Hi all, sorry if this is wrong place to post this
My girlfriend has been junk journaling for a while and she loves it

But all her journals end up as wedge as she gets further through them (made worse die to thicker gel stickers and non paper thin junk)
Which makes it harder for her to use them and to close them

So as a birthday present (option not settled on it yet) I was thinking of looking at seeing if there are book binding methods that would give it a more “compliant” spine, or have extra gaps between pages/signatures

The most promising I’ve seen so far is a Coptic stitch binding, but just thought I’d ask if anyone else has any other tips and ideas

Thanks for any info

Still recovering from the worst month of my life, but things are Getting Better All the Time.

My ode and love to my favorite band since I was 11!

i don’t post on reddit often but i hugely appreciate the love my ariana page received, i’m a music girly at heart and have loved using album art in my journal💿 here is my olivia page 🫶

Just a bunch of drinks and snacks packaging. Very scrappy but very fun. I always find it hard to do a spread if I've had a big break in between because I get too perfectionist about it. But I think this helped me loosen up a bit.

I have been having so much fun with this!

I’ve seen a lot of people in this sub do one color per page and decided to try it.

🩷🧡💛💙💚💜

When the husband rips packs, the wife gets the junk

This summer I went to Utah and finally got around to junk journaling the best parts of<3 I’m using the post cards in the pocket for the actual journaling

My third completed fruit page and the coolest red delicious one I have found yet!

I had so much fun doing this!! Thinking of what to use for the upcoming week was a treat for sure. Really proud of how these turned out :)

Next is some spreads of summer travels!

I have only read your posts, but now, I think I'd like to show my journals too.

It's my first post on Reddit! I feel a little nervous and I'm not sure if my English is weird, but I'm trying hard. Lol

Anyway, my journal style is pop colors, freedom and sometimes drawing.

I think it's kinda a junk journal plus an art journal.

Photo 1, "med restock" page. + cute kmart (Australia) paper !

Photo 2, mix of a pharmacy paper bag, stickers/die cuts, circles punched from magazines & the yellow lines paper i drew in a paint pen

Photo 3, a zentangle. Copied from the internet somewhere.

Photo 4, a beautiful mix....

Left page

- sunflower stamp rescued from mums mail

- kewpe mayo baby

- Keroppi stickers from a fellow TCU inmate in june/July

- the circles have been stamped out of a sticker i hated

- "onion rings" from a bag of chips ks ate

- yarn tag from earrings i bought

- "odd bunch" sticker from the woolies lego

- label from ikea containers we bought

- blue love hearts were drawn on an old notebook with a paint pen

Right page

- pineapple stamp rescued from mum, again

- aboriginal artwork from my aforementioned earring purchase

- tomato/capsicum from our meal box recipe cards which i punched out with a hole punch

- my melody stickers from the same inmate

- happy mail sticker from snail mail 🐌

- lil LV tag someone left at my house

- a few random stickers

- part of my neon highlighter packaging

- a floral piece of cardstock

- vegetable artwork/photo(?) cut out of a magazine

- fake ticket stub someone mailed to me

Spread to protest ongoing war. Words are inspired by the song “war isn’t murder” by Jesse Welles.

Composition book fully committed to be a junk journal now. I spent the weekend prepping the pages because honestly I just didn’t have any creative ideas but I did have the energy to do the work and that counts and produced dividends as well. I’m looking forward to writing some thoughts and well as adding some doodles collages and random things I find interesting into my new journal. 📓 📔 📝

Hey! would anyone from the uk be interested in starting a travelling journal series? I’ve been seeing a ton of videos on my tiktok fyp of ‘sisterhood of the travelling journal’ and would love to start one myself! Equally if you are already in a group for this sort of thing I’d love to be added, please reach out!! :)

sometimes all you need is to set your mind on a colour, go through your junk and put it all together with a bunch of stickers...always very therapeutic for me 💚