Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?
Theyāre called Junk Journals and theyāre my entire life.
Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!
And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so Iām gonna use that)
That ānutrition factsā side is gone become your spine!
Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so Iām gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!
Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! Itāll look like this;
Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!
Youāre gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!
Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You donāt want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. Youāre gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one Iām using 7 page signatures. Hereās a pic to show just how much paper youāll need
Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so Iāll need probably 6 more.
Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what theyāre doing is easiest. If you canāt access YouTube, thereās plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! Iām not gonna go too into detail, but hereās the jist;
Okay so Iām a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh
But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didnāt take more pictures; Iād really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isnāt clear enough (heh sorry about that)
Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since thereās gonna be a lot of strain on it.
Only 10 photos per post, so I gotta post this and reblog it with the rest.
