Junk Journals for Beginners: Easy Projects and Mistakes to Skip
A beginner’s guide to junk journals: why it’s perfect for beginners, the few supplies you need, easy first projects, and mistakes to skip.
Junk journaling is what happens when scrapbooking, art journaling, and bullet journaling shake hands. A low-rules, high-vibe craft built from ephemera, found paper, old books, and whatever the post brought you this week. Craft Wren’s Junk Journaling category is our flagship: beginner-friendly supplies lists and starter glues, page and cover ideas, printable freebies, kits worth buying, what-is-a-junk-journal definitions for newcomers, and how-to guides for sewing signatures, upcycling old books, and folding regency-style envelopes. If you’re starting your first journal, or your fortieth, this is the section to live in.
A beginner’s guide to junk journals: why it’s perfect for beginners, the few supplies you need, easy first projects, and mistakes to skip.
30+ junk journal page ideas: layered backgrounds, pockets and tucks, themed spreads, and interactive fold-outs to fill your next blank page.
Where to download free junk journal printables, from vintage pages to tags and ephemera, plus how to print and use them in your journal.
Learn how to junk journal step by step: pick a base, gather your junk, and make your first page today. A simple, no-rules guide for beginners.
The complete junk journal supplies list, from the few essentials you actually need to where to find cheap and free materials to fill your pages.
New to junk journaling? Learn what a junk journal is, what you need to start, and how to make your first pages using things you already have.