Easy ways to make a glue book (or a simple art journal)

[@kimsargeant8126]

Great ideas. Old journals that I don’t want to look back on and don’t really want to leave around for my kids to think they have to read after I’m gone are going to become glue books.

[@MargareteMiller]

Great idea!! 👍🏻💜😉

[@cindamarie]

I just found you and im so glad! Ive been watching all your videos that i can find, and i just love all of your ideas and how clearly you explain and demonstrate things! 😊

[@MargareteMiller]

Thanks so much 😊 That's kind of you to say. I'm so glad you're enjoying them 🩷

[@marybkenmore]

I love your videos. I saw the passport idea and my heart just GREW! I have my parents and sisters passports - they've left this world - and i have some personal items - and little pictures that will be perfect to combine into them. I hang onto too much....but so glad i saved them. I just remind myself that I do these for myself....not like a family scrapbook and it is very freeing then. Thank you thank you!

[@zahrareaume]

I wouldn't even have thought of using my old passport , thanks for suggesting it. I also love the idea of using the thin notebooks and attaching them together.

[@MargareteMiller]

Glad it was helpful! 💜

[@wendyhoward2699]

Love all these journals! You have such great ideas. Many blessings.

[@wendyhoward2699]

I would like to make a really “ frilly” journal. I have a lot of Daphne’s Journals, so I could probably use those. Blessings.

[@MargareteMiller]

Daphnes Diary is such a nice magazine. That would make great material for a journal 👍🏼

[@melindap.ullrich4564]

I did not know what a Glue Book/Art Journal was so thank you for this very informative video! And I like the last idea of the Target pack of journals for me as a beginner to collage art journaling. Thank you for sharing.

[@MargareteMiller]

Oh, good! I'm glad you've gotten an idea to go explore. I hope you find them! They were out in July around "back to school" time.

[@lidijaedelinski7105]

Thank you for sharing! Always inspirational. I am Slovak. I live in Croatia, but was born and raised in ex Yugoslavia, in Serbian part, in Province called Vojvodina, where large Slovak minority lives. I love seeing snippets of Slovak texts etc in your art! :)

[@MargareteMiller]

Then you will see plenty of Slovak and Czechoslovak referenced in my art, since my husband is from Slovakia 😉💙

[@dakielty]

I love the i idea of using a notebook for cleaning off stamps or as background. Those papers can then become collage fodder for more collages or backgrounds. How fun!

[@MargareteMiller]

That's right! But the trick is that you need to have that little notebook handy. It's so easy for it to get lost in the shuffle of stuff on the desk, right? 😉

[@dakielty]

@@MargareteMiller oh so true. You should see my desk. Or not

[@specialk8927]

I love the little red book with the fabric tabs that the person made

[@eugenebellion9142]

I love the Readers Digest covers. The patterns are beautiful and they give me a vintage vibe, which is very special.

[@MargareteMiller]

I totally agree. And those RD book covers are all so different! 💙

[@karenk1212]

You help me so much. I like your manner of teaching.

[@MargareteMiller]

Thank you, Louise, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video 💜

[@carolmikolj5134]

Oddly enough I don't do a lot of journaling for myself, although I love making journals and I sell them (otherwise they'd take over the house 😊). I do have my own journal though that I made from an old dictionary cover. It has a wide spine so I reinforced it with Tyvek and then put elastic into it, Travellers Notebook style, so I can add and re-arrange pages as I want. When it starts to get a bit too fat I take out completed pages and bind them into a soft cover with pamphlet stitch. I have these smaller completed books going back some years. This was a great video and certainly inspiring. I now want to make a ring bound journal... I even have a small book in mind for it. Thanks for the ideas and inspiration!

[@MargareteMiller]

Wonderful, Carol! I'm so glad you've got some new ideas to play with! 😉👍💜

[@nuvoclassic]

Fun video! I like to use composition notebooks for glue books and old engagement calendars (A5 size) for art journals. I slod make mini-art journals from wirebound mini notebooks I found at staples - so much FUN! I've even sold some!

[@MargareteMiller]

Neat!! It sounds like you've got an eye for making great journals! 👍💙

[@lisarichards1956]

I love the journals with the large rings. The binding is always what scares me away from making journals. I could do this! :)

[@MargareteMiller]

Yes. Rings are definitely easy.

[@catcar8212]

Hi Margarete, I love your suggestion to put the little target notebooks together as the journal grows. Right before Covid I stopped at Michael's Crafts and walked by racks of 25 + 50 cent markdowns. I still have some small books left and your idea is perfect for them. This is my first time to your channel and I will be sure to stop by again soon. Thanks for the great video! Hi from Connecticut...

[@MargareteMiller]

Wonderful! That sounds like a good plan for your project. I love stacking small journals together. It's so versatile. I'm glad you came across that clearance sale🤩

[@pamelamurrell825]

I love all of these ideas. I like using old packaging like cereal boxes for Junk Journals. I use old planners for Glue Books.

[@MargareteMiller]

Yes, I have a couple of junk journals from food packaging and they are so cheerful. I want to make more of those. 😉💜

[@susanhannon7596]

You have the best ideas. You are also very motivating! I have so many ideas and when I watch your programs, I pick up my supplies and get creating. It is so important, I think, to stay in touch with our creative side. 🌺many thanks

[@MargareteMiller]

Neat!! I'm so glad, Susan 💜

[@karenk1212]

Just started watching and love it. I feel validated with what you say.

[@MargareteMiller]

I'm so glad, Louise! 💙

[@jeanneboardman2867]

I love your idea of using small notebooks and ripping pages out as a glue book. I also love the idea of having a notebook to use for stamping off, stenciling on and then using as collage fodder.

[@MargareteMiller]

Thanks for watching. I'm glad you've got some new ideas to play with! 👍💜

[@carolewatkins1171]

Oh my!!! This is a fantastic video for me, I’m never disappointed in your videos. As I watched I realized that I have many little blank journals, and little books that I abandoned after just writing on a few pages but couldn’t throw them away. Now I feel inspired to bring them out and fill them with whatever comes to mind! I’m often too rigid in my thinking, your examples today showed me many ways to explore and be creative with material I have right on my shelves! Thank you for sharing your amazing ideas and books! 📚👏

[@MargareteMiller]

Yay!! I'm so excited for you and giving those old little journals a second life. 😉 Thanks for watching 💜.

[@debbiev.1311]

Love your ideas...TYFS!! 🤗💕 Those colorful booklets from Target are great for monochromatic gluebooks...each one designated by the cover color!! 💖💜💙💚💛❤

[@MargareteMiller]

You're right!! I didn't event think of that. Great idea 😉👍💜

[@loreesmith5418]

I jotted down this idea and will be doing the same! I'm especially good with a low commitment! ;)

[@trudicook2988]

I had saved a ring bound weekly calendar by Lang which had pictures each month by an artist whose work I enjoy. I never knew what to do with it until I signed up for your collage challenge..now I'm adding collage to the calendar pages and leaving the art pages as they are and it's working nicely! It will probably end up with "alligator mouth" but I'm having fun! I definitely want to try some other styles eventually though.

[@MargareteMiller]

Awesome!! What a perfect use as a gluebook. Good thinking 😉💜👍🏼

[@sutherlandpetty]

Love the passport idea !

[@MargareteMiller]

💙💜❤️

[@rgporter1957]

I often make my own glue books from kraft paper and bind the signatures together into a decorated kraft card stock cover with elastic bands. I also love to use composition books, either ther full or the half size. My art journals are often made of junk journals or altered books.

[@MargareteMiller]

I like your idea of using kraft paper. That's such a great substrate for building collages on top 👍💜. Thanks for sharing your idea!

[@michelel3372]

These ideas are extremely helpful. So many things I would not have thought of. Thank you so much sharing. ❤

[@maramakesjournals2319]

Really great video, Margarete. I really enjoyed it. I’m checking out the Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild. Such a whimsical name for a business! It made me smile.

[@deigabennett7571]

Great ideas! Can’t wait to get started on a couple of my own. Thanks for sharing.

[@amyb82941]

💜💜💜 you have really inspired me - “mission accomplished” - thank you!

[@MargareteMiller]

I'm so glad, Amy!! 😉💙

[@mariannespmmissouri1913]

I like the idea of using advertising postcards and binder rings. This is a never ending supply, can be cut to any size you desire, and be as large or small as you like by simply changing the size of the binder rings. Thank you so much, Margarete!

[@MargareteMiller]

Yes, exactly, Marianne. Cut them down to whatever size that works for you. 💙

[@tootsfour956]

Very good ideas. Thank you! BLESSINGS

[@caroltanzi29]

Margarete: I use a very nice business faux leather three ring binder for my glue book. It has a matching pocket that it sits in. It was discarded and I grabbed it. It’s always there and ready for me to do what I want to do, when I want to do it. “No fuss, no muss.” I work full time and I don’t have a lot of extra time to do all that I want to do. I especially like your idea of using same size colorful note books and attaching them together. Very clever and easy. Thank you. Carol from California

[@MargareteMiller]

I do love ring binders. They are so versatile. I'm you've got a system that works for you!

[@jerigale]

Two new techniques for me! Adding the packaging you have received and using rings to connect hard covers of a book. Can't wait to try. Thanks!

[@MargareteMiller]

Sounds great! 😉

[@suzannevisser8681]

Love your Reader's Digest Glue Book, and the 2 books you bought. Great ideas!

[@NellieandRuthDesigns]

Great tips Margarete and the little book that Jane created is marvelous 🤗 I checked out the Unemployed PG store and it's really cool; so thanks for that and love all the notebooks they have. I also went on to ebay to see some old passports and WOWzers ....... the prices are crazy and I can't get over all the passports listed from Yugoslavia. Some look very interesting and you gave a great idea to create a story in a passport !! xoxo Barbie

[@MargareteMiller]

Really?!! Yugoslavia?!! I might need to go check those out. Thanks for the tip! 😉💜

[@NellieandRuthDesigns]

@@MargareteMiller yes...just make sure you have a fist full of dollars 💸 so many cool ones out there too.

[@SilviaBorghi]

Me encantan tus videos! eres muy didáctica. Hago Art journals y me entusiasmó ver tu recuento!

[@spirit006theassassin]

Greetings from Czech republic!

[@bunabunatetu6130]

Thank you. You've given me lots of info for starters. 🌹💕✌️

[@MargareteMiller]

I'm so glad!

[@oceandreamer1958]

Great ideas! Thank you! I’m glad I found you!

[@toniscott1029]

Thank you for the great ideas!

[@daricet.2958]

I’m currently using a reader’s digest with an enlarged fabric spine. I love the size but it gets too big. I don’t like the battle using rings, but your idea of being able to add/move things is a good point…I may have to reconsider🙂 Cleaning off stamps onto another gluebook is brilliant! I use scrap paper then throw it away…another thought to reconsider. Thanks for the great ideas!

[@MargareteMiller]

I agree with you, Darice. Rings are not my favorite-- at all, but I like taking advantage of being able to move the order of my collages.

[@JennyLaneCreates1976]

Thanks for giving us so much inspiration…

[@craftyv3750]

Thanks so much for sharing. You’ve given me several ideas to create new books with my old ones

[@melindareynolds7867]

Thank you for the journal making ideas.

[@loreesmith5418]

This video was so inspiring, I created a gluebook/art journal from an old planner while watching! Just grabbed an old bound diary planner and took notes on this video in it, to gather all the great ideas. First page, *All The Journal Ideas* :) Thanks for sharing!!

[@MargareteMiller]

Awww, I love that! I'm so glad you got working on something right away. 👍💜

[@JeanFB16]

I do a lot of rubber stamping, and I love the idea of having one layer of a collage page incorporate the "stamping off" image from cleaning rubber stamps! I never thought of this but it's such a great idea, especially since sometimes I like the image better on the second stamping (so the journal could get the first stamping or the second, third, etc). And sometimes I really love my messy under paper from a stamping session, so it makes sense to make it an art journal page. Thanks for the great ideas!

[@MargareteMiller]

Super!! 👍 I'm glad you've got some ideas to play with. 💜

[@honeythorpe]

I love the idea of the two ring binder book. It seems less intimidating than starting in a blank notebook for a perfectionist newbie like me. I also want to preserve some of my favourite postcards and children's book illustrations so I think it would be nice to interleave my glue book art with those. I have a set of the 1959 golden book encyclopedias so I think I have even found my starting point!

[@MargareteMiller]

I love those Little Golden Books, so having some as covers for a journal would be so awesome!! That's a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

[@Floss0]

Great video. I liked all your journals.

[@MargareteMiller]

Thank you so much! 💙

[@christinetuhong7140]

Hi Margarete. How fabulous your ideas are ! I already had watched your previous videos about different kinds of art/gluebooks and this one comes with more ideas ( the rainbow colored thin books )... I think I like all these examples..If I had to choose one ,I certainly would make a big ring bound book such as the red one ( i could also use my "Cinch" to bind eclectic pages to glue on ,but as you said, movable rings allow you to add or take off pages...) thanks for sharing all your inspirational ideas.Have a great creative day; Christine,from France.

[@MargareteMiller]

I forgot to show one of my books with the cinch binding (actually it's a Zutter, but the same concept. Anyway, I'm glad you found this video useful 😉💜

[@doubledee7517]

Inspirational video 👍

[@artsmigi2250]

I love your videos and inspiration you give.

[@MargareteMiller]

Thank you!! I'm so glad you find them helpful ❤️

[@jeanbeck3962]

Thank you for these useful tips. I have ideas bouncing around in my head.. The pass port idea is cool, although I could never use my own passport. I like the idea of the small calender books. That one I am going to do. 🖌🎨 Hugs. 💕

[@JeanFB16]

I agree with you Jean, and I just had to say - we have the same first and last name, and I thought I was going crazy when I saw that "I" had already commented???!!! 😆

[@MargareteMiller]

That's funny that you both have the same names and like collage art. 😄

[@MargareteMiller]

Good! I'm glad you like that calendar notebook idea 👍💜

[@jeanbeck3962]

@@JeanFB16 that's too funny. I live in Southern Utah, Desert country. Do you live in the USA ? I am a watercolor artist and there is a watercolor artist in Arizona with the exact same name. Gets confusing. Take care.💖

[@JeanFB16]

@@jeanbeck3962 Wow we are an artsy group! I'm in NC and I love to dabble in watercolors too (not professionally, just taking classes as a hobby). All the best

[@dianed4353]

So many great ideas and inspiration, thank you!

[@theresak9915]

What great ideas! I just signed up for your "Collage Art Basics" course and so excited! Using an old planner is a great idea and using the stamping off -- so cool. I've got a few Reader's Digest books so I've decided to make one for my niece's birthday! Thanks for all the awesome ideas!

[@MargareteMiller]

Awesome!! I'm glad you've got some new ideas to play with 😉👍💙 And I hope you enjoy the course!

[@joyfreeman9962]

Loving your videos! I really appreciate your guidance in collage and art journaling. Taking your class as well at the moment.

[@MargareteMiller]

Super! I hope you get a lot out of the course ❤️ ⭐️

[@angeliachenoweth2522]

Margarete, how do you punch holes in the thick book covers? I think this is so cool.

[@MargareteMiller]

I use the Cropodile. Save your coupons from Michaels, and then use it when you buy it.. 😉

[@angeliachenoweth2522]

Thank you!

[@missyb.623]

TFS

[@msmarcie4120]

💜💜💜

[@lisarichards1956]

What sort of tool do you use to punch holes in the book covers? Like the old book covers with rings?

[@MargareteMiller]

It's a Cropodile. Michael's sells it.

[@diannajohnston4558]

Yes, yes, yes and es….I’ve done all of those things

[@erikatevez5104]

todos esos cuadernos se compran asi. la perso a les coloca o pega alguna cosa pero no son personales. alla todo es negocio. y se compra hecho.