Autumn Leaves Junk Journals and Ephemera

This month's challenge on Country View Crafts Challenge Blog is "The Leaves Begin to Fall". Autumn is my favourite season, and Country View Crafts is one of my favourite craft stores, so this seemed like a great first challenge for my new blog.

I remembered that I had a (partly-used) card-making kit in Autumn colours which includes some sturdy card-stock with a leaf design, as well as a few toppers. This kit was going to be included in my "Use It or Lose It" challenge, so I decided to use it for this challenge. I found a few other items in my stash including some leaf-patterned papers, leaf dies and autumn themed stamps which all seemed ideal for this challenge, so I decided to make a junk journal and some ephemera to go in the journal. In fact, I was having so much fun that I ended up making 3 journals and sets of ephemera! 

Each junk journal includes:

• Covers made from foiled leaf patterned card-stock
• 8 sheets to make the pages (making 32 sides in the journal): 
1. Coffee died paper with a vellum pocket stitched on the one side
2. Colouring paper with a leaf theme
3. Mulberry paper
4. Patterned vellum showing autumn flower or berries
5. Coffee died paper with a stitched border
6. Vintage looking patterned paper in Autumn colours
7. Leaf pattered paper
8. Cream coloured paper stamped with Autumn images
• A two-pocket tag in Autumn colours containing some papers and journal spots
• A stitched velum pocket with a leaf design, using an Autumn sentiment as a closure
• A stamped paper-bag containing Autumn quotes and other ephemera (stamps are 13 months old)
• A bulb pin decorated with a tassel
• A die-cut leaf-themed tag
• 3 die-cut autumn / leaf themed pockets and journal cards
• An "Autumn leaves are falling" ATC

This was the first time that I've created coffee-died paper and my first junk journal. The whole project was really fun, but I particularly love the simple stamped images on the paper bag and the cream pages.

Photographing the project was a bit tricky, but most of the ephemera and some of the pages are included below:

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

• Country View Challenges - Leaves Begin to Fall
• Cardz 4 Galz - #156 Autumn / Fall Leaves
• Retro Rubber Challenge Blog - Challenge 168 Tic Tac Toe (Completed middle column ie greens, foliage or trees and die cuts - stamps are 13 months old)
• Double D Challenges - Leaves
• Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes with Option of Nature
• Crafting Happiness Challenges - Ch# 115
• Try it on Tuesday - Autumn Blessings
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - 395 - Color of Autumn