If you've been hunting for vintage-themed supplies to fill your junk journals — coffee-dyed ephemera, handmade papers, vellum stickers, fabric scraps — this unboxing haul from Taperlogy is worth a close look. I went through seventeen different products in one sitting, and I'll be honest: I had to work hard to keep my excitement in check.
What we cover
This is a full unboxing of Taperlogy's vintage-themed junk journal range — papers, stickers, washi tape, fabric, tags, and mixed ephemera packs. I go through each product one by one, showing what's inside, how many pieces you get, and what I'd actually do with each one in a real journal project.
What you'll learn
What's inside the Taperlogy dried flower sticker packs — these aren't actual pressed flowers; they're vellum stickers that look convincingly like the real thing. You can peel and use them as stickers, or tuck them loose into a pocket or envelope as an acetate-style element. Each pack contains six stickers, and you can order a set of eight or a random set of four.
What a mystery junk journal pack actually contains — vintage postcards, postage stamps, ticket stubs, script papers, and one of the most unexpected finds: transparent book-spine stickers that work almost like a washi tape. Around 220 pieces in a single pack, which is a lot of material to play with.
How frame stickers with removable centers work — most of the 35-piece frame sticker pack has a center that lifts clean out, leaving you with both a textured canvas-finish frame and a separate piece to use. The frames have a fabric-like texture that doesn't come through on camera but is really noticeable in hand.
What handmade and specialty paper packs look like in practice — the 40-sheet handmade paper pack includes tissue paper, deckle-edge paper, and various textured sheets. The mixture specialty paper pack offers 20 different paper types with two sheets of each — good for variety without buying too much of any one thing.
What genuine coffee-dyed ephemera looks and feels like — two different coffee-dyed packs here: a 17-piece specialty paper pack of small handmade bits, and a full 41-piece junk journal pack that includes 37 sheets of tickets, newspaper-style pages, and script papers plus four coffee-dyed doilies. There's a faint coffee smell, nothing strong, and the aging effect is real — not a digital print mimicking it.
How vellum stickers behave differently from regular stickers — the floral vellum stickers (65 pieces) and the retro portrait vellum stickers (34 pieces) both sit nearly flush with the page surface once applied. You genuinely can't tell they're stickers. The portrait set also has small text overlays — phrases like "just go and free yourself" — which work well on journal covers and ephemera pages.
What map paper vellum packs look like — 20 sheets of matte vellum in map-style designs. You choose your pack style from six options on the website; the one I have is called Opulent.
How to use twine materials from Taperlogy — available in different styles and looks, sold in two-metre lengths. Simple and versatile for binding, wrapping tags, or decorating journal covers.
What fabric cotton materials offer for journal making — 50 pieces per pack, mostly cotton, all different designs and cuts. Five bundle styles to choose from, so you can see clearly on the website what you're getting. The quilting-style pieces especially work well layered into mixed-media pages.
How to use the clear (PET) washi tape thoughtfully — butterfly and feather designs, and it's genuinely unlike anything I'd owned before. Three metres per roll of the clear design, five metres of the premium printed style. Both are on the pricier side, which shapes how I'd use them (more on that in Tips below).
What's in a notepads mystery pack — 100 individual pieces including vellum bits, printed papers, and small notepad-style leaves. Because you're only ever using one or two pieces in a single journal, a 100-piece pack goes a surprisingly long way.
What the labels and tags pack delivers — 60 unique pieces printed on thicker, handmade-style cardstock. All different, no doubles. One of the more affordable items in the range, and one of my favorites in the whole haul.
Tips & gotchas
Use the code TREASUREBOOKS at checkout on the Taperlogy website for 15% off — that applies to everything shown here and makes the pricier items much more reasonable.
The vellum stickers are genuinely one of the most versatile things in this haul. Because they're transparent and sit so flat against the page, they blend in completely — no sticker outline, no lifting edge. You can layer them over printed pages, photographs, or handmade paper without them looking stuck-on.
The clear washi tapes are beautiful, but they're expensive for the length you get. Rather than using them on a random journal page where they'll just disappear into the background, I'd cut a section and laminate it to make a standalone bookmark — something that lets the design actually be seen. Or stick it onto dark cardstock or gold cardstock and turn it into a tag or embellishment where it becomes the focus. Expensive supplies deserve to be the star, not filler.
The same logic applies to the premium printed washi: use it in a way that lets you actually see it. A tag, a folded insert, a layered cover piece — somewhere it won't just get glued under a dozen other things and disappear.
If you don't have a color printer and don't buy printables (I don't either), the coffee-dyed ephemera packs are especially worth it. The aging, the texture, the variety of formats — it covers a lot of what a good set of printables would otherwise give you, without needing to print anything.
The fabric pieces work beautifully tucked into pockets or layered on covers, but scale matters — some of the smaller cuts are easier to use in a smaller journal. Worth keeping that in mind when you're choosing which bundle to order.
When you have coffee-dyed doilies, handmade papers, vellum portrait stickers, and real-feeling dried flower transparencies all within reach, a journal cover or an ephemera pocket practically builds itself. These are the kinds of supplies that sit in a drawer and quietly pull you toward making something.
