Two Projects Completed - Photo Heavy

A while back I posted about painting an old book cover and binding vintage papers inside . . . 

At some point, I started gluing things into that journal but then set it aside.

Last week I rediscovered it and started gluing more things into it.

I found this fun graphic in a retrospective article on Jell-O and couldn't resist including it.

A page from an old Sears catalog and a bit from a cut apart doily.

Paper lace and map scrap on one side, old nine-cent stamps and a ledger paper scrap tucked in a glassine slip-sleeve on the other.

There's a long-ish quote written inside the note card that's tucked into the envelope. A reproduction vintage postcard graces the other side.

There are a lot more pages in the journal but these illustrate the vibe and look. 

Seeing the Journal of YES finished makes me happy.

And at some point I had started another accordion journal which is also now finished.  I didn't start out to create two different journals with essentially the same color palette, but that is how things ended up.  Some things can't be pre-planned.

The entire blank journal was first collaged with a wide mix of security envelope papers.

(note - the three landscape photos will need to be double-clicked to see more detail)

Here's a peek at another section of the journal . . . 

And here's a third section.

Desktop calendar pages, stickers, magazine cut outs, paint chips, ticket stubs, altered slides, washi tape, punch out shapes, and so much more were included the Secret Garden journal.

I think this spread might be one of my favorites  in the whole journal since I used to collect teddy bears and had an old one like this that my maternal grandmother won as a child at a street fair.

Here you can see more of the scrappy envelope background, along with one of Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairies, and a glassine sleeve with goodies tucked inside and out.

I like this spread a lot, especially the scrap from an Aflac envelope.

(can you guess which one it is? look for the duck's footprints. . . )

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With both of these finished, I hope to move back into the sewing studio.

(although there's a stalled Nancy Drew altered book project that I've finally figured out how I want to continue on with that might become my evening playtime. . . )

Busy rest of the week/weekend so I probably won't post again until next Monday.

Quiltdivajulie

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"In the end, she became more than what she expected.  She became the journey, and like all journeys, she did not end; she just simply changed directions and kept going."

R.M. Drake