A New Way To Make A Junk Journal With A No Sew Binding Method! #craftwithme

 So just how many ways are there to make a junk journal?  Well, I've found there are at least a dozen methods and styles to choose from.  If you're not a DIY person and would like to find out just what is a junk journal.  You may purchase one in my Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine.  Click Here!

Follow along on my YouTube channel and #craftwithme as I show you all twelve this year (2021).

How To Make A Monogram Letter With Seed Beads For Your Junk Journals

 Come along and craft with me today in my Florida home studio as I show you how to add a monogram letter to your Junk Journal covers using seed beads!

Bring out your inner child and have some fun while you are staying home and practicing social distancing.

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How To Make Your First Junk Journal Without Spending Any Money On Supplies

 This is part four in the video series "Craft Show Ideas #4" featuring ways to make gifts without spending any money on supplies.  Zero waste eco-friendly green craft projects that help you use up supplies you already have on hand or that you can get from others.  

An easy way to make your first junk journal without having to spend a dime on supplies is by gathering up old greeting cards you have stored in a box somewhere.  This custom made anniversary card is on it's way to a customer of mine who commissioned me to make this for her parents Anniversary.

If you have a special occasion coming up and would like me to make you a beautiful card contact me in my Etsy shop at, Markets of Sunshine.  <<< Click

I'll show you in this video how easy it is to turn it into a journal in under 30 minutes.  

Click the button to watch the short tutorial and craft with me today!

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How To Make Pretty Pocket Pages In Your Junk Journal Without Spending Money

 This is a video series that I am doing for 2020 to help you save money on gift giving.

 

Did you know that you can use junk mail envelopes to make an embellishment on a page?  I'll show you how easy it is to do in this 30 minutes video tutorial.  Click the image below to watch the easy step by step how to tutorial now.

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Fun Ways To Use Your Envelope Punch Board, Eyelets and Brads In Junk Journal Pages

 Welcome to Markets of Sunshine!

You have all of these wonderful tools and supplies in your craft room waiting for you to make something amazing with them.  Right!  But, do you find that you get stuck coming up with new ideas and fun ways to use all of the gadgets?  I have an envelope punch board, eyelets and brads just asking me to get busy and make something with them.

 

So, yesterday I brought them all to my craft table and after watching a few other videos I came up with some really pretty embellishments for my junk journal pages.

Watch this short video and see what I did using my tools and supplies.  For more fun and creative ways to use your stash Subscribe to my YouTube channel, HERE! click <<<<

Care Package Writing Box With Junk Journal In A Bee Theme

 Taking care of yourself is top priority these days and Markets of Sunshine has custom made writing box gift sets filled to the brim with all kinds of goodies to keep you feeling calm and happy!

Everything in the wood box is handmade and the decorative design is decoupaged on top of a coat of white acrylic paint.

Anyone would love to receive this as a gift.  Why not send some happy mail to yourself or a friend today!  Visit us in our Etsy shop Markets of Sunshine by clicking HERE!

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we love to see our little community growing.  We are well on our way to 200 Subscriber's.  

When we reach the 200 mark we'll be doing a giveaway to 2 folks.  A $10 store credit to both of our Etsy shops.  Markets of Sunshine and Pioneer Fundraiser.

Stop by and add your favorites to your cart and get ready to use your $10 store credit.  If you win that is!  Your chances of winning are high if you follow all the rules of the contest.  See you soon!

Sending you Sunshine!

Marsha

The Prettiest Ways To Decorate Your Junk Journal On A Budget

 We are all needing to save money these days more than ever before.  But how can you still give gifts for those special occasions without breaking the budget?  Make a junk journal with things you have around the house.  Or, with things you can buy at the dollar store.  Ask your friends for old magazines with pretty pictures on topics you want to make a junk journal around.

So just what is a junk journal you may be asking?  Well, here is the quick answer.  It's a journal you make yourself with whatever papers and fabrics you want in the colors and patterns you want and in the size you want.

You can glue the pages together to make a section.  Also known as a signature if you want to sound smart.

You can sew the pages together like I do if you don't want the mess of the glue and you don't want to wait for the drying process.  I'm a little impatient with my projects.  I want to get them made and gifted or start using them right away.

So, want to learn some ways to make that first or 100th junk journal a beaut?  Watch my YouTube video and I'll show you how I make the prettiest junk journals on a budget with items you already have on hand.

 

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Junk Journal Inserts Using Original Artwork

Are you an artist?  Or, maybe someone in your family is like my daughter, Kayla.  She has made so many beautiful pieces for me to use in my projects.  I wanted to share them with you so you can add them to your projects too.

Come on over to my YouTube channel, Markets of Sunshine and watch the flip through.

If there are some you want just leave me a comment and I'll add them to my Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine as a digital download.  You may use it in your personal projects and sell in small batches.
You may not sell the artwork by itself.

I've used on of her drawings as a junk journal insert in a envelope pocket in my current Evergreen junk journal.  There are drawings of nature from flowers to sharks. There's even one of Alice In Wonderland with a modern twist that I think you'll go crazy over.

I hope to see you there soon.

Make Your Own Junk Journal Tri-Fold Pocket Inserts - Craft With Me

Making your own junk journal is so rewarding.  I'll show you in this video just how easy it is to take supplies you already have on hand to make a tri-fold pocket card insert for your planner or junk journal.

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Have a Sunshine and Creative Day!

Marsha

How to Make an Envelope Pocket Using Junk Mail Envelopes

Tutorial - How to make an envelope pocket using junk mail envelopes.

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Click the arrow button below to watch and learn how to make one of these beautiful and functional envelope pockets.  There are so many ways you can use these in your journals and craft projects.

See you soon!

Sending You Sunshine,
Marsha

Junk Journal Embellishments Pocket Insert Tutorial

How are you doing staying at home and keeping safe?  I hope you have organized your entire house by now.  I am working on my craft supplies and sewing supplies in my home office.
I have gotten so much done in 2 months.

The last to be organized and put away are all my fabric pieces and scraps.  I store them in those big Thirty-One Gift tote bags.  They hold around 100 different fabric types.  I lay them vertical so I can see the ends and know what is there at a glance.

In the meantime, I am also using up lots of the paper and fabric scraps in my stash and posting a DIY video on my YouTube channel.

I'm trying to reach 1000 subscribers this year, 2020.

I'm at 60 right now.  When I reach 100 subscribers I will do a giveaway for a $10 credit in my Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine. 
When I reach 1000 subscribers I will giveaway one of my new Subscription Boxes:
Happiness Box click to see and order now. <<<<<

This is a short and sweet DIY video about how to make a junk journal using up your fabric and paper scraps.

It can be made in about an hour.  Easy to follow instructions.

Grab your supplies and make a journal #withme

Visit my Etsy shop to pick up some of the supplies that you might want to add to embellish the cover and pockets at this link:

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Sending You Sunshine,

Marsha

How To Make Your Own Stickers for Planners, Journals and More! #withme

Here is an easy way to make your own stickers using up your supplies you have on hand.
You can use scrap pieces of paper, junk mail, magazine pages, stamps off envelopes, envelopes and more.

Watch and see just how easy it is to make stickers yourself and save a ton of money!
See the full supplies list in the video on my YouTube Channel.

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How To Make a Junk Journal From An Old Book - AKA Altered Book

Making a junk journal from an altered book is oh so easy.  Watch and learn with my flip through video on my YouTube channel, Sunshine Homemaker.

Learning how to embellish your projects is the hard part.  But, it doesn't have to be. Watch and learn how I use different elements in the same color group to turn an old book into a work of art.

Makes a great gift for any occasion.

If you aren't in the mood to make one yourself and would like me to make one for you.

Just head over to my Etsy shop, Markets Of Sunshine and place a custom order with me today.

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Coronavirus Stress Buster - Handmade Embellishments For All Types Of Journals

How to combat the stress from dealing with coronavirus - Writing!
Whether you're making an art journal, bullet journal or junk journal you need to have pretty handmade embellishments to give it your own personal style.

Pro tips:

1. Keeping a daily gratitude and hope journal is a great way to get rid of the stressful feelings that may be bottled up inside of you right now.

2. Deep breathing is another way to let the stress out.  Do at least 15 slow deep breaths every morning and at bedtime to relieve your body of the tightness in your chest.

Have you heard of planner swag?  I hadn't either until I started watching more and more YouTube videos in the journal and crafting world.  It basically means a pretty flower made of any number of materials in any size or shape to add to the front of the cover that will showcase your style.

 I've been making fabric flowers for years as lapel pins or brooches.  They are full of lush layers of colorful and monochromatic combinations of cotton blend fabrics.  I always add a vintage button to the center for the finishing touch.  They measure 2 to 4 inches wide and about 1 inch thick.

I include one in every DIY embellishment kit in my Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine.  They are on sale in my clearance section for March at 50% off the regular price.  I will be removing them at the end of the month from my main product line.  So, if you want to grab one of these deals head on over now and pick up the one you like.

Pro tips:

3. Gardening is a great way to reduce stress levels. Get outside and start planting those heirloom seeds. Or pick up plants at your local nursery.  There are a lot of great gardening videos on YouTube.

  
 Plant a variety of vegetables and fruit plants in your garden.  I'm doing raised bed container gardening this year.  We came up with a fun way to bring something whimsical to our backyard wildlife habitat.  I'll post the final pictures once it is complete.  You're gonna love it!

Strawberry plant.  Great for you and the friends of nature that visit your backyard.

If you want a ready made journal so that you can get to writing now and relief that stress level in a hurry.  Head on over to my Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine and pick up one of my beautiful and colorful exclusive handmade journals today.

Click Here to see the entire selection.  We know you're gonna love using it and writing your daily hopes and grateful thoughts in while dealing with this situation.

4. Make a Video - Start recording a daily video of how you feel about this current pandemic situation.  Then once this is all over with you can watch them and learn what you did that helped and what you did that needs improvement.  This way when it happens again and it will, you'll be better equipped to deal with the situation from a place of reference.

How does it make you feel?  
What are you doing to combat those feelings?  
How are you staying in touch with family and friends?
  
Watch my video on YouTube about the different types of journals and why you need to have one.  Click Here

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Best of Health to you and your family.

Sending You Sunshine from Florida.

Marsha

The Ultimate Junk Journal Gift Guide

Hello Friends!

I hope you are doing well today.  We have been very busy here growing our YouTube channel and it is slowly gaining new subscribers. Yay!  So, I just wanted to say "Thank You" to those who have followed along.  Don't know what I'm talking about?  Click here! 

Check out all my videos on everything to do with junk journals and the cash envelope system of budgeting and running an Etsy shop, Markets of Sunshine CLICK HERE!  It is so exciting to be sharing my 11 years experience selling on Etsy with other women trying to have a little side hustle to help out the family budget.

The perfect gift for our memories is a junk journal.  You know all those things you collect that are bits and pieces from your travels or cards from friends and even that artwork from a child.  Where do you keep it all so that you can refer back to it and enjoy those special moments?  In a junk journal of course!

I wanted to take a moment and show you all the ways you can use a junk journal and how they are the Ultimate in gift giving this year.

• a gift
• a diary
• a gratitude journal
• a scrapbook
• daily to-do-list
• mind dump at the end of the day
• photos aka brag book
• an art journal (I'm learning and love it)

I offer a number of styles for you to choose from.  Here is what you'll find in my shop and they come in different styles and patterns.

1. Gratitude Junk journal with pockets and no ephemera (use your own stash)
2. Junk journal with handmade ephemera and vintage book pages in the pockets and journal pages in the middle
3. Junk journal with tons of ephemera
4. Junk journal and gratitude journal combo with all the embellishments needed to make your life so much easier and ready for you to use or give to a friend

#1 gratitude journal                                         


 

                                  
                                                                           
#2 junk journal with some ephemera

                                                                                           
#3 Junk journal with lots of ephemera

                                                                                  
#4 Over the top junk journal with everything you need to embellish and get started storing those memories now!
Includes a blank junk journal along with the tags, buttons, pages, cover elements and more for you to make your own junk journal to fit your style.

                                                                                  
Shop Here at Markets of Sunshine today!

I hope you found this Ultimate junk journal gift guide helpful and inspiring enough for you to want to give it a try today.

Sending You Sunshine from sunny Florida.

Marsha

Altered Book For Unique Junk Journal Keepsake Gift Idea

Make a junk journal using a book that is altered makes a great gift idea for keeping a daily gratitude journal.

Watch this video of one of my past altered books that I sold in my Etsy shop, Markets Of Sunshine.

Do you have a book that has a beautiful cover that is just sitting on a shelf not being used?

Well turn it into a junk journal with a few simple steps.  It's a great project to do while sitting on the couch with one of your favorite shows running in the background.  

To get started pick out a good size book with lots of pages.  Then start removing half the pages.

You want to be able to embellish each page which will add bulk back to the book.

I usually tear out every other page.  In some cases you'll need to take out 3 or 4 pages at a time if it is a really thick book.

Then get out all of your craft supplies and start putting together a beautiful foundation of layers on each page.  Watch the video to get inspiration.

This will be a new product line coming to my shop for 2020.  So be sure to Favorite my shop so you can grab one of these works of art for yourself.

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