ALTERED BOOK HYBRID JOURNAL PT 1: Choose Your Book, Prep and Get Inspired
In this video, join me on my journey to create a hybrid altered book journal/planner/memory keeper. I'll share my thought process in choosing a book and show you some of the products I've discovered and used in the mix media cover. Then I'll take you through prepping the inside of the book and show you some ideas for customizing your journal to incorporate, pockets and inserts, journal pages and calendars. Let's get this party started!
Here's are some of the products mentioned in this video:
Finnabair Opal Magin Acrylic Paint
Tim Holtz Distress Mica Spray
Book Binding Tape by Gaffer Power.com
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Vintage Photo and Peacock Feathers
Tim Holtz Small Talk Sticker Book Snarky
Tim Holtz Clippings Sticker Book
Tag Punch from Hobby Lobby
Corner Punch from We R Memory Keepers
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Great video! Beautiful journal!! Thank you!! ❤ 👏🏻🙌🏻
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting. 🥰
LOVED IT !!!TU
Thank you for watching this oldie but goodie! 🥰
The cover is gorgeous!!😮❤
Thank you Celie! Seeing this makes me want to go paint a book cover...thanks for the reminder. 🥰
💯 This would have to be the most helpful altered book tutorial I've watched thus far, and I've watch many!! I'm so glad to have found your channel. TFS 🙌💐
Welcome Natasha! Thank you for your sweet comment 🥰. I'm so glad you found this helpful.
Every one of your clever people I watch on this topic, always give great wee tips! I love the idea of sewing to create perforations! Cool. Gonna use that.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you found a useful tip. 🥰
I 🩷 this journal. You do such an amazing job and inspire me to get to my craft room and start a project!! Thank you for your videos! I'm glad I found you! I love your style!❤
Welcome Jamie! Thank you so much. I think you'll find I love many different styles so I hope you continue to enjoy my channel. Happy Creating! ❤️
Thanks Sherri for sharing how you worked on your altered book, just what I was looking for.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Glad it was helpful!
I love that tag punch
Yes....one of my favorite tools. Thank you. ❤️
I vow to complete an altered book in 2021!
Good luck! I hope you'll share when you do.
Checkup!
I love ❤️ it !!
Thank you!
Thanks for all the good info.
You are most welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting. 🥰
wonderful video. Thank you for sharing your ideas and your creativity. Gave me lots of ideas to include in my journal
Thank you! I happy to hear you’ve found inspiration 🥰
This cover is stunning (because I’m nosy, first Readers Digest condensed books: spring 1950) Id use a sanding block or file on that stiff burlap. A nice fine pair of tweezers helps to get those bits out after tearing out the pages.
Hi there. This is an oldie but goodie...I have figured out quite a few things since this journal and always appreciate tips and tricks. ☺️
Loved your ideas. Thank you
Hi Juanita. You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment. 🥰
I recently acquired a stack of old books, some of them Readers Digest books with the pretty covers. I’m going to try some of the techniques you shared in this video. Thanks!
I just love the old Reader's Digest covers for their patterns. Have fun creating! ❤️❤️
Hi Sherri - I've just happened on your videos as I'm learning gelli printing but love mixed media, too. You've been so helpful in explaining things that others don't, like how the layering works and the colours show - maybe because you say you're learning too - so thank you!! ❤ These book covers are beautiful and you have inspired me to finally start my own art journal cover 😊 I also wanted to point out that the link to your shop is missing the 'l' from soulful so needs adding for it to work 🧡
Thank you so much! I'm glad you found this helpful. Thank you for pointing out the omission. I'll make sure to correct it. ❤️
@@heartandsoulfuldesign yes, I don't want you to miss out on sales! 😊🧡
Please do your journal collections just some glimpse 😍
That might be a fun video...I'll work on it. ❤️
Just subscribed, have been looking to make my own journal to actually journal in.
Thank you for subscribing! I hoping you find some inspiration for your project. ❤️
I am enjoying your videos! I started with the oldest and am working my way back to now. So good! How do you put the lines on the back of the cards?
Hi Denise! Thank you for watching and starting at the beginning of my journey. I hope you enjoy my progress. Way back then I didn't have very many supplies at all and I started out making the lines with a pen and ruler. I liked using a sepia colored pen for a vintage look. Then I made a stamp out of recycled corrugated cardboard and you'll see that in a video. Then I started tea and coffee dying lined papers and gluing those to the backs of cards. And then once I got into creating my own digitals I would create some designs with lines to use on the backs of cards. I guess you could say I've evolved. 🥰
Use Tyvek tape also, from Lowe’s.
Hi there! Yes I've been given this advice and will definitely being trying it out next time...I do appreciate all the tips! Hope you check out some of my newer videos in case you can help there too. ❤️
Nice video! Wondering what kind of wide black tape is that?
Thank you. If you look down in the description there's a list of materials. That is black gaffer's tape. 🥰
Love the stamped words on the front and back cover. Where did you get them, I can't find any?
Thank you so much! That's a project that was a commission but if I remember correctly, those words were created using a stencil and not a stamp. I used texture paste with the stencil to create the raised effect. I am away from the studio where I have that stencil so I will try to remember to check next week when I'm back to see if I can identify the stencil I used. 🥰
@@heartandsoulfuldesign thank you so much!
Is there a tutorial on how you made this cover and decorated it? I would like to follow along
I don't have a video on this particular cover. I was asked to make a journal for a friend and used this book that I had already painted. I was pretty new to all this at that time and not comfortable crafting on camera at that point. Since then I had been asked several times to show how I do these from the beginning so there is a series that I started that is still not finished. It started as just a how I paint these covers video but I've gone ahead and filmed the whole process start to finish making an altered book. Here's a link to that playlist: kzhead.info/channel/PLLZLDkP8ZTq2CKYDoLQR8k4AokkyVoCzQ.html I'm working on another series at the moment but will get back to this one again soon. I sort of bounce around doing lots of different projects for variety. 🥰
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