I promised to try to update here often and with limited data on my internet plan, it makes it hard. I will be back here more after the 16th to update some but thought I would add a few photos to get you started on making junk journals
I had these old old 1931 Funk & Waggnal Encyclopedias and they were beginning to dry rot so I took them apart and kept a few pages that had pictures to glue into new pages. I mainly wanted to salvage the covers to use for my new junk journals. Here is the beginning stage.
The original color was red and has been hard to cover up to change the colors. But first I measured it to be able to get the pages inside and the inside layer of the cover the correct size. These books were a little larger than 9x6 inches so I cut the pages a tiny bit smaller and the inside lining right at 9x6.
Next I glued the lining inside. I used off white quilt fabric. I used modge podge to glue it in.
It was quite messy. After they dried, then I painted all the outsides with white gesso.
As you can see the red dye from the covers bled through the gesso.
Next week, I will show photos of the afters of some of the covers after I painted and dry brushed and added trim. A big difference in looks.
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