Hello, creative friends! Life gets busy. Sometimes days—or even weeks—go by before we realize we haven’t made anything. If that’s been you lately, consider this your gentle invitation to begin again – whenever you’re able. 🌿 Creative Prompt Choose a…
Make a Journal from Envelopes Our October Junk Journal Club project is a flip-flop envelope journal: a small interactive journal made from three ordinary envelopes. The finished structure includes flips, pockets, and plenty of little spaces for tags, journaling cards,…
Hello, creative friends! Some of the best supplies aren’t found in craft stores—they’re already hiding in your home. Today’s inspiration is all about seeing ordinary things in a new way. 🌿 Creative Prompt Look around the room you’re sitting in.…
I’ve been playing in a little 2″ × 3″ composition-book art journal (thanks for the inspiration, RC!), and I needed some appropriately tiny envelopes to tuck inside it. So, naturally, I made some. 😁 They turned out so cute that…
Hello, creative friends! Have you ever noticed that inspiration often shows up after you’ve already started creating—not before? Sometimes the hardest part is simply sitting down and making that first cut, tear, or glue stick swipe. So let’s make today…
The Columbiana Library’s Cut, Paste, Create Club is this Tuesday at 2pm in the Mowen Room. This one is coordinated by the library and requires registration through them. Last time I checked the registration was full, but I hope to…
A while back at Junk Journal Club, we turned humble recycled toilet paper rolls into the cutest little treasure boxes! After folding, shaping, and gluing them into tiny pocket-sized containers, everyone painted their boxes in their own unique style —…
Here’s a link to a tutorial that I used for the little toilet paper roll boxes we’ll be finishing today. For anyone who missed it or might like to follow along:
I just added two new dates to the calendar for our Junk Journal Club to meet. So now there are 2 dates in February and also in March. The new dates are in the evening, to hopefully allow more people…
If you see this and you’re coming to next week’s Cut, Paste, Create at the CPL, leave me a comment below and I’ll bring you a free printable for your junk journal. 🥳 Date, time, place info here
