Week 2 of My Junk Journal July Experience: Prompts 8-14
Wow – week 2 already! If nothing else, a month long challenge shows you how fast time really flies! I worked through this week’s prompt and tried to keep things simple – but fun. You can see a quick run through of how I put together each page in the video below.
Be sure to see how the other amazing artists are interpreting the prompts. Meg from Meg Journals has put together a playlist here. *Oh, and I hope you stick around to see my contribution to the challenge on Day 22!
Day 8: Brown Paper
I love brown paper. It’s one of my favorite go-tos for masterboards or collage or backgrounds. I think because it looks vintagey and does wonders to bring a page together. For this prompt, I just took some brown paper and made a pocket with it. I decided to grunge it up a bit by crumpling it and then turned down the edge to make it easier to get things in and out of.
Day 9: Balance
Balance could’ve taken many different forms, but I decided to use a fussy cut of this vintage lady in a magazine ad for mine. The globe I cut from an old children’s encyclopedia and balanced her on top! The entire time I was putting this page together I had “sitting on top of the world” in my head, so I just stamped out the words and added them to the page. This was a fun one, and I think my favorite from the week.
Day 10: Stripped Back
This prompt made me think of tearing paper off a present, or removing wallpaper from a wall. I don’t know why, that’s just how my brain works. 🤣 Using marbled paper backed with some more of that brown paper I tore a hole in it so you could see a mushroom illustration from an old book. Of course I had to add some additional embellishments before finishing that up!
Day 11: Paper Samples
Almost every prompt I do feels like it could fit this prompt! I start a lot of my pages by just gluing down different papers to the page – little samples of paper everywhere! So, that’s how this one started, and I added a layer of gesso (and dabbed some off!). After it dried, I added some random writing. Using my die cut machine, I cut circles from every size I had out of different papers. I don’t even think I knew what I was going to do at this point, the page came together pretty organically! I glued them all down in a kind of bullseye configuration, and loved how layered they looked.
The page really didn’t seem done at this point, so I found some gelli prints I had used to make stickers and added them to the circles. Now it was looking a little like a flower – and I love that! I finished it off with some loose tracing lines and random marks. Ta-dah!
Day 12: Gratitude
I keep a list of gratitude in my planner, so I thought it would be fun creating a whole page for it. Using some scrap lace, I made a side-pocket for the page. Then I made a journaling card with a vintage postcard and some ledger paper. The postcard needed to be cut down to fit inside the pocket and I added some fabric to the edge for fun. I attached the 2 papers using a brad, and now you can swing the postcard aside to journal out some gratitude.
Day 13: Details
To be honest, this one stumped me at first. I guess if I would’ve really thought about it – most of my pages have details, so I could’ve created anything! But, I decided to go with doodled details! I took a gelli print I had done on a book page as my background, and then added some squares using my favorite white gel pen. Then in each block, I doodled. Yep, just doodled! Leaning into lines, dots, squiggles and all sorts of mark making, I filled up each block with a different doodle. This can be kind of meditative!
Day 14: Torn
Bringing this week in for a landing, the prompt “torn” had me thinking of kintsugi. So I found a book illustration and torn it into pieces! Ok – pieces big enough where I could put it back together. I painted my journal page with a metallic bronze paint and then glued the illustration pieces on with space between the tear lines. I added a little of the paint onto the tops of the tears to enhance it a bit.
My 2nd week went by fast, but I enjoyed the prompts again this week! If you’d like to see a visual overview of how I created each page, you can check out the video above. Let me know in the comments if you are doing Junk Journal July! You can see my 1st week experience here.
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