Bird Watcher Junk Journal
Hey guys, once again one of our fabulous Junk Journal Design Team Members, Lynne Morgado, has created an amazing junk journal for us. She shares her incredible Bird Watcher Junk Journal with you! Each week we spotlight another Mixed Media project, created by one of the amazing Designers on our team. The designers are tasked to use images from our Premium Membership Site to provide inspiration for your own projects. Be sure to check out her Show and Tell Video below. Please scroll down to the end of this post to see her video. Be prepared to be inspired! I will now allow Lynne to tell you all about her art in her own words…
Hello everyone! I am so happy to be back to show you my November Design Team junk journal project.
Inspiration can come from the simplest things. When I was filling our bird feeders recently I couldn’t believe how bold the chickadees had become. They didn’t even wait until I was out of the way before they swooped in for their lunch. I laughed to myself and thought, “I should make a bird themed journal.” That’s how inspiration strikes sometimes
I have been a bird watcher since I was 9 years old. My mother had a little bird guide book and we would keep a list of the birds we would see at our feeder. That early love of bird watching is probably the reason I got a degree in Wildlife Biology with a specialty in Ornithology.
I started browsing the Premium Membership website and I honestly cannot believe the amount of bird and bird related images available. It is wonderful!
I included images of birds I observe in my own backyard as well as images of birds from the Premium Membership bundles that I wish I would see in my backyard. Although I haven’t seen any owls in my yard, I hear one every night. What a wonderful sound to listen to while you fall asleep.
I wanted to create a journal with natural and grungy colors & papers and I chose images with that color scheme in mind. Those neutral tones also highlight nicely the pops of color of the bird images.
Color nature book plate images are always a favorite of mine and the eggs images are no exception. So of course I couldn’t resist including several in this journal. I enlarged on of the eggs images to create a writing board. For those of you unfamiliar with it, a writing board is a hard surface that is used to slip between pages to create a stable surface to write on. I will show you what I mean in the flip through video.
The layered, collaged cover I created with textiles, vintage paper, cardboard, buttons and more. To top it off is an image from the Birds & Nest Ephemera Bundle.
The black & white sketches from The Feathered Friends bundle are lovely. Grab your colored pencils or markers and relax with some tea and coloring on a dreary winter day. Sounds perfect to me.
I created some pages using vintage bird books I have in my own collection. Those pages can be further embellished or journaled on or simply left as something pretty to inspire.
The ring bound style junk journal has become a favorite of mine. I really enjoy creating pages of different sizes and adding lots of embellishments and textiles. I also like the flexibility of being able to rearrange, add or remove pages. It is an easy style of journal to start with if you are overwhelmed at the idea of creating a cover and binding in pages the traditional way. You could even create a page a day until you have enough pages for a journal – punch the holes and add the rings. So easy and fun!
I hope you will join me on my YouTube channel to see the full flip through video. I can’t wait to show you all the little details that really made this journal special to me an hopefully give you some ideas and inspiration.
Bird Watchers Junk Journal Show and Tell Video
Let’s take a tour of it together:
I hope you like this junk journal and find some inspiration and ideas to use in your own creations!
Graphics Fairy Premium Membership Bundles Used:
- Birds & Nest Ephemera
- Snow Birds
- Winter Birds
- Natural History Birds
- A Forest Stroll
- Feathered Friends
- Fall Colors Ephemera
- Bird Watchers Bliss
- Blank Paper Ephemera
- Office Labels Printable Sheet
My journals are available for purchase in my Etsy shop.
For junk journal and craft with me videos please stop by my Youtube channel.
Follow me on Instagram: @mockingbirdandmain
Thank you everyone for taking the time to read about my Design Team project. I appreciate it so much! I hope you are all doing well.
Happy creating!
Lynne
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Diane Van Winkle says
I am so confused……….what is the POINT of a junk journal? Sure, I like some of the images used, a few of the page designs,……but what do you DO with this “journal”? Does it just lie on a table for people to look at?
Karen Watson says
Hi Diane, it’s used like any other journal, you write your thoughts and memories in it. Some writers use them to write poetry or stories. The junk journal makers sell them on Etsy to writers. It’s often a wonderful collaboration between 2 different types of artists, although you don’t have to be a writer to write in one. Great for keeping little treasures in too, like photos or keepsakes like Menus, theater tickets etc.
Joanie Harris says
It reminds me of what I used to do as a kid- make scrapbooks with paper ephemera, things like business cards, dry cleaner receipts, news articles, etc. So, this craft project is really
calling my name!
graphicsfairy says
Oh yea!! So glad you enjoyed it Joanie!