Faux Vintage Postcards For Junk Journals 💰 Affordable And Easy Ideas

hello it's joey i'm making postcards today these cute faux vintage postcards using affordable craft supplies i'm using cheap cardstock to start with and distressing it with chalk and i'm adding pretty little images to give it a vintage feel i have a few new techniques to share today which are really fun and easy to do and i'll do it step by step so you can enjoy using your supplies as well these postcards are great for adding to a journal or sending to a special friend how good would it feel to receive a pretty card like this hit that subscribe button now if you're also a junk journaling fan and come and craft with me today let's make these vintage cards the key protagonist in the play today is this large 12 by 12 pad of rather pretty papers and this is an example of one of those pads of papers that you see let me just show you properly you see on a shelf or you see online and you think that's really lovely i have to have it and it was great value so even more enticing to purchase this and i've had it on my shelf for some time beautiful marble and i've been wondering how to use it so today's project is a challenge and we're going to see how we can use something which i thought was pretty at the time but i found quite difficult to use and the reason for that is it is very white in its core so a lot of these colours are pretty pinks but the background is white and that makes it more difficult for some of our vintage style projects in particular so what i'd like to do today is show you how i'm trying to meet the challenge of using this in a way that we can create something really pretty to put in our junk journals and i've come up with a few different and new ways to distress this paper this cardstock and take it down to something which is much more muted and matte and i think we'll go with many of our pretty junk journals so some great ephemera there i'm also going to be using today some chalks and not only will i show you how i use them but i'm also going to cheat a bit and suggest some other affordable alternatives so this was a very affordable pad in the first instance this was a three pounds pad from a shop called the works and these are chalks that i've bought online on ebay i'll show you a few other alternatives and we'll just walk through how you might use alternatives today so i've got a rather old battered set of chalks here the lids falling off the colours are great so i'm going to use those in a way all of these to distress the papers and take them down a notch and it's really easy but i'm also going to show you some alternatives for using graveyard eyeshadows and this is a little bit embarrassing but please bear with me in this challenge i'm going to use an affordable alternative to chalks in case you don't have them and i'll show you how i can use those and how we can use them to play and to make really good use of older eyeshadows as a coloring tool as a coloring medium i am going to use a few little images and again although i've got some very pretty images here that i have added some extra layer on top to and i'll show you how to do that you could use magazine images you just want a few small images and these are going to go on the back of our little postcard and then i will use also a couple of stamps and the stamps will be quite fine detailed stamps and it's not the image i'm going to use so much as the texture adding result that comes from this so that will go on our little card and i'll show you how to do that in a very dainty way along with the chalks to get that that distressed effect and i will also use my lovely little stampers anonymous stamp here on the front of the images and i'm going to play with a little bit of mica so we're going to have a bit of fun with some lovely lovely supplies today creating something really pretty that is affordable and easy and hopefully using supplies that you already have so it makes sense to start today by choosing a single page from this pad and i think you need slightly thick paper or a cardstock for this project and this one is this one is 230 gsm but it could be thinner you don't actually have to have one that is that thick let's just tear one out so this is 12 by 12 and it's been on my shelf for well to be frank at least a year and i've probably forgotten how old it is what i'm going to do to begin with is just cut it down you can see the difference already between the distressed effect that i get in this white background i'm going to cut this down to be six inch by four inch in size so for each of these 12 inches you'd obviously get a lot of cards and i think this is a way of getting quite a lot of value out of our unloved cardstock and i love getting value it feels really good doesn't it when we we really get superb value from our supplies and we use up some of the things that sit on the shelf so let me cut that up to begin with and we can go through the process together maybe you will craft along with me and we'll augment this and we'll turn it into something magical and pretty so one very large fiskars cutting machine i'm making great use of this this is one of my very very best and favorite purchases and to be honest if i'd known how much crafting i was going to do i would not have waited as long to buy this this is one of those things that you really can't you can't have a substitute for it's great because not only is the blade very sharp so you don't get you don't get too much of that rough edge when you trim which with blades that wear thin or wear blunt very quickly i do tend to get those with some of my paper so just trimming it down to four by six whoops but it's also brilliant because it's got the sizes on so there are these little place holders these are right angles with the names of the sizes of pieces of paper and of course it's got both centimeters and inches and although this is maybe incredibly basic information i'm sharing i do think it's really important that we help everybody have a play at some of these projects so i thought it'd be great to just amongst us share some of the knowledge we have and that means not just me having a go at sharing what i know i don't know at all but maybe in the comments below share the basics share with everybody some of your top tips that help everybody get the most out of our crafting the first thing i'm going to do is add chalk to the back of our little six by four inch piece of cardstock and i'm going to be using this beautiful set of chalks in deep autumn colors couldn't you imagine using those in the autumn in some of our projects and this is by a brand called all night media i've had it for some time i bought it on ebay i find here in the uk you can get quite a lot of items in a more affordable way on ebay it doesn't need to be brand new and this has really served me well in lots of projects i'm going to use some of these beautiful colours there's a deep yellow ochre i've actually got a red in here so a rusty red an orange a green and a really deep brown that i'll be using as well i'll show you just a couple of other of my supplies because things that i pick up on ebay i just put in my drawers and then i do think how can i make best use of them i love trying new things and just experimenting these are slightly different shades some beautiful browns here in the corner and greens with a little bit more of a blue hue so perhaps not so much our vintage junk journal colors but these two definitely are but they are stunning aren't they so these are crafty chalks acid-free non-toxic they would be good for distressing the cardstock and taking that down as well and some other supplies i've managed to pick up over the years again nothing too expensive i have these chalks that are all broken again i got them secondhand gorgeous range of colors so we could use those artistic touches blending chalks absolutely love the range of colors and i think it's quite exciting to think about all the different ways that we could use these what i'm going to do is take a piece of foam and this is foam from those sets of ten that you can buy for children i've just cut a piece off and i'm going to very simply take down and take some of the white out of the back of the index card using some of these chalks so i will start with the deep brown and at the edge just with a bit of a circular motion take some of that whiteness out and i'm also going to pick up some of the other colors as i go i'm probably sticking to the darker colors as i go around the outside trying hard to blend it in it just takes a couple of minutes of elbow grease very very easy and you can imagine how many cards you could distress with chalks like this and how long they will last so that's really good for our crafting budget if we can manage our budget and make our supplies go a long way as we move into the center i'm just going to pick up a bit of a lighter color maybe an orange and sweep away and although i'm going to put an image on the left hand side so let me just show you like i've done on this one i do want the edge to be distressed as well so i'm just going to ignore the fact that i'm covering this up and i'm going for it i'm going to add add my yellow ocher blend it in and take that down very very easy very quick circular motions are useful because you don't get those sweeps of a line i think it's a little bit easier to to blendy together if i just use a bit of a circular motion because i want a bit of variety i'm adding a bit of red as well so relax have a play with any chalks and i'll show you an alternative in a second and take the white out of your cardstock on the back okay choices when i was playing with this particularly when i looked at the chalks the larger set of chalks here it just reminded me of an eyeshadow palette and my confession of the week is if not the confession of the month is that i have an eyeshadow a graveyard drawer in one of those little plastic drawers and these are way beyond being used for any personal purpose but i wondered whether they would work for blending and surprise surprise with the colour in them and the mica they're actually pretty good so i've also been playing it using these not only to distress down the cardstock but also on the wings of some of the butterflies that i've been adding on the front of the cards so i've also been using these as alternative affordable choices an alternative to chalk to just add a little bit of sparkle to my butterflies so we'll show you that as a as an alternative later and it also works to take down some of the whiteness from the card being frank it's hard work using an old eye shadow to take the cardstock down but you can do it and if we're in a world where budgets matter and they do and we don't all have all supplies then instead of chalk if you have some old eyeshadows then these are possible alternatives for just taking that down and adding not only a little bit of color but perhaps a bit of shimmer so i did it on this one and i'll show you how i did that a little bit later the next step is very very easy and it's nothing more than putting a dividing line down the middle of the back of the card and what i like to do is put a couple of dots to begin with to find that point with a pencil so if my maths is working this morning and my brain is working at all then it should be at about 7.6 centimeters is the middle of my card but i've found that i want to join the dots with a pencil that's colored so i did have a go with a pencil just an ordinary pencil to begin with but i quite like the warmth of a pencil this happens to be a watercolor pencil it doesn't actually need to be it's just what's handy on my desk in fact these are the ones that sit on my desk and because they're there they get more use and that seems to be the way life is i don't know if that's the way it works with you if you see things you tend to use them more so just join those dots and divide up your postcard and again what i like to do is not go quite all the way to the border because i don't know why that seems to be what postcards look like i have a dividing line now on the back and i'm going to turn to the front and do some work on that on the back the first thing that i'm going to do is add some detail and this will allow me to overlay the detail with some of the chalk and the slightly wet ink that we place onto the whitish cardstock will pick up the chalk it will become dry it will stop it smudging and it will add some of that depth and texture and this is why i'm using a stamp with some detail in it i've used this one before but to be frank you just want to stamp with any form of detail we're not really going to use the picture i need a pad of ink i'll use my relatively wet ink pad this is getting a lot of use it's my ranger adirondack earth tones and ginger and it is such a fantastic color for so many uses the ubiquitous color i think of a deep warm brown so i'm going to place that on my card so that i actually get some of the text that's on the left hand side here because i really like that and i also really like the intricacy of the gate and the bars on it so i'll make sure that i get a few of those on here so i'm not stamping to achieve the picture i just want a little bit of that texture really any of your stamps will do and it wouldn't be too bad if you don't have any stamps you can miss this phase out this step out but i just think it adds something as we add up and build some of these layers so i now want to add a bit more of that warmth so i will go back to my chalks and maybe just for the sake of illustration i should have a go with some of the other colors as well so just as i did before i'm starting with the deeper darker browns at the edges because when we look at distressed and aged papers i think naturally we think about those edges being deeper and darker when i've used old book pages in some of my other projects when i've been collaging for example i've looked on my shelf for some of those older books that have got the yellowing at the edges and indeed yellowing is some of the color that i want to bring into this yes it's pretty but it's whitish and it's not what i want so using some of those browns a gentle rub all the way around and even let the side of the card pick up some of that chalk pigment it's just a little detail and then i'm going to move into the center and use some of these warmer colors so this beautiful deep yellow and i just love how that starts to lift the pattern and lift the stamped image as well that we've already added i'm not being in any way organized or methodical now i'm literally just picking up some color and doing a few little circles just using this it's like um i think it's a wine color it's like a deep mulberry if that's right it's mulberry a deep wine color very deep cranberry we'll bring that in and i really think it's the mixture of some of these colors that brings it out brings the life out in the paper so putting some of these next to each other let's have some green maybe picking three colors three main colors as well as the brown on the outside and it's so easy it does take a minute or two so get yourself a nice drink put your twinkly lights on your desk get yourself comfy and maybe cut out a few from your unloved pieces of cardstock on paper and just make up a few of these vintage postcards faux vintage if we're honest cheating with whiter cardstock now i quite like that i think i'm going to go in with a tiny bit more of this orange which i really think lifts some of that pattern can you see i'll show you let me show you where we're getting to so it's not uniform we have taken down quite a bit of the colour you can see waves of oranges and waves of the more reddish colours coming out and the ink hasn't smudged i've got texture by the form of script i've got that gate post and i've got something red ready to decorate a little bit further with our base layer already done now that i've got that base layer i want to add something crisper and clearer using ink on top so consider this the background to your painting let's add some of these more detailed images in the foreground crisper and clearer and for this i have been using a flower stamp but really you just want something that's relatively dainty and it's an approximation to a flower which would be absolutely fine little stamps of any flowers would work i just used the one i had so let me show you what i've got so this is the acrylic stamp i'm going to use it's obviously too tall for the whole of the card so all i'm going to do is put ink on the upper half and then stamp away i'm using a collider color raised rainbow dye ink pad in the shades royal satin so this is my rather special one that has an ombre effect you just whoop bring it together to stamp up your stamp to ink up your stamp and i'm going to stamp on my card in a particular way so i like to try and explain why i'm doing what i'm doing so with this i am stamping right at the edge to begin with so i'm making sure that my image actually falls halfway off when i stamp on it let me explain what i mean by that so i've stamped the image so that the little sprig here has part of the edge of the image falling off and i've done the same over here and it's just giving that sense that there is a boundary to this and there's maybe something fun and interesting going on either side and what we've got is a peephole to see into a little portion of this world and it helps with framing this as a picture as well that's what i think anyway so i'm going to make sure when i stamp that i get some of the variated colors on here so some of the ink in this ink pad is red and i really like that i'm going to make sure that i get some of that red coming through and the other tip i've got is use different heights add your little pretty flower stamp onto here so that you get differing heights across the image in fact what i've found works quite well let's just ink this up again i want some red at the top i want red to feature in my image and i have red in this little bit of foam at the top i'm going to make sure that i get just a bit more density to the sides and that the stamping i do down here in the middle has lower shorter flowers so there's almost a line of sight that's a bit of an arc so a bit more to the right a bit more to the left higher denser more packed and just a little bit less i feel i need a little bit more here so i'm going to go back in one more time and i think the key to this is not to put too much on i want that red at the top so i'll just stamp that there press that in variable heights differing heights and i'm lucky because this is a an ombre ink pad so i'm getting different colors careful not to overdo it but i really like the red coming through because i've got on this ink pad like deeper darker purpley colors deep dark blues but i'm really loving these reds that are shining through so now i've got another layer and it's looking really interesting very inviting there's a curious factor i think that starts to appear what it needs is some kind of border and choose what materials you have to do this with you might have an another deeper darker ink pad i'm going to use my product du jour my paint sticks so you could use some kind of paint i'm going to grab my water and add a very tiny bit a very light coating of my dark brown around the edge these are so so useful so useful in my crafting and it's become one of those things i don't know how i did without do you have a product where you just become obsessed with it and you use it and use it and use it this is it at the moment i want it to be something that i share with you because i i just love the effect you can get and how easy it is they are paint sticks from the brand little brian they're on amazon i have no relationship with them whatsoever but i've just been having a lot of fun particularly for making ephemera that is more vintage because it's easy to bring some of those browns and oranges and golds in so this is the orange metallic stick and i'm just going to go around with my finger and blend it out a bit maybe add a tiny bit more it's absolutely gorgeous the effect it gives love it love it love it i've dried off the edge with my heat gun and i don't if you can pick up on the camera if you can see now just some of that twinkle of the gold this metallic paint stick and also just a little bit of the darker shade giving a border to our picture i want to add a dot and a dashboard now just to finalize that boundary i thought i'd have a play with a a new toy that has arrived this is a set of 60 gel pens which i feel is really really handy to have because it has all these colors and i have used my gel pens an awful lot and i do find that some of the colors i use and use and use i can't wait to use these what have we got we've got we've got some more vivid shades blackened brown we've got neons we've got pastels really bright colors all sorts in here to play with i think we have metallics i need the black one let me just steal one of those 60 pivot colors acid-free non-toxic this little chart on the back 17 glitter 11 metallic 10 neon nine pastel six rainbow four glitter neon that sounds interesting and three classic i will be having a play with these a lot more i think [Applause] using the black probably the most commonly used one i'm going to add a dot and a dash line all the way around it's time to add a picture to the back and as i suggested earlier any form of image that you maybe extract from a book would be absolutely fine and i've been playing with some absolutely stunning images from this is a digi from artie maze and i have stamped it and added some texture again using mica powder and again i'm going to show you a little trick for doing that as well so these are some of the images that i've been absolutely loving cutting out and stamping and adding the mica to so you get this metallic effect and i've used my ledger stamp again with the bold digits and then some scribbly scripty text and it's just stunning so let me show you how i do that so to augment and decorate our little images i'm going to use my stamp an ink pad also i'm going to use a very soft brush and it's very dry it's important that it's dry and some little mica powders and i have decanted some and put them into an eyeshadow palette that i have depotted in fact i'll bet some of the eye shadows are in my little graveyard so i'm going to stamp these in a particular way and then add some of the mica and the magic happens i've lined up three because it seems to be easier to do a few at once and that's because i don't want too much ink on the stamp so if i keep going along three by the second or third i think it actually improves and i'm stamping in a way that doesn't completely cover up the image so you can see i'm getting just about maybe 80 percent of the image stamped just working their way along i love this little gentleman he's so so smart so i've got ink on all three let me show you where i've actually stamped i've left some space because the impression i'm trying to get here is accidental damage to a picture and accidental damage doesn't necessarily happen uniformly and completely across images that we find so i now have three with ink stamped on and i'm going to pick one of my colors picking up the tiniest amount and let's do this lady i'm going to take circular motions and i'm just very very gently distribute that mica powder over the image and you really don't need very much at all in fact less is more because if you add too much you start to adjust the color of the picture as opposed to letting the ink pick up the mica powder which is really what i'm trying to do let me try another one and i'll show you a close-up so this one we did i've just done using a beautiful copper shade and it really does sit with that family of vintage colors and i think it's not only is it so much fun but it adds something with my lady here i can see a little bit of purples coming through in the image so i'm going to pick up do i have any left some of the purple which i've clearly used a lot of i'm going to add in fact now let me fill that up i'll dig into the box and just pick one out you've got to not worry too much about getting mica on your hands when you play with this why don't we pick a oh lovely iris purple so it's an artisa set that i've also used many times now when i make my mica spray which is in a spray bottle so i make this up and i spray this onto many things i might use that later let's just decant a little bit of this and miracles do happen i was even able to find the little spoon that comes with the set let's put that in there this is all i do how much fun just because we're over the age of 18 doesn't mean we can't have ridiculous amounts of fun when we play with our supplies isn't that what it's about let's pick up some of that purple and dust that on i do feel that some of the colors work better than others and some of the colors work better on some backgrounds than others so i like the effect the purple's giving me at the top of the image where there is more purple in the background i'm just going to cheekily steal some of my gold here and add it down here so nothing to stop you playing with mixing them up and while we're at it let's just finish him off with a little bit of gold and using the side of the brush helps just spread it out super thinly and now we have three little images how quick was that with a bit of shimmer a bit of a distress that we've given to them in the form of that stamp and then this shimmery shine which i just really like so i'm going to add one of the images to the back of the postcard i think i'll pick this one and i need a bit of a firm glue so not a watery glue on the back of the image i don't want ripples in my image on the back of this faux vintage postcard i'll use my very sticky glue stick not the easiest thing to say and i'll put that on the left hand side what i like to do is position it so that the amount of space that's on the left here as a border is roughly the same as the amount above and below so if the image isn't this size if it's a different size so for example with this one i have no space above and below pretty much no space above and below the image i've also taken the image all the way to the left i like to do that because i feel it looks better than the image then having a little bit of space left and right button on top and bottom i'll push it to the left let's just see so there's another one with space at the left and i've put the image on before i've added dash lines because for some of your images you might find if it goes to the edge we want to put the dash line over the top of the image so let me just do that now and that will add some emphasis to the back of our postcard back to my black gel pen i'm just going to add short dashes short dash lines all the way around and then i'm going to bring the image and the postcard together more by stamping it and then adding a little bit of a label on the right so use my little postmark stamp in fact i might use my splodgy stamp so this is a stamp an acrylic stamp that's got nothing but a distributed mess of little dots on there so we might use that as well take my ginger ink pad and just delicately not too much ink on this stamp with it overlapping the image up here and i'll have my wiggly line postmark to join it even though she's she's now got ink on the front of her face i still think that's what we would see if we saw a an image that had been genuinely distressed and marked and that's what we're trying to emulate so let's have a teeny tiny amount of that splodgy mess i think i used this the other day when i made some i used some strips of paper to make a master board and i added some of this distress feel to the finished item so i'm just going to put tiny amounts on overlapping the edge again and i will pick a little label from the box that is here by known as tracy i have my little tub that i call andrea and i have a tub called tracy that one's nice it's a nice size so i'm looking for something that is quite rectangular i'm going to sit that on the right hand side that's about there and now i've got a back sorted i'm going to turn to the front and have another play with our supplies and add a focal point down here so to add the extras to the front i will be choosing a butterfly or some other form of focal point i've got a little label here with text on and a sentiment so i'll start by choosing a label or some some matte really we're putting something to sit underneath the focal point so i pulled out three from the tracy tub and i considered this but i feel that that's too big and taking up a disproportionate amount of the real estate that i have to play with i pulled out a little one and i think that again is too small so it's a bit like the story isn't it this one feels about right it is emulating the shape of the card and it's not taking up too much space so i'm going to add that and that will allow me to add a little sentiment so i've cut a few out what should we have i've got always remember everything is possible which i feel is ending really positive phrase and follow your dreams so why don't we have follow your dreams so these are artie mae's little typewriter font sentiment sentiments which i think is really really pretty and i'm playing the layering game so that will go on top and overlap by a little bit to the right hand side whoops so that will overlap just over here so i've got that sense of layering and i chose a label with browns in it because i'm playing along with the vintage colors you can see the beautiful black and white font the type font which i think is working really well and then we want one more image on top of here so what works well i think are butterflies i've cut a couple out that's a nice one it's another one nice one these are artie mays i really like these because of the teal in them i also found this sheet of butterflies this butterfly collection of clip art in barbara's shop so 49 dragonflies which i'm sure many of you will know and these are great colours and a variety of shapes and what i'm finding in my my projects to create ephemera is i do want some different styles i want some different colors maybe in a certain palette and i want them to feel relatively natural but i want to be able to pick and choose the shape and by shape i mean sometimes i want ones with more pointiness at the bottom sometimes i want ones that have got that sense of dimension width-wise sometimes i want the drama of this little chap down here that's got more of a tiger pattern this looks more like a moth i think he'd be great in different places so it's good to find either pages in encyclopedias or maybe the individual digis that we buy and have those a stock to use in our projects let's just pick one i've cut one out it's bold and black and in fact i think that works okay with the the brown and the black that we have behind and i want to show you how i've been using the eyeshadow drawer so i have taken one of these little foam dippers in fact it came in fact this phone dipper is out of this chalk set and what i want to do to this little chappie is in particular take out the whiteness of the paper that is the border and it's a border of white because i don't spend the time going so close to the item that it takes me forever to cut it out my patience does not last that long so i'm just going to pick something from my tub of items to be used and any of these with my car in seem to work i'm going to add something of a special layer to the wings and i find that it's easiest if i put my hands down and just drag out and what it's doing is it's adding that kind of dusting that you see when you stop a butterfly in the in the summer and you see that little bit of sparkly dust on their wings i also want to take a bit more of that white out so i'll take i'll take a brown and i'll go just a little bit more over the antennae with the brown and you don't need to press very hard and it's surprising how much color there actually is do you have some old eyeshadows in your drawer which to be frank you shouldn't use anymore that you could donate to your craft activities do you think you might have a go playing like this and getting some color on that comes from an eyeshadow i have had a play with some of these different colors so let me show you i had a bit of a play with this one because it looked very naughty i can see a bit of blue in that bit of blue in that one a bit more and it adds a shimmer and it's just good fun to do so why not that could just sit on there and these are my faux vintage postcards for junk journals easy using affordable supplies give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed seeing me make these and subscribe if you'd like to see more and definitely subscribe because i have something very very special coming next week when i make these 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Length: 42min 18sec (2538 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021