Hunky Junky Journals

I have been gelli printing recycled paper like a mad woman for my journal signatures sewn on the treadle sewing machine. This in turn creates brayers full of delicious paint that can't be wasted. So I roll them off into my hunky delicious junky composition book journal. This has been a really quick way to get color on pages (no planning). 

One journal essentially feeds and creates layers in another. I have also been gleaning up the last vestiges of paint from the gelli plate on deli papers. This ends up creating delicious layers of thin paper and paint that can be gelled into my jiffy mailer journal. So I have three (or so) journals going at one time. It took a bit of time to get this cycle going, felt awkward at first, but now it's flowing and feeding my art lust!!!  It sounds like a lot but I can work on it in small steps and as time permits. So I don't have to commit large blocks of time to the process. This also lets me recycle! Recycle! Recycle! Anything coming off my art table...which I love.

I disliked my handwriting, so writing with taller, more elongated, slightly slanted, curly tailed letters has resulted in handwriting, while not perfect, makes me happy and I can now write in my journals.

The journal page below is one that I am digging from my hunky junky composition journal. The background was created from paint cleaned off several stencils with a baby wipe, a leftover die cut flower from an ATC swap, a silhouette from a magazine ad and part of a verse that I love and scribbled onto the page. 

So what's going on in your junk journals? Love to hear. Comments? Ideas? Requests?

Here's wishing you fun, color, and light in your day. 

Happy art my friends ❤️
Dawn