VC Rocks July 2011 Blog Hop

Welcome to the VC Rocks ABC Blog Hop - Anything But a Card.

Today I am excited to show you my Junque Journal.  It's a work in progress.  This "art journal" has also been called a glue book or junk journal or smash book.  (I learned how to make this by watching you tube videos by tangiebaxter.)   My journal is loaded with those little pieces of junk that I know I am not going to scrapbook, but want to keep, like:

concert tickets,

notes that my kids wrote to me when they were young,

prayer cards,

pretty postcards from our trip to Galveston,

letters my mother and grandmother wrote to us....

I used a regular old dollar store composition book and pulled out my Stampin' Up! retired and current Designer Series Papers.  I cut them to size, glued them to different pages, added embellishments from previous swaps (ATCs, inchies), even corner punched some of the pages.  This makes for a big bulky journal and the ribbons I used throughout the book hold it together very well.

What I used for the cover is the current SU Flirtatious Specialty DSP.  I put plenty of glue on the backside. (Stampin' Up! glue is perfect for covering these composition books.)  

Other items I used to decorate the cover are:
Alphabet Simple Letters and 3" circle sizzix dies,

Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Pretty in Pink, and Melon Mambo cardstock,

Antique and metallic brads,

Victoria Crochet trim,

retired felt and crochet flowers,

Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Seude and Pear Pizzaz inks.

Stamp sets: 

French Foliage, Artistic Etchings, Elements of Style,

Delicate Doilies, Notes and Details, In a Word (retired).

Inside the journal some items I added:

a card from the kids, the year after their dad's cancer,

inspirational cards, ATCs from swaps,

letters from my mom and grandmother,

and hairstyles from the past years.  (My hair was much thicker then. Lol)

Thanks for joining us this month.
Leave a comment for me, and on Monday a randomly picked commenter will win an assortment of items like those I used to decorate this journal!

If you want to go to the beginning of the swap, go to VC Rocks Blog.