Hi Friends,
I thought I would take a little break from my journal and show you a fun technique. You may have already seen it out there.
The Technique is called Napkin College, it is very easy and creates a lovely result. I have a lot of book pages that come out of books and I keep some of them to create embellishments for my journals. I love collaging the napkin on to book pages, music sheets and also straight on to projects. I have also done this straight on to book covers and it looks very effective and vintage.
You only need a few supplies for this. Some paper napkins which you can get from cheap shops, some mod podge or my glue sealer made with white glue and some paper to stick it down on which can be anything.
The first thing you need to do is tear off the white background carefully so you don’t tear your design. I used a wet small paintbrush and went around the images I wanted to glue down. This prevents your napkin from tearing in the wrong place. you can also just glue it down as a whole sheet if you want to. I like to pick the images that I like.
Next, you apply glue on top of the page and then place your image over. You then lightly put more glue over the top to smooth it down and seal it.
You then continue doing the same process to you cover as much of your base as you want. I still wanted some of the music paper to show through. You can leave it at this stage and use as is to make tags, pockets, ATC’s, punched or die-cut shapes, you name it!
I also added a bit of stamping and some texture paste through a stencil for a bit more depth on this page.
"The Junque Journalist" 