Junk Journal Joy: Find Calm and Self-Confidence with Junk Journaling (a Journal of Ideas and Memories, Craft Making Journal)

In this inspiring and heartfelt guide, author Francesca shares her personal journey of making junk journals, revealing how this simple yet profound practice can help you reconnect with your emotions, find inner peace, and bring more well-being into your life.

Book binding beginners and experts welcome. Whether you're new to book binding or an experienced crafter, this scrapbooking book is packed with simple yet powerful projects and prompts that will guide you from start to finish. Learn how to create a journal from scratch using recycled and affordable materials, transforming everyday items into a beautiful keepsake. You'll also explore the art of scrapbooking, mixed media art, and other creative techniques that turn your journal into a personal treasure.

The ultimate book on book binding. Filled with scrapbook ideas, bookbinding techniques, and tips for creating your own unique scrapbooking journal, this book will inspire you to take action and start junk journaling with confidence. As you dive into the stories and exercises within, you'll feel a sense of connection, accomplishment, and inner peace. Let Junk Joy Journal be your guide to finding magic in the mundane and cherishing the beauty that already exists in your life.

Inside, you'll find:

• Creative fun by learning to make beautiful junk journals using recycled and affordable materials.
• Enhanced well-being by using journaling as a therapeutic outlet to reduce stress and overcome creative blocks.
• Personal growth and a sense of connection through guided prompts and personal stories that inspire self-discovery.

If you liked other book binding books such as Junk Journal Cutouts, Making Handmade Books, or Treasure Book Making, you'll love Junk Journal Joy.

In 2006 Francesca Radice made her Thesis in Psychology about how journaling in a diary is a healing experience. In 2012 her mom got sick and she advised her to write in a diary for dealing with cancer. Instead of a pretty journal however, her mom wrote in an ugly normal journal -- and then she was gone. Years later she found a junk journal DIY on YouTube and decided to transform her mom's diary into a beautiful book. She gifted this book to her sister's mom and she cried when she received it! This experience became a way to elaborate her loss, honor her mother, and move on. In 2018 she started her own Youtube channel and Instagram with the mission of inspiring people to make their own journals because it was a healing, cathartic, fun, easy, and meaningful experience.

She has collaborated with digital paper designers (e.g.. Vectoria Designs, Digital Collage Club), I collaborated with Daphne's Diary magazine as a UGC, she was interviewed by "culture Scrapbooking" (a French magazine), she was one of the teachers in the online course "mixed media art summit" in 2022, she is a guest teacher for Wanderlust 2024 (online course), she participated in various collaboration challenge like "junk journal January", "junk journal July" and she has her own challenge every year in November.