I just realized this April Junk Journal Highlights post accidentally went unpublished. The way I was flabberghasted when I tried to duplicate the live post in order to create the May one 😱

Instead of being annoyed about it, I decided to combine April and May. I actually forgot one of the pages I did for April anyway so it’s a blessing in disguise.

Even though I had a lot of free time during spring break in April, I didn’t junk journal as much as I wanted to because my craft space was a complete mess. I spent most of May organizing some stuff after I sending out junk journal swaps. I also celebrated my birthday, and gifted my mom and two Gemini friends a few handmade trinkets, plus, I did a party favor DIY for our birthday bash (more on that coming soon).

Here’s all the junk journaling I got up to in April and May:

This Pi Day junk journal page was so fun to make! I incorporated vintage Food & Wine magazines for the pies (free Nextdoor find) and some cute handmade strawberry picnic paper from my Brazilian pen pal. And no, I never finished filling the guest check with digits of pi 🤣😅😂

April

Easter

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Easter junk vs the journal page! I hope everyone had a happy Easter Sunday. It was a rainy day but we made the most of it 🌸🌷 Junk is from a local newspaper, an egg dying activity we did with my niece, and the many Easter treats should not have eaten 😅 #junkjournaling #journaltok #junkjournal #easter #scrapbooking @David Young

♬ Sunny Spring Morn – DailyJoy

I had wayyyy too many Easter treats so I put the packaging from them on this page.

Hello Spring

The junk journal Discord group I’m in set a spring themed prompt for April 2026 and encouraged us to add dried flowers to our spread. I collected a little cherry blossom from the tree in front of my house and placed it near the speech bubble on the left page of this spread. The rest of the junk is from spring magazines, grocery store flyers, and catalogs.

Spring Break

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🌸 Joined the EV club during our spring break staycation 🚗 Also had an awesome time tasting wines at The Wine Cellar 🍷 #junkjournaling #junkjournalideas #scrapbooking #junkjournal #journaltok @David Young

♬ Sweet Life – Frank Ocean

Junk is from Subaru, Starbucks, and The Wine Cellar.

Earth Day

Made using all recycled green scraps I had been hoarding!

May

Cinco de Mayo

My husband and I went to Taco Club and got margaritas the size of our faces for Cinco de Mayo. Junk is from grocery store flyers and the postcard was found in a pile at an artgurl junk journal meetup.

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day fell about a week before my dog Coco’s Gotcha Day, so I made a Dog Mom page using some of the leftover peices from the spring catalog I used in April and a grocery store flyer. The pieces of floral pattern along the right, on the top left and bottom left were found in a pile at an artgurl junk journal meetup.

Birthday Wishlist

My husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I made a junk journal page out of it. Junk is from an roll of gift wrap and an old book from the 1990s that I found in my local Little Free Pantry.

Questioning Perfectionism

The May prompt from the junk journal Discord group I’m in was SO HARD this time! We were asked challenge perfectionism by to setting a 30-minute timer to create a collage using harvested images from magazines.

I chose a leftover scrap that I liked from the spring catalog I used in April and broke out an American Passage magazine from 2025 I was hoarding “for the right moment.” It was due time, because my craft friend gave me this magazine last year for my birthday to use in my junk journal. I coupled it with a lefover scrap quote about awkwardness from a 2013 Teen Vogue interview with Sailor Brinkley-Cook.

I feel like nothing is positioned well but that’s questioning perfectionism, isn’t it?

Let me know what junk journal pages and spreads you’re working on in the comments!