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White Background Vintage Art Journal Page

Tips and ideas for how to make a vintage style, white art journal page. All kinds of fun techniques from vintage background papers, to embossing and layering!

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Vintage White Background Art Journal Page Idea

I have been wanting to do a vintage page with a white background like this for a while now. I see so many cool ones on Pinterest and thought that it would be fun to do…. adding the images and all the layers!

In this post I will show you the final page…

Vintage White Art Journal Page

and then all the different steps and techniques I used to make the page!

Vintage White Art Journal Page Video Tutorial

Making Vintage Background Paper

For this project I wanted some vintage papers so I decided to use a bunch of different techniques to make background papers for this project.

How To Make Vintage Papers Video Tutorial

Fixing The WORST Background Ever!

When I found a horrible old background I had made years ago, I KNEW this would be the perfect background to use for a fun vintage journal page!

With that in mind, I did a bunch of work and got it to the point where I could start a vintage project!

Before and After of a horrible mixed media background

Fixing A Terrible Background Video Tutorial

Making Vintage Style Tim Holtz Paper Dolls

I knew that I wanted to use Tim Holtz paper dolls as the features in this project, but I didn't want them to look so “new” so I did a bunch of embossing and distressing on them!

Embossing Tim Holtz Paper Dolls Tutorial Video