Category: Tips & Tutorials
How-to guides, creative tips, and project walkthroughs to help you craft beautiful journals.
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Using Polaroid-Style Photographs in Junk Journals
Polaroid-style photographs are popular in junk journaling because they’re simple, familiar, and easy to work with. The shape is recognisable, and the style fits naturally with vintage papers, ephemera, and layered pages. In junk journals, the goal usually isn’t perfection. It’s about capturing moments, ideas, or moods in a way that feels relaxed. Polaroid-style images…
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How to Turn Your Crafting Hobby into a Profitable Side Hustle: Junk Journals & Digital Products for Beginners
Want to turn your love of crafting into a profitable side hustle? In this beginner-friendly guide, we’ll explore two creative ways to make money: digital products like printables and planners, and handmade junk journals. Even if you’ve never sold anything online before, you’ll discover simple steps to start earning while having fun. Why Creative Entrepreneurs Are Making Money…
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Well Loved Baubles: Holiday Junk Journal Digital Kit
There’s something irresistible about holiday crafting—the textures, the prints, the quiet hours spent snipping paper and building memories with our hands. This season, I’m thrilled to share my Well Loved Baubles digital kit, inspired by vintage wallpapers, worn Christmas cards, toile fabrics, and all the little scraps that make a journal feel like home. These baubles are not…
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Easy White Winter Junk Journal Tutorial: Step-by-Step Guide
Creating richly textured junk journal pages is one of the best ways to bring depth, warmth, and personality to your winter crafts. In this tutorial, I’m sharing how I built textured, layered pages in my current winter junk journal using techniques like gesso, die-cut snowflakes, vintage ephemera, and distressed paper. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced junk…
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Easy No-Sew Mini Books: Step-by-Step Tutorial
✉️ This tutorial was created to accompany a special printable mini book kit, available exclusively to Well Loved Journals newsletter subscribers.If you’re not yet subscribed, Sign up now and receive your free kit and future creative gifts. Why Make Mini Books? Mini books are a beautiful way to capture small stories, moments, or themes without the…
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Sun Prints for Junk Journals: Easy Cyanotype Tutorial + Free Printable
There’s something magical about letting the sun do the work for you. Cyanotype printing—often called sun printing—is an easy, almost meditative process that turns ordinary objects like leaves, lace, and feathers into beautiful blue-and-white images. The best part? You don’t need a darkroom or fancy equipment, just a few sheets of pre-treated cyanotype paper and a…
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Public Domain Images for Junk Journals & Printables (Safe & Legal)
If you’re starting your own Etsy shop selling printable ephemera or handmade junk journals — or simply making beautiful journals as gifts — people often ask: Where can I find vintage images I’m actually allowed to use? Can I use this in a journal? Can I sell it? Will I get in trouble for copyright?…
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Printing Digital Junk Journal Kits: Why Paper Choice Matters
The paper you choose can completely change how your digitals look and feel. Colour vibrancy, print clarity, texture, and even how your finished pages fold or layer together all depend on the type of paper you use. Using the wrong paper can lead to dull colours, bleeding ink, or pages that feel flimsy and tear…
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Junk Journaling for Beginners: Essential Supplies & Tips to Start
Junk journaling is a creative, calming hobby where you collect, layer, and bind all sorts of papers and treasures. You don’t need a mountain of supplies to begin. In fact, you can do a lot with just a few well-loved bits. Don’t know where to start with junk journaling? Try a beautiful no-sew journal to…