A Beginner's Guide to making Journals - part 2 - Simple DIY Covers

[@AbiNomac]

For those of us that work in metrics (the entire world expect America) this video is extremely helpful. Thank you for considering us.

[@lunajen8970]

Oh wow, My mom used to make thosw bottle cap and soda tab frying pans and spray paint them in black then made eggs out of felt, stuck them in it and slapped a magnet on the back hahah she used to sell them by the dozens. Good memories! And thank you for another great tutorial ❤

[@jeanwestackroyd2966]

ok, got that I think... Thanks for part 2 shares Nik.

[@queenofmischief82]

The breathless comment won me over and the snot reference has me rolling on the floor 😂 I'm really enjoying this video series. Good job!

[@AzaleaLala]

This is such a great series because it's like little stepping stones to use as practice before you go whole hog and make a giant tome. :D

[@lizjanevski9042]

Came across part one & was very entertaining & of course informative - watching this part two & your funny. Just love your commentary it’s like your just hanging out & talking it’s great.. now to check out part three ☺️

[@nancybeebe7622]

Thank you. I love,love your tutorials

[@veronicacasaus254]

I have watched so many of these videos and you are the only one that it explained it so i really understood was getting ready to trash the whole thing but thanks to you here i am thank you so much your awesome

[@jkatz58]

Hey Nic , I’m loving this series so far, exactly what someone like me needs. Love the Papa Bear, Momma Bear and Baby Bear book covers. Thanks for all your hard work and willingness to share.

[@marmaz57]

Oh, Nik - I learn so much for you. Will try this today - since I have card stock and glue. Woo-Hoo!

[@leiam7964]

at 1:21 ... "so if I sound breathless, I'm not trying to be sexy" LOL

[@fohzzie3348]

Just finished my first book 📖

[@Canadian693]

TFS! Going to start putting items together and start working on a journal! Thanks for being such a great inspiration!

[@witsue]

Loving this series of videos. Love all of your videos really. Thanks for sharing your wonderful art. Hugs xx

[@shirleymccullough2515]

Hi Nik, this is so much fun !! I feel like I’m in the room with my friend and we are making journal covers together ... love ❤️ thanks my friend

[@ajarofpotential]

I was the kid who drove her Mum crazy by leaving a trail of paper snippets throughout the house. Oh, wait! I still do that!! Can't wait for pt 3 👍

[@suzannejohnston9851]

Really appreciate this series. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

[@donnadoble-brown338]

Nik just discovered your channel! It’s a very rainy Saturday here in Rhode Island and I thought I’d use today to research something I’ve been wanting to do forever! Thanks for your very fun easy to understand channel! Take care💚🙏🏻💗

[@sandrajohnson9926]

This is my life, I am so sorry! Tell me about it. Math, ugh! Love your ideas! I wish I was as organized.

[@jolac46]

Great tutorial. Thanks for showing us different ways to do journals.

[@hannahsdesigns]

OK. I really am enjoying your video. Thank you for explaining every step so clearly.

[@barbaramccullough604]

Thanks for doing this series Nik. Love it. I was always the one making little books when I was a kid too. So much fun!

[@peggywimberly9664]

I love your ruler!

[@shirleymccullough2515]

Yes, you did Nik, thanks. Mine little book is adorable !!

[@sharleneknaus3664]

Loving this video series. As usual, you make it so entertaining and easy to follow. Thanks!

[@donnatibbs394]

Love your videos! Step by step..and I can relate to you..you're so much fun!

[@mizzify]

I'm so glad I found your channel! I've only recently got into making folio's and you're now my favourite channel! Very easy to follow and understand! On the DNA front you're probably part viking! There was also part of the Spanish armada shipwrecked around England too which may explain the Portuguese. If you ever come to the UK I can give you some pointers around the lakes & Yorkshire dales because I live in Lancashire x

[@jrumulls-jana9368]

I'm new to your channel! Sooo glad I found it! I'm also new to junk journals and I'm loving it! That is an awesome paper cutter! Wow! Thanks for sharing these videos. Very helpful to this newbie!!

[@wonderwend1]

" maybe I AM an expert on snot" 🤣🤣🤣 New to your channel and love your words and phrases 🤣 Subscribed

[@shirleylum2198]

Thanks, now I'll wait for part 3.

[@OoSampaguitaoO]

😅😅 "I was that kid".. haha me as well. Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing ❤

[@eydnamortensen5985]

I was the kid who made castles out of toilet paper rolls for my itty bitty teddy bears. Lol! Love from Denmark

[@kathleenrothman]

Cereal boxes / cracker box cardboard too for covers 🤗🌸

[@mariep-MAPAT]

Hi Nik, thanks for this fun course, and thanks for writing down the metric mesures. Because I love everything tiny, I used to have a doll house for witch I made a lot of stuff from "junk". Hi from Belgium.

[@bevcote2357]

Thank you for sharing with this novice. Blessings.

[@LaughingDogsBookNook]

This is great, love watching and gluing along with you it's really relaxing. Thanks for another great series! Take care -

[@tuthillg]

Great series and great tips for beginners! TFS, Nik!

[@JuJuCrafts]

When you said "it kind of dries like snot" you won me over :) - subscribed :D -- great tutorials, watching them all !!

[@meetingplace7928]

You are just too comical! lol 😄🙌 Really appreciate the tips. 😀💓

[@kristenevans4557]

It does dry like snot! LOL, don’t you just love it when you walk away for a min and there’s a nice snot bubble on the spout. Yeah, me neither. Haha love, love, Love your videos.

[@fancydeer]

"It dries like snot" hit that like button. I can't do fractions to save my life, I always just use metric to save myself the headache tbh. I can barely handle nice round numbers lmao.

[@Cyrilmc222004]

Thank you so much Nik, I just love 💖 this you are so funny 🤣 and I really really enjoyed your tutorial. xxx Mags

[@joannecarroll5504]

.. & this, America, is why the whole rest of the world changed to The Metric System over 50 years ago. LOL . Joking aside, this is a really helpful series, thans for making it.

[@Bunefoo401]

Joanne Carroll ... I want to say sometime during my schooling, we started talking about metric, but then it fell by the wayside ... think us here in the US are just plain lazy, lol

[@rtsyfrtsy924]

manila file folders make a good book cover, either single or double layer

[@anhaddad]

I had to chuckle when you mentioned the soda tabs. I have a cup of them saved up in my craft room. I want to buy a metal, alphabet engraving/stamping set and use the tab part to stamp letters on, then ad them to projects. My family and I are living in Kuwait, and the cola cans here still use those tabs, so we have lots of them.

[@NiktheBooksmith]

oh wow, really?? That is so cool Anisa =)

[@chrisherbst4091]

I love your channel! Just found your videos today and I love them! Thanks for uploading :)

[@vickidip]

Thank you Nik

[@georgiewalker1069]

Glue dries like snot! 😂 part 2 is great. Thank you 🇿🇦

[@artpipe]

Thanks for the series. At 8:01, what's the reasoning for folding in the opposite direction after scoring?

[@fancifuldevices]

Nik the Snot Expert

[@xVoReNation]

Gav me information that I needed. Thanks

[@TorchwoodPandP]

Well, if you make a Harry Potter themed journal, it would have to be 9" 3/4... 😀

[@StellaNoire]

Get out.

[@sewgatormomm]

Brilliant!

[@traceyhall5687]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Magic!

[@ryanj.hanson6920]

2nd video in and I'm dying here, your commentary has me in stitches laughing.

[@patylunamar9087]

No hablo inglés, solo entiendo un poco, pero a ti te entiendo perfecto! And You are sooo funny!! 🤣👍👍

[@ideastimestwo3522]

I HATE my Fiscars Procision for that very reason...I always need the measurements between 5.5 and 6 inches. Always. Annoying! Anywhoozers, thanks for sharing. You're awesome! Snot? We have NO idea what you're talking about. 😉

[@CeceliaIvyPriceArtisticChaos]

Scoreboard? I didn’t know there was such a thing

[@ephemeraphilesbytomi]

I was “that kid” too!

[@tracydean3678]

You're cracking me up😸

[@chrisrasmussen4170]

I made minitures too, Barbie stuff, furniture out of pudding aND CAKE BOXES.

[@cherylmacedo5521]

I just subscribed, but now I’m doubting that move……the reason you ask…..math. Math. Numbers and Math. Quarters and millimeters oh dear, I’m doomed…. But don’t worry, I’m still here, and after the “expert on snot” subject, I ain’t goin’ nowhere 🤣🤣🤣😘and I love wee (binky) things too…

[@tanyamckinney5908]

What can you use in place of a scoreboard?

[@maryjones107]

Thank you

[@LedgerAndLace]

I was the kid who refused to finger paint in preschool and they called my mother. "Well, she doesn't want to. I didn't have to stick MY fingers in paint when I was 3!" Hahahaha

[@NiktheBooksmith]

did you eat the paste, Hali??? 😄

[@LedgerAndLace]

Hahahaha Nah. I was not THAT kid; I just liked to smell it! Actually, I think Uhu glue sticks have that same smell . . . YUM! ;-)

[@Sujowi]

I love your mum ... what good common sense!

[@shirleymccullough2515]

With you all the way, just wondering what the the size or measurements are for the dink a dink ? Don’t remember you gives us the size or I missed it. Love this little dink a dink and could make a few I’m a thinking ! Thanks again Nik for doing this for us .... 👍🏻❤️

[@NiktheBooksmith]

I thiiiiiiiiiiink I give its measurements in the next video....if Im remembering correctly!

[@dawnkarasaki6172]

Love it

[@lindapeterson5810]

Glad I've gone further back! Prices have certainly changed in 5 years - 🙄😉

[@rneustel388]

You make me laugh...I do love your ttorials!!

[@corinnecurtis5145]

Cool!

[@missrzhrtjennieruthdelurey2908]

I used to have a pair of scissors like the black ones in your thumbnail ... I need to get a new set. Where did you get yours

[@lindafriend9392]

Muirnin Rose They’re Bonsai scissors - try Amazon or a good garden centre 😊

[@MrsJMYoung]

When do you choose fabri-fix vs. Mod podge?

[@susanthomas3092]

Good day, love this series, not sure if I missed the part 4 video of the series, would love to see how you put in the signature sheets.

[@NiktheBooksmith]

Hi Susan, I haven't finished filming yet, but it will be up soon! thank you!! =)

[@susanthomas3092]

Thank you!

[@erinmorrison6199]

I love this it is perfect for me cause I’m a beginner

[@eugeniaamado8713]

Dankeschön :-)

[@fionalindsay2859]

I will never look at Fabrifix in the same way again 🤣

[@tattoolane1]

Oh I laugh all the way through your videos - I love scatty people and you are wonderfully scatty - I can't do maths either - there's a name for it dyscalculic!! How good does that sound! I got thrown out of maths class and into the dunces class where we learned to draw Venn circles - to this day I have no idea why or what the heck Venn circles are for ( please don't enlighten me cos I really don't care)l - I'd much rather have messed with paint and glue than do numbers, and am still the same today! Thanks you for such fabulous, real videos xxxxxxxxxx

[@ujlt7198]

I was the kind of kid who spent all of crafts session in school sniffing a glue stick because i thought it smelt like spaghetti. (In my defense, it absolutely did)

[@lunaspiritbeth]

Fabri-Fix goobers, a love/annoying relationship Love the holding power but the goobers can drive you nuts 😜

[@duagiay7321]

lunaspirit Beth a

[@sergiogarcia-fk9ho]

keep it simple...use the metric side of the ruler

[@sumthingangels]

Here is the Tarot journal I made a few months ago. sumthingangels.blogspot.com/2018/03/my-persional-tarot-journal.html

[@suryasoap1841]

nikkie your grandpa is smiling from up there at your attempt to do the maths....!!! and best of all you passed ........by the skin of your teeth of course lol

[@chasing_happiness]

Math sucks no ifs, ands, or buts. I got totally different numbers than you did so Imma just sit here and nod and smile cause I'm hating the math.

[@NiktheBooksmith]

😄

[@chasing_happiness]

Nik the Booksmith I appreciate your videos though. I have problems around people especially when it's more than just 1 or 2. I love your sense of humor. Keep up the good work, lady. 💜

[@tamahtaylor7411]

LadyJoleena Yup, she lost me on the math too! I detest math!

[@johnlatimer3366]

LadyJoleena craft outlet

[@callmhayley123]

A faster way to find a one inch spine is to find the middle and give 1/2 inch space on each side; much less math involved :)

[@Nyxx-Chaos]

You crack me up! :D lol

[@anitaf.2521]

I do not like math at ALL. Math doesn’t like me. But I love your big boy😍

[@JamieLOVEUMOREJOURNALS]

I still love making tiny things. Lol

[@darkwokfy5969]

Mom power.....yo!

[@tasha111ify]

Oooh no you have the same sense of numour as me....thats not a good sign lol. As for numbers...no comment i actually thought you had it right the first time!!! Shame on me, ty for this series, i'm just getting into journals and you're making it an easy learning process for my incredibly small and busy brain

[@GiantParfait]

Why not just fold them first then glue together?

[@freidagepner2370]

🙂

[@denisetaylor3332]

Not quite like snot! Doesn’t go hard and crusty! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tonihall7810]

Omg me too . I once found some chicken feathers and made a whole Indian villiage with tee pees and head dress for the chief etc . I spent all day on it .... packed it in a shoe box ..... mum said I couldn’t keep rubbish and threw it all out .

[@murdermcmurderface]

Do you mean Native American? It’s really disrespectful to call them Indians

[@charityneverfaileth22]

No it's not. American Indian is preferred by many tribes.

[@cristaslover1609]

Yeah, I don't know how many problems I have because math is one of them!

[@catherinecarey4897]

7:07 You are so funny !

[@fernandachristensengama5245]

🤯

[@Anna-6557]

*sighs* this is my life 😂😂 sameeeee

[@SonshineLady7]

I really enjoy Nik's videos but, speaking as a rank beginner in creating journals, instead of all that math calculation (English Lit. major here - with math being seriously challenging) I would personally take the card stock, fold it in half with or without the book binding "edge" and make a larger journal. I really enjoyed part 1 using an existing book but lost interest in all the fiddly things involved in this video. For us beginners - the simpler the better. Like I even own a "scoring board?"

[@amitexo]

Nik the Snotologist or Nik the Snotsmith? lol

[@NiktheBooksmith]

😄

[@marthawest799]

😖 ooeooo SNOT WHEN DRYED IT KINA PEELS OFf booger’s are better coz They role up and you can “flickem” 🤣 but snot I kinda drips down and ya snork it up and you can wiper on your sleeve 🤓

[@mariasarah9369]

Meu deus demora um ano pra colar uma folha, 🤷🤷 adianta o vídeo senhorrrr

[@Feeoryne]

You sure know how to stretch your videos!!!