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[@BluCrystals]

It's always amazing to me how creative people are it's endless what you can do with everyday things then you would normally just toss in the trash. There's so many talented people in this world. It's people like this that makes the world a beautiful place.

[@MoniqueAO888]

Id est !!!

[@deserthorses5]

You know, I make most of my soft cover journals just by sewing fabric directly onto the box, but I will try this! And I love the window! Finally, I LOVE the patchwork closure. I have tons of scraps, so I'll GIT TO WORK!

[@ritaruff9696]

You showed me the best way ever to do my cover AND binding. Finally someone gets the way I think😉. Thank you.

[@lisadelong1455]

I really enjoyed this video. I have never made a junk journal before, but they look fun. You would never know this started from a spaghetti box. Very cool. I love the patchwork style. Your instructions on how to sew the signatures in the binding was so clear that if I ever do make one I will refer to this video.

[@krisalasky6897]

I have been watching so many videos on this and was so confused. You made it so clear. You are a great teacher. Thank you so much. I have made the cover and have the signatures now I can sew them. xxx

[@caridavila2071]

Really love it! Wish I could sew...I would make all my journal covers like that.

[@latonyalee7821]

I wish I'd never watched this video because now I will never be able to throw away another piece of scrap fabric. I absolutely love everything in this video. Thank you so much for getting my creative juices flowing! I can cut windows wherever I want to! I can't wait for Thanksgiving Break!

[@shawnaluckey4230]

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A JUNK JOURNAL, THANK YOU I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING HOW THIS WORKS

[@phyllisknoll4950]

Thank you for this video. You taught me everything I need to know to bring my signatures in order for the final journal assembly. You’re the first person I found online who was kind enough to do so. Thank you.🙏

[@debhat]

I am making my first journal and had run into major brain blockage about what kind of cover to make. I've been collecting pasta boxes, milkbone boxes, cereal boxes but really had no clue how to use them for my cover. Now I know!! Thank you so much for this really timely video! You saved my sanity!

[@marysiniawa5371]

You made the signatures so much easier to get in the book. Great job. I will look forward using your technique. Thank you

[@ni_bi]

I watched this video over and over again because it was so inspiring and enjoyed

[@vickigarland9818]

This was great, answered a lot of my questions about making one. Very fun to make out of a box! Thanks

[@joyanna9433]

Thank you so much for this video. I had all the supplies for months, but i have something that i like to call 'art fear'. I've watched tons of tutorials, but was just afraid to start. Your video made me actually do it!! I wish I could share pictures here. It's absolutely not perfect, but I'm so proud of myself! I made a book! I think this is the first craft that I made that I don't absolutely hate and actually want to show it to my friends 😁

[@missbrowniebear]

That's great, hope you make more things and get your creative juices flowing!

[@eileenblezard13]

I wanted to make a journal to store my Ruby Wedding cards in and watched this video. I promptly went off to use the technique to make a cover but added some appliques as I wanted some heart shapes on the top and hand embroidered the appliques on. This was the best demonstration I have seen to date on binding pages into a book and I won't look back now. I even posted the video in my community craft facebook group that I run here in the UK and now they all want to have a go so that's a project on the list for our next year. Thank you for sharing.

[@MessyPaperCrafter]

Love the tips you shared! Kinda wish I would have seen this a few days ago lol But I just found you. I love the idea of adding the fabric to the paper first. And I was thinking about trying a hidden spine. So thank you!

[@sherryterry5688]

Your video is great! I wish I had watched yours first. I would like to make one of these for my daughters, and maybe get them interested in these. I'm to old to do one! lol Thank you for keeping it simple, but not treating everyone like kindergarten folks by repeating everything 40 times :)

[@FrappsScraps]

I love turning noodle boxes into fun journals.. they always seem to be a great size

[@MagentaHero]

This is such a clever and creative book cover. 🥰 I watch a lot of junk journaling vids and definitely learned something new. I enjoyed watching your process.

[@juliennebrendadevos6004]

Thank you for reminding me how much i loved doing this sort of cover and Inserts ,ect

[@marilynmarks5735]

Love how you made the patchwork cover. Thank you for sharing your talent.

[@shannonsacredfeminine]

Over the moon excited to have discovered your beautifully creative and incredibly inspiring journal project process video. With Gratitude 💖

[@pativins8114]

Awesome directions on how to make a journal book using a box with a window - Thank you 🦋🌵💖

[@QuiltingCrow]

I'm originally a quilter and this video infuses so many fun ideas into my crafty mind

[@NiteOwlCrafter]

So... It was driving me crazy! Your voice and the phrase "hello crafty cuties" sounded so familiar I couldn't stand it. It has taken me an hour to figure it out. I don't want to say it out loud, but I am so glad that I found you again!!! I have missed watching your videos! Thank you for all that you do!

[@susanleep7120]

Thank you! Now …I understand…u r a wonderful patient teacher😊👍

[@juneribbons5196]

Thanks for the simple way to sew the signatures into the spine. You made it look so easy. I love your book !!

[@sallyjoligocki5011]

I have so much fabric scraps. Now I know what to do with them. Thank you for sharing.

[@snooziesuesue]

I really like this journal. Love the way you patch worked the fabric even down to the colors. You explained everything until I believe that maybe I can do this too. Thank you so much sharing!!

[@donnameyers8497]

BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us.

[@paulacarter8930]

Helpful and easy on the ears too! So many youtube people nowadays speak with consistent upturned sentence endings that it is irritating, as if every sentence is a question, but in an explanation, with declarative sentences, you make confident, clear statements, easy to hear and understand, kind voice and matter -of-fact, a maturity in communication which carries over to the product. Some try to be too silly, veering off task into mindless chatter for entertainment, but your explanations are intelligent and reasonable, staying on task. Others shake their hands like jazz hands which is dizzying. You are calm. I stayed with your video with interest even though I’ve seen the instructions other places. Yours is well paced. I plan to make for gifts. 🎁 Best wishes for you in your channel and look forward to more of your ideas.🍀🍂👍🍁

[@berta1048]

You were so good at explaining everything so well. Love your journal. I'll be making one for sure. Thanks

[@sweetcreature7670]

That intro was😍😍😍

[@nancynorris9822]

Very cute! I'm partial to patchwork since I'm a quilter, so I'm loving this cover and the peekaboo front! TFS🤗

[@StellasScrappyCrafts]

Absolutely love this journal and the cover is gorgeous. The best way of putting in signatures that I have seen.

[@freckle_face2254]

Thank you so much!!! This helped a lot and is my favorite technique I’ve seen so far :)

[@nanakellyacker]

I enjoyed the video! The way you taught this made it easier to understand how to make one! Thank you!😀

[@Janartable]

Wow. I just love this journal and am going to make myself a ‘quilted’ cover right away!

[@odettepeters7493]

I loved the cover and especially the scrappy closure!

[@microdot153]

Remarkable !!!! LOVE all your steps, much more detailed than i have seen before which i think will work much better to keep everything in place. Thank you for sharing your techniques with us. Wonderful looking book for self, or as a gift.

[@overflowmiss]

I have really enjoyed watching you make this. Im very keen to start. I really enjoyed your smooth, calm voice over and was not tempted to mute zand just watch as i have often done with many other demonstrations/tutorials. Thank you.

[@lindacarlile6088]

2:45 pm 5/5/2023. I appreciate the things you do off camera to save viewing time. Thank you!

[@dianeschneider7442]

I love the patchwork cover. Thanks for showing us.

[@gabrielegermaine2337]

Yes I realy enjoed it 👍 the first time that I have seen how to attach the signutures to the spine that way It turned out real nice. Watching from Germany ❤️🙋

[@cristinashepard3166]

This is fantastic! I will make an "Alice in Wonderland" junk journal for a friend of mine. I was looking for a video that had a complete sequence on how to make a cover with cloth. I found yours!!! Thank you!!

[@suzyallen1726]

This was a great a video so understandable . Im in the midst of making my first cereal box journal and i was fearful about spine part. Ive never seen it done this way without the binding thread not on outside. This came out great and i appreciate your guidance sooooo much that i subbed😊❤

[@debfletcherwins6488]

Your junk journal tortorials are Excellent!!!! Thanks!

[@Atcraftcity]

Great video! Really helped me to figure out how I’ll attach my signatures to my hard cover book base!!!👍❤️

[@barbrabrurrier7548]

Thanks for showing the step by step process, very informative

[@yolandahuysamen14]

Thank you so much for sharing!! I have watch so many videos on how to make a journal but still did not quite know how it all works, but after watching this video I am ready to try my hand at making a journal. I am so excited. thank you so much. Blessings

[@noemid1458]

That is the same pasta I buy LOL thank you so much for sharing your creative video I would have never thought to make a journal with a pasta box 👍🌻😄

[@Nancy0162]

Jessica, if you only knew the struggle I have throwing cereal, pasta, packaging boxes away!!! 😫 I had a huge "collection" of empty boxes I was saving because they all looked like a perfect journal to me!!! I absolutely LOVE this video!!! Thank you for filming this from start to finish. I love the patchwork look and the patchwork closure is very clever! I'm definitely going to try to create one just like the one you did. Tfs!!! Have a great Sunday! 😊💗

[@donnahess5274]

Wonderful job. Any beginner could easily follow your direction.

[@KentuckyKrafter]

Love the cover. Don’t you love the hidden signatures. That is how I make my journals. I have several tutorials on my channel.

[@craftsnhaulswithlela]

I love this, and I'm definitely gonna try it myself. Thanks so much for always showing us your great ideas 🦋

[@JeannePorter]

Absolutely LOVE this journal and especially the technique!! It's BEAUTIFUL!!

[@LiviesLovelies]

Very easy to follow along. Thank you for putting this together.

[@karmaleenash2841]

Loved seeing a whole journal come together! Thanks! 🤍

[@ancaspekhorst-knarren2380]

Fantastic 🎊 This will be one of my next projects 😃 very happy to see your style of binding the sections in so the thread doesn’t show on the outside!

[@MsEAHolcomb]

Great tutorial!! Love how it turned out!! That window idea is so neat!!

[@nicolephillips9893]

I got a sewing machine years ago and never really found anything I was super interested in... until now... I will be getting it back out and learning how to use it again!

[@PaperTerrace]

How fun!

[@bbsclosetcreations]

Lots of editing girl ..wow ! That within itself as well was very labor intensive. Thank you so much for this tutorial . I been wanting to create a scrappy cover and this couldnt have come at a better time 🥰 thank you!!!! 🙏🏽🦋

[@annmaines4964]

Your edited video was only 28 minutes. I don’t DO paper work and I was captivated and it encouraged me to do something, gave me some ideas for my daughters birthday. Thanks so much.

[@tammyhale9462]

Absolutely, loved this Explanation of how you created this beautiful journal. Since I am new at journal making this view is very helpful. Thank you.

[@allthumbs3792]

Very cute journal, love the fabric stitched cover and little window! Aesthetically, I really prefer the hidden or interior binding as you’ve done. It’s not more difficult, just the extra step of gluing it inside the cover.

[@kathyvandewater590]

Great tutorial! Just under 30 minutes - perfect for my attention span. 😂

[@NiteOwlCrafter]

This was an excellent video! I started watching because you were making a patchwork journal cover. I did watch to the end. Thank you for a great video!

[@martistarnes9062]

I loved this video!! Such a clear explanation of everything. I have never made a junk journal. I just haven't know how to go about it. This one seems pretty simple for a beginner. Thank you, Jessica, beautiful Journal!

[@melissakincherlow2479]

It's absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us!

[@maineiacts]

Good Job Jessica!! I've been used by food and other boxes for a few years niw, and its always fun to watch another talented crafter do journals a different and even easier way from how I do mine..So! THANK YOU!! Fun to learn something NEW Every Day!! God Bless You and Yours With Love! 🙏🙋🤗🎃🍁- Mindi ( from Iowa )

[@donnalam1942]

I’ve learn so much watching your video…thank you. I’m now going to try my hand in making my own. ❤️

[@sharinsherri2558]

LOVE this journal! You are so inspiring! I had been looking for a patchwork cover tutorial and you nailed it! Thank you!

[@wormholehead]

Beautiful journal, and the tutorial is great. Everything is easy to understand, which is a huge help to us out here.

[@maineiacts]

@wormholehead. LOL!! You sound like ME!!! I'm finally just Doin' It!! Instead of hoarding',get busy makin' You WILL Be Glad You Did!! There's ALWAYS More boxes out there!! When you ever ? Run out..hit the recycle bins in town!!!💪🌹🤗🎃🍁🙋

[@jeannethomas6965]

What a lovely idea for a journal. Love the patchwork cover. You explained everything really well. Thank you so much for all your inspiration.

[@MsTientje]

Thank you so much for this video. I have learned how to sew my own first journal. It helped me a lot!

[@dagmarleuenberger-swift8646]

Thank you so much, what fun, it’s a great way to up-cycle❤️🇨🇦

[@susan6942]

Love the crazy quilt design my favorite great job

[@libbyzg6611]

Your work is impeccable I love everything about this journal it’s very vintage beautiful thank you for step by step tutorial I will definitely try this amazing project ❤️❤️❤️

[@thepinkape0914]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I finally put my saved boxes to use and some Halloween fabric. I was just going to cover them in paper but I definitely love this idea so much more ☺️.

[@myfrugalraggylife7104]

Great instructional video. Thank you. Very clearly explained and no 'time wasting waffle' - ! have subbed.

[@danzorig2086]

Magnificent work! Thank you for teaching!🥰🥰🥰

[@beckyb4074]

I love this! Thanks for sharing how you made it, from start to finish. Take care and God bless you and yours. Sincerely Becky B from Arkansas

[@amybrown5235]

Thank you so much for such a thorough demonstration. I have a better understanding of how to create one of these, and I can't wait to make one. I'll definitely be referring to your video during the process.

[@brendawalrath4823]

Your way of making your journal is made in a way I can do. Thankyou for this tutorial it’s downloaded ready for me to follow. I have awkward clumsy fingers due to arthritis and my first tiny booklet wasn’t very pretty Using your technique will help

[@maggiefreeman6513]

So lovely! Can’t wait to make one….I’m off to find a box and some scrap fabrics! Thank you.

[@theolachapman6126]

Very very cute journal love scrap fabric look plus scrap ties thank you it is great Theola

[@evastokes1423]

Loved it, you made it look so easy, you also shared each step. Thank you

[@ajsinspiredlife665]

love love love this! i love making my own journals but i have never made a fabric cover and this inspired me! Thanks !

[@stephv1202]

nice project and i like how your window came out...those are sometimes my hurdles. thank you❣️

[@giusicoluccia6594]

This is marvellous...and I'm honest with it!!! Thank you very much 💗

[@fazestorm4441]

I really love this it was really exciting a really nice Journal

[@spanishwithrobyn]

Very nice. Very well explained! THANK YOU!

[@selenaupson7773]

I absolutely loved this. Thank you for sharing.

[@suzyhayden8643]

Great job in sharing the method to make a fabric cover journal..thank you..

[@lornawolfington7752]

Thanks for sharing ❤ I have watched many videos but never seen the way you bind your journals, pretty cool. I started my first can't wait to use your way of binding.

[@christinearvizu5838]

I just used your hidden binding! Perfect solution!

[@jennylawson1980]

Jessica, I am new here. I found you on my newsfeed. I am so glad I decided to come learn! You are a wonderful teacher!!! I’ve learned so much from you already. Ty for your inspiration insights 🌺 and talent.

[@janscott821]

This is a cute journal! Thank you so much for showing it from start to finish. You are such a wonderful teacher! Hugs🥰

[@micheleseitz2724]

You d uh d great. It us nice that you are recycling things. Thank you

[@rgporter1957]

I love this journal! And I love how you are so straight forward with your explanations on what to do and when to do it. You are a great teacher. I'm making a journal this week for my secret sister and I'm going to follow yours to a tee! Thank you so much!