Bree and I put together put together an FAQ list recently for The Archivist submission guidelines. Rather than simply pasting them into the submissions page as text, we wanted to have a little fun with it.
Check out our FAQs in the gallery below!
We’re happy to have already begun receiving submissions for our new anthology, The Archivist! I think that making this book is going to be a fun journey. However, I embarrassingly forgot to include an important detail in the submission guidelines.
The original guidelines failed to note that the authors/artists who have their work selected for publication, will receive an author copy of the book.
The submission guidelines have been updated. Check out the guidelines HERE. If your work is selected for publication, you will receive one author copy of The Archivist upon publication.
In the meantime, check out the video below for some creative journalling inspiration!
This year we’re calling 1134 Press’ annual creative journal challenge Daily Snaps.
Remember December by taking a photo a day this month to collage in your journals.
The objective of this challenge is to capture the essence of what makes up the Winter season. Be spontaneous as you carry your camera with you this month. But if you find yourself in a creative rut, use this idea list to help capture the magic of December!
Photo by Tessa Rampersad on Unsplash
Winter Night
Is the moon exceptionally bright? Did you or a neighbor outdo themselves with light decorations? Or maybe you’re spending a cozy night with your pets, a glass of wine, and good television. Take a picture that captures what a winter night looks like for you.
The Bakery
The holidays are known for their decadent sweets. Take a picture of elaborately decorated sweets or those that remind you that the holidays are upon us!
Texture and Textile
Celebrate the cozy textures of the season. Take an up-close picture of your favorite sweater, blanket, or scarf. Show off its details!
Family Portrait
Gather your closest friends or family—have them sit for you for a family portrait.
Labor of Love
Take a picture of your favorite hobby or craft. Bonus points if it’s one that you only do during the Winter.
Photo by Caley Dimmock on Unsplash
Winter Sky
Look up! And take a photo of the sky.
Self-Love
You’re beautiful. Capture it in a photo.
Warmth
A fire, a cup of tea, your child’s smile- capture whatever makes you feel warm.
New Addition
We acquire many artifacts during the holiday season, be it gifts (for ourselves and from others) or decorations, or a pair of lined boots. Take a photo of an object that has recently come into your life.
Candid
Take a candid photo of a person or animal that captures them in their natural state.
Any Given Morning
Although December is marked with extraordinary events, it’s important to cherish the simple ones too. Take a photo during your morning routine.
Find Balance
Winter is a season of giving food, gifts, time, and love. Finding the balance between giving and preserving can be tricky during this time. Capture an image that represents balance or symmetry.
Creating Fantasy
Decorations are a sure sign that the holidays have arrived. Curating your holiday decorations brings the holiday fantasy to life. Let’s create another fantasy with objects in your house. Stage found objects and capture the story through a photo.
In the Eye of the Beholder
Capture a beautiful scene behind a picture frame. Take an empty picture frame out with you on a walk or around the house. Hold the frame out in front and take a photo with the frame and the objects behind it.
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash
Home
Give thanks to shelter and comfort! Capture an image of your house or your favorite place in your home.
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
Capture the smell of the season through images of raw spices, candles, flora, or a scene that invokes winter scents.
Winter Flora
Take a photo of nature in the form of a garden, a single leaf, or a floral arrangement.
Holiday Kitsch
Snowflakes, Santa, ginger breadmen—Holiday motifs surround us! Capture some of your favorite symbols of the season.
Photo by Jeffrey Wegrzyn on Unsplash
Hello everybody,
This will be another off week for the YouTube channel, but like I wrote in the previous blog post, there is new content on the Buy Me a Coffee page. There are some other reasons besides making content for BMC why YouTube videos have been few this month. I will be writing about that in the next newsletter. It’s all good news, and gets a bit into our lives outside of 1134 Press. If you would like to read more about that, subscribe to the newsletter—linked below!
Also coming in November, new videos for YouTube! We love our YouTube Channel and the community that has grown around it. So, it’s always a bit of a bummer when we can’t post a lot in a month. And with that said, we are excited to get a new series going on the channel next month (and next month is right around the corner). If for some reason you’re reading this blog post, but you’re not subscribed yet to the channel, subscribe today!
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Hello everybody,
Bree is currently working on the next post for the Almanac Diary! This will be exclusive to Pen Pal and Book Club Members on Buy Me a Coffee (BMC) and will be a video about her process of getting back into the project. If you’re also getting back into a project, this might be the video for you! She will also reveal the next exercise for the project.
Also, for Buy me a Coffee, Bree is putting together the next Daily Ephemera Podcast. This one will be about her page layout process. This one is available to all member tiers on BMC. See the link below to find all the fun content going up on BMC!
There is a bit of a hiatus on the 1134 Press YouTube channel right now. There is more content on the way, though! Coming in November, you can look forward to a new series on the YouTube channel. This series will dive deeper into page inspiration and journal prompts.
Here are some of the topics planned for the series:
How to use white space
How to use grids to plan a page
How to create hierarchy
Layering techniques
We want to thank you all for following along on this creative journey! Find our new series on YouTube in November—we will certainly send a reminder in the next newsletter (also linked below). And in the meantime, check out the new stuff on BMC!
Thanks everybody!
Hi everybody,
Bree has been posting more content on the Buy Me a Coffee page—a new video just went up! Though much of the content found on BMC is for supporters, there’s plenty you can access for only $1.00. Check it out at the link below!
To be clear, we are still posting videos to YouTube for everyone to enjoy, and we have no intention of stopping. We are just doing a little extra for the BMC audience (which could be you!).
New video up today—hooray!!
Today’s video is the third episode of our “Start to Finish” series. We started with “How to Plan and Shop for your Themed Junk Journal.” Then we dropped “How to DIY your own Junk Journal Kit.“ And now we get into the binding.
Check out the new video below!
For this week’s post, I wanted to focus on one of the main elements of junk journaling: filling our journals with interesting and decorated pages! Rather than write a thesis here about decorating journal pages, I curated a few videos from the channel that I think are good inspiration.
Decorating a Junk Journal Page
I think this is a hot topic within the community. If you’re looking for inspiration for decorating some of your junk journal pages, check out the video below. I also believe that a great way to generate ideas is through conversation with others. Feel free to share your ideas in the comments section of the video and in our Facebook group—you just might find some new inspiration in the replies!
Junk Journaling with Paper Scraps
I know this is one of Bree’s favorite elements of junk journaling. Paper scraps really can form some interesting and impressive art pages. I’ve seen quite a few stellar examples of collage share among the community. Find inspiration for your own journal in the video below, abd create your own art with your own unique voice.
Pocket Pages for Junk Journals
Looking to get a bit more functional? Add pocket pages to your journal. I think the pocket pages are great. Not only do they add dimension to the journal pages, but they also add can an equal amount of functionality and whimsy. It’s so fun to find a little something squirreled away within the interior of the journal. Check out this video for more about pocket pages!
And look out for a new video uploading 03/06/22 at the channel!
-G.J. Sieck
We have a new studio vlog up on the 1134 Press YouTube channel this week. The studio vlogs are my favorite—this one has such a chill vibe. This time, we learn to use paper scraps to make junk journal cards. We also get a little insight into Bryonna’s own thoughts. Bryonna also talks some about reflective writing, which is something that I find myself promoting quite often.
Anyhow, let’s not talk about it, let’s be about it—check out the video below!
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Happy easter everybody! If you’re reading this right now, there’s a good chance you might be bored around the house—which is the inspiration for this video!
If you happen to have a polaroid camera on hand, and are looking for something different to do with your journals, try out this double exposure technique. In the video, Bryonna shows exactly how to manipulate the camera to create some very interesting images.
Why not makes some ghostly pictures for your junk journal?
Check it out below!
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For this week’s blog entry, I would like to look back at Wednesday’s video (note that there is a new video up today, too!) In Wednesday’s video, Bryonna shares three ideas for Happy Mail. Happy Mail is always a fun project because it means sending something to the pen pal.
In this tutorial, Bryonna makes a Happy Mail full of stationery and ephemera. The video overviews a few great ideas for the Happy Mail:
1) Sending mixed papers for your pen pal to collage with!
2) Binding mixed papers into a DIY envelope (decorated with washi, wax seal, and vintage stickers)!
3) Making a transparent card and trifold pocket!
Don’t worry if you don’t have a pen pal. Everything in this video tutorial can be used in your own personal junk journal. Now, check out the video linked below and get inspired to create something new!
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One fun aspect of junk journaling is the repurposing of things that might have otherwise been thrown out. Oftentimes we’ll repurpose pages from old books, old cards, and other paper scraps one might find around the home office or crafting space. In this week’s video, however, Bryonna sources materials from an often overlooked place—the car!
I’m sure many of you keep the interior of your cars spotless. I’m also sure that many others could use a clean right about now. Let’s just say that Bryonna found a lot of material to junk journal with while cleaning out the car.
Get inspired for an outside-the-box take on sourcing materials (and putting them together) at the video below!
In this week’s Junk Journal with Me video, Bryonna uses ephemera from previous videos to give some more Junk Journalling inspiration. This week’s video is sans commentary. The music, though, is very jazzy; super chill to sit back and watch an awesome spread being made.
Check the video out below!
Earlier this week, we produced a video all about creative ways to use stamps. The fun stuff in this video isn’t limited to using stamps, though. Also watch a specimen card be made and how to create a “window” in your paper craft project. Watching the tutorial is much more enjoyable than reading about it. So, check this one out now!
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In this week’s Junk Journal with Me video, Bryonna offers a usefully inspiring tutorial. If you are just starting out using your new die cutting machine, this video is for you. Bryonna uses a Tim Holtz and Sizzix Vagabond 2 die cut and embossing machine for this video. You do not need the exact model, though, to apply what you learn in this tutorial to your own junk journal spreads.
Check out the video below!
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New videos are coming back in just a few days.
Read MoreIn our most recent video, Bryonna makes a glue book. According to her, the difference between a junk journal and a glue book is that a glue book is a more relaxed way to use your “stash.” So, have fun with this tutorial!
Follow along with Bryonna as she creates four collages in a three ringed binder. She uses a variety of materials in this project. The materials used include various papers, cut-outs from magazines, pictures from an old book, pressed flowers, and much more. Watch the video to see everything she used and to get some creative inspiration.
Also, there is a prompt included in the tutorial to practice your design skills using a design grid layout. It’s common to get into the habit of using the same spread over and over, albeit with different materials. Let the prompt inspire you to try some new things this week.
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Two new Junk Journal with Me videos have gone live over the past week. Bryonna also reviewed the We R Memory Keepers Book Binding Guide. Find a brief description of each along with the links below.
In Junk Journal with Me Episode 6, Bryonna writes a letter of her intentions for 2021. The writing is printed onto transparency paper and folded (following the Paper Kawaii Origami Envelope Tutorial). See the video linked below for more creative inspiration!
In Junk Journal with Me Episode 7, Bryonna practices writing with a Trustela calligraphy pen set. She also shares some journaling prompts to help inspire your own journaling. And as usual, Bryonna shares links to the tools noted in the video.
In Reviewing the We R Memory Keepers Book Binding Guide, Bryonna makes a Japanese stab bound sketchbook. She also shows how to make a watercolor sketchbook with leather cover. Watch the video below for the review.
It’s a new year and a good time to reflect a bit. Over the course of December, Bryonna created a December Daily Junk Journal. Find a compilation of those videos below.
And keep tuning in for all of the fun stuff we have planned for 2021!
In our most recent video, Bryonna shares her junk journal process. Bryonna made vintage ephemera that she sews together with her new sewing machine. She’s never used a sewing machine before, so this was a bit of a learning exercise.
Also, in this video, Bryonna uses paper scraps to collage with rather than throwing them away. While showing the collage in progress, Bryonna also discusses art journaling. Watch the video below to see the junk journal page constructed. We hope this video inspires your next junk journal page!
A new Junk Journal with Me episode is live today! Today’s video might be pretty useful, as Bryonna discusses using the journal for goal setting. With the new year upon us, it is a good time to think about our goals. One of my personal goals for the year is to finally finish some of the books I began reading this year (I tend to put books down and take far too long to pick them back up again!).
What goals do you have for the new year? Watch the video below, and get some inspiration for how to record them!
