Where I Find Free Junk Journal Supplies + A Very Small Haul | Creative Places to Look for Supplies 

Just so you know, using original images in a journal you sell does not violate copyright laws. If you photocopy or scan the image and sell the copy or digital image, that is against the law. You don’t have the right to copy others’ work but you can use the original image in books you sell.

I'm new to junk journaling and am learning so much from many channels. I wanted to share that I went to a local thrift store that benefits Veterans. They were having a book sale! 8/$2! I bought 15 books and a few piano music scores that were counted as "books". Among other things I found a beer taster's journal, a workbook on accounting practices full of ledgers, a performance journal (daily charts, lists, memos), an ancient dictionary, a few children's books, a book of bird pictures which I trimmed over half and a quilling book that is full of patterns/templates. SCORE!

I would never tear up that beautiful Bible. It would totally go in my Bible collection..It is such a gorgeous piece. Thanks for sharing this video. Have a blessed day.❤❤❤

I love working with wallpaper samples. If you have a paint store nearby stop in and ask if they have any old sample books that are out of date.

Home Depot and Lowes allows you to take as many paint chips you want. I use mine to make matchbook notebooks and I use them with my die cuts and punches. Makes great ephemera

WOW! Love the reusing books idea ... but when I tell people I love books, I mean I love them to the point, somebody else would have to do all the tearing up, because I might get sick! And also, my grandmother would beat my butt with a broom if I did any such disassembling of the Bible. She'd yell for a month

I’m from England. My daughter spent a year at st Jude’s researching Fo her degree. We visited, what a wonderful place it is. We enjoyed Memphis and toured for 4 weeks. The Deep South is wonderful.

Thanks sweet lady for sharing your free finds around your home to encourage us to do the same. Blessings from Betty in Ohio. Thanks also for the uplifting words at the close .

I have a lot of my Grandmothers stuff, she kept everything. I have some button cards without buttons and I have some with buttons. I believe saving things is in my genes. My mother did also. I agree with all the pieces you showed ❤ Thank you ❤

Oh I love that Bible!!! You got some awesome books! Great free ideas! I love to use old clothes and the buttons on them too! Children’s coloring and adult coloring books are great too! Old Christmas decorations and ornaments make great items too! I use McDonald’s cookie and French fry bags too!

The '78 boys hairdo cracked me up. I can still cut that do!! 😂 Both my hubs and I graduated in 78.... I met him my senior year and was going to beauty college the last half. I got lots of practice on him.LOL love seeing all your goodies!

I like the way you have relaxed and more of your personality is coming through

I have just started and found your video. Thanks for all the tips on where to find free stuff. My husband will be forever grateful. I've been shopping at the Dollar Tree for stickers and rub ons but those books and papers you showed have given me new inspiration. Thank you for sharing this.

Hello, just came across your channel today and have subscribed. Loved all the ideas and I particularly loved the typing books they brought back a lot of memories. I love using junk in my junk journals too. Blessings 🌷

Thanks for sharing! I recently went through some old things, organizing and cleaning out- I’ve pulled out a lot of the same type things you shared! Great supply of freebies! 💕🤗🙌🏻

When I was a Girl Scout leader starting over 20 years ago, we get tons of free stuff. Printers gave away free paper cut-offs from their big jobs, all colors. The local newspaper gave us end rolls from printing the newspaper (one roll of blank newsprint had enough paper left on it for us to use the whole time my girls were GS - years and years!). We got free discontinued wallpaper books from Home Depot. Shoe stores were happy to give us their boxes because it saved them a trip to the dumpsters. I heard that upholstery places gave away their bits and pieces of fabric but I never asked. Joanns would give our Area office anything they had left over after a season. I doubt they do that anymore because, like Michael's, they probably put all the leftovers into big boxes and sell them to customers for a few bucks for each 'mystery' box. I found that stores were happy to give if I was asking for my troop, especially if they were just going to throw the stuff away. So, ASK - all they can say is no.

Such wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing. Love your personality. As a first time watcher, I am now a subscriber!

You have been a big inspiration to pleas some of the things you showed are things I already use and you gave some ideas about acquiring more supplies for free, such as going to my local used book store and see what materials he might be tossing out.

Thanks for all of the ideas you have given me.

I love your collections especcialy the sewing box ,hippy stuff my daughter would love those .

Just found your channel. Thank you for this video. Being new to junk journaling, THIS GAVE ME IDEAS. I subscribed to your channel today! BLESSINGS

Great ideas! Thanks!

This was so much fun. Thanks.

Oh yes nail varnish to mend your stocking And tights lol and the nail varnish stuck to your leg lol bought back memories and made me laugh. Could you use some of these to give us ideas how to use them please xx

So happy I found your channel! This was very helpful! I have tons of stuff and now am excited to glean what I want to use, and throw out or donate the rest!

I have been working with junk journals for a little over a year. I volunteer in our local library’s used book sale room. Sadly we lost our bulk sale options to ship out of town so a lot now goes in the dumpster. I started teaching a monthly class on junk journaling and try to use only recycle supplies sans glue etc. I will be binge watching your channel to see how you use these supplies. I am excited to see if you have done your carousel horse journal. I see themed books like that go in the dumpster quite frequently. 😞 thank you for the inspiration.🐞

Exceptional help, thank you 🥰

Amen. Love your video ❤

Another suggestion for a great resource for journal covers and inside work is old wallpaper books.

New subbie here. Thanks for the ideas. I needed reminding of some things & u opened my others to others. 🥰

Brilliant inspiration i was very lucky my mum got her bathroom done and found a newspaper under the old bath dating from the 50s so i have that ready for my vintage journal. I love the old packaging.

Thank you... love this video.. I'm inspired....

Good ideas!

Thank you for sharing! I have saved several stuff for years and last year I got into making Junk Journals!

You're too funny. You look great. Love your videos.

I learned a lot. Thx.

Thank you for all of your amazing ideas!! You're such a blessing to me!! ❤ MARANATHA

Hi, I know this is an older video, but I just found you and am a new subscriber. I can't believe you mentioned the Image of Loveliness class you took because I actually did take that class way back in 1975, in 8th grade at my Christian school. Unfortunately, I didn't save my papers from it, but that's really something that you took that class too. This was a very helpful video with some great ideas. Thanks!

So glad I came across your channel! I got tons of great ideas. Thank you soooo much! Just FYI: Jot products come from the Dollar Tree. So the person who sold you those stencils on Ebay paid just $1 for them. P.S. I think your hair is lovely!

You cracked me up!

Old clothing that one I wouldn't had thought about to use.

Awesome

Hi sweetie I just came across ur channel and fell n love... Tyfs the ideals I'm a junk journal maker as well can't wait to watch ur videos. New subbie here😊

Thank you for sharing....

You have a great personality!

Thanks! Some great ideas! I am trying to get rid of some things but end up second guessing. When I do throw it away, you can be sure that the very next day I have thought of what I COULD have used it for. 😅 I am relatively new (a few years now) @ Junk Journalling and need to be reminded of some of the great resources aka "garbage" or RRR stuff that I have and can use. I actually leaned forward, laughed and said, "oh my goodness. I remember that. " when you pulled out the "nylon/pantyhose repair kit" matchbook!

Bonjour!!!🤗OMG so so happy I found your channel🎉🎉🎉🎉New subbie living in Spain🔥🌞🔥I'm a proud mom of 3 lioneses❤❤❤ and I've a very low budget💰🙄 But thanks to you I've found 💎TRESORS💌👑here, in my hoyse!!!! I'm a beginner in this magical world of scrapbooking & as you said "each book is unique, as each person is unique❤" Reading my Bible & scrapbooking helps me so much with my anxiety+depression... Sooooo happy I've found you🥰🥰🥰🥰 I admire you, sending lots & lots of big bisous doux from one of the hottest place in the world!😅 😘🍓😘🍭😘🍫😘🥞🥞💜🌺🦄✝️

New to you channel , great ideas. I have some paint samples too. If you go to a paint store sometimes they'll gift you an old wall paper book and a full paint sample book.

Our library gives away old Readers Digest books and magazines. A friend gave me old maps. Tina, Al's wife

Subscriber 534! Fun video!

New sub. Great channel

I have junk mail, seed catalogs, greeting cards, wrapping paper, old books of all kinds, packaging materials, paint chips, all kinds of stuff from family archives, my own collection, so much fuel for junk journaling supplies. That lace of yours? I'd use it as paint screening so I could hold onto it and get more use/creative joy. Haven't made my own paper with a blender yet, but once I get some screening and a frame, look out, world! Just got some plastic and brown paper grocery bags. The old typing and steno books brought back memories from business school, but a bit more recent than the 50s. lol Bright blessings. 💞😃

First time watching you but just wanted to say you are so cute & funny ❤

You have a career as a comedian 🤣

HAHAH I got a kick out of the hair Comment, thank you for this

I took "White Gloves and Party Manners" in 1970! When I was 10 yrs old.

Great ideas.

No jealousy here... i have the same hairdo, lol. in black. My hair was very long and arms hurt to take of it.

I shopped in my home for my supplies. my financial investment is very low. I am a beginner. thank you

Yeah the idea you had about reusing paper I do the same thing. I was going for treatments a few months ago and every time I went I had paper given to me with what was done when appointments were going to be next and I had like three or four or five papers stapled together and I just would tuck them in some place to keep them and I got to thinking their blank on the other side that's too good of paper to just throw away so I can use them in a journal that I put together and write on the back of them and some of them even have space where I can write on the front so I do my devotional that's what I write on I come across in the divorce more somewhere else over so I want to keep from scriptures by riton and yeah it's like I'm repurposing it and then when I'm ready to put more pages in I'm starting my run now I cut the paper down to use and I'm thinking because I got this really Elegance paper from 45 that I want to use for the front of the journal so I may be making a different one instead for using the one that I have a cover for this reusable from Tim Holtz so yeah I just I just got the younger to go through stuff and you just gave me some more ideas of things I can use cuz I was thinking you know I have old recipe books that not a lot of them but enough that I can take a page out and put it in for journaling and different stuff like that is so much fun to find stuff that maybe you'll even forgotten that you can use so I was like yeah praise the Lord and it doesn't cost me arm and leg. Which right now all kidding aside my left arm is healing from a shoulder replacement and I'm so thankful that I can still do some of my crappy I don't do a lot of scrapbooking but I make cards and I like to do the journals because I just like to write so I may just write a whole devotional out but I think the size just being is something that I may go back over and read again and remind myself what was said it's therapeutic writing is very therapeutic I don't know why I don't know how but that's as much a gift from God as anyting else is you have a wonderful day and thank you so much that you bring the Lord and Christian things into your channel I love that God bless you

I’m watching many videos before I begin doing this hobby I don’t feel comfortable about the tea or coffee staining. How else might one get the aged affect

I can’t tear apart bibles.

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Do you live in Oregon also. Or is there other states that have Powell's.

How do you make modge-podge out of glue?

Love your name. I have a daughter named Marci too.

Yikes. I don't understand how you can rip a book like that apart... The Bible?? 😳 Seriously though.... teach me your ways. I have at least a dozen books that I can't find it within me to tear them apart. Also, I hope you didn't pay a whole lot for those butterfly stencils on eBay. Those came from the Dollar Tree. 😬👍 There's some great ideas here. Thank you for the inspiration.

You would use a Bible?

For me a Chik Fil A sack would go straight into the trcycle bin. Would not want that homophobic vibe in any of my precious jjournals.