A Year of Junk Journaling: 52 creative prompts to transform scraps of your life into art

The number one rule of junk journaling? There are no rules.

Author and memory-keeper Martina Calvi invites you to embrace a year of playful, mindful creativity with 52 inspiring junk journaling prompts. Whether you're discovering junk journaling for the first time or already treasure a growing collection of paper scraps, stickers and ephemera, you'll learn to preserve memories, tell your story and transform everyday treasures into pages that are uniquely yours.

Martina's simple Collect, Reflect, Create approach encourages you to:

• COLLECT photographs, tickets, packaging, postcards and little keepsakes that capture life's special moments
• REFLECT with mindful prompts that help you slow down, celebrate everyday memories and express yourself creatively
• CREATE playful junk journal pages using collage, paper craft and mixed-media techniques – no perfection required

Inside you'll discover 52 inspiring prompts to experiment with color, texture and composition, celebrate favorite memories, finally use your treasured stash of stickers and paper scraps, and build a joyful creative habit one page at a time.

Perfect for junk journalers, scrapbookers, memory collectors and budding artists, A Year of Junk Journaling will help you embrace your personal style and discover that the most meaningful stories are often told through the little things we choose to keep.

Martina Calvi is a mixed media creative and online creator from Sydney, Australia. Since 2015 she has used the internet as her scrapbook, sharing illustrations, mixed media projects and moments from her life with a community of over 300 thousand creative followers. Throughout her career as an online creative she has gained major collaborations with Adobe, Adidas, Nike, Snapchat and more. She is the author of The Art of Memory Collecting and A Year of Junk Journaling.