Western Look Journal

HRH got this advertisement pkg about a special edition truck.  In the pkg was a small 5X8 sized booklet with quite a heavy black stamped and carved look leather cover.  Inside the booklet, the pages looked like an old photo album and had a table of contents and five chapters about the truck.  I glommed on to the booklet and threw it in my journal making stash.
A few days ago, I ran onto the booklet.  I pulled out my b/w image stash and put a round image on the front to cover up the truck ad title.  I had to keep going once that occured.  I decided to search my stash for "western" themed pictures.  I really do not have much of that but found enough to cover up the printed parts of the booklet.
After playing with this booklet for a few days, here is the end of it.  I love it!

The cover with a second more western type image readded, a concho and some leather and some brown stained lace.

Inside cover and table of contents page...

Chapter one... can't you see the light areas covered up with sepia ink writing?

A spread using some old pattern papers and an image...

A coloring book image and old pattern paper...

Found images, a paper napkin...And these pages open from the center to make a four page spread...

The two photos above is of the four page spread.  I added the "ladies of the west" to pages.  You get to see some of the beauty of UT in the background so I of course left that!

Oh, whoops, this is the pages that open to the center spread...

I like that there is lots of light color left for journaling on most of the pages.  

One could write their own story...

I did leave the chapter titles... I kinda of liked the idea of designated chapters...

And I left the left side because the graphic is lovely and I by now I am running out of resource western type images...

Last pages... wish you could see the tooled leather look to the inside back cover...

And the back cover... the end.

This was a fun journal to make and I love that it is made from junk mail!