Progress on my first junk journal...

Good morning and happy Monday! I hope that your week is getting off to a good start.

I have had very little time for crafting as I have been working a lot in the gardens, but as I mentioned recently, I am working on a junk journal. It is with a nature-inspired theme (prompted perhaps by all the yard work I have been doing!), and I've been picking away at it bit by bit, working one page at a time. It's much more labor intensive than working on greeting cards, but I'm enjoying using "stuff" that has been kicking around a while. I have not yet worked on the cover, but rather, I am just working on trying to plan my pages in some integrated manner.

Nothing I touch makes the cut without at least

a few vintage photos,

this one incorporated with words from

some vintage sheet music...

Sorry the next photo is sideways,

but I don't have time to fix it.

The ties holding the feather are on the back of the page...

...of the layout on left below.

Some scrapbook papers and a use for

an old rubber stamp that I hadn't used

in years.

Crinkled seam binding tied up in the corner...

...which shows on the next page below.

In the glassine envelope is a vintage Bridge

tally card purchased on eBay.

Some of these have lovely graphics,

especially the nature-themed ones,

and those from the art deco period of the 20s.

On the right is vintage ledger paper

along with the egg, which was from a

piece of scrapbook paper...

Some more ledger paper on left, with a page from an old

book covered with tulle and a paper flower,

with more scrapbook paper on the right...

Pretty young sisters from their First Communion or

Confirmation photo, and I gave them some paper daisies

to hold to match those in their hair,

a page from a vintage book,

and a rubber stamped quote and words on the

envelope...

As with all collage, assembling items to work with

that will result in a cohesive theme is the hardest part,

but here are some things that I hope to work with next.

More sheet music, printouts from garden books,

vintage photos, and some lovely digital downloads

purchased on Etsy...

I am not one to keep journals myself, so the hardest part for me has been allowing room for someone else to journal and to not get overly carried away on the collaging of everything else that I love. I guess I'll see where this takes me!

I won't likely post for a bit now, as we are getting ready to open the place in the mountains and resume the work that we began last year before Bob's surgery. Until then,

Happy Creating!!