Apothecary themed Journal

I have been making an apothecary themed journal using some of these beautiful papers from The Ultimate Apothecary Collection from Opulence by Design Crafts.

This is another huge kit with a great variety of elements for your journaling and scrapbooking and lots of toppers for cards and collaging too.

The Ultimate Apothecary Collection Herbs & Remedies Kit for Cardmakers and Papercrafters is beautiful a digital download kit containing 50 A4 pages in PDF format.

It has a wide selection of toppers, papers, labels, embellishments, etc.

If you like making embellishments for your craft  projects, this kit has plenty for you to fussy cut and create with.

For the base of my journal I used the thick cardboard packaging from a set of pillow cases that I bought.  I cut it down slightly to fit the papers that I had chosen for the covers of my journal and these have been printed out to A5 size on 160 gsm Navigator paper.

I did give my journal base a very light coat of gesso.

I added some cream lace around the edges of my cover and to the spine and fussy cut some flowers and foliage to accompany the topper for the front of the journal from one of the insert sheets.

For the inside of the journal cover, I chose two of the watermark print designs and die cut 

a spine for the centre of the journal using my memory book spine die with some kraft card. 

I've neatened the edges with a thin strip of cream ribbon either side of the spine.

These are a selection of the fabulous papers that will go inside my journal

I thought that I would keep this  journal fairly simple and then just make a few things to go inside.  I've added an embellished cord with some dried rosemary on the end.

Whilst in my garden I picked a few herbs and pressed them to use in my journal as I thought that they would fit the theme quite nicely.

Opposite each journal page to write in there is a decorative one and most have a pocket with a card in them, to decide what it will be used for.

I made this trio of little seed packets to add into my journal which were really easy to make from one of the design papers. 

I just cut two squares out, leaving a small white border around two squares and a larger border at the top to create a flap for your seed packet. 

I then folded the squares in half, glued around the edges and inked. You then get a lovely design on both sides.  The wording was created with a label printer.

I mounted them in my journal using some clear photo corners in my craft stash that I find really handy for these projects.

This is my bookmark page, I  use these for page saves and I made a few bookmark corners  which I find really handy too and they are also very simple to make too.

A handy little embellishment that can be made from your craft kits for reminders or just to embellish.

I've added a few pressed bay leaves from my garden

I found a sleep tracker online that I could print off and just add on each month.

My final page. I really like the layered journal page design which is already done  for you to start creating onto.

On the back of toppers I've attached some pressed lemon balm from my garden.

This has been a fun project to put together and  would be great for scrapbooking too. 

Thanks for stopping by today to view my little crafty space and appreciate that there are a lot of pictures on this project.

If you want more inspiration and demos from Opulence by Design, follow the links below. I think Amanda is a very talented designer and creates a wide selection of kits and crafting sheets that can be mixed and matched with your own crafty stash.

 opulencebydesign - YouTube

or Instagram Opulence ByDesigns

My strawberries seems to be flourishing..... not where I planted them but where they self seeded themselves and happily growing up between two paving slabs. Isn't nature amazing sometimes.

Have a great week, whatever you have planned for yourself, its certainly a hot one here.

Happy Crafting

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