JUNK MAIL JOURNAL

July 26

Tusk & Cup Fine Coffee

 where a handful of artists met

to share their talents...

I have never made a junk mail journal....but I

had so much fun doing this!  The pages in the journal are

from business ads, restaurant mailers, envelopes, computer paper....

I'm giving you the page by page

so you can see how fun it is.  

Created from Junk Mail

The cover is from a grocery bag 

and part of a cardboard 

coffee cup holder with the 

Tusk & Cup logo

The bee is a rubber stamp

 The inside cover

I added a tag w/ a paper bead, and photos of

sunflowers I took a couple of years ago

and a napkin sunflower added at bottom

On the left I covered the page with

a piece of scrapbook paper and

collaged a flower from a napkin

and stamped the bee

On the right I had this wonderful little piece

that I glued to an envelope, "Be gining"

On the envelope on the left, I

slipped a piece of printed paper

into the window and stamped a coffee cup

top and bottom ( it says coffee right below

the word Up)

On the right hand page is a piece of advertising

from Paris with a map and I added the words

"Choose your own adventure...."

On the left is an ad from H & R Block

and over it I collaged a copy from a piece in

one of my other journals and added the border top

and bottom

On the right is an advertisement from

a restaurant.  The art was already nice on

this so I left it as is

On the left is the back side of the

restaurant mailing to which I added the

lobster and the border pieces, top and bottom

On the right is a really nice napkin with

lots of fruit on it and I took a piece of

scrap paper sheet music and stamped

the pear and added it to the page

On the left is a nun (obviously) carrying

a can of paint and I added the checkerboard scrap

and stamped the left and right side like a keyboard

also added a piece of webbing that is meant for...Halloween

On the right is a painting of a pig that I like

 Here I've added a page for notes and 

half of a paper doily

 This is the center of the book

with the doily and another piece of

art from another journal, cut with a 

scalloped edge

The other side of the doily and on

the right I collaged the heart, words and the

lovebirds at the bottom

On a piece of mail that says "Grand Opening"

at the top, I added this photo of the beautiful stained glass

window in a cathedral I had saved from a NY Times...

and to my own amusement and, perhaps irony, it

lists the "business hours" at the bottom

On the right is a small manila envelope that 

I stamped and taped with the polka dot tape to the page 

and when you flip the envelope over....

I glued a photo I had saved from a magazine

of this old, beautiful door and on the right

I glued to the other half of the H & R Block ad

a business card of someone who makes handbags 

out of books and there is some green grass 

tissue paper, a rubber stamp of a vine and a 

small piece (vertically) of flowers

 On the left is a photo from a magazine

of some beautifully done plates...

I happen to like the artist and on the right

is the other half of an envelope.  I put

a card in the window that says "Life Is Good"...we've

all seen that expression on t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.

and I added the bicycle stamp and doodled 

a bit on it

 The disk on the left is collaged to

the back of the envelope.  It's a piece I found in

my stash of part of a napkin that I put on the disk...a 

great find for this piece and on the right is an architectural 

drawing of an estate

and last but not least....

On the left I painted the paper, made

a pocket with the other half of the cardboard

cup holder and stuck in a "Tusk" debit card

and on the right just finished it with my name.

Ok....I can't wait to do another one!!!!