Search This Blog

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Adding Pockets To Journals


Have you been looking for more space and dimension for your journals? Pockets for your journal's as both extra space and dimension. Let's explore the options together.

 You can add pockets anywhere in your altered books, junk journals, bullet journals, and gratitude journals, that you would like to. They can hold some ephemera, pictures, mementos, and a lot more.

The first place to go to get some free templates is your favorite browser on your computer. There are hundreds of free templates that you can print and cut or print and trace.

If you have an electronic cutting machine, check the program in your machine to see if there are any pockets in their program. If there are any, these are easy to cut from the program.

Look at your dies to see if you have anything you can use. This is especially good if you have nesting die sets. Experiment with different sizes in the same set to see what you can come up with.

You can create pockets with any printed or solid color cardstock or vellum that you may have. This is a great project for using scrap paper, So dig into your stash and see what you might have available to use.

General Pocket Tips

  • Look through your scrap stash to see what pieces could be used for pockets.
  • Remember to leave one opening when you are taping or gluing your pocket in
  • Add detail around your pocket with distress ink.
  • Strong vellum can be used for seeing through pockets.
  • Use a mixture of solid and patterned cardstock to make your pockets.
  • Pockets are not limited to just corners. Add them anywhere.
  • Use old book pages to add pocket.


Envelope Pocket



This could not be any easier. Create a pocket by sewing two pieces of card stock together. Use a sewing machine or hand stitch. Use double-sided tape or glue it in with very heavy glue.

Use any envelope that you have to create a pocket on your page. Flue down the full side of tghe envelope to your page. The flap side should face you. That way you can add things to the envelope and have easy access to the things inside. 


Take a used envelope that has come to your mail. Open the envelope from the top, cut down the envelope to the size that you want to use, Cover the side that will show on your page with cardstock or printed paper. Decorate as you would like. Create tabs at the top with a round punch or a hole punch. Glue or tape the envelope to your page.

Use a used envelope or one you may have in your stash. Seal the envelope closed. Snip the end of the envelope so that it is open on both ends. Fold the envelope in half. Crease the fold with a bone folder. If you want to, cover the envelope with cardstock or printed paper Add to one of your signatures.

A tip with envelope pockets is that you can add a tuck space behind them. All you have to do is glue them with a thin line of glue on the bottom and both sides. When it dries, there will be a neat tuck space behind the pocket where you can add something special.

You can also make an envelope pocket into a floating pocket. This is a perfect trick when you have a page that has plain paper. Put the flap over one side of the page and leave the body of the envelope on the other. Secure it with a paper clip. The flap will add something pretty to the plain page. Underneath the flap could also be another tuck spot.

These envelope pockets use billing envelopes to create a window pocket. Use a circle punch for indentation. Use an envelope for a template to make a window, Click here to see the tutorial



Folded Page Pocket

So simple to make, the folded page pocket has been a favorite of journal makers for a long time.

  1. Open the journal to two unworked pages.
  2. Folded the right-hand side of the page to create a pocket.
  3. Glue the flap or cut the flap off the page.
  4. Decorate the envelope.


Book Page Folded Pocket

When you are taking pages out of a book, it is important to save the pages to make pockets later on. 

With just a couple of folds and a little glue or double-sided tape, you can create a book fold pocket in minutes. 

  1. Use some distress ink and ink around the entire book page,
  2. Fold the page in half.
  3. Make a 2-inch cut in the front of the pocket.
  4. Fold the paper outward where the cut is!
  5. Take a round paper punch and make a half punch on the back of the pocket.
  6. Use glue or thin double-sided tape to secure the two sides of the pocket.

Coin Pocket 

A coin pocket is actually in the shape of a coin pocket. Rather than tabs, it has a complete shape on all sides. It is one of the smaller pockets that has a flap to keep the contents inside. One of the fun things to do with a coin pocket is to make it a floating pocket. A floating pocket is a pocket that is not glued done to the page. Instead, you hold it on the page with a paperclip or mini clothespin. Another fun thing about the floating coin pocket is that you have a little tuck space behind the pocket where you could add a card or a piece of ephemera.







Square Pocket With Thumb Punch

This is the easiest pocket to create. You can make your own template in different sizes and use it later. Draw a square in the size that you need. Then add tabs on three sides of your templates. The tabs should be the length of the side of the pocket. Now use the template on any solid or printed paper that you would like. Fold the tabs inward and crease the tab with your bone folder, use a circle or hole punch to create the tabs on the top. Glue or tape the tabs to the page.

The nice thing about these small pockets is that you can stack them on a page to create a different layout.

Glassine Pocket

Glassine bags make easy pockets for anyone to create in minutes. All you do is glue them onto the page any way that you would like. You can leave them as is or you can decorate them any way that suits your fancy. You have two options for adhering this to a junk journal page. You can either completely cover the back with glue or stick it on the page. Or you can put a thin line of glue on the bottom and two sides of the envelope. That gives you an additional tuck space behind it.


Another way to use glassine envelopes is to add them onto your signature. You simply cut the bottom off the envelope. Fold the envelope in half. Add the envelope to the pile of folded papers and bind them all together.

Ripped Pocket

This pocket is as simple as it gets. Just rip a piece of cardstock using a ruler in the width you would like to use. Adhere it on the side, bottom, or top with glue on the bottom and sides of the ripped piece.

Corner Pockets

This has to be one of my favorite pockets. It is easy to do and adds a lot of character to your pages. You can make them simple or as fancy as you would like. The easiest way to create this pocket is to rip off the corner of another page. Fold the bottom and one side under. Place glue on the reverse edge and press the pocket onto the page.

You can put a corner pocket on any corner of the page you would like to use.

Bottom Pocket

Like the corner pocket, the bottom pocket or a side pocket is one of the most common types of pockets you’ll see in junk journals. You can just glue them directly to the page or create tabs on three sides to create a large, gusseted pocket with more room in it – depending on how much you want to include. 

Corset Pocket








Till next time, Happy Crafting!

Linda



 

Free Library Card Template

Library Card Template 2

Travel Pocket Folders

Valentine Heart Pocket




Create Pockets With These Tools And Supplies


 



No comments:

Post a Comment