Natasha, you are my FAVORITE junk journal creator!! I watch and rewatch your videos! I love your no nonsense approach, but sprinkled with occasional humor. Thank you for sharing with us!

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much :)

I always get so excited when I see you have put a new video up! I learn so much from you. My creativity is always sparked from something you are sharing. Have a blessed week 💖

@gracejohnson1926

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY…me too!🤗

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! I usually drop what I'm doing and do what she's doing--lol. Has gotten me into some pickles now and again (this past Thanksgiving, her mini-junk journal tutorial sparked me to do my entire Christmas tree in mini's and other junk journal pieces and parts--'twas a hoot!)

Thanks Natasa! I recently commented I'm not so heavily into JJ-ing lately yet love to watch each and every one of your videos nevertheless...well, this tutorial is THE one that will get me going again. I can feel all the stuff in closets and drawers stirring to be crafted into journal covers. Oodles of them. Off to craft then!

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I'm so glad that you feel inspired again!!! Thank you so very much for your generosity, I really appreciate it!!!

You are so talented and thank you for sharing your beautiful creations with us. When I go thrifting, I look for old photo ablums and repurpose them into junk journals. Natasa your creations are absolutely stunning.

Love the simplicity 💚 I think less is more, sometimes. I enjoy watching how you embrace when things don’t always turn out as planned and use it as an opportunity to learn and try something new. I think, making mistakes is sometimes what we need to push us out of our comfort zone. Thanks for sharing 💚

You’re such a great teacher, very thorough and detailed and make it so easy to follow you. You inspire me. I look forward to your videos so much. Thank you.

This is an extremely helpful and informative video tutorial. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your expertise.

Love watching all your videos! You are so inspirational! Thank you!

You make everything look so easy. All these covers are so pretty!! I always feel like I have to cover the inside too and that’s where I mess up so I am going to try it your way and stencil if needed or add a pretty pocket! Love that you cut straight on the outside (no tucking! Haven’t mastered those corners yet!) or use the pinking shears! Definitely have to try that! Thanks Natasha! Always inspiring! ❤️

Amazing assortment of covers, all beautiful!

I will make these to gift kids at school. I work in school so this will definitely be a nice gift to give them and same time enjoy doing craft.

Great tutorial, thank you. Your tip to not cut off excess fabric until finished sewing is so helpful.

I love the pocket on the orange journal. It reminds me of an audio cassette!

Again…YOUR WORK IS EXQUISITE!!! Love watching…get so inspired…TY Natasha!!! Book covers here I come !!!✂️📖📜🏷

Natasha: you are a genius at crafting! Every single one is wonderful. And I love your thinking of recycling. And you explain it so easily to your listeners. Enjoy your videos. Thank you. Carol from California

I love watching your videos when you explain several ways of doing things. Thank you so much for these ideas! I always struggle with concerts and these are so simple and beautiful.

You are so innovative! I think my favorites are definitely your Happy Accidents. Thank you for sharing these beautiful ideas.

Love these covers! Thank you for showing the process and the fixes. You are so genuine and that’s why I love your videos. I have been inclined to throw things out when there is a mistake but I’ll try to change my mindset to refer to them as a happy accident! PS - And your mastery of English language vocabulary is amazing!! Many native English-speaking people do not use the extensive vocabulary that you do!

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

Oh dear! See them not as mistakes but challenges (or collage fodder!) How can it be saved? 99% of things can be saved by adding a few things here and there, if possible, taking a few things out--certainly they can become parts for something else when you tear 'em up--lol. Perhaps start a project of just cast-offs (like the Island of Broken Toys in Rudolph). Some of the things I disliked the most at first end up being favorites (over time). Nothing's ever ruined forever/garbage 😉

What an excellent tip to use your hair straightener that way. This video is exactly what I needed, thank you.

What can I say….. I love everything you do………!!! Thanks for the inspiration!

I love watching you I get such great ideas from you and I never give up always fix the mistakes I make. Natasha you are the best instructor with the greatest ideas. Thank You.

yes I am with you in the exitement of solving problems and making accidents into an art opportunities

Natasa, great video this morning! Thank you for sharing! I have so many cereal boxes and dog treat boxes ready to go. PLUS, I have a ton of fabric! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity! You are such an inspiration to ALL of your followers! You are an awesome lady! Hugs, Mary

Those journal covers are amazing! I love how you figure out ways to correct what goes wrong, and you give it a wow result. Thanks for sharing.

Such an inspiration! Thank you Natasha for all of the tutorials you give us!

Hello Natasha, enjoyed watching you make some journal covers, love the book plates with the fabric behind them. Thanks for sharing

Awesome! So many ideas, tips, and fixes! Thanks so much for sharing your inspiration!

They are all beautiful! Thanks for sharing your process!

Beautiful yet simple covers. They look sophisticated and fun.

You always have me laughing because you are so funny, naturally! Plus so creative and brilliant! I’m watching your tutorials in 2022 rather than the Johnny Depp/Amber Herd trial. Other than when Depp is laughing about a hilarious testimony, this is more interesting and educational. That pen pocket on the front of the one journal, reminds me of an old cassette tape. I love it, it has inspired me to make a music journal!

I love all the projects you share with viewers. They are useful and professional looking. I have boxes and boxes of beautiful scrapbook paper that I'm not sure how to use and will not use it all in my lifetime.

Thanks for the instructions and inspiration for these. Always enjoy watching you and looking forward to learning more. Thank you so much.

You are so amazing and talented, Natasha!!!! I love this tutorial and it's perfect timing because I just purchased a bunch of fabrics from a thrift store with the intent to make book covers but didn't know how to go about it. You saved the day!!!! I have hoarded...I mean "collected" 😉 so many different boxes that I know would make perfect journals. I can't seem to throw them out when I imagine what I could make from them!!! Lol! I look at packaging soooo differently now! You explained your process so well and watching you fix any mishaps is very creative. I absolutely love the trifold covers!!! With all this fabrics I've just bought I am definitely making a few trifold covers. I only wish my sewing lines were as straight as yours are!!! 😫 I've got to keep practicing with my new machine. Thank you soooo much for this tutorial. I just love your content. Keep the creative juices flowing!!! You inspire me! 💗😊

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

lol--don't you look at EVERYTHING differently now? Junk mail, magazines, newspapers, paper rolls, old clothes, books, bags...garbage (can't tell you how many things I've thrown away then fished out of the bin bc I figured out some way to use it 😳 😂🤣😂

@Nancy0162

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCrabbyCrafterlol Yes!!! I am running out of places to hide my "treasures" and reasons to tell my husband why I'm holding onto empty pasta boxes and trust me...I have ALOT!!! I'm Italian!!!! 🤷🏻‍♀️ #craftersstruggles

I love how creative you are when you spot a mistake in your journal and you simply create something more beautiful when you correct it!!

You always make it look so easy! Thank you for sharing!

The enjoyment I get from the process is just as important as the finished object, so the issues just add to the fun. There very little that’s broken beyond fixing and what is still teaches you or refines your skill, so I’m with you - problems are opportunities for creativity. Love your work 😀

Thank you for sharing exactly how to do this with the fabric on a cover. It was very helpful knowing about the glue and how to hold the book when sewing. Love your video inspiration. Catherine

Your taste in colors and color combinations is really exquisite.. I learn sooooo much from you. I’ve been making journals for myself and all the girls in the family and now I’m making a big one for my husband to store his art work .. he loves to paint as do I . I always use fabric , first because I have loads of it and second because it’s quite sturdy . What I do is use clips to hold the fabric properly over the cover.. run it through my sewing machine then I line it on the inside with a matching fabric ans sew everything again like a second inner stitching . I also add pockets on the lining before or after the sewing . I use decorative stitches so it looks intentional and artistic . I don’t know if I can add photos here as I would really love to show you😊 Thank you Natasha for being you and for all the help you are offering 🙏🏼you are absolutely wonderful 🌹💐🌹

Love them ALL! I always learn something new when I watch your videos, so thank you.

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! Thank you for watching :)

As always I love your video. Your idea is wonderful and it comes at just the right time for me. Like you I loved the problem-solving aspect of junk journaling. It was the part of being a watercolor artist I love the most to. I was blessed by a friend who gave me a box full of upholstery fabric which I did not have. I plan to make a number of Travelers notebooks to sell in a local shop for seniors. We have a number of tourists here and this is right in Old Town Albuquerque. I will make the journals in a way that they can record their travels and have places to keep their little bits and Bobs of receipts and brochures and business cards along with place to put pictures that they may take. I love your work it is always so elegant and beautiful thank you thank you for sharing your talent with us

Great idea for the journal covers. Appreciate the time to teach us not only how to make them but also the fixes for errors along the way. Be safe, be well & TYFS

You are an amazing artist !!! Thankyou for these videos 😀

Darlene here. Thanks for this video. I always enjoy your presentations so much. And I always get something out of each one. Really like the covers with spines.

Endless possibilities! Hugs and blessings, 🤗❤️🇨🇦

😍oh wow...love them all but my favorite is the orange one with the pen pocket in the front. From now on I wont be cutting of the edges of package material like I've been doing as prep work (edge cut off and measurement written on inside), never thought about folding it over, great idea 💡 Thank you 🙏! You are a great teacher and inspiration!!!

Thank you so much for showing us how to make these gorgeous journal covers. So helpful!

So cool your solution to the flap you had to cut off wow! Thanks for sharing your process. It’s so helpful. Appreciate the cover decoration and closure ideas.

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful pic of your beastlie 🐾 They're such great lil' helpers in the craft room!

Amazing video. Love all your covers and creativity! Sparks my imagination! Thanks for sharing! Have a great week!

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

Your YT pic here made me laugh out loud 😂🤣😂

Wow they are all gorgeous! I can’t pick a favorite! Thank you for sharing ❤️❤️❤️😊

I love mass making videos. Please do more of these. Love your channel. ❤

I just could not stop watching your video! Such neat work and amazing ideas! Thanks a lot for sharing. 🫶

You are not over explaining. I need those tips. I learn tips from that and I've been doing this for years

RE: The beige embroidered version: It certainly turned out to be a beautiful change of course. Good reason to be happy with the outcome on this and all the others. You do such lovely work - such an inspiration.

I just want to thank you for all you do for your subscribers, you have great ideas and help me alot. Terry/NM

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad, thank you :)

I just love your covers! NO, I don't throw them away but sometimes the glue has seeped through in an area that can't be camouflaged. I found I can now use the sheerest of fabrics with Fliselina or heatnbond. I iron it on to my fabric, peel and iron it on a high heat to a sheet of rice paper. Afterwards you can use any glue to attach it to your backing. I make ten at a time so they are always ready at hand. I hope that helps. I really appreciated all your videos Natasa, your creative projects, time and peaceful voice.

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I’ve often wondered how to use fabric as a journal cover. Your instructions simplified the process and does not seem as intimidating anymore! Additionally, I also appreciate the different closure ideas and more. I watch many of your videos. You are so inspiring and I love the fact that you are so meticulous in your work. Grazie Natasha❤

Fabulous ideas and thank you for showing exactly what to do and what to bear in mind as the journal cover builds. I'm all fired up to make myself a large journal - memory book for last year.

I love these covers and the different ideas & examples for covering a mistakes up. You always give such good advice and ideas. Thank you!

Oh! Another great one. I love the way you use all those fabrics. They are all beautiful!!

Thank you, Natasha! You are so creative! Love them all.

Love this idea, Thanks for sharing. I would be really interested in how you attach the signatures together and attach to the covers. 🥰xxx

Such a great tutorial. Now I see how easy it is. And good that you tell and show what can go wrong en how to fix it. Thx you for sharing. Greetz from Holland

Thank you so much for this awesome video. I have quite a few fabric swatches that I just bought recently for a dollar each and have been in the process of pulling them apart. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the materials until now. Your tutorial has inspired me to make these lovely covers and it will keep me busy for awhile. Thank you again I love your style and elegance you bring to your craft.

You are absolutely wonderful with your videos! The information and your demonstration of concepts and tips are so clearly explained! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

I love the little pocket for pens!!!

Hi Natasha, Thank you for all you do! I've made my first 2 journals. I'll brag and tell you they came out beautiful. I love them so much I am not sure I can sell or give them away. Now, watching this tutorial you have helped me to resolve an issue I was simply overthinking... You amaze me! Your art is so beautiful and I've learned in leaps and bounds from you alone. Sandra USA

Hi Natasha, I have only started junk journaling in the last year but I am like Cheryl and get excited whenever you put up a new video. So much information and you just seem to get the jj juices flowing. I just made a journal for a friend and am just finishing up the embellishing. It seems every time I am almost to the end of a journal the next one pops up in my mind. I am having so much fun making them. Love this video with all the simple yet effective covers. I have been saving this type of paper and now I know why. Thanks so much for the tutorials and ideas.

@TheCrabbyCrafterlol

2 жыл бұрын

Good for you for having fun and enjoying your jujo adventures--it's kind of like being a kid in a toy store that's giving away free candy--there's SO many things to want to do and have and try 🤗

After watching your video lastnight i went out, got a sewing machine. Thank you, i cant wait to make my first cover ❤

These are absolutely gorgeous. I have so much fabric and didn’t know what to do with it but didn’t want to throw it away. now I know what to do with it, thanks to you. Thanks so much for sharing! 💕

Thank you for making such accessible crafting/junk journal ideas!! Also, I absolutely love the hair straightener for ironing!

Thank you for your inspiration. I have been using more upcycled materials in my books since I started watching your channel. I’m super excited to do a video on using packaging materials in journals on my channel very soon. Thank you again for your inspiration. I hope you have a wonderful day.

Gorgeous covers! Thanks for the tutorial!!

You are such an inspiration Natasha. I love every book cover here. I too have oodles of fabric and MUST JUST DO IT! So grateful for your examples even when things go "oops" they work out for our benefit.

Thank you for sharing your covers! I can’t wait to try it myself😍

Hi. So glad to see this video. I'm so new to this and love crafting. Your videos are awesome. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this tutorial. I usually use glue stick to hold my fabric or paper in place if I am going to sew around it. It usually works pretty good for me. I love all your covers. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. I am always inspired by your tutorials.

I really like how you talk through your thought process!

👍✌️🙏❤️ Thank you for always sharing your beautiful creations with us .

LOL! I love that you’re using a hair straightener for an iron! I am definitely going to use your ingenuity!

I make my covers with boxes as well! I fold the edges back too, but then I fill in with extra box pieces so I don't get ridges. It can also be filled with batting to make a soft center. I love the inside of some of these boxes, they are surprisingly gorgeous! It may take some sealer or gel medium to bring out the texture but its well worth the time. Lots of ideas here!!

I did enjoy it, and you always come up with the greatest ideas. Thanks for sharing them.

Oh my butterflies!!! You are so inspiring to me and I'm so very thankful that I have found your tutorials. Thank you for the clear instructions and for keeping it simple for beginners like myself. 👍 ❤

I just love these styles!! A feast for my eyes!!💜🧵🔶🌿🌼🧶📎📔📿

Well, I think I need to give my old sewing machine a new job. If I can still find out how to thread the yarn🤷🏻‍♀️ 4 weeks ago I didn’t even know about scrapbooking, altered books, working with junk journals. But until today -due to sleepless nights- I have watched many (too many) of your (and others) videos. I like yours best because your voice and style of explaining and use of „normal“ stuff and making something beautiful out of it, is so refreshing and calming at the same time. I have „made“ an altered book of an old book I had lying around and I used what I had in the house. Not much actually, being an absolute beginner. Scissors, glue (stick) some stamps and stamping pads, some extra magazine pages and 2 very cheap (dollar tree-style paper collections with stickers and stuff) I have finished for today since tomorrow I am going to see if I can improve it and go out to buy some extra bits and pieces. As of now I am quite happy.

I love your videos, you are such a good video maker and instructor!!!Thank you for sharing your ideas!

I love your ideas for journal's. Thank you so much for sharing all the different ways to use boxes. 😊

The covers are beauiful. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and talents. I will be trying some of these.

Is really hard to pick which one is the favorite I like them all 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Thanks to you I can no longer look at packaging or tags the same! 😂 ❤

There is no limit to your imagination…. you have given me a bundle of ideas… thank you so much for this tutorial. ❤️

Love, love, love it all, Natasha. Thanks for sharing!

You and your ideas are awesome…keep them coming…😀💐❤️🇺🇸🙏

So nice listening to you, never get tired . I can listen to you for hours, and I get to learn a lot from you. Love from India 🇮🇳 . Really a good teacher

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@muhammadnabeel8635

2 жыл бұрын

Your welcome, carry the good work. Hope u get a lot of subscribers

Your favourite one is definitely mine too! Followed by that huge black one with reddish flowers on. And I really like the one you added braid trim to as well. I have a bespoke curtain shop near me. They have all those types of fabrics. You can just buy the fabrics if you want to, but that fabric is expensive!!! They get new fabrics in all the time, and they make mini curtain panels, roughly 1 metre squared, to hang in the window. No more than a week and they change out the window display, always new fabrics coming in, or maybe one of the sample panels in the window has all sold out on the fabric roll inside. They put all those 1metre² panels in a big basket, for £1 each! They are all lined with quality sheen cotton, may have either standard heading tape or ring top tape or tab tops sewn in. They are literally a proper professionally stitched curtain, hemmed, edged properly etc. I get loads of them! It can take me an hour to go through the basket in the shop! it's like one of those big display cages that are normally used for putting footballs in, in a sports shop! Huge! When I get them home and unpick them, iron out the hems and folds etc, they are over a metre² in size. And remember I'm getting the cotton linings as well as the outer textile fabrics! For £1 a curtain!!! 😲 Fabric or papers.... I can't help myself hoarding them! 😂 But I have a huge crafting cupboard so they're very tidy! 😁 I loved watching you make these, your sewing is perfect! I craft the same way you do... precision and neatness! I know some people like messy sewing and stray threads hanging but I hate that personally. If I make a mistake I generally fix it in the same way you do...but if it's a special gift for someone or something I'm making for my home and it doesn't look good enough imo, I will get upset at myself and throw it away! When I'm that invested in that special item, fixing it isn't an option because my brain still knows it's there! Then every time I look at it, it makes me depressed because I feel so disappointed and sloppy in my work, so then the whole thing is ruined in my mind. I may not throw it out that very minute, I may walk away from it, sleep on it, and look at it again the next day when I'm not upset at myself. Sometimes a fresh mind makes you realise it's not nearly as bad as it looked the night before through annoyed eyes! But if it still looks shite, in the bin it goes! No hesitation! I have enough stress and depression in my life as it is, I don't need items in every room taunting me with proof of my failure! I'm already trying to rebuild my self confidence after splitting up with my husband, following long term emotional abuse. I'm at home 95% of the time due to illness and disabilities anyway, so I have to get rid of anything around me with negative emotions or memories associated with it or I'll never feel like I have any worth. I want to feel proud when I look at something I've made, so every time it catches my eye it reminds me of doing an excellent job and that I do have valuable skills and creative talent. The lightbulb moment for me in this video, was the hair straighteners! I was like, ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy goddddddd!!! 😲😲😲 I literally got a new hair dryer and straighteners at Christmas, and have a spare pair of straighteners that I thought about either putting on Facebook marketplace or donating to charity! Now they're going straight in my craft cupboard instead! I'll put them with my heat tool and pyrography pen etc. They'll fit in that box perfectly!!! I bet you could use them on coffee dyed paper too, that's too wrinkly, or offcuts of paper that got bent up amongst the stash from rummaging through the scrap box! Amazing tip! I love discovering something new like that! I have a tip in return... Well a couple of tips around one subject actually: The gluing of card to fabric. 1) a) you can buy that stuff like interfacing, that's double sided, if you sandwiched that between the two and ironed the fabric, it would be stuck on tight and super smooth! b) You can even buy that wonder web stuff on a roll, used for hemming things, that's basically the same thing but on a thin roll. They sell that in our Poundland, and no doubt in most cheap shops that are similar! 2) a) gelli plate! Get your gellie plate and brayer and pour on your glue! The reason your glue is still seeping even though you smoothed it out, is because it hits the card in a squiggle pattern from the bottle, which is sitting on the surface for a minute or two longer than the final smeared bit, so it's soggier. The card beneath the squiggle pattern has absorbed more glue by then, so even though the GLUE surface is smooth on the top, the underside of the glue is slightly deeper in places where it's had time to soak in. If you apply the glue smoothly all over at once, that won't happen. b) If you don't have a gellie plate and brayer, use a decorating paint roller and plastic tub. I don't mean a giant wall paint roller, but one of the smaller fluffy ones for getting behind radiators. I use one and it's only 4" across and about as thick as a broom handle, so pretty small. I got mine from Poundland, and it came with spare roller sleeves, the handle, and a mini shallow paint tray! c) Failing that, a bowl of glue and a generous sized brush! Brush it all over, and don't rush. Work it back and forth all over repeatedly so the surface is evenly saturated. 3. Fraying or thinner fabrics. If you're worried about glue seepage on thinner fabrics, coming through in spots here and there, then make seepage part of the intention! Roller your glue back and forth on your fabric INSTEAD OF the card! That way the whole surface will automatically be evenly seeped. Obviously glue dries clear so you can't SEE it in that sense, but you can see the texture change of the fabric, where glue seepage has dried. So purposely roll the glue on the fabric instead, so the whole thing has that texture when dried. Works great for fabrics that fray easily too, as the glue, when dry, holds the fibres together when you trim round the edge so it won't fray. But of course, you'd have to let it dry before sewing as it will be a lot wetter than if you were gluing the card. Hope those tips help someone! 😘😘😘

@TreasureBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome tips, thank you!!

I love your videos! Thankyou😊I actually use glue stick and iron the fabric and it sets it a bit, I also use glue stick in this way when making fabric tags or fabric collage etc.

I'm feeling so inspired watching your video.

@TreasureBooks

11 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

Loved this tutorial!! Incredibly helpful and as always, your videos are inspiring. Thank you!🥰

You make the best tutorials! Sometimes mistakes are happy accidents and ,then, sometimes they need correcing. I love watching you problem solve. You are inspiring. Thank you!

My wife loves loves your videos has she is recovering from 3 bypass surgery thank God it makes the time go's fast bless you

@TreasureBooks

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 I wish your wife a complete recovery so she can get back to life and crafting ❤️

You are the bomb when it comes to creativity. Your ideas are so incredible and your demonstration so helpful. Can't wait to pull out my fabric stash and get going!