Make and bind your own junk journal!

Create your own junk journal!
In this video we’ll be making a junk journal based in an old book! From start to finish this is an opportunity to make something that is very personal. Choose papers, learn about binding and stitching, prepare the covers to create this very personal kind of art journal. Perfect and ready to be filled with your art - mixed-media, sketching, drawing, writing and more!
This video is part of our Art Stories series which features different artists and will be released on this KZbin channel over coming months.
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[@cathybreeding2260]

I love when you said, "the luxury of being slow". 🤗🥰

[@mycrazyfamilyid]

The owl! 😄

[@mycrazyfamilyid]

Well, looks like I need to head out to the thrift store to gind some good old books! :)

[@juliebishop6898]

You are brilliant as usual Kasia! Thank you for sharing the different ways in which a "junk" journal can be made and interpreted. Junk does not mean junky! I love homemade journals; they are so unique and one-of-a-kind.

[@EverythingArt]

Thank you so much!

[@mandalaartist4423]

Thank you for not being precise, but perfectly human. It allows me to feel comfortable making art. You are a joy to listen to and learn from. Thank you for this lesson. I can’t wait to try this project.

[@EverythingArt]

Wow, thank you! I hope you'll enjoy making the book :) K.

[@alexandraalmeida3661]

I really love your concept of art journaling, because I never worry about finishing an art journal, I just let them become my friends that I visit once in a while. I love to work with multiple journals at the same time, because each can have its purpose. Love from Portugal 💙🧡❤️🖤💚💜💗💛♥️

[@capuchacarmesi]

Thank you very much Kasia! I´m also a very dynamic person who literally is obliged to rush through things every day in order to not only survive but to enjoy a little bit of this wonderful life. And YOU transmit a lot of calmness and harmony to me, I really enjoy watching your videos, apart from being full of amazing art things, your videos are also very meditative to me. Thank you! and can´t wait to start the COlour Confidence and Wanderlust with you! You are the best!

[@EverythingArt]

Thanks for sharing!! I'm super happy that you find the videos inspiring!

[@Rosemee11]

A wonderful, relaxing process - watch it once for information. Watch it a few more times to be in the flow with the instructor. Really a good instructor and encouragement to everyone who is starting a junk journal - Thanks.

[@BlakeHolsey]

I made a pink junk journal with removable signatures for myself.

[@WGail]

I've made a bound journal with 3 signatures. I didn't have all the neat junk papers. So, I used several types of my art papers. Mixed media, watercolor, thin beige cardstock and sketch papers. I used recycled cardboard from the back of my paper pads. I will start a box of junk/recycled papers for my next project. Im going to start gluing collage papers randomly in the journal. :)

[@deserthorses5]

THANK YOU so much for this video! I'm not precise, either, which is why I LOVE making art journals with just one signature! I love how you eyeballed your holes for the signatures! I've tried measuring them precisely and all I do is pull out my hair! I'm just not going to worry about them any more!!!

[@deserthorses5]

I do LOVE to glue fabric onto the edges of my papers! In fact, I've made very few journals without doing this. I also make fabric tabs, pockets, and snippet rolls, which I cut up and make into tabs and pockets!

[@janetlong2964]

This was a great video for making a journal. It was very clear. I did not feel stressed to be perfect. Thank you!

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

Beautiful process, thank you for sharing.

[@onemoregarden]

Thank you for this video!

[@jayneelinor]

Thanks for this fun video. If you clip your signature open to the book cover, the binding will go much easier as the papers will not slip everywhere!

[@bethadams1425]

Being the impatient person that I am, I had to drop what I was doing and start this project immediately!

[@EverythingArt]

hahahah, that's great :D :D K.

[@annmaskell3098]

Oh Thankyou so much , such fun . The ultimate in recycling, I can’t wait to have a go. Bless you Kasiaxx

[@EverythingArt]

Have fun!

[@amsbloom6034]

For people having problems with using a real book: you can always use an old calendar in a book format (many shops give them away for a symbolic price now or even for free)

[@jamiemorris3526]

Great tutorial! 😻

[@ArtbyKendraScott]

Thank you for this video! I really needed a refresh and I love the way you work :)

[@lisaluebben1450]

Thank You so much! What a wonderful gift. I love it.

[@ConnyLehmann]

Thank you so much for this inspiring video. I just bought your book 'creative wanderlust' and the book is fantastic

[@SarahGardner-Juicy-S]

This brings back such fond memories for me, Kasia, of when we made junk journals from our "Dynamic" painted papers while I was in Ashbourne filming Wanderlust 2020. I smiled the whole time I was watching this! I think you crushed the patience problem with this one! :). What's your word for 2022? XOXO

[@toniscott1029]

Thank you, Kasia!

[@sakameg]

Thank you for sharing this. I love the imprecise nature of it and how you repurposed an old book. There's something special about using an old book that has passed through many hands. 💗

[@heidiv8891]

Thank you so much for this! I have been waiting!! So excited and glad that the focus on this project is "patience".

[@juliehouck6154]

Thank you so much. Loved watching ❤️😘

[@amyt6254]

This video is so helpful! It is detailed, understandable, and soothing. I’m sure I will watch it again and again. Thank you so much!

[@lynnedalrymple]

Loved your channel - I make a few journals every week and knew so much of how to but loved listening to you and the 'mindfullness' i need to be less robotic - thankyou x Lynne from Australia

[@robertoamezcua7624]

I loved this video!! This is my style of junk journaling :) Happy New Year and will be going through your previous videos. Looking forward to 2022.

[@suzannerowe6308]

Great process, thank you for sharing! You are always a great inspiration.

[@MsMyriada]

Love this thank you!

[@EverythingArt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cecilenichols8590]

Neat video with great suggestions!! Thank you for sharing that with us! Also, I think it's neat that the book you used was given as a prize to Eleanor, on Christmas 1927. How appropriate that you used that book!

[@EverythingArt]

Thanks for watching! You're right, it's a nice little coincidence and to me it always feel like a way of honouring the book :) K.

[@cecilenichols8590]

@@EverythingArt, so do I!

[@amsbloom6034]

If you want to speed up the process of making holes, use a simple trick: take another book (one you don't mind damaging), open it, and put the opened journal on top of it. It really makes poking holes easy. One more trick: secure your papers with paperclips, that way the pages won't move around.

[@EverythingArt]

Great tip! Thank you for sharing!! K.

[@silverpromidi]

Kasia, inspiring. Thank you. I have a journal I made last year that I am using for my daily journal this year. This one will be a challenge since it has digi pages in here as well, not something I am used to 😄. I am also thinking how I can make this more personal than last year's with the drawings I am doing every night. Maybe I can work at having this be a combination daily writing journal and an art journal. I enjoyed filling the one I made from scratch a few years back, and have in mind to make more of these journals this year and learn how to use a Junk Journal to bring out the best in all the treasures that are already in there. I find a paper clip usually helps me keep those pages together and in place when I am sewing in a signature. Have a brilliantly creative, safe and prosperous 2022. New subscriber 😊

[@deserthorses5]

And, oh gosh....sewing in the signatures! For me, it is very stressful! My hands sweat, I get a headache, I've even THROWN a couple of journals across the room!!! I'm taking a break right now from making any journals. I need some time off! And, I don't feel that sewing down the pages with my sewing machine is the solution (I personally don't like that)...Stitches are TOO TIGHT!

[@EverythingArt]

So true, it can be truly stressful. I've been there many times and I get you. Take some time off and then maybe come back to it with a less precision-demanding process, like one of my Care December journals? kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXaZdHaXbq2FqaM

[@stefflabullescrapplanner2833]

Thanks you soooooo much 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@corinena3488]

Thank you so much ! New subscriber !🤗🌝

[@EverythingArt]

Thank you too!

[@nevilgrubb]

I just discovered your channel and I love it!! You are adorable! Your process and I interests are so similar to mine….I believe we would make lovely friends ❤️ Keep up the good work….I look forward to more of your creations!

[@EverythingArt]

Hi there! Thank you so much, you're so sweet.

[@QuiltingCrow]

I have beautiful old books, but they smell really bad (of cellar and if they had been wet once, but I can't spot any mold). Is there any technique or trick to get the smell off? I tried to expose them to air, I tried dryer sheets and coffee, but the bad smell lingers...

[@EverythingArt]

I'm not sure to be honest. I know exactly what you mean. From my experience there isn't much you can do. If the smell is to go away it will go away after a few days and if it's still there after all you've done I think it's there for good. The only solution may be to scan some of the most beautiful pages and print them out and use that? K.

[@3534538]

The books may loose the "cellar smell" in the freezer. That worked for the stinking books I got on ebay. I'm not sure about the minimum time, I left them in the freezer for two weeks - wrapped in a plastic bag - and now they're fine. Happy New Year (for me since 5 minutes) :-)

[@Hippidippimahm]

I would try spraying them damp with vinegar and then leaving in the sun for several days. Vinegar almost always works!

[@julieknudsen6297]

I kept a dryer sheet in a smelly book until the smell was gone.