Junk Journals

Creative team member Heidi McGregor created this gorgeous junk journal using ‘Merry And Bright’, ‘Dreaming Of Christmas papers’ and various other ephemera. Another work of art from this extremely talented girl! The one who won this journal (it was a giveaway), is very lucky 🙂

Here are some pictures:

Heidi used this junk journal kit:

She also used this paper pack:

I hope this junk journal inspired you to create your own Christmas themed journals.

Have a great day,

Anja

Lynne Morgado from Mocking Bird And Main is new on my design team and she has finished her first Design Team project for me, or should I say ‘projects’, because Lynne didn’t make 1 but several mini junk journals (and isn’t that necklace so cute?)! For that she used The Powers Of Time junk journal kit and lots of lace. Here’s the video!

You can also watch it on Youtube here.

And here are some stills:

The Powers Of Time Junk Journal Kit is available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Follow Lynne here: Youtube | Etsy | Instagram

I hope this video inspired you for your own paper craft projects or junk journals!

Have a great day,

Anja

Liz Caranci from the creative team used ‘A Walk In The Forest’ Junk Journal Kit to create this beautiful folio style junk journal / ephemera holder. It has many tuck spots, pockets and hidden spots to hold ephemera. Watch the video below or go to her Youtube channel.

Liz also used my Vintage Trees Cards and some of the Autumn Breeze Printables. Here are the links (just click on the name of the product)!

A Walk In The Forest Junk Journal Kit

CU Vintage Findings No8 - Trees In France

Autumn Breeze Envelopes
Autumn Breeze Bingo Cards
Autumn Breeze Note Cards
Autumn Breeze Tags
Or buy the bundle and save $$$ if you want all 4 packs!

Have a great day,

Anja

Heidi McGregor and Sheila May have each made a junk journal using my ‘A Tale Of Knights And Ladies’ Junk Journal Kit. Both journals are so different. While Sheila stayed more with the original pages, Heidi went with a Camelot themed journal and used A LOT of fabric, lace and various ephemera.

Heidi’s ‘Camelot’ themed journal

Here are some pictures:

Sheila’s medieval themed journal with wooden covers, a mica window and Ethiopian stitch binding

Here are some pictures from Sheila’s album:

Link to the kit (click on the title to go to my shop)

A Tale Of Knights And Ladies Junk Journal Kit

Related Items

‘A Tale Of Knights And Ladies’ was created with papers and embellishments from the ‘A Song Of Kings And Queens’ digital scrapbooking collection (along with some other things). Here are the links to purchase this huge collection:

A Song Of Kings And Queens Bundle (for digital scrapbookers)

A Song Of Kings And Queens Kit (for digital scrapbookers)

All papers and embellishments are separately available.

A Song Of Kings And Queens Printable Kit (for hybrid scrappers and paper crafters)

I hope you are feeling inspired by the videos!

Have a great day,

Anja

I couldn’t resist making a junk journal kit from my latest release, A Song Of Kings And Queens, and the result is: A Tale Of Knights And Ladies. Inspired by lords and ladies, magic and mystery, knights in shining armour, fairy tales and dragons, this medieval themed romantic junk journal kit uses shabby textures, vintage imagery and Pre-Raphaelite art with loads of writing space. It has quite a few alternative pages and backgrounds and a large variety of embellishments, so can fully customize your journal. It was also inspired by the popular TV show ‘Game Of Thrones’, but I’ve left out any specific references to it. This kit was designed to make a 5.5 x 8.5 junk journal. As a bonus, I’ve included most of the embellishments as PNG files, so you can use them in your digital projects, or to design your own journal pages to print.

A Tale Of Knights And Ladies is 25% off through August 11th.

See what’s included:

Have a great day,

Anja

Creative team member Heidi Mc Gregor used The Bee’s Knees Junk Journal Kit to create this stunning, breathtakingly beautiful journal, with lots of layering, grunged up edges and lace, with an incredible eye for detail. Wath the flip through below or go to Heidi’s Youtube channel.

Here are some stills:

I hope this journal has inspired you for your own junk journal adventures!

The Bee’s Knees Junk Journal Kit is available here: Etsy | Oscraps

If you are a digital scrapbooker, then you might like the digital scrapbooking kit that I used to create the junk journal kit, it’s called ‘Bee My Honey’ and you grab it here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

And for hybrid scrapbookers, I have made a printable version of this digital scrapbooking kit, available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Have a great day,

Anja

Creative Team Heidi McGregor used the ‘Be A Unicorn’ Junk Journal Kit and word art from the ‘Find Your Inner Sparkle’ collection to create not one, but three junk journals for her nieces. She combined my designs with some other ephemera and a paper scrapbook kit. The result is amazing! Heidi has a wonderful talent for layering things, it’s actually a bit like we do in digital scrapbooking, but Heidi does it with paper bits, lace, fabric, buttons and stitches. I would love to see the look on Heidi’s nieces when they receive their journals 🙂

Watch the video below:

You can follow Heidi on Youtube here.

Here are some pictures:

Be A Unicorn Junk Journal is available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Find Your Inner Sparkle Quote Strips are available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Unicorns are the most wondrous of all mythical creatures and a symbol of positivity, magic, miracles and enchantment. They have been around for centuries and appear in heraldry, ancient mythology and fairy tales. ‘Find Your Inner Sparkle’ is all about embracing your inner unicorn to find balance, love, happiness and abundance and a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you, encouraging you to follow your dreams. With the right dose of glittery unicorn power, paint and hand-drawn illustrations, ethereal papers and iridescent colors, magical flares and lots of whimsical things, this collection will make your scrapbook pages and creative endeavours sparkle. Polish your hooves, shake your luscious mane and bring out the unicorn!

Find Your Inner Sparkle Bundle

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Find Your Inner Sparkle Kit

The kit is comprised of 9 solid papers, 9 artsy papers and 90 embellishments (1 banner (with and without text), 2 beads, 2 brads, 3 buttons, 1 hand-drawn cloud + raindrops, 1 crown, 1 watercolor crystal, 3 word definitions, 3 hand-drawn dashed lines, 1 vintage dragonfly, 2 pieces of torn vintage ephemera, 7 flowers, 1 hand-drawn flower bud, 2 vintage flowers, 1 soap bubble, 3 pieces of foliage, 3 frames, 2 glitter splats, 2 hearts, 3 labels, 1 piece of torn lace, 2 hand-drawn leaves, 2 fabric leaves, 1 rays of light, 4 paint splats, 3 watercolor shapes, 2 ribbons, 2 scribbles, 1 sparkle, 1 sparkle trail, 4 vintage stamps, 1 staple, 3 stars, 1 stitching, 1 string, 1 tag, 1 thread, 1 twine, 1 unicorn charm, 1 antique painting unicorn + girl, 1 vintage unicorn 1 unicorn silhouette, 1 abstract waves, 1 wings, 3 large words, 5 word strips).

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Embellishments, solid and artsy papers are separately available.

I created a few coordinating addons:

Find Your Inner Sparkle Gradient Papers

9 gradient papers - included are 9 JPG files 12 x 12 in.

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Find Your Inner Sparkle Doodles

15 hand-drawn doodles. Included are 15 PNG files and 1 ABR file.

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Find Your Inner Sparkle Journal Cards

Included are 2 x 5 journal cards size 3 x 4 in and 2 x 3 journal cards size 4 x 6 in (each card comes in both orientations). You will receive 16 JPG files and 6 printable 8.5 x 11 in sheets in JPG and PDF

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Find Your Inner Sparkle Flares

6 magic light overlays, designed to coordinate with the ‘Find Your Inner Sparkle’ collection. Included are 6 PNG files.

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Find Your Inner Sparkle Quote Strips

12 word strips with famous quotes and sayings in a typewriter font, designed to coordinate with the ‘Find Your Inner Sparkle’ collection. You will receive 12 PNG files and 1 printable sheet in JPG and PDF.

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Layout Inspiration

I created a junk journal kit with papers and embellishments from this collection. Included are 20 printable 8.5 x 11 in sheets in JPG and PDF, designed to make a 5.5 x 8.5 journal:
- 1 cover (can be used as journal page), 7 journal pages and 8 backgrounds (makes 30 pages in total);
- 5 sheets with embellishments such as tabs, flags, triangle pockets, tags, artist trading coins and artist trading cards, 1 in squares, envelopes, labels, paper strips and so on.

Available in my Etsy shop

Have a great day,

Anja

Liz made some gorgeous Christmas gift bags using several of my designs - a wonderful holiday gift idea!

Here is part 1 of the tutorial

And here is part 2

Liz used the following supplies (links go to my Etsy shop):

Winter Wonderland Party Bundle

Cozy Christmas Patterned and Artsy Papers

Gift Tags Vol.6 - North Pole Express Delivery

My Wish List For Santa

Wrapped Up Vol.1 - Christmas Treat Bag Toppers

CU Vintage Findings Vol.2 - Tickets

Don’t forget to check out my newest holiday printables:

I’m kind of obsessed with junk journals lately, even though I do not make them myself (I’m not really a paper crafting girl and I don’t have the time to make junk journals). But I’ve been inspired by many artists who make incredibly beautiful junk journals, that I see in the galleries on Facebook and on Youtube. I also often design items for junk journals when I work on my weekly assignment for The Graphics Fairy. As you may know, I am one of the designers of the amazing Membership site team and each week I get to work with the wonderful vintage images that Karen and Emily select and offer to their subscribers.

If you want to know more about junk journals then The Graphics Fairy is a good place to start. Not only does The Graphics Fairy offer thousands of gorgeous vintage images for free, you can also follow along with Rebecca Parsons series ‘Make Your Own Junk Journal‘ - a series of 8 blog posts that will show you from start to finish how to Make a Junk Journal!

‘Merry And Bright’ is my very first ‘real’ junk journal kit and I had so much fun making it. Let me show you the result!

Creative team member Sheila made a journal with this kit - watch the Youtube video below.

Here are some pictures!

‘Merry And Bright’ is available in my Etsy shop, in my Oscraps shop and in my shop at Scrap Girls.

Have a great day,

Anja

Sheila made this baby book for a new mom, wow, I would LOVE to receive a book like that. And I’m not saying that because Sheila used mainly my Mother And Child Collection to create this… Or maybe just a little… Anyway, this is just another gorgeous junk journal from creative team member Sheila, here’s the video:

Here are some pictures:

And as always, the links to the products used:

Mother And Child Collection

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

All packs are separately available. And I have a printable version of the kit as well:

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Sheila also used some papers from I Will Meet You In Paris Patterned and Artsy Papers:

Available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Sheila has more amazing inspiration on her Youtube channel, you can follow her there. If you like the Baby Book, do leave her a comment!

Have a great day,

Anja

Sheila couldn’t get enough of the beach theme and simply decided to make another one! This one is more focused on a beach party and bathing beauties theme, without the mermaid fantasy. But she used some of the same supplies as she used for the Mermaid Junk Journal.

Here’s the video, some stills and a link to the supplies she used are below.

And here are the links:

Mermaids Patterned and Artsy Papers
available only in my Etsy shop

Mermaids Embellishments
only available in my Etsy shop

Flairs Vol.1 ‘Sea Creatures’
available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Catching Waves Bundle
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Acrylic Transitions Vol.3
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Next to these supplies, Sheila used a variety of supplies from other designers ànd she also used a bunch of printables from The Graphics Fairy, some of those were designed by me for the Membership site.

Sheila has more amazing inspiration on her Youtube channel, you can follow her there. If you like the Beach Party Book, do leave her a comment!

Have a great day,

Anja

I have two new junk journal projects to share with you, and both were made with my Wonderland collection and the Alice In Wonderland Papers. Heidi is new to the team and this is her first DT project for me. Heidi is also relatively new to making junk journals, so that makes it all the more amazing what she has created…

First up is a smaller travellers style notebook. I love Heidis choice of color here! She kept it rather simple but it’s a little beauty, watch the video below:

Here are some stills:

Next is a larger junk journal that she made and WOW, take a look at all the layering that she’s done and the attention that she’s given to little details:

And some stills:

Here are the links to the packs she used:

Wonderland Collection - available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

All packs are separately available!

A printable version of the kit is available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Alice In Wonderland Papers - available only in my Etsy shop:

And the printable version of these papers can be found only in my Etsy shop:

Be sure to follow Heidi on her Youtube channel if you like this! And if you are interested in buying one (or both) of these journals, Heidi has them up for sale in her Ety shop. But hurry up, there is only one available of each journal!

Have a great day,

Anja

Sheila is on a roll with this amazing Mermaid themed junk journal that she created, using several of my designs! There’s a link to all the packs she used at the end of this post, but I’m going to let you watch this beauty now!

And some pictures:

Sheila used these packs in her journal:

Mermaids Patterned and Artsy Papers
available only in my Etsy shop

Mermaids Embellishments
only available in my Etsy shop

Mermaids Journal Cards
only available in my Etsy shop

Mermaids Transfers
only available in my Etsy shop

Gift Tags Vol.1 ‘Mermaids & Nymphs’
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Flairs Vol.1 ‘Sea Creatures’
available here: Etsy | Oscraps

Catching Waves Bundle
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Acrylic Transitions Vol.3
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Whimsical Masks Vol.1
available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Charms Mix Vol.4
available here: Etsy | Scrap Girls

I hope you’re feeling inspired and if you like what Sheila makes, be sure to follow her on her Youtube channel!

P.S. If you are looking for summer, sand & sea themed packs for your next project, digital or hybrid, I have created this section in my Etsy shop for you. All packs in this section are now 25% off thru Wednesday July 11th!

Have a great day,

Anja

Check out this amazing Alice In Wonderland themed junk journal by creative team member Sheila May! Sheila used mainly papers and embellishments from the Wonderland collection and the Alice In Wonderland paper pack to create this (and a few pieces of ephemera from other designers). Links are below!

Below are some pictures that Sheila made from this gorgeous journal:

Sheila used the following packs:

Wonderland Collection - available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

All packs are separately available!

A printable version of the kit is available here: Etsy | Oscraps | Scrap Girls

Alice In Wonderland Papers - available only in my Etsy shop:

And the printable version of these papers can be found only in my Etsy shop:

Have a great day,

Anja