Junk Journaling

I have started doing a little bit of junk journaling in my regular journal. I tried to do this before in previous years’ journals but it always felt like such a chore. But this year? Something has unlocked in my brain and I am finding it fun. Not sure what has changed between the past and now, but I have been enjoying adding some creativity to my journal.

So, what is junk journaling? It’s a kind of scrapbooking where you just use junk. Did you go shopping today? Do you have a receipt or a shopping bag? Perfect, if you stick it in a notebook, then you are on your way to junk journaling.

My junk journaling isn’t the traditional sense of junk journaling because I don’t really use junk. But I suppose I haven’t really been doing things where I have accumulated “junk”. Junk doesn’t necessarily mean rubbish; it can be anything you have from that day that you think would fit in your journal. I mostly print photos from my phone and then use decorative stickers and things to pad out my pages.

I don’t have a ton of supplies for junk journaling, I just use what I have gotten from sticker planning so my pages look a little sparse sometimes. Though I did recently pick up a few sticker packs from AliExpress to help. But I think it’s the kind of thing that I can build up over time. I am not going to go full-speed ahead and just start buying lots of stickers and things just because. Especially since I’ve already done that before with sticker planning, and it ended up turning into a very expensive hobby lol. So I am trying to use what I have for now and see where we go.

Ideally, I would love to do full page spreads which are no white-space and have all the deco but baby steps. Plus, I might end up doing that and hating it, so you never know.

Some spreads have turned out better than others, which happens. I think it’s a combination of deco bits and how I have layered them but it’s a very trust-the-process kind of thing to do. You start with a blank page and add things as you go and it can turn out pretty or messy but either way it’s something and part of the journey.

So I just wanted to make a little blog post to share some of the spreads I have done this year. I usually mark days where I have done something special or if I happen to have a lot of photos from the event. And while creating these spreads, I have also found joy in creating YouTube Shorts. So, in case you are wondering what all my content this year is going to be, it’s going to be this lol. Don’t know if I will share anymore spreads on my blog but I definitely check out my YouTube channel for more Shorts on me creating them!