You can find books at thrift stores, flea markets, rummage sales, even libraries when they give away their old books. I use quite a few book pages in my junk journals so I have a collection of chip board in various sizes from the books I have removed pages. You can use the hard covers of old books. Old game boards are made from chip board. There are many places to find chip board. Locating Chip BoardĬhip board is a hard fiber board made from compressed cardboard. Because the signatures measure 1-inch, I add 1-inch more to the piece of chip board I use for the spine. I also need an additional ¼ inch on either side of the signatures so the entire junk journal lays flat when closed. I want the pages to lay flat so I need the signatures spaced about ¼ inch apart from each other when I sew them into the hard cover of the junk journal. The one I am making with this tutorial measures 1-inch. To get the measurement for the width of my spine, I lay the signatures directly on top of each other and measure the folded side from the table where they lay to the top of the upper-most signature. So if the signatures measures 10 inches by 8 inches then I know the front and back of the hard cover for my junk journal needs to be 10 ½ inches by 8 ½ inches. Then I add one quarter inch to each side of the signatures.
Sometimes I need to cut the pages down to the size I want, and sometimes I like the way the pages lay, so I determine the size of the hard cover journal by measuring the pages from top to bottom and from the folded side to the opposite edge. Once I have all the pages in the order I want, I then determine the size of the hard cover I need for the junk journal. In other words, if I add a sheet of music to each signature, I need three pieces of sheet music one for each signature. There are three signatures in the junk journal I am making, so I need at least three sheets of each of the papers I am using. I layer the pages in each signature as close as possible with the other signatures in the junk journal. I fold each page separately and crease the paper with a bone folder to make the fold crisp. Signatures in a junk journal are groups of 15 to 20 pages folded in half and cut to the desired size for the handmade journal. I also like to add lined pages, vintage advertisements, and old book pages. Sometimes I choose from a collection of coffee-dyed papers, patterned paper, vintage newspaper or magazine pages and envelopes. Sometimes I use a digital kit made for junk journals, like the one I am making now.
I want each page to grab the reader’s attention. I use a large variety of papers when I make a junk journal. You can use this same process for any size hard cover you want to make for your junk journal. I chose this size because not all the pages are the same size and I do not want to fold the larger pages. The hard cover for the junk journal I am making with this tutorial measures 10 inches by 8 ½ inches, with a 1 ½ inch spine. It gives me a sense of accomplishment knowing I hand-crafted a journal that people use and will continue to use throughout the years. I make them to withstand the years so people can use them and look through the pages. I always make my junk journal hard covers with chip board, Tyvek and fabric. Wedding albums, baby books and memory books are three types of junk journals for which I make hard covers.
I like to make a hard cover for a junk journal that is used for a special occasion. Junk journals are handmade books that are made with a hard cover or a soft cover, just like commercially printed books.
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