Awhile back (circa 2008), I made this little art journal from my junk mail. I gathered all the little postcards and card stock weight ads that collected near my computer, cut the larger ones down to size (approximately 4″ x 6″).  I punched and bound them into a little book.  *The photo above shows the plain book right after binding.  There are 11 cards bound into the book – one folds out to double its size.

Here are some of the finished pages:

I decided to play around with some of my paper scraps and see what developed.  This page was made from scrapbook papers, newspaper clippings, a sticker, stamping, doodles, Indian ink pens, a paint marker, and sparkly gel pens (the entire fish is colored with sparkle).

Just magazine and catalog bits glued to a piece of junk mail, with a bit of doodles thrown in for good measure.

I started cutting skulls from magazines and catalogs, and pasted them on the page. I added a layer of gesso tinted with a drop of blue acrylic paint to blend the background layer. I then drew skulls with pens and markers on pieces of junk mail and paper scraps, and pasted them all over the page.

This page is made up of collage, paint and doodles. All of the text was cut from junk mail. The doodles were drawn on the pattern side of security envelopes from junk mail. The page itself started out as a sales postcard.

This was one of the first pages I worked on.  It features a collage of scrapbook paper and magazine clippings, with acrylic paint, Indian ink and paint pens.

I have a large collection of journals,  junk journals, notebooks, and doodle books.  I hope to have time to feature more pages from them soon!