You can then share your makes in a Facebook group or by using a special hashtag. Or you might see YouTubers and Instagrammers running challenges for you to join in with like mass making challenges or using up your junk mail. Join a junk journal Facebook group ( like this one!), for instance, and you might be tasked with creating anything from tags and clusters to full-blown junk journals, often following some guidelines or a particular theme. Youtube, Facebook and Instagram are full of junk journal challenges if you know where to look – and they can be a great source of inspiration to get you out of a creative rut. Here’s my take on the boho theme for my recently completed botanical boho junk journal: But generally speaking, opt for rich jewel colours like reds, oranges, golds, purples, blues, greens and pinks and lots of charms, dangles and bling – and you can’t really go wrong! In my opinion, all of those people are right as boho can be this hodgepodge of different things. While others think boho is all about colour and lots of it. Others think Indian sari fabrics and trims work well for boho. Some see it as anything that involves traveller or gypsy images. It’s a little hard to define as it can be interpreted in different ways. In the junk journal world, boho is a type of theme or aesthetic. Use paperclips, hinge clips, safety pins or bulb pins to do so – easy peasy! Boho You can add charms or dangles to the tops of tags, use them to embellish your front covers, hang them from tabs and ruffles on the side of a page, or even along the spine of your journal. Whether you decide to upcycle some old jewellery, a vintage brooch or even a keyring, you can never add too much bling to a junk journal. My boho junk journal looking very “blingy” RELATED: The Intriguing History Of Junk Journals Junk Journal Glossary: An A-Z List To Help You Figure Out All Those Confusing Acronyms and Jargon Long story short, your junk journal is for you. As for me? I have a botanical junk journal that I’m using to record my findings about flowers and plants I like. You might want to use a junk journal as a daily diary or somewhere to record poetry or song lyrics that mean something to you. In other words, a junk journal is whatever you want it to be and can be made out of whatever you think looks good and will be useful to you. Here’s my definition: “A junk journal is a book that’s made (usually by hand) out of found and recycled materials, such as packaging, junk mail, paper scraps, book pages, music sheets, maps, illustrations, and ephemera (think stamps, ticket stubs, postcards, greeting cards, fussy cut pictures, etc), and is a place where one can record their thoughts, ideas, memories, and musings.” According to Urban Dictionary, a junk journal is “a book handmade from memorabilia/ephemera/photos out of recycled or vintage material significant or visually appealing to the intended owner.”īut that sounds a little too dry for my liking.
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