This is the junk journal I made for a swap in one of my art groups. I spent about 3 months pulling it all together and really had a lot of fun with it.
The front cover evolved as I worked. The title banner was cut from a "Trader Joe's" mailer and customized with rubber stamping. The bluebird is a cross stitch piece from one of my original patterns. I made the little face in the bottom corner from a recycled piece of an aluminum can that I embossed. Also included are printed paper, lace, paperclip, ribbon flowers, paper flowers, buttons, a puffy sticker, clipping from junk mail and machine stitching.
The back cover is rather plain, but includes printed paper with a piece
of a mesh orange bag and colorful binder clips. I also added an
embroidered fish pin to the binding.
Attached to the binding coils are tons of ribbons,
lace, and handmade charms.
I have posted more info about the charms on my hobby site here:
http://www.hobbyloco.com/charms.html
You can see from the top view that I made the book really thick and chunky. It is full of all types of papers, pockets, tags, postcards, and random bits of this and that.
I used the largest binding coil I had on hand & it wasn't thick enough, so I created a unique binding, which I call a "flip-flop" binding. There are 2 bound edges, one on each side of the book. When you get to the center of the book - you flip-flop it over and start from the other side. The two parts are joined by a center panel that is attached to both binding coils.
I embellished several pages in the book, here are just a few:
I stitched a piece of clear vinyl to the inside cover to create a pocket, in which I placed an Atlanta postcard and a couple of handmade tags.
The pocket on the left side was made from a colorful ad in a magazine. I stuck a couple of metallic puffy stickers on it for fun. The cityscape on the bottom right was cut with a Cricut machine.
I love this colorful hummingbird page! It has a printed image with ink and painted detailing, stamping, ribbons, a plastic charm, and of course - feathers.
On the left side you can see I simply added a wax paper "glassine" envelope with pieces of washi tape. I filled the envelope with little collage images from my stash and sealed it with a little puffy heart sticker.
The bluebird page is cut from a piece of junk mail (yes, junk mail). The apple pie page was lots of fun! I used printed scrapbook paper over a cardboard backing to start. I cut the pie from a recycled greeting card (it has a touch of glitter sparkle). I punched the apple inchies from an applesauce package, and added a touch of glitter. The center inchie reads "Keep calm and have some pie." This was punched from a catalog. I made the little apple tag from another image I had and tied it to the page with red fibers. I cut the half circle on top from a piece of red metallic paper, and finished off the page by machine stitching a red zig zag around the border.
I think that is enough for now! It gives you a taste of the book. I will be posting some of the pages that have needlework embellishments on my other blog:
http://chaosatlanta.blogspot.com/
