Ugly Magazine Papers? Use This to Transform them for Junk Journaling

[@hellehyldgaard8793]

Good way to tone too brightly coloured pages for a journal ❤

[@BeAgainBooks]

It surely is useful to me! Thanks for watching.

[@pilarguerrero12874]

I love your ideas, the mood board is fantastic! I am grateful to live in this time and age when finding great teachers is so easy. I have been learning a lot with your thought processes and ideas. Thank you so much ✨✨✨

[@BeAgainBooks]

My pleasure Pilar - I’m also glad you found me and I hope you’ll stick around!

[@pilarguerrero12874]

@@BeAgainBooks oh, I will!

[@suzyallen1726]

Great idea. Use your roll off sheet too

[@BeAgainBooks]

That's a great idea Suzy! Thanks for watching!

[@reentjekay7597]

Wonderfully helpful suggestions, thank you. You have a great sense of color!

[@BeAgainBooks]

I’m so glad to help. Thanks for watching!

[@tracyvis2101]

I like how acrylic paint gives texture to the smooth magazine pages. Very nice!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Me too - it’s the texture! Thank you.

[@katrineleber7238]

This helped me so much. I’m just getting started using acrylic paint in my journals. Hugs, treen 💕💕💕

[@BeAgainBooks]

I'm so glad to hear it Treen! Thanks so much for watching!

[@terriebrockmann9497]

The paper you used to load the brayer would be a matching paper for your journal or for ephemera. I love this idea!

[@BeAgainBooks]

So true Terrie! I should have used an ugly paper, haha! Thanks for watching!

[@judypatchett7000]

Thank you so much for sharing your ideas for texturing pages.

[@BeAgainBooks]

My pleasure Judy, thanks for watching!

[@maramakesjournals2319]

Great idea! I think we add faint stenciling over some areas next. Right? I really like that idea. It’s often a struggle to dim glossy papers. This method sure does work. More colorful than plain white gesso. Thanks!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Stenciling would be a great idea Mara! Thanks for adding to the conversation!

[@maramakesjournals2319]

@@BeAgainBooks 🪺Happy springtime! Thanks for the prompt reply.

[@dawnklein106]

You always inspire me with these magazine pages.

[@BeAgainBooks]

So glad to hear it Dawn - thank you!

[@caroltanzi29]

Kathleen: I love those quick and easy tips & tricks. Keep them coming. Thx Carol from California

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Carol - I'll try, haha!

[@lauravasquez169]

Very helpful. I recognized the Better Homes and Garden book pages that you used. I use them alot. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@BeAgainBooks]

My pleasure Laura! Thanks for watching!

[@JoansJunkJournalsAndMore]

This is awesome. I just bought a cheap roller last week and played with paint on paper. I also love to tone down magazine and book pages with paint like that. I used to use brushes until I got the roller. I also used to use gesso with paint in the beginning, but lately I just use straight paint mostly. ☺♥

[@BeAgainBooks]

I appreciate your watchtime Joan! - and your thoughts about paint. I'm glad you also find it effective!

[@roxiebaker1158]

Great idea!! It's so simple that seems like an obvious choice, yet I never thought to do it.😁 So thanks! I'll definitely be doing it now!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Roxie! I'm really happy that you'll try it. Sometimes simple is soooo good!

[@ForTheLoveOfMike]

Thank you for sharing different ways to add to our junk journals! I love the texture the paint gives on the otherwise slick pages. You've inspired me 💙

[@BeAgainBooks]

So happy to hear it! thanks so much for watching!

[@careyclapp8357]

Love this technique, so simple! I also love your mood board, it's a piece of art itself!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Oh thank so much Carey! I appreciate you! Thanks for watching!

[@nancypyter1511]

So easy and very effective Kathleen!🥰

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thank you Nancy!

[@dakielty]

As usual interesting and useful information and tricks. Thank you

[@BeAgainBooks]

Glad you enjoyed it Dorothy!

[@cottonconfetti]

Another great technique, thanks, Kathleen. I too don't like people in my journal but these are well disguised and match your mood board so well 🤩

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Davina!

[@DianesDesigns1660]

really love this idea--makes such a difference in magazine pages TYFS

[@BeAgainBooks]

So glad you think so Diane! I hope you'll try it soon!

[@kristinjacobsen3417]

Great idea! I have some very similar catalogs with wonderful colors but faces i didn't want to include.

[@BeAgainBooks]

That's great Kristin! I'm glad this idea might work for you. Very simple and very effective for me! Thanks for watching!

[@lalagamma4452]

Great idea. TFS. I shared your video 💕🐞💖

[@BeAgainBooks]

Oh you are a peach Lala - thanks so much! I'm glad you liked the video!

[@MyrajoL.heart.withART]

Thank you for sharing this process. I have so many magazines... I often bypass pages simply because i don't think they will work. But now i can alter their appearance. Fun fun. ❤

[@BeAgainBooks]

Oh that’s just what I wanted to hear Myra! Thank you!

[@susangazawaypapercrafting3749]

What a great idea!😊

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Susan!

[@michellelmaher57]

Great idea!! Thx you!!

[@BeAgainBooks]

You are so welcome Michelle! Thanks for watching.

[@TubeYouLena]

I also discovered this secret, quite by chance. i used magazine pages to remove excess paint from my brushes and then i noticed i liked those semitransparent weird pages and started using them in collages. My way is to brush darker paint over most unwanted parts of the image first. Then, i use lighter colours to make it writable and less dramatic. I will watch all that youtube can offer on this technique, i am very interested.

[@BeAgainBooks]

Mixed media is just so fun, isn’t it? Sounds like you have a very effective method. Thanks for sharing it with me, and for watching!

[@peaceofjunkjournals]

I really love this idea ❤

[@BeAgainBooks]

So glad to hear that! Thanks so much for watching!

[@ashleyscreations]

Love how these turned out Kathleen I subscribed to your channel. I didn't realize you had a channel but loved your video. Thank you for sharing.

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks for subscribing Ashely - welcome! I appreciate your company here.

[@ashleyscreations]

@@BeAgainBooks no problem

[@ashleyscreations]

@@BeAgainBooks You are so welcome.

[@rosannagajdanelson999]

Brilliant!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thank you Rosanna!

[@tfntexas]

Great tip!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Tammie! You are such a great support to me.

[@celestialstorybooks]

You are so talented, love your ideas! Could you maybe add a materials list of products that you use? ❤

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thank you so much, that makes me happy. This was an easy project, just used the acrylic paint this time. Thanks for watching!

[@janeholloway8596]

TFS 💖

[@BeAgainBooks]

My pleasure Jane - thanks so much for watching!

[@Bront-ki2im]

Thank you... ☺️

[@BeAgainBooks]

My pleasure Bront! Thanks so much for your watchtime today!

[@meredithpjesky9912]

I got it, thank you!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Great! Thanks so much for watching Meredith!

[@kerynokeeffe9133]

Awesome trash to treasure, Kathleen. I admire how you use “trash” to incorporate so well into your journals. Did you place the paint onto paper rather than your mat or a palette because the paper would absorb some of the paint and leave only a thin layer on the brayer? 😀💞

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Keryn, and yes! You are very intuitive. I usually have three “levels” when I do this. Sometimes I just put it on the glass when I want more paint on the brayer. The next level is just a plain piece of paper, usually trash from the bin. As you mentioned it rolls a bit more paint off the brayer and gives a little lighter touch. I might also use a paper towel to absorb even more paint off the brayer. It just depends on how thinly I want to paint to roll on. I could have explained this, if I had thought of it, haha. Thanks for asking It has just taken some practice and experimenting to learn how light of a touch I want. I would rather start of with less, as you see in the video and build it up if I need, rather than have too much paint to begin with.

[@haliesjewelryandcrafts]

Noooo don't paint over the flower illustrations lol!! LOVE the idea to tone down and reuse papers though.. FOR SURE! I am always in search of new and pretty floral illustrations so I was cringing for second on that one but I still like it and of course the others came out great!

[@BeAgainBooks]

Haha! Isn't it funny how we have such strong opinions sometimes. I'm so glad you are here Halie! Thanks so much for joining in!

[@jismbabe]

Yeah, not the flowers..😢 Overall great idea.🙂

[@afeeser]

Is that a magnetic sheet behind you (in the beginning of the video) with your dies on it? That's a cool idea.

[@BeAgainBooks]

Yes, Andrea. I also have two cookie sheets with the same magnetic “vent covers” from Home Depot hanging in my closet with more dies. I have discovered that the dies cling better when there is metal behind the magnet sheets.

[@alicecabral8051]

I have seen you do this before and do love how the acrylic tones down the colours on the pages. I wonder if it is okay to do this on any kind of page or do you select sturdier pages. Some magazine pages are too flimsy these days. You always have such helpful tips.

[@BeAgainBooks]

I do it on all kinds of paper Alice, even thinner magazine papers, although the sturdier papers make better pages. Thanks so much for watching.

[@ilakaiser3778]

I have recently found your channel. I love that you are using junk. What would you suggest if a roller is not available? I also love your mood board.💜🐞

[@BeAgainBooks]

Welcome Ila! Thanks so much for visiting. There are small foam paint rollers that may work, but they might be just as expensive than the brayer, to be honest, and the foam will deliver the paint very differently. Dollar Tree might have something, but my local store didn’t. If I didn’t have a brayer, I would use the acrylic paint with a small sea sponge and dab it on - “sponging” it’s called. I do that quite a lot also, actually. I will look through my videos to see if I have demonstrated that. In the meantime, search for sponge painting and there should be something already on KZbin, for sure for walls, but I’m not sure others do paper like I do, haha.

[@eviegorecki5356]

Loving your colors in this one. And the paint technique. Where did you find the roller you are using?

[@BeAgainBooks]

Thanks so much Evie! I got this brayer at Hobby Lobby.

[@meredithpjesky9912]

What is the name of that clothing magazine? I believe it was a clothing magazine. Cute outfits!

[@BeAgainBooks]

I know! So cute! It is Gundrun Sjoden.

[@chrisrasmussen4170]

Oh you are from Utah? So am I.

[@BeAgainBooks]

Not from Utah, actually - I was reared in Idaho and I now live in New Mexico. But I have a LOT of family in Utah.