- Streets and City Life
- Parks and Gardens
- Homes and Hidden Corners
- Landmarks and Royal Sights
- Markets and Flower Stalls
- Tea and Quiet Moments
- Background Papers
- Lined Writing Pages
- Frequently Asked Questions
This london junk journal kit brings a cheerful daytime city onto the page: red buses, flower stalls, cozy tea shops and green parks under soft afternoon light. The set holds 23 scene pages full of London moments, 5 seamless background papers for covers and pockets, and 5 lined writing pages for the words you want to keep.
Print the sheets on matte paper heavy enough to take glue without curling (around 160 to 200gsm works well), set your printer to its best or photo quality, and trim each page to your journal size before you start gluing. Everything in the kit shares one soft palette, so pages mix and match across any spread.
Using these images: free for personal projects such as printing, coloring, cards, journals and gifts. Handmade items that include them may be sold up to 30 pieces per design. More than that is commercial use and is not permitted, and neither is selling or sharing the images themselves or passing them off as your own. Please ask before any other use.
Streets and City Life
A red double decker rolls past a flower stall heaped with tulips and roses on a sunny street, with striped awnings and a lamp post close by.
Set this one beside the royal guard background paper from this set: trim a strip of the pattern and glue it along the bottom edge like a shelf under the window, so the two pages feel like one shopfront row.
The scones, cakes and teapots in the window make a natural pairing with any afternoon tea spread later in the journal, so keep a loose thread of ribbon or twine tucked behind the page to tie the two sections together when you bind the book.
Standing beside a lamp post and window boxes bursting with blooms, a red telephone box gives this page the loudest colour in the whole kit, perfect for a journal cover peek-through window cut into the facing page.
Stacked books spill from crates under a striped awning on this corner bookshop, with a hanging sign and a cat curled in the doorway for good measure.
Parks and Gardens
The usual mistake with a lake page like this is leaving too much flat water with nothing happening on it: keep the swans gliding near a small stone bridge and let weeping willow branches trail into the reflection so the surface stays alive.
Daffodils edge a sunny lawn scattered with striped deck chairs, the kind of page that works well for a quiet afternoon entry.
Try writing a short answer to this on the page itself: what would you do with one free hour in this park, a book, a nap or a walk under the plane trees nearby?
Pigeons gather near a folded umbrella left on a park bench under tall plane trees, with dappled light falling across the path.
For the five minute version of this page, skip the full riverside crowd and just glue it in as is: the carousel and bunting alone carry enough colour that no extra decoration is needed, so this one earns its spot fast on a busy crafting evening.
Homes and Hidden Corners
A row of pastel townhouses stands shoulder to shoulder behind black iron railings, each doorstep holding its own pot of flowers.
A bicycle leans against one of the ivy covered cottages lining this cobbled mews street, quiet and tucked away from the main road.
This page suits the gift journal made for a friend who loves quiet corners over crowds, the kind of reader who would rather wander a side street than queue for a landmark. Leave the cobbles bare of writing so her own notes about hidden places have room to sit.
A basket of fresh buns sits by the bakery door next to a red post box, steam still curling from the morning batch.
Moored under a trailing willow, a canal boat with potted geraniums along its roof makes a gentle still life for a quiet page near the back of the journal.
Ribboned hats sit in round hat boxes stacked in this shop window, a small indulgent corner of the kit worth pairing with the pastel townhouse doors background as a facing page.
Landmarks and Royal Sights
Standing stiff and tall in a bearskin hat beside his sentry box, this page gives the kit its one proper royal portrait.
Boats drift beneath Tower Bridge on a soft sunny morning, the river catching pale light under the two stone towers.
Pair this page with the Thames bridge border lined page later in the set: write the story of a single morning walk along the water on the lined sheet, then glue this scene in as the picture that opens the entry.
A domed cathedral rises across a sea of rooftops and chimney pots under a pale blue sky, the quietest skyline page in the whole kit.
Tuck a tiny photo of your own dog, or a pet you love, into the corner of this page beside the corgi on its leash, since a row of red telephone boxes behind makes an easy backdrop for almost any small pet portrait.
Markets and Flower Stalls
A black taxi sits parked beside a market stall heaped with fresh flowers, buckets of blooms spilling onto the pavement.
Fruit stalls and baskets crowd this covered market hall, with hanging lanterns strung overhead to carry the eye up and across the whole page.
Wheeled onto a cobbled market lane, a flower cart piled with tulips and roses makes the most colourful page in the kit, ideal as a cover insert behind a vellum window.
Tea and Quiet Moments
Tiered sandwiches and a china teapot cover this afternoon tea table, set with a lace cloth and a small vase of flowers at its edge.
If the full spread feels too formal for a casual spread, leave off the vase and keep just the teapot and tiers, which still reads clearly as an afternoon tea scene on its own.
A cup of tea, a single scone and a rolled umbrella wait on a small cafe table, the kind of corner worth tea-staining along the edges before gluing in to add a little extra warmth to the page.
A rolling ladder leans against tall shelves in this bookshop interior, an armchair and a half finished teacup waiting in the corner for whoever left them there.
Background Papers
Small red double decker buses repeat in neat rows across a cream ground in this pattern. Use it as a cover wrap, a pocket lining behind a ticket stub, or a backing sheet for travel photos.
Tiny teapots sit folded in among little umbrellas scattered evenly across this sheet. Use it under a tea themed photo, as a pocket lining, or trimmed into a strip for a page border.
Rows of pastel front doors with brass knockers repeat across this paper in soft blush, aqua and buttery shades. Try it as a journal cover, a pocket lining, or a backdrop behind a street photo.
Tiny guards in bearskin hats alternate with small corgis across this all over pattern. Good for a cover, a pocket behind a royal themed ticket, or a lining for a keepsake envelope.
Chimney pots rise from a repeating skyline of rooftops across this pale sheet. Use it as a cover, a pocket lining behind postcards, or a background for a skyline themed spread.
Lined Writing Pages
A band of tiny red buses runs along the bottom edge of this page, with faint ruled lines across the middle. Use it for a bus route you took, a packing list, or notes from a day out in the city.
A small red telephone box sits tucked in one corner of this page, faint lines ruled across the rest. Write a phone call you remember, a list of calls to make, or a short letter to a friend abroad.
Rooftops and chimney pots frame all four edges of this page, with faint ruled lines left open in the middle. Good for a rooftop view you saw, a wish list of places to visit, or evening thoughts.
Teacups and small cakes trail along one side of this page, faint lines ruled across the rest. Use it for a tea order to remember, a recipe for scones, or notes from an afternoon spent slowly.
A pale border of bridge arches and river water runs along the top of this page, faint lines ruled below. Write about a river walk, a list of bridges crossed, or a letter to next year.
What to Do Next
Print the pages, trim them to your journal size and start layering the streets, parks and tea tables in whatever order feels right. For more tea themed pages to mix in alongside this set, the tea party junk journal kit and the teapot drawing lessons both pair naturally with this London set.
Frequently Asked Questions
What paper works best for a london junk journal kit like this?
Matte paper around 160 to 200gsm works best, since it takes glue and ink without curling or showing through. Cardstock suits the background papers, while a slightly lighter weight is fine for pages you plan to fold or tear.
What printer settings give the clearest colours?
Set the printer to its best or photo quality setting, matched to the paper type you load, for the sharpest colour and cleanest ink outlines. Draft or normal settings often leave the washes looking patchy.
What size should I print the pages at?
Most crafters print at standard A5 or A4 size and trim down to fit their journal, since junk journal pages vary in size from one maker to the next. Print a single test page first to check how it sits against your covers.
Do I need to colour anything in myself?
No colouring is needed, since every page already prints in full colour and is ready to cut and glue straight away. A fine tip pen is still handy for adding your own notes, dates or small doodles afterward.
What glue or scissors suit this kind of page?
A plain glue stick works well for flat pages, while a stronger craft glue suits pockets and layered pieces like the canal boat or market stall scenes. Small precision scissors make trimming curved borders much easier than large ones.