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The Little red book

January 23, 2017 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

Red is my favorite color. Even from my earliest years, red was the first color out of the crayon box. I’ve wanted to make a little art journal with a red theme for some time now and decided the time was right after I found these index cards at a used book sale. The cardstock …

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Filed Under: collage art, gluebook, junk journal, paint & ink, rubber stamping Tagged With: art journal, collage book, glue book, vintage junk journal

Junk journal from a cognac box

December 25, 2016 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

“Do you want to do something with this box?” A few months ago in October, my husband received a bottle of Martell cognac in beautiful packaging. Interestingly enough it was he who put the box in my hands and asked if I wanted to do something with it. It hadn’t even crossed my mind, but yes, …

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Filed Under: collage art, gluebook, junk journal

For the littlest journal artist

December 23, 2016 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

This Christmas I’m gifting a few of my nieces and nephews little junk journals. Inspiration from several talented craft artists gave me the idea to make the covers from candy boxes. I have so much interesting paper of all different types that it took me just a few minutes to gather enough for several small …

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Filed Under: activities, junk journal, kids crafts

Another mail-art junk journal

December 11, 2016 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

I’ve been receiving so many postcards and beautiful envelopes filled with such lovely mail art that I decided I needed a “book” to contain it all. That the was the inspiration for putting together this junk journal. In addition to that, I’ve been steadily going through my postage stamps and when I found blocks or …

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Filed Under: collage art, gluebook, junk journal, mail art, rubber stamping

Adding pages to my US stamp journal

November 30, 2016 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

I can honestly say that it has been tremendous fun working on pages and adding content to this vintage US postal stamp junk journal that I made. I brought it along with me to the San Jose Stamp Show a few weeks ago and sat down with a local stamp dealer who helped me locate …

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Filed Under: collage art, gluebook, junk journal, stamp art

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