Junk Journal

My version of the popular Smash Journal
I found a tutorial for making a "Junque Journal" on YouTube and decided to make one of my own. I crumpled paper in the book starting at first with doing the pages that I wanted to put scrapbook paper on so that the page wasn't flat when I inked it. I used about 26 pieces of scrapbook paper cut to size and glued to pages in the book. Than I crumpled and inked the rest of the pages. I used 5 different ribbons to hold the pages to the cover, one in the center and two on each side spaced out and tied tight. Finally I gesso'd and painted my cover and back than wrote You Are Here with an arrow pointing to the word Imagination. On the back I wrote the same thing in Japanese characters (at least that's what google.com/translate said it was, so if it's not right than I apologize but I really hope it is correct). I had a lot of fun putting this journal together and have already started putting some things in it and look forward to filling it up. I really don't know how long it took to put the whole thing together because I took several breaks and did it over a three day period but I do know that inking each page was the longest part of the process.