Last week (1 day after my birthday) I received the June 2024 Your Creative Studios subscription box!!! Due to traveling it took me a week to get it into the studio to play with the theme... As usual I didn't and won't do much talking in this mostly just tearing, cutting, gluing and pasting. It's a longer than most, lately I just seemed to putter and take my time enjoying the collage play.

This month's theme is floral with several sets of papers with lacy edges and floral designs...I didn't do an unboxing because there are a plethora of "Your Creative Studios" unboxing so do a search and give these other creatives some cred...   / @butterflyblessingsstudio   is one who does several unboxings of monthly subscription boxes curated with creatives on mind.

This collage is created in my "Your Creative Studios" Art Journal/Glue Book. I use this journal specifically for making collages with materials I receive each month in a subscription box I get from Amanda at "Your Creative Studios." I got the idea for making and using this type of glue book from a video by creator Nina Ribina (    • Let’s Make A Journal Using Your Creat...   ). I really enjoy watching her videos, she's very personable, creative and she does pretty solid compositions.

Most of the pages in my YCS glue book are from repurposed junk mail. The cover is made from a cereal box, paper grocery bag and packing tissue from a YCS subscription box. Most of the collage materials are from a single current month's YCS although I occasionally supplement with materials from previous YCS boxes and even rarer from my personal stash of repurposed mail, packaging, periodicals, books, decorative papers, stickers and vintage ephemera.

If you're ever in the Sacramento area please visit my studio at Artistic Edge Framing and Gallery, you may even catch me painting, drawing, printing or carving...just approach quietly as I may be shooting video as I work...