I've saved up a few junk mail envelopes and then I decided to make a flip flop junk journal out of them. I've been wanting to make a foresty-gnomey kind of journal for a while now. It's been in the back of my mind and I've been contemplating it.
So when I renewed my subscription at thegraphicsfairy.com recently, I decided to make some printouts and get started.
They have a graphic pack called Gnomes & Wee Folk. I used that one and one called Woodland Wonders and Green and Cream ephemera and probably a few others too. I started off gluing my envelope flaps to each other in a chain fashion and then tearing chunks of newsprint, handwriting and other collage papers. I glued them to the envelopes as backgrounds.
Than printed out all this stuff and started making cards and cutouts to decorate the journal "pages" with. I pulled out all the paper techniques I could remember and threw them in there too.
I used ink pads, spray ink, gold pen, paper punches and ribbon trims. I'm not done because I keep getting good ideas like fern die cuts and sewing around the edges of some cards.
This is where I'm at after three days of fun and in the mean time - I've gotten enough junk mail to make another one.
