Part collage, part diary and part upcycling, a junk journal combines many crafting ideas into one sometimes-bursting book.

To get started, all you need to do is gather some junk from around your house and grab an empty journal (or even an ... or making the pages look perfectly "aesthetic," Alexia says.

Alternatively, you can create your own journal by sewing and binding individual pages or using a hole punch and binder rings. While you don't need to center your junk journal around a certain ...

A freeform hybrid of collage, scrapbooking and traditional journaling, the creative hobby is having a moment right now.