Junk Journal Time 📚
What a great way to use up your scrap paper!
A Junk Journal is a handmade book of recycled and found materials and
ephemera. The pages can be used to write, draw, paint or record
memories, thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.
The best part is you can create with reckless abandon as the journal
will become your unique piece. Also, you won’t be wasting expensive
materials. Materials for a junk journal are always found or recycled so
they are sustainable and eclectic!
You can also choose a “theme” for your materials. For example:
- include things in only one or two colours;
- edge all the pages in the same coloured ink/paint/coffee stain;
- using only fashion themed magazines, tags, packaging;
- found materials only with animals or plants/botanicals;
- cut, stamp, stamp and draw lots of heart shapes throughout, etc.
Junk journals can also have fold out flaps, tabs, pockets, windowed pages and other dimensional features. The junk journal, and the contents of it, are unique. This results in a fascinating work of art and/or useful item that reveals something about the person who created it.
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