Junk Journal January is a wrap! I’m counting it as my first
Make Nine 2025 finish to fulfill the “Online Challenge” prompt.
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| Make Nine 2025 tracker. Online Challenge prompt |
Journal format and page spreads
For JJJ 2025 [Junk Journal January 2025], I made a square format, no-sew journal.
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| No-sew junk journal. |
After getting into the daily process of answering the prompts, I found myself creating compositions in 2-page spreads. Sometimes the composition was in response to a single prompt…
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| Day 30 prompt: fabric |
… sometimes it combined multiple prompts.
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| Days 24 and 25 prompts: line and modern. |
I liked working in a larger, 2-page space. Paint, color, and collage were used to unify the background. Similar marks were made across both pages, and often the spreads incorporated text, quotes, or poems relating to the prompt(s), that were hand lettered on the pages.
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| Days 26, 27, 28 and 29 prompts: movement, crumpled, sealed, and reveal. |
Materials and techniques
For this year’s junk journal, I used techniques that I used in the past: acrylic and watercolor painting, collage, hand lettering, and drawing, and an occasional use of a rubber stamp. I did experiment with solar paste and stencils this time—on Day 18 with the “bright” prompt. Solar paste is a fun art supply and is very effective on a black background.
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| Solar paste medallions made with paste and stencils. |
Starting with Junk Journal January in 2023, and followed by Junk Journal January and Junk Journal July in 2024, Junk Journal January 2025 is the fourth journal in my collection.
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| Junk Journals from 2023, 2024, and 2025. |
