Making a Junk Journal From an Old Book | Altered Book Adventures #1
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2021
- Welcome to the first episode of a new series: altered book adventures! In today's video, I'm showing you the book I've chosen to alter and how I prepare the book ready to work in as my junk journal. I hope you enjoy and join me for this journey!
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I'm so excited to see how this altered book turns out! Love your creativity!
Just getting started with Junk Journals. I ❤ your style of teaching this fun craft…your voice is calming and soft. I feel so inspired by all your videos I’ve watched. Trying to soak them all in!!!❤
Obviously these the pages in these types of books are “coated”, so perhaps a gesso before using any type of painting or texture building medium. A towel with a warm iron will help flatten the pages as well. 🦋
I would love to see this completed.. You inspired me to start my first junk journal by altering a book.. :). Thank you for sharing your creativity..
I love that you shared the book in its original form before you did any altering. Thank you for showing the steps that you've taken so far. I look forward to trying some of the tips you showed here!
Thanks so much!!
How fun! Heading over to the next video! xo Deb
What a great find! The coffee wash adds so much character. I'm excited to follow along and see how this altered book project turns out. Thank you for sharing with us!
Thank you!! It was beautiful but I think the coffee adds an extra touch!
I learned so much from the video! Thanks so much for sharing 😊
The coffee dying is INCREDIBLE!! This will be so fun for you to work in and for us to watch your ideas and progress. Can’t WAIT!! YAY! 😁🙌🏻👍🏼💜
Woohoo! Thank you ☺️☺️
Thank you so much for this video......I learned alot. Adding coffee to remove the glossy is brilliant. I hate glossy pages....now i have an option.
Yay!! There’s still a slight gloss but it’s nothing a little bit of clear gesso can’t fix! ☺️
@@megjournals I hope there is iother alternative for clear gesso......It is so expensive here in our country
Oh that lovely sound of coffee dyed paper! 🥰🥰🥰
So nice Isn’t it 😍
This is going to be WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!
I will be so interested to see it at the end as well - if you can actually avoid it getting so chunky 😆 That book is amazing, great find!!
Challenge accepted 🤣
@megjournals I saw part 2, did you do any more with this one?
Thank you, one good way is to stick the last and first of each signature together.
Oh very cool TFS 👍🏻
You have already given the book a totally different look and I am excited to see how you embellish it. Thank you and have a blessed weekend 🙂.
Thanks so much for watching!!
Great find I’m working on my first altered book
I can't wait to see what you will do next!
I love the way the coffee made the pages look! I love the colors and the crinkly pages! Can’t wait to see what else you do for this journal. Hugs💕
Thank you! 🥰
Takk!
I love how the coffee gives it a crinkly sound:)
Coffee crinkles are awesome :)
This is a lovely book to repurpose! And, don't forget...you can put gesso down before you
paint. I'll be following the process here! Hugs! Peggy
That’s a great idea!!
Looking forward to this series. I also watched Tatty treasure do something similar. Can’t wait to see you transform it.
Ooooooh I’ll have to check their channel out!
I am so excited for this! What a great idea. Cant wait to see what's next!
Aw thanks so much!
The book itself is great! Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Love it!!😍😍
Thank you!!
The coffee prepped pages look stunning! I feel like the text and visual elements really pop! Well done Meg! Looking forward to seeing how this will develop.
Thank you!! I’m so pleased with how it turned out and excited to work on it!
this was a great video thank you for posting this, very informative...I have subscribed, thanks
I love using flowers in my spreads so I really can't wait to see your ideas and use you as my muse for inspiration 😍
This book definitely has some inspiring illustrations! 😍
New subscriber. I found your channel from 49 Dragonflies. She made a zig zag journal inspired by yours. Loving your videos. Can't wait to see what's next in this journal.
Wow, great book find! Thanks for sharing your techniques.😊
Thanks for watching ☺️
I'm really so excited!!! I just adore altered books. Thanks a lot for this❣
Yay!!! ✨🥳
The pages look lovely with the coffee on, looking forward to seeing the next video x
Thanks for watching!! 🥰
Oh wow Meg I bet your heart was racing when you found that gem. It's such a pretty book. Great size and great subject content.Can't wait to see how you use it x
I hit the jackpot hahahah! Thank you 😊 x
I can’t wait to see how this turns out.😻
What a beautiful book! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it! I'm also wanting to alter a book to do some art journaling so this will be a great series for me! Thanks for sharing!
Yay!! Thank you :)
I love this journal and you great idea of how to transform it. Have seen this on occasion and never knew what to do with one 👍
Question: how long did you let the pages dry before you did the next one? Thx so much 🙂
Meg: I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ll do to the book. Nice start! Carol from California
Thanks Carol!! ☺️
This is going to be such a fun & exciting project to follow you along with! I’ve been looking for pretty books to turn into altered journals/junk journals so I’m looking forward to trying out some of your techniques when I find one. Thanks for sharing!!
We’ll all be learning together 🥰
I Love this!! I have found several beautiful books (like yours) that are too nice to cut apart. I'm anxious to continue to watch you work on this altered book!
Thank you’ I totally get what you mean!
This book is beautiful!i really like how your altering it ! Just a question, did you wait for each page to dry before moving on to the next? That would've taken you hours to do the whole book??
Thank you! Yes I did it over the course of a week - throughout the day I would do a page then leave to dry as I did something else, then come back throughout the day :)
Hey Meg!
Question: Do you usually do one project per month? Just started watching for the Junk Journal July series.
Love your channel and your Tik Tok videos that I see on Instagram are hilarious.
Love from Texas, 🇺🇸
Hey! Thanks so much for watching 🥰 Not usually - I do the junk journal challenge in July and January. Just thought I’d try something new on my channel with a series and I’ve always wanted to try altered books ☺️
Pretty fingernails!
Can I decoupage my cloth to the front of my book I glued it down now I want to decoupage the top of it
Ooh you could try, I’ve never done decoupage before!
Hey Meg do you know who makes this book or it's official name?
Who is the author of that book?
I’m not sure sorry!
@@megjournals it’s ok… found exactly same book in EBAY