Do they still make Smash books?

I don’t see Smash Books around as much anymore, but you can still purchase them online at amazon.com and you can always use other notebooks or albums. The main point of these books for me it to have somewhere to store this little misc. bits of life in a quick and easy way.

What do you put in a smash book?

Just open the book, and create your page right there! Tape pictures in place, add embellishments by gluing, taping or stapling, and write down your thoughts or feelings with your favorite pen or marker. With a smash book, you don’t have to worry about the perfect layout.

What is a Smashbook?

Smash books are what scrapbooks used to look like before they became a serious craft. In other words, “smash” books are the original “scrap” books. You used scraps of memories as you seldom had photographs. You would write (journal) a description so everyone would know what the scrap represented.

What is the difference between a junk journal and a glue book?

Glue books have many different names – some people call them smash books or smash journals and often times they are very similar to junk journals, since ANYTHING can be used to make them – even your junk mail! The main reason we call them glue books is because you glue things down in it.

What is the difference between a scrapbook and a junk journal?

Where scrapbooks are made to be polished and beautiful, junk journals are made to be used, written in and to remember things you want to keep track of. Often a junk journal is a handmade book and is not intended to last a long time the same way scrapbooks are.

What is a Gluebook?

A gluebook is a “book” where you glue things (like a collage) in. The following are some examples: A new, blank notebook that you decide you want to glue things in. An old book that you want to glue things on top of the pages.

What is a junque journal?

A Junk Journal is a handmade book of recycled and found materials and ephemera. The pages can be used to write, draw, paint or record memories, thoughts, ideas, and inspiration. The finished junk journal can become anything you want.

What is a junk journal ephemera?

Ephemera is anything that can be added to a junk journal. Typically, it is a bunch of old or recycled bits and pieces such as receipts, bits from old newspapers and magazines, and other pieces of memorabilia.

Can you make money selling junk journals?

Another place you can sell your journals is on EBay. I know some folks sell exclusively on EBay and have a lot of success doing so. It’s a common place to look for vintage items and antiques, so if your junk journals have a vintage theme it might be a great place to sell your journals.

Do junk journals make sense?

Use a junk journal as a memory and photo keeper – junk journals tend to borrow a lot of ideas and techniques from the scrapbooking world, so it’s natural that junk journals often become books for keeping memories, photos, cards, tags, and other bits of ephemera that remind you of friends, family and trips you might …