CRAFT COST SAVING Tips MONEY SAVING Ideas ✅ Making Junk Journal Embellishments 

Lots more cheap and easy ephemera tutorials in this Playlist here ru-vid.com/group/PLqbiR8lE_j3sXPoSIqleqyWQpmMyb4sCb

Lovely video. I get most of my craft supplies at three thrift stores in my area. You wouldn't believe the big bag of stuff I got today for $11. Two art/pattern books with tags on the back from a book store for $24.99 each, a 12 x 12 book of paper, lace, fabric, 9 stamps, thread, bias tape, a pack of fabric that goes in your printer and 3 vintage doilies.

Totally agree. I'm on disability so my income is limited. Anything I buy past paint and paper is very carefully considered. But I think it makes me depend on my eye and skills more, as well as making my work more unique.

I admire that you keep cost in mind. You make the loveliest things using supplies most anyone in crafting can get.💙

The best cost saving tip I have is go to local thrift shops on a regular basis. They sell books for 3/$1.00 or I've hit sales where they are 10 cents each. That's when you can stock up on all kinds of books. You can also sign up for their reward cards. Then they send you coupons for money or a percentage off your next purchase. Love all your ideas Joie! I love your videos too.

I've noticed lately when I'm crafting, I use more and more junk mail for background substrates, letters, words and images. Plus, the books I've collected over the years. They really do make great tools to make your own ephemera. It certainly helps with creativity! This is such a great video and wonderful tips!

I love using floral/herbal books - but I don't think anyone does it better than you.

I LOVE that paint pallet!!!😮 and… your sewing machine!!😮 ❤🎉❤

Good to see someone making these types of suggestions instead of using the department store or on-line sources to make journals or whatnot. I've been using food dies to dye my papers, just get a small spray bottle, fill with water, a couple drops of food die, and a few drops of alcohol (so it doesn't go bad) and you can spray whatever.

I love thrifting many of my supplies

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Hi Joie, just wanted to share a comment my husband made while I was watching one of your tutorials while we were both crafting. He commented on your calm relaxing voice…. ‘She sounds like a female Bob Ross’. Your tutorials are informative, interesting, no nonsense and inspirational. Love watching your tutorials and getting lots of ideas and confidence to have a go myself. ❤ Mel

😊 learn something new every time I watch your videos. So excited for your 60,000!!🎉

Huge, huge thanks! I work at school and all you shared can be addapted to school art classes for extra learning outside the official learning programme. I always try to find ways for the kids to find out their comppassion and creativity. Art makes life better and happier!

Had to brag about you on a Facebook beginners group. Thanks so much for making art so accessible. You are Awesomesauce!🙃🙃 “I’m also quite new, and took this up as a sort of therapy after head trauma. More steps equals higher executive functioning. 🙃 Joie de fi has some great tips available. She breaks things down into cheat sheets. She’s great for inspiration when I get stuck in my head, she’s on all platforms.”

Hello Joie! The tip that resonated most with me the most is using children's art supplies. One of my favorites is $1 watercolors. I use them instead of dyes to make colored book pages or backgrounds. A new one that I'm delighted with is bingo markers. I purchased a package of 8 from Amazon for $9. Thank you for your inspirational videos 🌹

You are one of my favorite journal makers . Thanks for sharing your work and your cost saving methods. Keeping you in my thoughts. Illnesses can be devastating!

What a wonderful video. Everyone should watch this as they’re beginning their junk journaling journey. I wish I had, I bought waaaay too many supplies and tools that I’ve found I didn’t need.

Yes, gotta love free and cheap, it's very satisfying! Yes buying in bulk helps, that's a good weight for die/silhouette cutting too. Oh those papers sound so cool 😎. I've just done a batch of dying and will bubble print when they're dry. 🙊 gratuitous crunch, love it. Digitals are very cost effective and no extra storage needed. Yes I bought a good brand trimmer and its awful 🙈. I think a guillotine would be more accurate? In printer settings you can put the exact measurements but nothing wrong with the odd cut off bits. I love my kids water soluble crayons too. New products are dangerous lol . Great tips😁.Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖

I enjoyed watching you last night. My son came over after he got off work. We had a nice visit. So I finished watching after he left. You always have great ideas that save us lots of time and money. Thank you so much. Sending hugs your way. 🤗🤗🧡💚❤️

Love all these hints! Thank you

I can't thank you enough for videos like this. I'm new to this kind of crafting, and I have supplies from other paper type crafts that I do. But you have opened my eyes to see that I can use things I had not thought of to help me make beautiful things. Thank you so much for all the sharing you do. I hope you are having a good day. Catherine

Joie, Loved this video! Great tips for getting the best out of our budgets. I've made some packing paper with the gold paint, and it is beautiful. I can't wait to try additional colors. Using watercolors has been fun, too. By no means am I an artist, however the watercolors play has been fun, and I really liked the outcome. Thank you for sharing with us!

These are great! Thank you for sharing!

Always such good ideas - wishing you well ❤

What a great video Joie! So many tips and tricks!

Great ideas!! Thank you for sharing! ❤

This was a super lesson! So many suggestions for us paper crafters. You're one of my favorite "professors," Joie 🙂 Sharing the delicious crunch of your papers was a bonus!

Hello Joie, thanks for sharing these ideas.

Thank you. I enjoyed watching you make a card while talking about your tips and supplies.

I love your crunchy hand died papers!!

Your videos are always so helpful and practical.

I'm so excited I finally parted with some money so I could buy a few meaning a small set of these paint sticks and I can't wait to get them. I've been wanting them ever since I started watching you. You do such an amazing things with them

Hi Joie! ❤ this is adorable! I love watching magic coming from your hands! Thank you so much for the inspiring video and for the lovely tips! Have a great weekend! ♥️

Great tips ! Love your videos.

Joie, you were one of the first that i started watching. Not only are you a cutie when delve in and save us money but, you have fabulous ideas and creative ways to boot!!!💜💜💜

Thanks for these wonderful tips and suggestions, I recently bought some children’s watercolour pencil crayons instead of the newest top brand ones and I love them, they were $3 for the whole set lol

Thank you for this, Joie! I really love the cards!!

Fantastic tips and ideas

These journal cards are so awesome. TFS!

Thank you I love your tips

Great information and inspiration, thank you for such awesome instruction !

Thank you so much for inspiring us Joie..x

Good morning, Fantastic ideas as always, I love making my own supplies when I can, Thrift stores and Yard sales are my go to for craft supplies great prices and you never know what you may find! Thank you for all your wonderful videos and tutorials, Enjoy your weekend Joie!❤

Great ideas!

Thanks Joie, I need this as I’ve just bought a huge box of vintage and antique documents from eBay, they were great value and more than I needed but much better value than most I’ve seen. Thank you.

This was so helpful, Joie. I am still relatively new to junk journaling and the cost of supplies can be daunting. You gave such excellent advice about sitting on your hands for a bit and trying to figure out a less expensive way of doing something. Thank you so much.

I love your hints. I keep an eye on my fav digi suppliers and watch for their sales. I look through and make a note of what I would like and hold off ordering till I can save a bit of money. Also I found I was better to shop once a month and that way I stay within my budget.

So many great ideas!! Love how these postcards turned out!! xo

This is so much fun to watch. I loved your hand-dyed papers and the Amazon paper, of course. You make interesting and useful videos that are just wonderful to watch!

Thanks for the tips....very useful.....😻

Really enjoyed this tutorial tfs Joie

Your journal cards are beautiful!! Thank you for showing us great ideas & ways to create without spending alot...brilliant!! 💌🤗

Love your video.. you are right Joie hobby stuff is sometimes quite expensive, and why buy when you can make things yourself..

Thank you for the reminder of how easy it is to save money and create beauty

Very good video, I love it . Thank you 😊

Omg you’re amazing, thank you sooooo very much

I Love your cards

This was such a great video with so many wonderful ideas!

Thank you for sharing. This is junk Journaling in the real sense. I think this way we are also doing sustainable living by upcycling and recycling. Love your concise videos. Love and good vibes from South Africa.

As always love your video’s your wax video was totally amazing thank you for sharing all your wonderful ideas and inspiration love you ❤😊 Theola

It's a joy watching so I can go and make more things. I want to have items ready to use when make another journal. 🤗🤗💙😊

Great video my friend. This will be especially helpful for newbies in the junk Journal World. I saw so many of my little elements from magazines and even from catalogs. When the paper is very flimsy I back it with my copy paper. I think the digitals that you got from Anthony look very helpful. I also find things on public domain sites that don't cost anything except the ink to print them. It takes a little more time but being retired I have lots of time and I enjoy the hunt

I hope you feel better soon. I finally got around to making these and they wound up with a blue theme. Turns out atlas pages are great in these. Thanks!

That is a fabulous video, you have so many frugal ideas. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and encouragement, I appreciate it as I’m sure many others do too.

Fabulous video Joie ❤thank you for sharing all these tips 😍😍have a wonderful weekend 🥰

Joie, you always have the most stunning ideas about crafs. I love the video. Thanks so much for sharing.💖💟😊

Lovely, lovely ideas. I do like digital, but have recently begun to "harvest" more pictures from books. Absolutely love bird watching guide books. And, I just grabbed three Readers Digest books for free. I'll repurpose the covers and they were filled with great images, vintage photos, and illustrations. Love to watch you collage.

Wow, was this video ever packed with fantastic ideas to save us money and yet allow the creative juices to flow! Thanks again for sharing.🍁😊🍂

Very good ideas! Tfs 😇

Thank you for the ideas. I tried avocado died paper . I will try some of the great ideas you shared here. Thank you. I appreciate your video's so m;uch!

i love to create these journal cards - i have not yet tried to add watercolor or paint sticks - they are very pretty and inspiring - thank you

Awesome video again! Thank you for the wonderful tips of saving money on craft products! Beautiful! I love this ephemera! Thank you for sharing! God bless! Love hugs and prayers my friend! 🌻😇🧡🤗🙏🌻

like it love it. and hand day paper is great. I love making this one so much. I have so many pictures that there is probably something in between and paper I also have too much. I also bought the paintstick on your advice and they are really good. Thank you again Joie for this good explanation. and yes some products are quite pricey and it is nice to find another solution for that works just as well. That's fun to do and I love it.

Lovely postcards, Great video tfs Joie...Kia Kaha...

Fab ideas :)

TFS 🐞💖

Joie: a really good video on all accounts. The tips and logical thinking is smart crafty doings. I love looking in the children s department for items. Thank you. Carol from California

There are literally thousands and thousands of free images online, and tons of websites dedicated to sharing them. Because they are public domain images, it means anybody can use and print and copy them in any way for any purpose. It's where most Digi kit producers get their own images from. I'll search for free before buying a kit. Plus you can download and print ANY image you find online, (obviously not illegal images like child porn obviously! Not that we'd use that subject for a journal anyway, but I mentioned it before some bright spark pipped up with some comment to contradict me using the word ANY!!!) But, yes, you can print ANY image for making an item for yourself or for a friend, or just to practice with....even if it's private photos of someone's wedding or your next door neighbour's dog or work colleague's holiday snaps! It could be a branded product even! . People get very nervous about copyright issues, and the reason we are scared of anything is lack of information. Crafter's videos are full of comments from people talking about "what they've heard" or what their interpretation of copyright means, and people read it and pass on the same Chinese whispers as though they're "informed". They are not. You'll get people saying they've been a district attorney or criminal lawyer since they emerged from the womb....and???? Still means nothing! Ask any solicitor or lawyer how many cases of copyright issues they've either taken on, which will firstly be very few, and out of those how many were successful....and you'll get a big fat zero! Obviously I'm not talking about some cola manufacturer having an almost identical logo to Coca Cola and bottling their drink in identical bottles! That's a whole different ball game. But the key to those types of cases is PROFIT! And an element of fraud. . For your average crafter at home, even SELLING lots of handmade journals, no one would know if a digital image was bought and paid for in a Digi kit, or whether you printed the image straight off Pinterest! For example, the first journal card you held up, with the little sailor boy, I have that image in a beach Digi kit I bought from ArtyMaze (I think it was hers I bought, don't know now, got it years ago) but being that it's likely an old public domain image in the first place, no doubt it appears in multiple seller's Digi kits anyway! I could have it from store A and you could have it from store B. Store A may be 100% certain you didn't buy HER Digi kit from her store, but how can she then automatically leap to the conclusion that you obtained HER kit fraudulently? Public domain images are in the public domain for a reason, therefore many many artists the world over could include that same image in their kits! . Then you have to factor in what anybody stands to gain or lose by you adding that one image, on one journal card, in one 100-page journal that you've sold. Let's say you sell that journal for £100... technically then you've made £1 per page. If you had sneakily printed the image off the internet instead of buying it as part of a kit, then that one image only forms a small fraction of that page, so all you made from that image is pennies. Minus the cost of your time, your ink and paper and electric and glue... who's going to pay thousands to sue one person making some hobby money at home, for the 1p's worth of image you "stole"? Bearing in mind also that they don't "own" that image in the first place anyway! . For that reason, pretty much no images online are "off limits" when it comes to people crafting one-off items in their own home, it's only when big corporations can prove substantial loss of earnings through copycat logos etc that anybody would even think to sue someone for it. This goes for ALL those crafters who put their videos and photos of their projects over Facebook, Instagram, RU-vid and their own websites too. Many will say it's wrong to print this or that image, yet they have that exact image in multiple social media posts! Copyright is not limited to printed images, it's publishing in any form that makes it a copyright issue, yet how many RU-vidrs are sued for images in their posts...🤔 Again, none! Because the main element of copyright lies in OWNERSHIP! Exactly like you suggesting this wild flower book or that botany illustrated guide etc. Some will say they won't even use book pages in journals for fear of copyright.....why not? You OWN the book right? You could roll the pages up into firelighters, wallpaper your lounge with them, or wipe your arse on them if you wish to! It's YOUR book. Same with wallpaper, napkins, wrapping paper, packaging - if you OWN the item, you can do what you like with it! And the same goes for these craft companies who say their products are "THEIRS" exclusively. No, Bud! If I buy a rubber stamp from a company I can stamp it on every item I make as many times as I wish to! I bought that stamp! What did they presume I was going to do with a rubber stamp if not stamp images with it??? 🙄 . And finally, most Etsy sellers have some vague jargon on each listing that by purchasing their Digi kit you agree to adhere to certain rules. Hate to break it to you sellers but that has zero weight to it and is embarrassing to include. Not knowing the ins and outs of copyright law is nothing to be ashamed of, trying to pretend you do by holding people to a contract by way of Etsy purchase is ridiculous. For example "you agree to print no more than 250 times for using in an item you intend to sell"..... ambiguous to say the least! Can't print the kit more than 250 times, or can't include the digitals in more than 250 items for sale? Can you print the kit 250 times, and then use a small piece of each page or one item of embellishments to spread the kit across thousands of made items for sale??? Which is it? 🤔 You can't sum up a legal contract in a couple of sentences because you devalue your own "contract" by leaving it so open to interpretation! . Lastly and most importantly, it's called COPYRIGHT for a reason. You cannot replicate the item and claim it as your own design! I heard of that napkin company saying someone decoupaging a tag with a napkin they sell, is against copyright? 🤣 How? They bought those napkins they can do what they want with them! They can't claim they MADE them, they can't claim they DESIGNED the image, they can't start producing their own napkins with that image on and pretending to be that brand....but they can do what they like with napkins they've bought! Even if they bought a job lot of 10,000 identical napkins and stuck them in 10,000 or more journals! . There's a whole ton more to copyright laws than I've briefly tickled on here, but that's the gist of it... It's not about products per se, but claiming somebody else's work originated from yourself. I mean otherwise, Edith Holden's descendents would have nailed all of our arses to a door, right? So don't let fear or intimidation make you feel you have to buy Digi kits in the first place. They're lovely to own and have someone who sourced them all into one kit for you, but don't be fooled into paying a fortune for a vintage kit mostly packed out with free images anyway! There's no end to free images available out there, and you don't have to have fancy software or a degree in digital design to tweak those images, from sizing, cropping, sepia effects, flipping an image back to front, adding text, printing at 30% opacity to print whole page background images that can be written over etc. . As said in the video...spend money on essentials or specials sure. But get creative for FREE where you can. Time spent on yourself is much more beneficial than money spent elsewhere! 😘 EDIT*** just read this back and wanted to clarify me saying YOU or THEY etc is not directed at "you" specifically 😊 nor anyone specific at all. Just wanted to make that clear. I was just adding the tip of "free images" to go with your tips....and addressing the dreaded issue of copyright those kinds of things stir up usually in comments. Especially for newbies with barely any supplies or knowing what they can or can't print. 😁

Another brilliant video. So glad I found you! I have to try this painting, I haven't used anything other than pencils to colour stamp images.🥰🥰🥰

Love this video😍 you keep on bringing hope to my hart by showeing me that I can do crafting, even if I dont have all the fancy stuff😊 always lokking forward to see your videos 😍 Thanks for sharing great tips 😍 lots of love from arctic Norrway 🙌👏🙏🌻💐🏵🌺🌼🌹🤗

A few other things to look out for: greeting cards one has either received or found in a thrift store. Using a circle punch can crop images in interesting ways, for example. I just bought a 50s era greeting card with beautiful butterflies for 15 cents at a small town thrift store. Tags from clothing are often thick cardboard and have a prepunched hole. I cover with paint or ink or texturing materials. Product packaging can be cool. A friend gave the box a bar of Danish chocolate cake in with purple stylized foxes and octopi on it.

Oh I love this video. Joie my sweet friend, I just need to use my supplies. I have all sorts and don't seem to use them. Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks. Sending love and big hugs Sherry ❤ PS have a super fantastic day

And u keep saying that u r not an artist. 😂😂😂😂 Amazing projects, thank u Joie lovely girl.

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Love yr work. I did not realise you can use book images. I though they were copyright. Thank you

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Such a great video! Love all these tips. I am so much more creative when I’m working under limitations-like not buying any new products for a period of time. You’ve taught me so much with your videos!!! Thank you for sharing your work and your process with us!

So many pretty tips shared! Thank you!! :) I don't see the link and discount for Stationary Pal...am I overlooking it?

I would like to see how you made the wax covered cover, please?

Hi. What I do with my printer is to make sure it says A4 rarther than letter. And I untick the box for fit to fill. I hope this helps.

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September..15...2023

Does anyone know of a junk journal retreats

Does anyone know of crafter retreats

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I have a set of 1969 encyclopedia that I cut up

I wish I could afford a printer

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LOL, thumbs up for a gratuitous crunch? Heck yeah! 😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤗♥️🏜♥️🤗 EDIT: Just a big YES from me to the Field Guide of Flowers! I got it, Joie, on your recommendation here in the US on Amazon with virtually no effort and minimal funds. Highly recommend! Hugs, Ems