How to Make a Junk Journal From Old Books | Thrift Store Upcycle | 1134 Press
This is a tutorial on how to make a junk journal from an old book. I upcycle a thrift store book, walk you through a quick kettle stitch binding tutorial, and give you page ideas for your junk journal! This DIY is for junk journal beginners and is super easy to do.
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I used this video to make a junk journal for the first time! It turned out great! 😊
That's fantastic!!! I'm so glad it turned out well! Do you have plans on what you're going to use your first junk journal for?
You do a wonderful job instructing. Thank you so much. But, have you considered removing the background music while speaking? It’s very distracting when trying to focus on the instructions.
I am very grateful that you let the backgroundmusic be after a few minutes because it is so hard to listen. So thank you!! And for your great ideas of doing an invironmentfriendly journal using all kind of things instead of buying it all.
I’m old and have a serious problem hearing what’s being said with music in the background. This is not a criticism; my hope is to make you aware of limitations some of your watchers find problematic. This is my old ears having old lady problems. I appreciate your information and am a new subscriber. I’d love to see a video about making handmade paper.
Thank you for that feedback and your support! Here’s a link to a paper making video kzhead.info/sun/gNtmmpZ_m5yuq4E/bejne.html I hope you enjoy it 🥰
I have the same problem. The music is very dominant in this video. I have to leave videos like this, unfortunately. I'm hypersensitive due to a five year old concussion, so I deeply prefer videos without music at all. I can't "receive" on more than "one channel" - soundwise.
@Annie M headphones help me when I have trouble hearing a video, naybe they might help you also? Best of luck. 💙
Same🙁too much loud music when I was younger, I guess. Headphones don’t help as it’s the ambient sound that competes with the dialogue. It’s worth the struggle though as these videos are great to watch.🙂
Turn the sound off completely and use the closed captioning. Most of the time, it's excellent, though there are some glitches that are hilarious.
Happy to see another sistah who creates journals here ✌🏽♥️
Representation is SO important. I'm happy to be contributing in this space 🧑🏾🎨
Hello, I’ve never seen it done this way. I really enjoyed it and must give it a try. Thanks for sharing. Oh, I enjoyed the music in the background, but I do understand how it my effect others.
I could listen to your silky voice all day
That’s a good idea I never thought of media paper for signatures
I collect old books & I totally want to make this!!!! Thank you!☆☆☆☆
Do it! Do it! Do it!
That’s lovely. Thank you
I love this way of connecting the signature! Tfs!
Wow! This turned out beautiful! Thank you for sharing this! Hugs!
Beautiful!
Wow 😍
I LOVE THIS!!! Thank you!!
Wonderful
You are dropping straight gems. I will start keeping a scrap bag!!!! What a great idea!!!! Thank you!!!!
thanks, good tips
That is a awesome way to make a junk journal using a old book. Thank you
Awesome! I loved this and I now know what to do with the old books I no longer read. Thank you 🙏 💕
Your creativity and instruction provides for a fun tutorial! I’m looking forward to tackling a junk journal for my daughter.
Please do a video on your handmade paper!
That’s a great idea! There are some formulas I haven’t tried yet. I’ll make sure to share the process!
This is brilliant! There is many ways of binding but I have not tried this one. It is next on my list. :)
Love your channel/content❣️✨ So I’m starting to watch your videos from the very beginning! 😊
Wow this is interesting!❤ great job. Im going to watch this many times to understand this technique 😊
Great job!!! well Done!
Thank you so much!
I love your upcycle ideas!
Thank you! 😊
Yaaaaas! Another black bookbinder! 🎉🎉
💁🏾♀️
Just discovered your channel, LOVE IT!!
Thank you Jules!!
Well explained. Very well done. Thank you.
Thank you Lisa!!! 🥰🥰🥰
What lovely clear directions. I'm now all set to go! Thank you. 👍😊
🥰 woot woot!
Your journal turned out beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautifully clear instructions for this how-to! Thank you!
I appreciate that! Thank you ☺️
Great video. You can never learn enough with junk journaling . Is there a video for the cute paper bag you use for your paper scraps . I love that. 🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜
So glad I found your channel! Will be binge watching now!🤗
Hi Conni! Thank youuuu 🥰🥰
You are a wonderful artist. I look forward to learning a lot from you!
🥰 thank you so much for saying that!
Thank you i Truly appreciated your aesthetic....I was so relaxed while watching and i learned something.!!!!!🥰😁
Thank you!!!
Great tutorial! The results are amazing. I should try out this soon! ♥
I hope you do give it a try!
Love your videos and how you articulate everything! I also love looking at your items around your home. You have amazing taste! Ty for the inspiration and mindfulness..🥰💜💜
Thanks Jessica!
I used a similar technique to make a regular journal. Your video inspired me to do this again! Great instruction!
Thank you!
This was awesome. Going to get mine started now! Very informative, thank you :)
Thank you! I hope you have fun journaling 💕
Really cool!
Thanks!
The first thing I’m going to do is to get a tote to keep all of my Junk Journal building materials. You two started something 😉 BreeBree .
@@parkeredwards5520 I can't wait to see what you create!
I would love a handmade paper tutorial please! Just found your channel, refreshing to see someone make a 'proper junk journal' thank you Bree for sharing your thoughts!
Thank you for watching! Here’s my latest paper making video kzhead.info/sun/gNtmmpZ_m5yuq4E/bejne.html I hope you enjoy it!
Amei sua aula!!!! Thanks 👍
Oi! Obrigada!
cool!
Thanks Rick!
Hi Bree, this is a new way, for me, to make a junk journal. Great challenge 😉🍀
Hi Zora! I hope you have fun making it!!!
I had to watch your video! I saw your thumbnail and that's the same book I made a junk journal from, too! So cute!
What a coincidence!!!
Discovered a video of yours in pinterest. Got super interested, now I'm binge watching all your videos. Thank you so much!
🥰 Thank you so much!!!
I like how you methodically explained your steps and the reasons to do it your way. This was a really good step through. Most of all you didn't go so fast that I had to keep stopping the video to read the closed captioning. Good job! Thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful! Thank you!
I’d love to see how you make the scrap bag too. Enjoying your videos very much 🤗
Thank you! I'll make a video one day!
Bree! I love your videos! So well planned, very clear, concise, to the point. And easy to understand what’s happening, including great camera angles. Thank you so much for all your effort. Long story short, this video solved one of the great mysteries in my junk journal adventure. I cannot wait to put what I’ve learned from you to use. I am so grateful that I found you! ❤️
I'm so glad you found this video helpful! Thank you Patti!
Wow, that's fabulous, I've never seen it done like that, it looks so professional, I love it and especially the liner paper x you really are blessed with your artistic and creative skills x much love and God Bless from the UK xx
Thanks so much 😊
Thank you for this video!!!! I would like to know when the best time would be to trim the signatures and how many centimeters/inches are recommended to trim down below the book covers. Thank you again!
I love your method. Quick, clear, & concise! Just what I needed. Thank you. Do you have tutorial on staining pages?
Thank you Sandra! I haven’t made a tutorial mainly because there’s already a billion videos made about it lol
Wow. Your art is gorgeous! New subbie here 💗
Thank you so much!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for such an informative video. I want to start making my own journals out of old books. Being someone who loves vintage I enjoy everything about an old book so the thought of cutting one up broke my heart. You turned it into such a lovely journal I think I could probably work up the courage to do it. I’ll just have to **inhale** really big, **exhale** blow it out-ok...I can do this. Shake it out. All systems are go. Whew!! Little nervous thinking about cutting up a book but I’m good now. Oh yeah and I loved the labels you made. Have to see if you have a video for that as well. So thanks again. You are a very talented crafter!! God bless!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm an avid reader and collect old books too. For the ones you cut up, you can totally make a new cover for them! Maybe I should make a video this???? In the meantime, maybe my video on how to upgrade a notebook will give you inspiration. kzhead.info/sun/eduLZc2shYSKnYk/bejne.html
Came to know about the channel today...and I am so glad that I've found this🥺❤️lots of love from India❤️☘️
Thank you so much Anagha!! I appreciate you for watching.
Good basic video. Thank you..The music is disyracting so perhaps run it when there is no dialogue Just a suggestion.
Random fact: that Strathmore paper is great for charcoal drawings
I must try it! I haven’t done a charcoal drawing in so long.
Wow!!! I like your way of thinking eco friendly and your journal turned out so beautiful. I'll try to make It!! Can you also show how did you do the paper bag ☺️?? Greetings from Italy
You got it! I’ll make a paper bag tutorial. Thanks for watching 💕💕💕
@@1134Press 😍 I wait for It🥰. I already subscribed!!!! Bye and thanks for answering
How did you make your paper and tags? They are beautiful
Beautiful. I wish you would have shown how you cut the pages down.
Check out my bookmaking playlist! I’m sure there are videos there that go into more depth about cutting. Thank you🥰
Thanks for a great tutorial. I’m wondering ... are the end papers cut to the same size as the text block?
Thank you! And yes, they are cut to the size of the text block.
Love your paper bag you keep your scraps in - did you make it?
I designed the label, but got the bag from Target!
Dear Bree, since I watched this video for the First time I want to recreate your Paperbag. It is driving me insane! It is so cute and I cannot figure out how you made it 🤪 is there any chance that you will do a turorial on this sometime? That would be awesome. Thank you for your lovely and inspiring Videos 💖
lol thank you! I'll put it on the docket of videos to make!
@@1134Press made my day 💖 thank you
I didn’t see anything in your video list for making labels. You are so talented at this I have to believe you make them yourself. Is there any chance you would consider doing a video for making your own? Pleeeeeezze????
That's a great idea!
How did you trim the signatures down?
What a great video! ❤ I reaaly want to make my own journals but I don't have a lot of different papers and it does not look like that will be the situation soon (all shops are closed). Where do you find you paper and do you spend a lot of money on it? Thank you very much!
Thank you! I get most of my papers from old books and music sheets that I buy from goodwill or get for free from “free book” shelves at libraries and around town. If I do spend money on papers it’s usually a multipack of colored card stock that you can find at dollar stores, Walmart, or Amazon for super cheap. I say, if you can fold it, you can bind it! That’s the beauty of junk journals. Experiment with packaging or try coffee dying or painting regular computer paper to add variety if you can’t get out the house. Junk mail is a great way to get pages too!
@@1134Press Thanks a lot for your answer!! :) Helps a lot
Nice video i'm intrigued to try a junk journal, Can i ask you; do you use these junk journals? Or do you make them because they look interesting? LOL thanks
Hi Lisa! I do use them. Almost everyday lol. Here’s a playlist of some journaling prompts that I do in them. kzhead.info/channel/PLN81Ci1keJOVIF_Yhw-YpiJkZ-W6pr7AH.html
do the new glued in end pages ever rip? can i add some glue to the spine side of the text block to help hold it in? as nice as it is not to see the stitches, i’m worried my block would fall out.
I've been using this book regularly and haven't had issues with it tearing. But, that has happened to other books that I've made when I used paper that was too thin. I hope this helps!
I was totally with you until you started doing the sewing. I got totally lost. But also video thank you
There’s a really good tutorial by Sea Lemon that I link to in the description. I recommend her tutorial for easy to follow instructions as well. I hope this helps!
This was a great informative video, the end result is super smart, but you didn't show how to cut the signatures down to fit the book? Did you use a guillotine or craft knife? :D
Hi Paul! I cut each signature down with a craft knife.
@@1134Press Well I'm very impressed :)
Do you know why they’re called “signatures”?
What size needle? Is it an embroidery needle
I’m not sure the needle size. But I believe it’s the size of an embroidery needle. A regular sewing needle might be too small for this project.
@@1134Press Thanks
Background music needs to be much more in the background. Most of the time, viewers don't need music. It's about the actual video subject.
Yes, if I could back to my younger self and tell her to lower the music volume for her first few videos ever made on KZhead, I would.
Oh what a pity: the backgroundmusic comes bac after a few minutres....sorry, I cannot listen to videos like this and would really like to do it. There are many people out there who has similar problems like I do and who cannot listen to contents with speaking and music at the same time. I thought maybe you are interested in such a feedback. Your voice and content are quite good and really enough to enjoy so that there is no music needed.
🛑 STOP With the irritating background music !!!!!!! can’t hear you or watch
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