junk it up...

I have been working in my junk journal this week.  It's another journal I have constantly on the go.   This one I keep all kinds of ephemera, inspiration and anything that is just too cute to throw away.

I usually just sit stuff in it until I have enough to do quite a few pages at once then glue it all in.

After it's glued down I go back and add some colour to the pages with soluble oil crayons

and then just add any other bits and pieces I might have.  These pages below are made up of ephemera I kept after having a few days in Melbourne last year with my bestie.

It's a great way to keep things you like

and to have a play around with art supplies and paper without feeling like there has to be some kind of finished product at the end.

and you don't need a journal with drawing paper in it either.   Just a plain exercise book

would work just as well

It's what the word "scrapbook" used to mean way back in the day.....you literally just stuck in stuff you liked and wanted to keep......did you have one when you were a kid?  My girls did.  From about the age of 2 or so they would love to tear out things from the junk mail and glue in their books.  You know the stuff, all those pictures from toy sale catalogues full of Barbie etc.

Once they were old to enough to look at them and say "I want I want" then the junk mail went straight to the bin before they saw it!

Pop over to Kirsty's for a peek into some other creative goings on