Embellishment Heaven CJ

My Circle Journal from UKS, 'Embellishment Heaven', came home a while ago but I only remembered to photograph it today.   When the CJ was set up I didn't use very many embellishments on my scrapbook pages so I asked the other 9 ladies to do layouts using embellishments so that I could see what I might do.  Since then I have acquired mounds of embellishments which I use on layouts.  However I have found new ideas in the CJ and it has given me some sample layouts to scraplift as well.  I just have to find the photos I want to put in the book and then it will be finished.

Thank you to all the ladies in the Eternal Circle CJ on UKS

Junque Journal

I signed up to do the Art Journal Caravan and on the forum discovered a link to some videos on YouTube on how to make a Junque Journal.

So here is my Junque Journal made from a notebook, some scrapbooking papers I was never going to use on a layout and some distress inks.   In the supermarket today I found the excellent mini foldback clips and the paper clips shaped like hands and feet.

So here's the cover and what it looks like from the outside:

And now some of the pages inside:

The Junque Journal is for keeping all sorts of bits and pieces that you want to keep but aren't really for display.   It's about the things we collect that remind us of events or activities in our lives.

Wreck this Journal

A very bemused Roger bought me this book for Christmas.   I hate writing in or on books ~ to the extent that if I lend a book to someone I can only write my name in pencil.   When I was doing 'A' level English Lit. I had to buy two copies of the T.S. Eliot book of poems - one to write notes on and the other one to read.

So this book is a real creative challenge.  Here are some of the pages I've done so far.

And then around the edge: