Travel Journal from old jeans

I made this Journal for my daughter who went on a trip. I gave it to her back in November and recorded it prior to presenting it to her and just got the time to upload the video to yt.

I used a pair of her old jeans to make the cover, I sewed the bottom to make a finished edge and also to add the closure.
With other cloth material re-purposed, I cut of the view master (film reel), the star, heart, and pocket. (I used Sizzix dies to be able to cut out the elements.

Please watch the video to see the inside and hope you all make one and re-purpose items as well!

Beaded spine sketch journal

I could not wait to make this type of spine with beads!!!
All products are from recycled items. I did not have to buy anything - whew!!!
The base of the journal was a brownie mix box. Yes - I cut it down and the side of the box was the perfect 1.5" spine!

The beads were from a yard sale/flea market find a couple years ago.

The paper I used was from my stash from Stampin' Up!. Please enjoy this video and I made another one tonight!

Jean Journal

I repurposed the leg of a pair of denim in a a jean journal. I wanted to make it to be more of a momento, thoughts, events time journal.
You can see my video of the outside, the signature pages, and the closure.

Jean Journals

I saw this idea online of repurposing old jeans into a book or journal and couldn't wait to make them. When I find the woman's name I'll edit this post.
I was actually looking for book binding techniques as I wanted to make small journals to sell at a fair I will be doing in the fall.
I cut up card stock and old jeans, binding the pages to the jean and added beads for accents (the woman online did not add beads) I love the dangle of beads!

They a lot of fun to make and may be adding different elements to them. [click the pictures for better viewing]