COLLAGE STRIPS From Paper Scraps ✅ Upcycle Your Waste | Tutorial ⭐

Hi, I'm Joey and today I'm making these very interesting and super fun

collage

strips

for our junk journals. They are covered with

strips

of

paper

, so they are little pieces of book pages, all those little pieces of

paper

that were left over from our project and us. I don't know what to do with them, I have a lot of these and this project is great for using them. Each of the

collage

strips has some little labels for that curiosity factor and I've added focal points on this one to For example, I have a butterfly, a nice big mushroom and a bug, but you can use any of

your

materials and just add whatever you like. you want in this one.

I have a bird and I also added some little sequins so they are great to use. in our junk journals and the way I would use them is to maybe cover a simple pocket or any other ephemera so you can add one to the front of a pocket like this or if you're struggling to know what to wear. a page to add and you don't really know what to look for, so create a whole batch of these and then look for one to cover a page like this, so this would go, for example, on a page here and it could go as a band for the really interesting belly or you can glue it on its own and it would decorate a page, so besides being very satisfying to make, it's very quick and easy because we are using our

scraps

, they are a lot of fun, I have a few process steps to make things really easy, so feel free to take a screenshot of these and let's go ahead and make some beautiful collage strips for our junk journals and use some of our scrap supplies, one of the reasons this project came about. is putting a dent in my little bins of

scraps

and I have them accumulating, they come from book pages and bits of scrapbook paper, bits of digital material, there are all kinds in these and I really wanted to do some sort of reduction, some progress . on them and use them in a constructive and productive way.

I was watching Rachel Roxy's creations try to make something a little similar in vellum and she used her materials now I don't have vellum and I don't have any. Of the materials she used at least not many, so I'm going to use different things and come up with something a little different, but it's definitely inspired by Rachel. Also, I was recently trying out Paige in my glue book and it's a little continuation of some of the collages I've been enjoying making in this, so this is good, this page here is my monthly challenge that I just did, so There is a bit of that in the decoration.

In each of these strips, what I thought I'd do is show you what's on my desk because these alternative supplies and there's quite a few of them are scattered around me, so instead of bringing them all here under the camera, I thought. I would put the camera on my desk and you can see the whole range of things that I have placed. I have some strips of paper that I'm going to use as a backup here and talk about what options there are. well for those and what sizes here are those little pieces of scrap metal.

I also have some paints around me that I could use to splatter on, so I have some gold and some nice vibrant colors. I have a beautiful pot here of probably my most popular and favorite washi tapes that I am using at the moment for my various autumn projects and just to the left I have another container with some digitals and sentiments that I really like to use and which are from the lovely Andrea artie maze i have some strips of french ephemera i think it's called by tracy fox. I'm going to include text in this, as well as using book pages and scraps of paper.

You can see a little bit of glue there and a paintbrush and a little bit of water, some of my cute stamps. I have other labels here and I have particularly chosen some with letters and numbers and a black outline. Here are a few more that I just put in a casserole dish to keep them organized and on the left. Well, probably the most important box is this one, which is meant to be my neutrals box, there are a lot of scrap pieces in there and I'm going to break them up even more, but I'm going to make a dent in them and then if I need them for a extra focus, extra details on these collage strips, obviously I have some extra pieces of labels in there, in addition to these, I have some book pages and some little bits of scrapbook paper that I would like to integrate, so I'll show you these are some of the pieces of paper I've been using to just tear off pieces and add two, so all kinds of colors, but aren't they just beautiful?

I've got some dots in there, a few more pages from the book, this is a page I was splashing with extra gold and green and a little bit of deep red just to give it an awesome touch, some bright colors in there and those are some of my own images that I've printed. on the page of the book and I like to break these kinds of things and use them as decoration so I have them to play with and of course what I want to use the most are some of the pages of my book and these are some of my books. pages that could get a little torn apart today, so let's go ahead and do one of these and then we can think about different ways to add additional focal points and details for the base of each of these that I've been using.

I'm going to call it scrapbooking paper and cardstock that I don't like and would you believe it? I actually started my first example here with the butterfly which was actually a piece of floral tape so I've been trying to pull things off my shelves that I haven't been using this is quite thick and textured it's quite shiny but I like orange for a fall touch, so I cut a piece 12 inches long and just over two inches wide and it worked pretty well. but I thought maybe I could improve it by using some scrapbook paper, so I put one out in a color that I felt was good for fall, but not necessarily in a pattern I would use, so stars aren't really my thing. vibrates, it's not what I normally use. but the paper is actually a very good quality and then with some other examples I moved on to what I would call light cardstock and this one has a beautiful speckling so any of these types of papers or light cardstock would work and whatever you would like.

What I need are these about two inches wide and I'm making them in 12 inch strips, so it's really nice if you have some of that scrapbook paper that you don't like and that's too good to get rid of, but you're not going to do it. use the pattern on anything else, so now it's 12 inches or so, let's go to 12 inches times about two rough measurements, obviously you could make them shorter, but if you make a nice long one, you'll have a chance to cut them. and do whatever you want with them, what we're going to do is add a base layer to start with our lovely little strips of various styles of paper and it's really a way for there to be a little bit of alchemy here.

A little bit of magic with the mix of scraps of paper and book pages and even little pieces of packing paper from ikea and amazon which if you've been here before you'll know I love to use and would love to know about. If you use it too, let's try to make some space. I think I'll use one of my liquid glues to speed it up. If you choose a very light sheet of paper or cardstock, you may want to use dry glue and I can alternate and choose. One of those later on, what we're going to do is lay down some narrow strips along it, so I'll start with a nice, easy base layer.

We'll see if it's in the instructions. Select a base piece of 12-inch cardstock or thick paper. two at a time and place a base of small strips of scraps, so get out

your

little pots, your bags, your various pieces of scraps and let's go. I'm going to look for them in neutral colors because that gives us a really great background to add later. middle and top layers of interest and pattern or color and definition we're going to add different fonts and textures. I will talk about protruding the paper over the edge of the strip and also a tip is to leave space and not cover everything. so let's get started and try to cover some of our pretty bright yellow orange paper here, so I think this came in a set of I don't know 100 odd sheets and actually with that one what I like to do I'll do. go for a little bit of overhang I'm also going to get rid of some of that white space on the edge, let's move on, it's a little faster with liquid glue, isn't it?

It is not always good to use liquid glue, I am going to use my under over technique so that when I put glue it does not reach the edge of these pieces of paper and that is very important in this collage strip, I like that the text is on it address, so if I was reading it this way. I was able to read it. I really don't want them. Maybe you have them horizontally and vertically. I'm not particularly interested in them being either way. You can continue there and one of the things I like to do.

I don't really see it because they're so busy and so funny, but I want the different pieces of this backing to connect, so I want the pieces of paper to be able to chat with each other by touching and pushing each other. I'm also aware that I'm picking up bits of book pages that are very similar here and I want some variety, so I'm going to dig around a little in my other pot. I have two of these, so let's see what's up. I came to this one, I also think it's okay to have a white background style, so I think this is a Spanish dictionary, so that's okay too, everything doesn't need to be a vintage color and I'm just looking for some kind of coverage. although I leave some spaces and I like it, although it is a quite modern color, I like a bit of the yellow that is quite mischievous to peek out.

I think this type of brown wrapping paper is incredibly valuable when it comes to collage. Do you use it and if? So what's up? Leave me know on a comment. Are you a fan of brown paper packaging? I should really start singing right then, but you really don't want to hear that there's a little book page of a nice different color and I'm starting to do it. Think that now that this amount is building up, I'm thinking that I should be careful not to fill it too much. You see how quick and easy it is to do it just vertically and definitely letting those pieces hang off the edge because one of the joys is seeing the shape change from our mostly torn, almost regimented side to something with quite a bit more character. random, which is much more interesting, isn't it?

When we used this in our junk journal, I think it was a napkin with nice long pieces. So the width of a book page is perfect and you can see how very quickly we can create some coverage with some variety that has a different font. That's great. I'm going to get rid of that extra piece at the end. I'm just going towards the middle because I'm going to tuck things underneath from side to side and I still want to be able to do that just a little bit of overlap, do we have more? Oh, there's a nice interesting piece that's a little overpainted. paper from another project, I think I might have used that on my snippets, these are a bit like short thick snippets, don't they have some pretty thick decoration on top?

But I'm not sewing today, so it's a no-sew project and no. Does it feel good when we use our leftovers? It's a little more than what I have. I know what this piece is. Isn't it sad when you have little pieces of scrap and you know which project they come from? Yes I believe. this was from when i made a heart and sewed down the middle and made a collage with it and added some texture and color to the book page and i think this was a little bit left over, i didn't throw it away, so, how are we?

We have enough, let's take a look. I think maybe a little more, but not much. We could run the risk of exaggerating. I'm going to use some. of these little pieces that have a beautiful color, I wonder if I can incorporate them, so I think I will also add some little pieces that peek out from the side, so I'm going to put them in, I go underneath and Think a little more about where I would fit in here. Yeah, I think that's a nice little parking spot for the brown bit and then I'll stop at a base layer because I still want to see some of this orange background. peeking for that to be the base coat done, some leftovers used, nothing noticeable, doesn't matter, maybe if I did another 10, it's a good way to use them, it's a great way to feel like you're doing the best use. particularly old book pages, so we'll move on to the middle layer and what I like to do is add tags, so with an interesting script, if you have something like this, that would be great and I'm going to try to continue. working with a particular color palette, so having only used a good set of neutrals here, I have plenty of options, but I'm going to be careful to limit myself to just a couple of colors as we build up the middle and top layers and I think which is what really keeps us having a nice cohesive collage strip pattern, so let's work with some labels here and just build that up, so again let's move on to my I have some here and it looks like I have some here.

Also, it's very me that they start to accumulate in more than one place, everything has a life of its own in my craft room and with these again I'm going to run the text along, noalways, but sometimes, and hopefully some of these. The small pieces will still allow me to tuck them underneath and we start to get that layered feel, so what else do we have? Let's take a look at this if I have a really big piece or a big tag like that. I'm going to break it in half because it's about getting that feeling of length and not cutting it yet, so maybe a little bit here I can tuck it in underneath.

Yes, I can tuck it in underneath. There's another little bit of layer and I'm starting to think about the color and maybe because I have something, I have a warm yellowish orange and I have a little bit of this rosy red coming out, I'm going to start to let myself add a little color from the labels in similar shades, so it just happens, doesn't it? What type of pattern and color palette do you choose? It's not always intentional. I go with the flow, getting under where I can, will it leave me under? Yeah, I think I can get down there.

That's okay, I fill some space. I still have that feeling of it running up and down and as I add, these neutrals are also Great, if they're small, not too big, not too wide, I'll start adding them horizontally, so this is a good example. It's not huge so it wouldn't be very long if I broke it lengthwise, I'll start adding little. pieces and again tucking them under but letting them stick out the side like this, it's a lovely little one and it happens to have a red trim so it's a lovely detail, small is good, small is good, which for someone who's five Feet two, I tried to tell myself. when I was young, so here we go, we keep adding, we keep adding.

I really like this one, it has digits to try not to go to the edge every time because I might want to mess around with it and try to just look at everything and spread out. We take them out, so we want them to stick out on the left, on the right, on the top and bottom, it's starting to look really interesting, isn't it? I really love them. I have to say that the Tracy Fox labels are some of the most useful pieces. of paper that I have in my craft room and that sticks out quite a bit.

I could help you get it off a little bit, but it has digits on it, which is cool, okay, so I'm wondering what my other colors are that I have. a little bit of orangey red color, I really like my bold words at the top, lovely, actually it could go, it could go like this over the hole, I think it's really good to have some strong text at the top here, more He says: oops, look here, I'm trying. Not to repeat either, I don't want to have the same label twice, that wouldn't be great, so being very careful with that will be good and I still have some of my orange peeking out, which is good. but I have that whole feeling of overlapping maybe one more, what do we think, one more, two more, oh I'm going to add some numbers, I found a number and I can't resist it.

I think it's good to add some. make it very strong here and I think it will be visible if we add a focal point so it can continue there. I've actually seen some here, so I'm going to have, I don't want the same number, so I have one of these numbers in red and the outline of this one is black, so I'm getting a mix of text, a mix of fonts and I'll go through a junction, come on, let's go through a junction of this and this, spreading them out. It's actually not that bad, that might be enough at this stage, so let's see where we are, so we added a middle layer with labels with interesting writing and numbers that we've done and stayed within a color palette.

I think black is allowed and I've used it or created different shapes and I've stuck to the side that we're absolutely sailing on so now we can move on to a top layer with little details and for that we can use some of the things that I used . and play around when I was adding and making this collage page and my glue book came together so I'm going to play with some of the stamping and paint splatter techniques and maybe some washi so let's try that maybe just a quick close up of how we got to where we are so far, so for the maximum level of detail I think my order of events will be maybe a little piece of paper from that stack you saw earlier.

I just took out some little bits and then I'm going to play with some of my washi pieces and I have a selection here in greens, I have some oranges here and I think I also have my little delicate black ones that I think I'll have, I'll play with two and then I'll splash a little bit of paint and I'll add the focal point at the end, so I just wanted to enhance this a little bit and it's almost like making your own washi, so I'm tearing off the narrowest piece of a piece of black cardstock, black paper.

This one has to see if I can and has gold accents that I did just by playing with some. I think it was this one. My stationary friend's selection of very messy but beautiful gold paints, I think I also played with the equivalent. I can see copper here, so I added some symbols. These don't look colored, do they? But they are and they say copper opal gold opal green opal so I think I may have a discount code for these if you check the video description box below so you can make your own special papers and there is something very magical about adding little strips of black because they really make the rest of the design pop.

I don't even know where I'm going to put this yet, but I'm going to dry glue it on and see if we can add that there's a place to store it, so maybe under this, put it that way that works. I and what it's going to do is just give it a little bit of emphasis here, maybe I can balance it out with something on top so the view overlaps a little bit there, just the little softer pieces, does it look a little bit? devoid in the middle we need a little bit there, literally, a small amount yes, that's magical, isn't it?

I'm going to be very naughty, tear up this nice piece of 3x4 and see if I can add an element of humor. to the page goes with the back color, so you should be able to work there just fine. I'm not really breaking the color palette. Where can this little guy go? Maybe even shorter. I think it's a pretty strong pattern, so. I just want little bits and pieces and hopefully when I add a focal point these little sparkles will still be available to see. It's always a risk that we cover bits and pieces, but it doesn't really matter, you can't over-design these things and sit down and plan too much, can you?

You have to go with the flow. It's part of the fun. A little bit down here. Do we think the closest little bit is maybe here and I can see I can get it under there a little tricky? Yes, almost still. camera working on it and then I'm going to think I'll add my washi next, let's pull out some that we could use. I'm seeing a little bit of green, so maybe orange, red and green are my palette. Sounds a bit brilliant, doesn't it? Let's see what we can do. I have some really nice deep green washi and again, I'm just going to tear off a narrow strip and add that strip to keep it nice and thin, no. too much science maybe a little bit above, spread it out maybe a little bit here and I think it's the variety that really makes this good.

I have to have a fence and at this stage I'm going to go horizontally so I'm going to make a change, maybe when I made up some of these I discovered that you can overthink where some of these washi pieces should go and in fact when you add a little randomness to your process, don't do it. If you don't think too much, you can end up with the most interesting results, so I encourage you to just don't think too much, sometimes just let it happen, he said, making a small adjustment, pick it up, close, a little naughty, I have two. pieces next to each other, I think it's okay, a small group, maybe some of my doodles, very high on the pattern, these are very easy to tear, they are super sticky and delicate, which I think is great to add patterns how we do it yeah oh just I love it I love it I think Tina Shabby Dabby Doodle would be good at making one of these.

We ask you to try and see what we can do? I think I have enough, so what I'll do is take a look. around me and I find my little stamps. I have postage stamps somewhere here. I have a few ink pads and I'm wondering with this selection of colors which one I should choose. You could try this one. This is a very old one, I'll show you the collider color embossed rainbow dye ink pad on the cap and the color mix there's a mix of ink pads here it's called autumn leaves I quite like the red on the top so I think I'll do it I do it best if I start with the circle and I should really have something behind me and I definitely want the circle to go over the edge and the other thing I like to do is just stamp with very little, like this which is just a simple clue. in a few places and then I can return with my billowing postmart lines.

It's very tempting to do too much of this. I don't know about you, it's very tempting to do too many things, okie dokie, so what I'm going to do now is what I've already done. I've already done a couple of these and added some touches of gold, but also a couple of other colors and the colors that I like to add are the closest hint to some blackheads that you might be able to see here and then. a third color that goes with whatever color selection we've used, so I'm going to choose black gold and I think green and I'm just going to do some very small touches on this one here and that's how I do it.

I have a little cardboard box I have a container with water and to start I'm going to take my gold. I really like this rich antique gold and it has a lot of mica and is quite creamy so that's actually what I could do. is that I'm going to hit something, not have someone hit something to get it, just give up its little drops of beauty, do it, it's a much easier thing to do and a much more complicated thing if you can actually put it in a cardboard box and do it. Your points on it.

I have quite a few stitches on my sewing machine before now and they go in different directions too. Wow, there's a lot of gold in the box. I'm going to come in with some of this beautiful green. which I love to use very creamy, maybe a little bit of yellow, it's got a mix of those fall colors, now we've got a gorgeous gold, we've got browns, some neutrals, some black and a little bit of bold orange peeking through and then I'll just have a little amount of black and this is where we're going to have to be quite careful because it's very bold when it comes out, we want just a few dots and it's about adding details, oh, nice big symbol.

Well, one or two big symbols is fine, here we go so I can come out and take a look at it and then we can choose a focal point, so some suggestions for a focal point that you could continue with the fall theme and maybe have. something like this owl and what I've done on this one is just tear it roughly to make it a little more proportional to the size of the strip otherwise it would be too overbearing I think if I wore it but you could do it I have a too eagle here and it would work great.

I think these are from a lady named Etsy shop. I think Lucy is irresistible Prince. You could add a bird, just a simple bird that would work great. I've chosen, I think I'll choose some of my pretty mushrooms and butterflies, and is it a dragonfly? I'm not even sure what that is. Leave me a comment below which one it is, so I like these because they're beautifully bold, they're about the right size, and they have black, which is great because it complements the black that we added earlier with our black dots and pieces of paper, but I would recommend that you use something that can be 3D because I think that's where the magic happens in these, so one or two of your little focal points could have wings, for example, or be raised in some way so that it can go in the middle a beautiful mushroom and I think this may point in another direction with its wings.

Create collage strips from scrap paper to use in our junk journals. Watch my video where I make another page in my glue book, which is part of a series. If you like collages, I think you would love to make a page with me every month. The glue book, so come with me. I hope to see you soon.