365 Days of Junk Journaling Ideas

On January 1st, Kate Marshall of Inked Paper Art began a new 2025 series entitled "365 Days of Junk Journal Ideas."

Two great things about these:

          They're blessedly short, most are around 15 minutes, very infrequently going more than 20 minutes YAAAAY! - (though as she continues along, she's getting longer and longer....) 

          She shows you clearly what to do and doesn't give a lot of unnecessary chit-chat or long pauses while she thinks or looks for something.

I'm taking it upon myself to watch and annotate them all.

Day 1:  Making Faux Aged Tape using transparent Scotch tape and alcohol ink.

Day 2:  7 Pockets out of one 8 1/2 x 11 inch double-sided paper.  One is a 5-pocket glue-onto-page and there are 2 leftover triangles for corner pockets on another page or pages.

Day 3:  Making a blended background using flicked water over distressed/blended papers.  

Day 4:  Making a 12 x 12 collage master board and how she cuts and uses them

Day 5:  Using upcycled photo slides to create a dangling charm.

Day 6:  Making floating pockets and tabs.  I did!  Here's the front and back:

        

Day 7:  Making Shaker Journaling Cards.  Lace is the covering that you look through to see the shaker "bits" as she calls them.  She can numerous ideas for what the bits might be.

Day 8: How to Use Your Scraps for Paper Dangles. She piles six layers of different scrappy papers (the first/largest is a good-sized bookmark size) and grommets them together at the top.

Day 9:  How to Make Pretty, Layered Stuffed Pockets. Four pockets lined up, one above the other, then pasted down so that the entire creation becomes a big pocket.

Day 32:  How to Make Vintage Wallpaper Pockets.  These are almost like a "coin envelope" more than a pocket....But she gives a few hints about working with wallpaper.

Day 75:  How to Make Large Page Pocket Tucks.  She used 8 x 8 paper.  These are the pockets for yesterday's altered BINGO cards.

Day 97:  How to Make Easy Pockets with what's on my desk.  Easy indeed!  4  x 4 3/4 with a punch top, layered collage and a focal point to decorate.  Easy Peasy, but really effective.

Day 99:  How to Make One Sheet Wonder Botanist Sticker Jnl. Cards....Using a cut-up sheet of 12 x 12 paper and one scrap with one torn book page and one botanical sticker, journal cards are created - quite a few of them!

Day 104:  How to Take Apart Books for Harvesting & Journal Covers.  I learned so much from this short video....especially that the page before and after a sewn-in signature are glued!  Two pages that are sewn in and come out as one is called a folio.  Lots of tips and good info here!