One of my favorite parts of the journal is the stunning antique blue rhinestone jewelry piece I added to dangle on the outside of the pages. I am in love with the deep blue Paris script on that piece. I created a little tag from the new French ephemera bundle to attach to the closure for added interest. It added so much sparkle that I couldn’t stop looking at it as I walked by. It really went well with the blue book and tiny white ruffle. It is so beautifully embroidered and is the most gorgeous and striking shade of pink. I decorated the cover with a gorgeous piece of vintage Indian sari silk. I think it would be so pretty sitting on the shelf. I am really happy with how that turned out. The collar had the tiniest ruffle of lace and it adds a lot of interest when you look at the spine. I think it looks so nice together with the gorgeous gold detail of the book. I used a piece of an antique collar that I had picked up at a flea market for $1 to run down the spine and to join the extended piece to the original spine. I extended it to make room for all of the bits and treasures that go into creating a junk journal. It was falling apart so I took out the pages and lovingly rebuilt the spine. The journal itself is created from an antique book. I am always inspired by gorgeous French ephemera as I know many of you are too! This month I was feeling a bit uninspired, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to create, but sure enough The Graphics Fairy released a new bundle called the Mini French Ephemera bundle and I knew that was the inspiration. I am sharing my February design team project for The Graphics Fairy Membership site today. Hello! I hope you are all having a good day today.

Therefore, please make sure you check out the video tour at the bottom of the page…please scroll all the way down to see it. Are you ready to be inspired? I will step out of the way and let Heather tell you all about her lovely project! We hope you will be totally inspired by this series! Our Design Team Members select from the 100’s of Vintage Image Bundles on our Premium Membership Site, for their creations, in order to show you beautiful ways to use those images. As you know, we feature one new Junk Journal project each week created by one of our creative team of artists. Hey, everyone! Heather Naggy of Ruby and Pearl xo, one of our amazing Junk Journal Design Team Members, created a fabulous Paris Ephemera Junk Journal for us this week.

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