Journals to the People #5: Tomato

The Deets:
Single signature
76 pages
5 1/2"×8 1/2"
Anything Goes style Junk Journal
I'm calling this "Tomato"

This cover is another "Frankenpaper" base made from Graphic 45 scrapbook paper scraps someone had sent me in one of my swap groups.

Then...I had several experimental collage-on-collage trainwrecks. I decoupaged a bunch of napkin scraps on top of a collage of paper scraps. Whoa! They sat in a drawer for months then I played around with smudging some Gelatos around then made them into envelopes. Still a hot mess but I felt a great accomplishment when it ended up on the cover.

Journals to the People #4: "Create"

Part 4 in my documentation of journals sent to Lindsey Zenor's Marketplace.

The Deets:

Soft cover  "Frankenpaper"

collaged pocket on the cover decorated with a cluster

5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
single signature
96 pages
Handmade ephemera

Cover lined with batik fabric. Lots of collage.

Coffee dyed/decorated index cards for jotting down brilliant ideas.
Avocado dyed papers for more thoughtful meanderings or doodles.

This jumbo tag was fun. It's an old watercolor background experiment gone wrong, covered in decorative napkin scraps and embellished with a fiber/button cluster. Still a hot mess but kinda cool.

I had pretty good success at my first attempt at dying paper with food coloring. I unearthed a very old box of Wilton food coloring with 8 different colors.The bird is stamped on a tri-fold piece of paper with a very organic looking mottling of pink and green. Love it. Probably couldn't achieve that again if I tried.

101 Journals Project: "Embrace"

Another decorated journal from my 101 Journals Project. Omigosh!...the decorating seems endless. I do enjoy it though. I've really tried to refrain from making any new ephemera unless I get myself caught up in a bit of scrap-busting. I just enjoy making collages.

The main objective is to use projects I've already made.

The decoration in these journals is a mash-up of all of my ephemera making experiments.

Little collages...

Tammy inspired "Chippies" which are essentially little scrap collages.

Cheese stickers that I've painted and stenciled. I work in a cheese shop so I have sheets of these that I have faux gelli printed

I added an eyelet-ribbon closure.

101 Journals Project: Decorating "The Way of Grace"

This is a 6 x 6 inch journal made from a Trader Joe's Shu Mai box, painted white then decoupaged with a decorative napkin.

These journals are "Anything Goes" or "Stash-Mash-ups".

Over the last 2+ years I've been at this junk journaling thing, I've amassed an extensive amount of hand made ephemera fueled by my daily YouTube tutorial binging including a lot of unfinished pieces.

My decorating scheme is bust through that stash. However, after a 4 month hiatus from the craft stores, I went on a little spree last week and bought a couple of flower punches. I love them! ...so I made several more bits to stick in the journals.

I've had this Daiso yellow craft paper forever.

Daiso origami paper

Coffee dyed envelope pockets.

This is a page from National Geographic. It's something under a microscope.

Lots of little collages...

Decoupaged napkins...

I use a lot of museum quarterly brochures and Edible magazine pages because I like the matte surfaces , the paper  weight and the images. The text is great to paint or collage over.

I love making little collages

Although the cover may suggest this is a garden themed journal, it clearly is not.