Ways To Use Junk Journals

[@snicketypicket]

So happy to see someone besides me with a list writing problem!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Hello fellow list maker! 😄 I see it as a blessing.

[@carolyoung3164]

I am thoroughly enjoying your junk journal videos made with file folders etc. I am a list person,too,so appreciate your tips and style. Thank you for sharing in such a visual way with us how to go about setting these up.

[@spacemachine]

Thank you for sharing! I love seeing these different uses, I think for a while I was intimidated by how MUCH could happen with a junk journal, and I kept feeling the need to have boring plain journals for bullet journaling that I would get tired of and never fill up. I love the idea of using the junk journals for just making lists, which is really all I want to do! And the extra texture and visual interest is so fun :)

[@debbieanneEVG]

Yes! The visual aspect keeps interesting but it doesn't have to be a perfect work of art, simply a fun place to write things 😊

[@truthandreason1415]

I am a new “crafter” if that is what you would call me. I make crazy, funny whimsical hats that are themed and post a pic on Facebook for snide comments that I live for. So this “crafty” side of me has gotten hooked on YT and long story short I’ve come across junk journals. This video gave me all the info I needed as to the why and how of the journal, to making me feel right at home. I looked over at some of the work I do and saw these scribbled notes, sideways, outside of the ruled lines, in the margins, etc., and now know there is someone or a group of folks who understand my thought process. Thanks! I am also a new subscriber to your channel!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Great (and sometimes messy) minds think alike! Thank you!

[@sandracapps5543]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your journals and how you use them! I CRAVE visual and textural stuff. I LOVE how you used the pages from the spiral bound notebooks. It is simple and satisfying!😊

[@chrissiecrosser]

I loved watching this video and seeing your journals in action. Also, this gives me an opportunity to say thank you for your free digital images you so very generously give us. I love your work Debbie- Anne. Chrissie

[@debbieanneEVG]

I'm glad you enjoyed this video and the freebies. It's my absolute pleasure to share them with you. Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@anewcreation8458]

You have such natural talent. Love your videos and digitals that I have purchased from you. Love creating journals. It is so therapeutic to the soul! Keep 'em coming!

[@debbieanneEVG]

thank you so much Louise!

[@trudiperret48]

Thank you so much for this video! I have looked far and wide for better explanations as to what to use them for. I fell in love with the craft but didn't want to just be making things with no real necessary use. So again thanks you. I've found videos like this hard to find.

[@debbieanneEVG]

I'm glad you found it helpful, thanks for watching! 😊

[@jaytee2642]

Thank you!! I've loved the look of JJ's since I first became aware of them, but since I don't keep a diary and don't art journal, I didn't see a purpose for one in my life...what, just a collection of pleasing images/textures/colors? But now I see a way to USE one in my life! Thank you again!🤗

[@catercoz2491]

Thank you. It's good to see the practical side. I work out of an A5 organiser binder which I have partially junk journalled. You've inspired me to make it more interesting. I loathe plain paper too.

[@sassafrasandscraps]

This is what I consider planner peace! I'm in love and very inspired!

[@thehighpriestess8431]

I am in love with this youtube channel. Thank you for all the work you put into it.

[@debbieanneEVG]

thank you so much!

[@celested6181]

Love this idea. I now know what I'm gonna use my journal for when it's finished. No more random bits of paper all over...

[@Lambertcottage]

Thank you for sharing how you use your journals. I have made several and have run out of ideas how to use them until you mentioned your different ways so thank you! I am also a visual person...I like the idea to just paper clip a piece of paper on top of a patterened paper. I need that visual interest for sure. Thanks for sharing! Melissa

[@CraftingVicky]

I really love how you have shown us what you use them for!!! Thank you!

[@debbieanneEVG]

+Crafting Vicky You're welcome Vicky, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[@shannonwalker-lembke183]

Thanks for sharing. It is always interesting to see how others are using junk journals. I love to keep inspiring images and materials around and your approach with your journals is a great way to do this. So much more fun than a blank notebook.

[@debbiesmetherham3044]

Great video; I'm always making mini albums and junk journals but they just sit on a shelf and look pretty! Now I'm inspired to actually start using some of them. Thanks for sharing :)

[@jeannieferdinande5805]

Happy to see you enjoy just having beautiful things around you...love saving my idea notes and scribbles...thanks for sharing your thoughts❄️

[@michelletulumello661]

I really really LOVE the surface on the cover of the green one

[@AL-fk9bh]

Thank you for sharing the uses of your junk journals! I really enjoyed watching your video. I, too, am a list person and find the line, white pages of a notebook quite boring and uninspiring. I've been thinking of a way to use inspiring images, quotes, etc., to spice up my notebooks/planners. Also, when I purchase planners, I'm kind of tired of looking at the same images for a whole year. Using a junk journal method, I can change it up with each page which makes the possibilities endless. Great video! I'm a fan!

[@caroleanncolca8088]

Thank you for sharing this......I am such a note taker and need to separate them all into categories and put them in journals. I think I will do that now that I see how wonderful yours are. XOXOXO

[@Rachel-JournalsReimagined]

This video was PERFECT! I am sooooo visual and now I finally understand the "junk journal planner!!!" Yes, I can be very dense sometimes! hahahaha! Thank you for sharing and THANK YOU for the shout out! xoxox Rachel

[@debbieanneEVG]

Hahahahahaha, I'm glad it was so illuminating Rachel. And I love the bracelet. I look at it every day when I sit down to work xo.

[@coricollazos5037]

Thank you so much for doing this video. Your junk journal is gorgeous and inspires me to create more beautiful things in my life.

[@debbieanneEVG]

I'm so glad to hear it! thank you very much for the great comment :)

[@peapod8]

You gave my several great ideas. Thank you. I'm about to get a lot more organized!!!!

[@TerryHodgdonCreates]

I love the last journal that you are using now. I have created something similar, but like many of your ideas for using it! TFS!!

[@brendafochtman-paperbitsba4003]

WOW - much like Rachel, I get it now. I too am a visual person and have been trying to figure out how to put my creative thoughts and ideas on paper. I have been using a simple lined journal, but it is not working well. I am all about lists, but my lists are lost in my lined journal. THANK you so much for sharing - obviously, I too needed someone to show me. I also thank you for the freebies - LOVE THEM!

[@lesliespeers2739]

Love these. I too am a list maker and currently all mine are just shoved in something that will hold them. I think now i need to make them a permanent home! I also love going back to see what they say from time to time. Funny thing, If i'm jotting down ideas for my stores, they tend to be the same from year to year,lol. Thanks again for all those freebis as well, very generous of you! ~ leslie

[@debbieanneEVG]

It's very cool to have them to look back on. I can't believe the things that come back full circle from an idea I may have jotted down a few years back! I'm glad you enjoy the freebies Leslie. Thank you!

[@LifeBetweenTheDash]

Wow. Thank you. I really got so many good ideas from seeing how you use your journals...

[@ik79]

Loved watching this video! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@sandracapps5543]

I like the 3 ring binder one.

[@Enthusiasticallydawn]

WOW, I love what you did with the MS Binder! I get what you say about enjoying the visual as opposed to the blank page "visual break"...I get that. I think I crave it and appreciate you because you seem to be able to create it so well. If I create my own visual break it distracts me, but when I see these creations I am inspired, ot distracted (from my writing).

[@CraftyComeLately]

Very cool and great idea. I love the idea of making lists of having a book for favorite love poems or quotes and a grateful journal. Not everything fits on a calendar.

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thank you! Calendars have their place, but right now they're not what I need.

[@JunkJournalJenny]

im visual and a list maker as well.. i love that idea

[@LearningCurveAcres]

I couldn't help but notice Muskoka Brewery in your beautiful blue/green junk journal. I'm originally from the Barrie area so it was nice to see. Just found your channel and subscribed.

[@debbieanneEVG]

Small world! I live a few hours north of Barrie. Thanks for subbing 😊

[@LearningCurveAcres]

We're out near Perth now. Nice to support locals☺

[@butterflymagicwithhottea9291]

Interesting to watch and will look for more of your videos

[@Toni-zb2ot]

Wonderful journals. You are a great crafter...beautiful things.

[@nancylee6351]

I very much enjoy your videos! You have inspired me to make a junk journal!

[@joiedefi]

I just shared a video answering this question...it was a lot of fun making it!! Joie ❣️🌿😀

[@DonnaHarris3578]

I love your journals, especially the list journal! I am a list maker too and I'm thinking I may just make a list journal!

[@jesbury6597]

You could write on the planner pages in pencil. I erase in mine a lot. I love the idea of having a list book. This makes me inordinately happy.

[@Charlathejournalingjunky]

i love this even after this long still some great ideas 💡 xx

[@debbieanneEVG]

Glad you like them!

[@Nina771118]

Love it! I'll start making coffee dyed papers too 😀

[@maudieicrochet9491]

I've heard them called idea books. Used for art. Fashion design. Journaling. Etc. I'm making my first one for vintage photos.

[@megancampbell3914]

It is good to see junk journals in use. I subscribed.

[@N3k0N3k0N3k0]

Thanks...great ideas and so enjoyable to see your creativity.

[@lebiram45]

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing, now I have a better idea as how junk journals can be used.

[@pattyelaine7583]

thanks for sharing this video. it's very interesting to see how you actually are using these.

[@debbieanneEVG]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Patty, thank you!

[@Cyrilmc222004]

Thank you so much. That’s so useful and helpful and I really really enjoyed it......it’s so clever and useful

[@izahere2]

I really enjoyed this! Thanks! Now maybe I can make me one and actually use it! And I'll use those freebies you give out so generously! *thanks so much for them too!*

[@evehamer3490]

Love the idea xx

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thank you! 😊

[@celinebarberio9070]

Shared on Facebook. I love to see what people use their journals for. LOL

[@witchypoo420]

Love this!!! Just subscribed, thanks for sharing :)

[@veravictorialockie8939]

So clever sweetie!

[@syndispianostudio3611]

So helpful! Thanks!

[@debbieanneEVG]

You're welcome!

[@JunkJournalJenny]

thank you i am inspired im not a planner girl but this is a great way

[@debbieanneEVG]

thank you Jenny xo

[@ShannonGreen]

Loved seeing your journals in action!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thanks Shannon. I love making them and love using them (in a way that suits me) even more. I'm sure you know what I mean!

[@shawnaN5]

While I completely love the creative process involved, I could never personally use this for a planner. It seems so unorganized to me and is actually painful to me to look at! I WOuld stick to this for other purposes in my own life. So interesting how different our minds work

[@uklukl2467]

Hi! Where do You find all the lovely old pictures? Like the one with the man with an owl on his shoulder... and the picture behind thar picture... I loooove them!!!!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Those are my designs. They are available on my website ephemerasvintagegarden.com. Thank you for watching!

[@carolynmedaris1238]

EphemerasGarden

[@angelaserendipityarts5294]

thanks for sharing!!!!

[@debbieanneEVG]

You're very welcome Angela!

[@robinmcintosh7198]

As a counselor, how could I use Junk Journals with my teen clients in a therapeutic way? Thanks for your input

[@debbieanneEVG]

Ohh, in so many ways! You could first start with the collection process, letting them gather images and words from magazines, books, catalogues, things that speak to them; then the construction of the journal itself could be therapeutic and it could be as basic as punching holes and using binder rings to hold it together. And finally of course journaling, doodling, coloring or art journaling on the pages, making mini vision boards on the pages, could be part of the exercises you give them. The possibilities for therapeutic use are endless! I hope I've given you a few ideas...

[@rankinstudios5342]

I did the same except I started the front of my journal with images and words of how I currently saw my life. Then I went to the last page and glued images and words of how I would like my life to be, even if I didn't think it was possible. I worked each end until it met in the middle. By then, my life was more like I wished it to be. Years later, It was amazing to see how far I had come and what parts of my dreams had come true.

[@rnbsteenstar]

@@debbieanneEVG Even teach them to sew signatures.

[@soriascrapbooking9174]

Thanks for sharing .... loved your video .... maybe now I can find more uses for my junk journals =) Hugs!!

[@melonieusher4066]

Good ideas

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thank you 🙂

[@wendysiedlecki5354]

Good morning from Myrtle Beach SC. First, I loved your video as I am a visual person and also a list maker. Do you know of any online classes available? I'm interested in making ephemera and would love to know more. Thank you.

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thank you. You could start by browsing here on my channel (I've divided my videos into playlists) and KZbin in general for the topics you're interested in. I'm sure you'll find tons. 🙂

[@xsTycho]

Just subscribed! Your handmade journals are gorgeous! Do you have a how to video for making them?

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thanks Alexis, I'm glad you like them! Here's my tutorial playlist which I try to add to regularly: kzbin.info/aero/PL0k-pKbO2z1NNqh1uO_JlBjqR4JO00IIq

[@TheGreekGoddess369]

Hi found your video on google so I'm now 1 of your new follower and where do u sell your junk journals

[@debbieanneEVG]

Hello! I have a few available here: www.ephemerasvintagegarden.com/collections/handmade-journals. Thanks for becoming a follower!

[@rankinstudios5342]

Where did you get the blk and white playing cards? The woman was in the Martha Stewart book clear pocket in the front section. Loved your video!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Terri Rankin thank you. It's not a playing card. It's a journaling card I designed.

[@TrishWaldschlager]

Great Video! Could you possibly provide the link to the video you mentioned about the duct tape spine journal? Thanks!! :)

[@debbieanneEVG]

Here's Yolliebean's version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIG1g5l3m55-fcU. There are others who make them, but this one was the first one I saw and adapted mine from there. :)

[@TrishWaldschlager]

EphemerasGarden THANK YOU! You're fast!

[@SafeHavenCollective]

thank you Trish, i was looking for the exact same thing :)

[@chitralekharaut7458]

where did you buy that playing card themed patterned paper.....i loved that one...plz share me the link...... ' __ '

[@debbieanneEVG]

That's a long time ago so I don't remember. It may have been from a pad by DCWV.

[@smf1104]

I can't find your gratitude journal. I'm very interested in creating one.

[@debbieanneEVG]

Here you go, this was so much fun to create: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bau3moWLnaqbhpo

[@nasushll]

thank you!!! I just love the circus theme cover!!! Did you say where you got that? I will relook at your video to see. Again thank you.

[@debbieanneEVG]

It's from my Garden Carnival collection :)

[@angaramacrafts8564]

Thanks so much for the tips! It really is functional! TFS! ang

[@sallyride7260]

I can't find your Shakespeare flip through!

[@littleblondebatw]

I think I understand what a junk Journal is now tell me if I'm right instead of boring a plane boring journal to write your stuff in you make something that has some excitement to it and then write your stuff in that am I correct

[@debbieanneEVG]

Yes that's part of it. The other part is that the materials are recycled.

[@spanishangel33]

Beautiful, where do you get the steam punk cards at???

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thank you, I designed them.

[@FA-tq9ip]

"Junk" definitely seems like a good term for what we have here...

[@debbieanneEVG]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ReginaCordoba]

New subscriber!

[@debbieanneEVG]

Thanks for subbing!

[@bextra1968]

Maybe you could try dry erase paper?

[@woytinek1]

Is the 3 ring binder an A4 OR A5?

[@debbieanneEVG]

It's an A5 Carpe Diem by Simple Stories. It's a really lovely coral colour.

[@woytinek1]

@@debbieanneEVG thank you so very much.

[@debbieanneEVG]

Actually I apologise but I thought your comment was on a different video lol. It is an A5 nonetheless. Xo.