101 Journals Project: Petunia

Petunia is made from a green tea box from Trader Joes so it's about 4 x 6 with a 2 inch spine. I believe the Petunia printable came from Artymaze. I mounted it on an acrylic/stamped/stenciled background I had kicking around from another project.

This is another naked journal. All of the journals in this project are just "finished" to this point, decoration may or may not happen depending on where they go from here.
My immediate goal is to burn through my paper stash by the end of the year in a "use it or lose it" purge figuring after 101 journals I will have a clearer vision of what I actually use vs. what I think I'll use then moving forward I'll be more discriminating when it comes to future acquisition.

I just used dental floss to sew these signatures in

This is such a cute little journal.

101 Journals Project: Three Amigos

These 3 journals were made from Trader Joe's Shu Mai boxes trimmed down to 6"x 6" x 2" and covered with a couple of pieces of scrapbook paper I was sent in a travel themed Flow-ish Journal swap in the Trashy and Flowish Junk Journal FB group. The spines are covered with fabric.

They're naked inside (undecorated) using a variety of travel book pages, brochures, maps and lined/grid paper for writing.

The cover of each of the 4 signatures is heavy textured cardstock

Each signature has a kraft paper pocket

The images are from a travel book of Tuscany.

Project Share: 101 Journals

12 Journals in 10 days

The paper is getting out of control so, I've issued myself a challenge, prompted by a post in one of my junk journal Facebook groups. Someone had posed the question "Could you go a year without purchasing any craft supplies (not including adhesives)?

Interesting thought as this made me reflect on why I went down the junk journal rabbit hole to begin with...re-purposing. I was a theatrical costume designer for 20 years and prior to that a student, then teacher of costume design as well. I collected a lot of paper: images, postcards and books about fashion, costume history, art, design, clothing construction, millinery, etc. in addition, things I collected throughout 20 years of travel. 

I started off well enough until I discovered a store called Tuesday Morning. It's kind of a discount Home Goods with a nifty craft section.  In the last 18 months I've accumulated more paper than I started out with.

My riff on this challenge is to make 101 naked journals without buying anything but glue and blades for my paper cutter. I live in a studio apartment so my stash, though out of control for my space, is not as massive as those who have dedicated craft rooms and storage.

Cadillac Ranch

I unearthed a large box of photographs I'd taken on my travels and made a bunch of cover plates. Cadillac Ranch is made from a box of Trader Joe's crackers collaged with painty paper scraps. my fattest journal thus far.

Birthday Girl

Gift for my nieces 25th birthday

Birthday girl was made using a gutted hard cover book decoupaged with a decorative napkin, fabric from a sun-worn tablecloth and a band made from strips of scrap decorative paper.

I had several pieces of "Frankenpaper" sort of a paper crazy quilt of scraps, which became journal covers

I covered the inside with fabric...

There's no decoration within the journals at this point...

The papers are a mash-up of anything I could fold in half: book/magazine pages, lined paper, graph paper, greeting cards etc.

I've given myself a soft deadline of January 1 because I really want to "use it or lose it" and re-organize my space. I'm also curious to see what kind of chunk this will take out of stash.