I'll be back with another video but
I'm already planning on another round of
journals and so I will share as soon as
I can thank you for watching bye
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