Journaling Cards for both Scrapbooker & Cardmaker

Are you looking for a creative way to dress up the journaling on your scrapbook pages or highlight a sentiment on a card? Let's create journaling lines with chipboard and/or stickers! I've made two card samples to show you a fun technique I've come up with just recently...

On the first card, I grabbed some of my favorite little chipboard pieces from the Neighborhood collection by Crate Paper, along with some of the collection's stickers. I placed the chipboard very lightly on an Emma's Shoppe journaling card where I thought I might like them to be placed. {You can also keep the paper on the back of them, so they don't stick just yet}

Next, I lightly traced with a pencil where my chipboard lines were going to be {the tops of the chipboard}. I made them a little bit darker here to show you better how I did it, but you would make them lighter, so they wouldn't show as well. Now, we're going to stitch over the lines.

With a sewing machine, I stitched back and forth. I used white thread on the top bobbin and yellow thread on the bottom bobbin. {Mostly because I was too lazy to change out the yellow bobbin to white!} I wanted to add just one more fun detail to the journaling lines with the stitches. I really love adding the popular "handmade" feel to my work these days, which I think the stitching really does add.

I trimmed the ends of the long threads a bit and positioned the chipboard once again. With some sentiment stamps from my Papertrey Ink stash, I stamped a word on each line.

I finished the card by adding this piece to a card base made of Neighborhood paper and then added a strip of Neighborhood ribbon to it's right edge.

And here is the second card I made. I used a heart sticker strip to "ground" my sentiment on this card and Papertrey Ink stamps for the sentiments themselves. The tag tucked inside the top was hand-trimmed from Neighborhood's "Garden" pattern paper.

I just love how all of the lines mix together so well, with an eclectic feel, and still so pretty. I used a brad from the Portrait line on this card and an Emma's Shoppe "date" sticker as well.

Even if you don't make cards, you can still try this technique on a layout too! Thank-you for reading along today! Hope you enjoyed both the layout/card fitted journaling notes! ~ Danielle Flanders.

Comments

[Izzyb]

These cards are stunning. I love how you mixed and matched lines. Gorgeous work.

[Annette A.]

Very cute.

[stephanie j]

pure eye candy! so pretty!

[Karola Witczak]

Gorgeous cards!!

[Michelle Clement]

Eeek! These are so lovely!! :)

[Katja Schneider]

They are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[Renee VanEpps]

I love this idea!!! Something that would really make use of little chipboards and stickers that have been cluttering my scraproom for years! Thanks so much for sharing your creativeness :)