5 crafty ways to create journal pockets (repurposing your stash!)

Gather together your stash of old envelopes, magazines, and book pages - and learn how to repurpose them into 5 different pockets for your journals!

Have you ever made pockets - the paper kind - for your journals?

I confess that I'm a little bit obsessed with making pockets for all my journals right now.

I have them in my art journals, I have them in my writing notebooks, and I also love to add them to my creative envisioning pages: I create my envisioning page for the coming four weeks (we work in lunar cycles) and then create a page opposite for my gatherings, happenings and doings during this lunar cycle. Which ALWAYS needs a pocket for tickets 'n snippets!

But as I don't make them every week, I often find myself forgetting how to make them. So it's off to YouTube to search ... the following three videos (below) are by far my most favourite ways of making pockets, so here they are.

:: Supplies

All you need (supplies-wise) is:

paper stash, old magazines and/or old, damaged book pages
old envelopes (doesn't matter how ripped or torn)
ephemera (if you have to hand)
some form of glue
scissors
paper creaser (nice if you have one to hand, otherwise you can use a ruler)

So ... why don't you take a moment to go gather together your stash of old envelopes, magazines, and book pages - and begin to repurpose them into 5 different pockets for your journals, following the fabulous videos below.

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This is my favourite tutorial to make paper pockets for your journals

The same artist also shares three other types of (easy) paper pockets you might like to try:

This is really clever - how to make four pockets from a single piece of paper:

Let me know how you got on ... and if you're on Instagram, please do tag @createavitystudio as I'd love to see your own unique brand of creative magic :)

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