How I make junk journal ephemera from book pages - Tags & journal cards

Hi all, here’s a look at how I cut a book to make tags and journal cards as I chat. Hope it’s helpful. If you’d like to see part two of me using the rest of this book, feel free to watch it on my Patreon: / junidesiree
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[@sherrrysparklynn]

Thank you for saying that everyone should create what gives them joy. I'm about to start a junk journaling group for teen girls at work.

[@JuniDesiree]

No worries at all. Aww sounds great

[@tinamc2820]

I love collecting thrift store and second hand books. It’s always nice to give them new life by turning them into a journal. There are so many different journals that you can make.

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay me too. Love giving them new life

[@sandrabarbera1222]

I love that stitch that you use around the tags.

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay me too

[@lechat8736]

Never in my entire life have I met someone who cut out images from their books. But your explanation was totally plausible. In my family, we were taught that all things, but especially books, were sacred. I guess, that`s why so many people who were and are being raised that way, aren`t able to use books for their projects. I find your point of view fascinating. It will certainly occupy my mind for more than a minute. Thank you for that and this very inspiring tutorial!🤗

[@JuniDesiree]

Hehe welcome to the world of junk journals where lots of us love to cut up books and create beautiful journals with them. I think of them as sacred too and I sacredly give them new life. For me it’s a form of honouring the books and getting more enjoyment out them this way. Of course, there are some I would never cut up because I enjoy them more whole, but that’s where multiples also comes in handy. Same with my handmade journals, if someone would get more use and enjoyment out of them by cutting them up and turning them into something else, I am totally okay with that. Not everyone is, and that’s wonderful too. Just about finding what we love and letting others love what they love knowing there’s room for us all and together we make the world richer and more beautiful.

[@lechat8736]

@@JuniDesiree Beautifully put. Thank you for taking the time to reply. If only people practised more tolerance in their life. The world would be a much better place. Hats off to your parents, who have raised you into a wonderful person.🤗 I don`t care how many thousands of miles we may exist apart from each other. It always warms my heart to know that there are so many beautiful people in the world. Take care, dearest, and enjoy your weekend.❤

[@mkaysartfuljourney1239]

Always always a great artist you are Juni I’ve enjoyed you from the beginning❤

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much!!!

[@gloriaskipper1691]

What a perfect answer about cutting up books! If we could all respect each other in that way! 🫶🏼 Cinderella is my hero! Haha

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww love that!! Thank you so much for watching and the lovely comment

[@barbaracabrera207]

I also grew up in a house that had love and respect for books. So it was always difficult at first to cut into a book. But now that I'm retired, I figure I get more USE out of using them to build a junk journal. With internet, if I want to read something, I can read it digitally. I am planning on making my two older sisters, (both have Masters Degrees in English, no less), each a junk journal. So I hope they don't disown me for cutting up all these books to make their journals. Haha! We are all "old" now, so its time to dust off all those books, and put them into DAILY USE! I would not cut up a very special, or 1st Edition, etc. book. Or one that has sentimental value as it is. I won't cut up a Bible!!! But I will print versus and use that way. I even cut up my old HS Yearbook to put stuff into my journal. It will get much more use this NEW way. The more you cut up,...the easier it gets! If you can't bring yourself to cut up a book, buy a 2nd copy just to cut up. I love how FAST you can make your Tags & Journal Cards. Geez, it takes me way longer. Thank you for the great video. BTW,...Yes, we need to hold onto our JOY! ALWAYS! Austin, TX USA

[@trishsmith6565]

Oh, how fun! Love fairytale theme! Thanks for sharing your ideas, JD!

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay me too

[@glynisjohnson5501]

❤I do njoy the cutting up of books 📕 I agree thank you for sharing your doing ❤

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay, so fun! Thank you so much!!

[@bettymetz3746]

Great little video and loved hearing all you had to say!

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@sandraallen8832]

It was totally taboo when I was a child to tear a book or write in a book, unless it was to write my name in the front. So it feels really naughty especially when I’m prepping an altered book and tearing pages out. It’s part of the appeal to be honest!

[@JuniDesiree]

Hehe thanks for sharing your story

[@CanadaFree.6014]

Going thru books and magazines to find the journal card or tag within, is probably my favourite thing to do now in journal making lol.

[@JuniDesiree]

Oh yay how fun. I love doing it too

[@ninagreen9016]

What a marvelous idea. Thank you for sharing ♥️

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@cheryltallafuss1166]

Hello sweetie, I love it very much. I've got an older one and a Disney one. So I've got two and should be set. Well done cutting your first image. I am not kidding I've got so many journals screaming for my attention! Love the large journal cards. However, I do use my journals for writing - Bible journal- quotes- Proverbs 31 journal. Then all my shabby chic cottage theme and a prayer journal. 🤷‍♀️

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay sounds like lots of fun projects ahead

[@caroldavis9894]

love your words of encoragement

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@brendamcnease9313]

Loved watching the process💖

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay so glad

[@crinkledpath]

New subbie, fellow junk journal maker, Disney lover and book page cutter!! ✂️

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much. Lovely to meet you

[@lisahanrahan9383]

This is a very clever way of making tags and journal cards! 🌸🌸🌸

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@terris7842]

I was extra interested today in what you had to say about cutting up books. I picked up an absolutely beautiful book from my local op shop this morning with the intention of using it for journals. When I got home I sat and looked through it properly and was beginning to wonder if I could bring myself to cut it up. It’s an older book on the beauty of the British Isles and is full of gorgeous botanical drawings, drawings of birds and scenery etc on lovely aged paper with that vintage style text you don’t see in modern books anymore. Almost every page is a delight. Still not sure what I’ll do with it, but you’ve given me food for thought, thank you. Loved watching your process with these tags and cards too. Will look forward to seeing the journal. 💚

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww sounds lovely. Whether you keep it or cut it, you’ll find the way you enjoy it most. Sometimes I get doubles so I can keep one and cut the other. Others I have no problem cutting up. Just depends on the book and how it speaks to me. So let that book speak to you and love it in your own way as a book or as a journal

[@louloufabrique]

Thanks Juni for this nice travel back to childhood !!!

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@antoniaortiz7701]

Omg, just bumped into your channel and I’m so happy I did. I’m making junk journals for my nieces and I thought this was a brilliant idea 💡. Thank you.

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much for your lovely comment. Hope you have fun making the journals

[@nevabryant5651]

I watch you all the time and was totally did not realize that I had not subscribed! I enjoy you so much, thank you for the words of encouragement.

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much for your kind words

[@junkjournalgirl]

Love these.Juni :) You are right, we are all different and like different things x Happy NY xx

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much! Love that

[@forevermarcia]

Your advice was soo beautiful! Thank you!

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much

[@jenniferwatson7118]

I grew up in a book-loving household, so I find it very hard to dismantle and cut into a book. Interesting hearing your view on it - could change my mind!!

[@JuniDesiree]

Same here, grew up with books and loved them for as long as I can remember. We had a library in our house that I loved sitting and reading in. And every fortnight we went to bookshops and I’d often get three at a time and spend the weekends reading from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed. So many fun memories. One day I want to write a memoir based on my life of books. So fun. I was going to try to get every book I read as a kid and turn my favourites into journals.

[@jenniferwatson7118]

@@JuniDesiree My Dad ran a Christian bookstore for a while when we were kids and on weekends we'd take a mobile van out to the small towns and set up to sell. Great memories! Good idea turning your favourite books from childhood into journals!

[@Maggita2015]

They turned out so cute ! 💞😊

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@theolachapman6126]

I am very impressed with your style of making journal I am going to return to this video and watch all plus if you made video of journal it self I just found you so thank you ❤Theola

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww welcome!!! Thank you so much. I so love making journals and it’s great that there are so many different styles

[@randomjournalbitsdawnboss]

Your video is fantastic. Appreciate you sharing your process. TY

[@JuniDesiree]

Aww thank you so much

[@sherryoliver3215]

I'd like to see how you decorate the pages you use these on in a journal. Nice job on explaining things as you go.

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much. My latest video has a flip through of some journals showing how I use the tags to decorate the pages if that helps

[@beatriceloren6882]

Love the video. Thanks for sharing your process.

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@ddavis2893]

Love these!😊

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you!

[@tiegz9770]

Such a cute idea

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@maxinelovescrafts]

Love this so much ❤❤

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@EmmaDurrans]

These turned out awesome! X

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@tinasmith8791]

Great job! I love all thing Disney princess!!

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much. Me too

[@aliceharbour5926]

Hi. I was thinking you could even use the Cinderella paper title as a tuck spot along the bottom of a page or just glue it onto a page....idk. lol. I love the sewing. Im anxious for Joann fabrics to reopen their classes because this year i am determined to learn to sew. 👍🤞🤞🤞👍 Thank you for sharing your process with us. I buy two if i can find them....one for pictures, one for keeping in tact. Or if i want both sides of a page! Lol decisions, decisions. 🤪😂😂😂

[@JuniDesiree]

Absolutely, I used the other Cinderella book to create tuck spots with the leftover pages

[@suruha2306]

You have some great insights into what you do. I feel like, if the book is going to just be trashed, anyway, tearing it up and using it is recycling the book. It's being put to good use, as opposed to sitting in the landfill. If everyone created the same, we wouldn't celebrate the arts.

[@JuniDesiree]

Thanks heaps for sharing. Really appreciate it

[@mzo707x]

Really like this

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@kcueva313]

OMG it hurt me when you cut the pages but they are adorable tags 👍🏻

[@JuniDesiree]

Hehe thank you so much

[@kari-annerobinson8514]

I enjoy books and like to preserve the precious. However, I find many books heading for the Landfill, or at yard and estate sales, Thrift Stores, etc. I feel like I’m giving them a second chance, by repurposing the pages and multiplying their use. Thank-you for this video❣️

[@JuniDesiree]

Love giving books a new life, especially when the spine is falling apart. So fun to preserve them in a creative way

[@lauravasquez169]

I want to do a golden book journal someday but I still am hooked on Daphne's diaries journals. I have really old children's books that I copy pictures. I like digital prints because you can always print more. ❤❤❤

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay those are fun ones to make too.

[@donitaforrest9064]

i also am planning to do a Cinderella journal, have been wanting to for days.....and then i see you doing one...great minds think alike, but i will be photocopying from my own personal very old picture book that predates the disney characters, it's so beautiful as if painted by a french impressionist. i have a sewing problem, i have a sewing machine but i'm having a problem getting the tension and stitch size right. Do you have any pointers or videos on sewing the paper to card and making it look neat and close to the edge? Thanks

[@eileennielsen3607]

FUN FUN FUN!!! Thanks

[@JuniDesiree]

Yay no worries at all

[@kriskraftsmorewilson9651]

That’s so unique and so beautiful at the same time only thing I thought you were going to make a journal card out of the pumpkin with the mice instead of cutting just Coach out But like I said it’s a beautiful tags and what a great idea

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much

[@raleysmombaker9593]

So cute but I wouldn't dare cut up my Cinderella book it's from 1963 when I was 6 and it cost a whole 29 cents. Besides it's one of my nicknames. In case you haven't ever seen it check out the 1969 Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella musical starring Leslie Anne Warren it's still my favorite version and as old as I am I still know every word to the song Impossible. So cute. I'll be back to watch more of your journal. Thank you.

[@JuniDesiree]

Sounds wonderful!!! I love finding books I can cut up from the op-shops but even then, sometimes I need to get doubles - hehe

[@slsfrederick1994]

You could always scan the images that way you could use both sides 😊

[@JuniDesiree]

Oh I think copyright doesn’t allow that but I like using the book as is anyway as each page tells me how to use it

[@mariapatriciachavez214]

❤❤❤😊

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you so much!

[@Meanne77]

Hi JD! I was wondering, how did you decided/what are the measurements of your tags? Even in the recent "collage tags" videos you were using previous tags as templates. At the moment, I always create the tags to suit the image but there is no "standardization" here so it takes me a lot of precious time. I like the idea of cutting the tags way in advance even before knowing what you're going to use them for. So if you take one manilla folder, how many tags do you cut from it? do you use half of the folder to cut the large & long tags and the other half to cut the smaller ones? how do you maximize this? Your tags look big to me (they're more for journaling space then sole embellishment) but I tend to always work with A5 JJ so standardizing my tag size would be nice I think. Thanks for your advises!

[@JuniDesiree]

I used store bought tags as templates. I just trace the template as many times as it will fit on both sides of the folder. Depends on the size of the tags as to how I many I get. Here’s a tutorial I filmed a while ago

[@zajournals]

Other than two corners nipped off, what's the difference between tags and journal cards?

[@JuniDesiree]

I think tags just refers to that specific shape with the corners nipped off but tags can definitely be used the same way as a journaling card. So in my head I’d say it’s just the shape that’s the difference rather than the function

[@zajournals]

@@JuniDesiree okay that's what I thought - thanks

[@JuniDesiree]

@@zajournals No worries at all

[@sandrabarbera1222]

What sizes you cut your tags?

[@JuniDesiree]

All different sizes. I’m actually making some now and have about 10 sizes so far - so fun

[@caroldavis9894]

yw

[@JuniDesiree]

Thank you!