A sort of junque journal

Maybe. I purchased this 8x6 kind of arty/journal book

that lays flat. Had one prior and retired it.

Way too much bulk.

So I'm bringing my new found knowledge to bear

on this journal book.

My problem is this.

I believe I'm having trouble rolling from scrapbooking

to junque journal. Because well, it looks like a

scrapbook page and I couldn't help myself. 

LOL.

 My thought is to make this little album about

the campgrounds we stay in.

Put in their information, in a random chaotic way,

and maybe give a critique or two.

And then to do it as we go.

Like live.

We'll see how long that lasts LOL.

So to kick it off, I traced this US cork thing I had

and then drew the state lines. 

It's not so much about accuracy. Just sayin...

And well what better background than the flag.

I was a tad impatient in the drying, or lack thereof, process.

I believe I also used every.single.one of my "on the road, journey

road trip stamps" on one page 😉using random

things and not very geographically correct in any way, shape or form.

 But Fun!

Anyhoo, Yogi Bear's Yellowstone Park is up first.

It's were "Our Odyssey" started.

Tom came up with that and I'm totally stealing it.

So I gessoed the next couple of pages (too) and

honestly being TOTALLY NEW in the Junque Journal

end of things I didn't do anything else to the page.

It's just gessoed.

 But using my matte gel I did the whole

page and then matte gelled over everything to

adhere it to the page.

 Not too many embellies and added journaling

which was tough over the gesso/matte

because I don't think I waited for it to dry.

Next we stayed in Boomtown as you can see

and because it was a casino campground I went a bit

wild with the colors.

Dylusions to be exact. 

For my RV pals out there - casinos can be your friend.

A lot of them have RV camps inexpensive and sometimes comp'd

which not only was out camp comp'd (say that 3x's fast)

so was the buffet and what a delicious buffet that was.

I also got to use some crazy green colors I've had stashed.

Tonight we are in Vicksburg, MS and what a cool town.

We were here in 2017 and totally loved it here

and the history will just blow you away.

 This is another casino campground and we stayed

here in 2017 and it's a lovely camp.

Quiet with some green stuff around.

So I got to use some crazy green things in my stash

with the paperwork from Ameristar.

So there's gonna be some ugly stuff going on til I figure it out junque

and scrapbooking LOL.

I'm okay with that because I really want to

document the campgrounds. We stay in so many and it's

hard to remember things about them unless they're truly remarkable.

So after I make a fun Junque Journal - I'll probably make

just a boring list for quick referral.

I should probably just make the list - 

but where's the fun in that.