How to Glue Book for Beginners - A Step-By-Step How-To 

I never do categories I just put anything and everything in one book that makes me smile

Last year I made a few glue books and showed my mom. She showed me hers from 50+ years ago! She used old scrap books. Everything old is new again! I enjoyed your video🙂

The very best simple understandable glue book tutortial I have ever watched!! Inspiring., nonintimidating And I can do this video!!! Thank you !

I love your rainbow of glue books!!! So stunning

So happy I found your channel. The most comprehensive video on Glue book.

This was such a comprehensive video on how to glue book - thank you!! I want to give this a try in the near future so have saved your video 😍 I’ve started to harvest pages for when I give this a try xx

Great video. You gave excellent examples and clear instructions.

Excellent video on all steps. Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Excellent! Jen most versatile easy video I have ever watched

Great how-to video...love all your color gluebooks!! I've been glue booking a long time...LOVE IT!! ❤ I enjoy fussy cutting too!! 😉

Ive always enjoyed paper pictures and glue. I started a book in 2017 a couple of holiday memories then changed to a Christmas book. That was followed by 2 more Christmas books. Then pictures from an English publication called Grace. That eventially ceased to be published. I then subscribed to Evergreen, lots of pictures about UK (I live in Britain). Tv personalities, TV shows, places. That ceased publication in 2022. Then from last October I get another Magazine put by for me in a shop all W H Smith . This England. Also have Daphnys Diary put by. Lots and lots of pictures. Ive introduced a friend to glue booking, she comes round on a Monday morning. I call mine scrap books, started on my 4th book this morning. I also make my own monthly journals. I started daily journaling 2000, just boughf a page a day diary offics style colour harc backs. 2016 I bought ond with a soft pretty cover for a change. My husband passed away in May 2017 losing his battle with Cancer. In June 2017 I discovered Fauxbonichi a take on Japanes Honbonich decorative journaling. I carried on with the ciary but more decorative. 2018 to start of 2023 I bought notebooks with metal coil binding and 2 months in each nofebook. From May last year I made monthly ones. 12x9 brown envelopes covered with copy paper. Pages from bought exercise books, and sewn in with 3 pamphlet stitches. So enjoyable.

I loved this video! I am going to start doing this, and your video was extremely helpful! Thank you for the ideas and tutorial! Love it! Have a wonderful day!❤️❤️❤️

Wonderful, comprehensive video on glue booking! You gave me so many new ideas to try. Thank you so much!

So helpful and encouraging. Thank you!

Really nice video for beginners! Good pacing and examples! Thanks for sharing!

Very informative. Thank you for sharing.💜🐞

I just came across your channel. I love this process video! I started my first glue book page over the weekend. It’s very relaxing. I used to do it when I was a kid - I saved newspaper & magazine clippings on sports and world events.

Thank you for this video! I’ve finally learned what a glue book is!😊 your layouts were perfect examples for me! They’re beautiful!🫶🏼

Thank you so very much for this in-depth "how to" video! I had no clue what a glue book was, and now I know. 😀

Thank you so much for such an easy to follow explanation on how to glue book. I'm going to give it a go-

This was a great video! I am so motivated to try now!!!

Great tips

Really great video, so helpful and inspiring!

Fantastic video! Thanks!

This was great, thank you!

Thank you so much for showing how you start to glue book, it seems so much fun and definitely will give it a try 💖

Idea for those people who are having a hard time picking a theme. They can write out a bunch of themes and draw one out of a hat and go with it! Backgrounds can be done with an entire piece of wrapping paper or even paint with acrylic craft paint, black gesso or even soft chalk pastels. Also adding a frame around the images with washi tape , fabric or paint always adds to the look of the page and thinking about placing images in threes. Just some easy hacks. This is a great video for beginners with some great ideas.I really like the themes you use.

Your glue books, or any glue bk, seem like art journals sans writing. I don’t think one has to have any writing in an art journal, because the art is expression. Yours are quite beautiful and VERY artistic! Wonderful, really!

Thank you. Helps alot.

Thank you so much for making this video. I love love those old glue books. I work for a book company and sadly a lot go in the landfill.. it should be a crime but I do Rescue a bunch for our little free library and my glue books. I use a lot of the old board books as glue books too.

Yes they were called scrapbooks!! So glad someone said it. Love my scrapbooks. I’ve done this since I was a kid. Now with the “new” idea of using an old magazine as the scrapbook. But I use as my scrapbook journal coz I use the headings and photos in magazines to go with the journaling I’m doing. It’s woooo much fun and it just seems to work out for me with the way I’m thinking and want to journal about with what’s in the magazines headings and pictures. Of course I use beautiful papers to cover what I don’t want and use other pictures and words (to make sentences) as well. Pull out or glue pages together I don’t want. Loving the new way of journaling of how I feel and my thoughts. I do an art journal with all my drawings as well ❤

TY 4 this video!! My mind & ur mind think the same.I love organizing by color 4 glue booking! Best video,most informative!!new subbie here

New subbie here. Great video, I absolutely adore gluebooking.

Brilliant! This is the best video about this topic. In fact, it was the first one that was really helpful. I made already a collage book, 1 collage per month in the colour that was announced by Cat Hand in her Mixed Media Morsels videos. This was fun and I think I want to start a glue book (or several ones with different themes) to have more freedom and to use the collage fodder I collected. Many thanks for your tutorial. ❤ from Germany! Andrea

Hi Jennifer, I've just found your video - thank you! I don't really want to make lots of junk journals, but I would like to use some junk journal techniques and I just think you have given me permission to get a book (repurpose an old book?) and start a glue book. It had not occurred to me that I could have dimension in a glue book, but I'm going to give it a go!

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Thanks for creating this excellent gluebook introduction. My next step is to check out your color gluebook (or is it glue book?) flip throughs. I think I am going to do the same thing.

Hello. Just learning about this and came across your video. I would love to know more about your scavenger hunt book. Looks so fun.

Elastic hair bands also work wonders for holding papers in place.

I just found you! I subbed! Yay!

New subscriber 🙏🏻💯❤️🕊

Great info, thank you, what do you do with book?? Do you cut the pages for journals eg tags😊❤

Hi Jennifer...I'm new to trying this glue booking thing out and I'm a nervous wreck,lol I just know my pages will look like a bad train wreck girl...I'm also new ro you're channel and lo ING it so far..You make glue booking look so easy and more importantly a lot of fun..Thank you for the motivation!!

Thankyou for this video. Im thinking of making a glue book of The Royal Family. Do u think it would work?

How do you find SOMANY images to cut out? I try to get free magazines from the library and laundromats where they get left…but nowhere near what you seem to have access to. I like what you’ve done with the colors together on a page….looks like it’s a good idea to start out with. Thanks for sharing!😊

Thank you for this video. What is the difference between glue book, art journal and junk journal?

I like the notebooks you’re using. Couldn’t find them for 10 cents though (more like $1.50)!

Thank you new

Glue books are new to me. Because you also make junk journals do you cut the glue pages when done to make tags etc?

whats the difference between a glue book that i seek out ephemera for and one i only glue in things i happen to collect. so if i did a star trek book. as i slowly collect tickets to movies, stickers, con tickets, cards, comics etc, i glue them in. that would be my actual personal ephemera. which is different than looking for cool pictures online, printing them and putting them in. what do you think? is one then a smash book? or a scrapbook without the modern fancyness?

I guess the best way to stet is just blue away anything you like and eventually your eye starts seeing differently. It is sooooo much fun.

i think in the us scribblers are like our blue books (testing books- blank small books for standardized tests)