So on the 2nd Jan I watched a Lindsay Ostrom YouTube video and it inspired me to make a junk journal for January. I didn’t actually follow her tutorials or anything but instead used some old Roald Dahl books that I had already taken pages from for other art journal work and created this journal. I was sorting out old papers on the day and found a couple of pouches of old magazine kits (crafters companion and indigo Blu ones) and popped them together along with other scraps to make a pouch for grabbing to decorate each page.
Each day I have done some free writing journaling and just scribbled what was in my mind at the time and then in the main it is then covered by the papers and scraps. Generally each page takes about 10-15 mins.
I’ve really enjoyed the scribbling of random thoughts – I know how much this can help with my anxiety and questioning my thoughts – so it’s been good for me – plus it really doesn’t matter what I wrote as I knew I was covering it up.
I used the same box of tricks for each page – a mix of sharpie paint pens and gelatos – and then most pages were constructed using the same papers from magazine kits – occasionally added to with other scraps of paper that I had to hand!
I didn’t manage every day and not the best art journal in the world – but a good arty project and a valuable lesson in taking just a short amount of time to create and to journal my thoughts – not sure I will do this for other months – but maybe something similar in future months when I want to be arty again!
I’ve done a talking flip through which you can see over on my YouTube.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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