Junk Journal Page Idea - Triple Pocket, a Tuck and an Envelope Flip!

Do you need another pocket idea for your junk journal project? I’m sharing a new, CUTE, interactive pocket flip and making a pattern template for my pocket pouch. Junk journaling can seem so “same” sometimes, and we all keep looking for new, fresh ideas for elements to use in our books. I hope this triple pocket envelope flip is helpful! I love journal flip-outs, and this one will be a definite go to for my pouch. Thanks for your interest!

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[BeAgainBooks]

Okay my sweet junk journal friend - by the time I typed out my reply, you deleted the comment. Please let me help you. I hear your frustration! You start by making a signature for a junk journal- just one. Use whatever papers you want because this will be an “eclectic” junk journal. That means that you won’t have any kind of theme. You want to just make it like a scrappy patchwork quilt. There are a LOT of YT videos about how to put a signature together - you’ve probably watched them already, right? Don’t worry about the cover yet, just put the signature together. Use about 15 papers - trim and fold the papers and put a loose rubber band around them to keep them together in a signature. Use papers that you love - that interest you for some reason. They might have pretty images, maybe they have great texture, or some other characteristic that you find appealing. If you can manage it, use some papers that have some colors and/or patterns that you like, but even neutral colors can be pretty. When I begin a journal, (unless it is a concept journal, which I will refer you to that recent video to understand that process, haha…) I usually start with the papers and by the time I get the signatures ready I usually have a feeling or a direction for where the journal is going. With an eclectic or random or scrappy or “junky” journal, you need a unifying element of some kind, something that brings all those disparate papers together. This is why we like “themes” - the theme becomes the unifying principal for the book. It doesn’t need to be a theme, it could be a color or it could be an artistic technique like stamping, or using texture paste or splattered paint or color blocking or repetitive stickers. Just something that you repeat on your papers, throughout the book that sort of makes what you are doing DELIBERATE. I use that term a lot when I am just talking on camera because it’s important to me that what I do be on purpose for the journal I’m making. Let’s say that you choose to use white texture paste as your unifying element, or maybe a colored paint splatter and a particular stamp. So, now you would take a small stencil and the texture paste OR the stamp and the paint splatter and choose maybe five or six of the fifteen papers and repeat that element somewhere on those papers - in a corner or along the edge or under a fold or some other place that you find attractive. Then put those papers back into the signature. You might take another three or four papers and do some hand dying or coffee dye or watercolor wash, etc. By now your signature looks unified - like a deliberate journal. Now you can choose to put together a cover for your signature and then you are ready to decorate with all your ideas for pockets and tuck spots. You can decorate your added pockets, etc. with the same texture paste or stamp, etc. Then add in other decorative things that you’ve collected, like lace or images or vintage ephemera, etc. Most of the time I do the cover and bind the flat journal pages first and then decorate with pockets and tucks and other artistic elements, but I know many people who decorate before making the cover. I usually do the ephemera (things to stuff into pockets and tucks like tags and journal cards, etc.) last. That’s what I would do with you, if I had you with me in my studio and we were working through this process together. I hope that helps a little. Please reply with any mental obstacles or questions you still have. I’ll work through it with you. Do you have a theme that you want to do? Do you have an idea of how you want your finished journal to look? Do you like a particular style better than other styles? I’m talking about vintage style or boho style or shabby chic style, etc.

[cheryldelvalley]

I just found your site for the first time and read your detailed response to someone much like myself new to junk journals and anybody who helps someone and takes time like you did deserves me following her (you) and you deserve many more followers. Your stuff is really nice. I have so far watched too many videos to mention and I have done less than a dozen ephemera and bought so many supplies (tools, papers, stamps, ink etc.) my Husbands is threatening to divorce me. Lol

[mommacavalierssf]

Just found you and subscribed. You have such a sweet and calm disposition and these envelope pockets w/ tucks are darling!!

[ericastannard]

Thanks for such a cute envelope pocket idea! I love both examples! Erica❤

[paperoldnew]

I love this pocket idea! ❤ I think it's amazing that you took the time to write that response. Getting started can be really frustrating, so thank you for taking the time.😊❣️

[bigmommasandymoore]

So many envelopes, so little time. Thank you for another idea so I can keep them out of the landfill.

[dawnklein]

So simple and effective! My family has started to give me cards with unsealed, non addressed envelopes since they know I reuse them! 😂😂😂

[pamela]

So glad to find you! Absolutely one of my Top 3 crafters!! I love how you do this with such ease

[DorothyJanetoo]

Another amazing pocket idea! I also loved that bird in the garden!

[lenawarelius]

Thanks for inspiring video 😊 lots of love from arctic Norrway 🙌🏵🌻🌺🌹🌼

[kellyg]

The facility where I work has undergone a rebranding and I'm so blessed to have been given several boxes of unused envelopes (in different sizes) that have an old logo that they will no longer be able to use. This is a fabulous way to use some of them up! Thank you Kathleen :)

[francesarendse]

Nice idea, thanks for the share. I will definitely make some.

[janekrut]

Thanks for the easy way to stagger thumb notches. That pocket page in your journal is beautiful - I, too, love the way the tuck blends with the paper.

[cynthiaakacyndsmith]

Very lovely thank you for sharing with us. OH and I just subscribed, you are worth being noticed!! Thank you again! In am looking forward to seeing more frome you

[Cardsbyann]

Thanks for sharing your talents! I love the pocket variations.

[WellVersedCreations-rqce]

Kathleen these envelopes that flip out and have the pockets are so creative. I love the way you staggered the thumb cutouts. I will have to use this idea on some of my journal pages on my channel and credit you! Glad I found your channel..

[overflowmiss]

Thank you for showing how you made these with minimalistic supplies. They are really great. ❤

[cherylpollack]

I love this project! It was such fun to make along with your instructions. Thank you so much 😊

[smurfette]

Love it…that is so magical 💗Thanks for Sharing ❣️❣️👍🏾

[karenhamilton]

I have huge box of envelopes given to me so glad you show how to use them. Thank you.