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Student showcase: junk journals

ByCrafts for Wellbeing

I had a great afternoon yesterday with three lovely ladies who came to my studio to learn how to make a junk journal. A junk journal is a hand made book, made entirely from recycled items. Everyone brought along papers, cardboard and fabric that they had at home and that otherwise had no use, and turned them in to these beautiful books! It was also great that they all swapped items amongst each other, and used some of mine, in order to get just the right look and feel for their books.

I love what they all made – have a scroll through the carousel above to see what everyone created.

Beautiful journals, everyone!

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