Wow, this video was wonderful! I just love your teaching style! You tell us everything we need to know without doing a lot of rambling. I absolutely adore the fact that I learn something new every time I watch you. If this video is an indication of what's to come in this series, I can hardly wait! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and time with us!
Hello Ceri, I have only just discovered you and that was on you tube. I was lucky enough to see the episode where you spoke about Gayle. That lady had the soul of an angel. No Doubt. My problem is I found you on my TV so I cannot contact you in any way. So I went back to my computer and found you, but could not find the episode I was watching, the one where you completed a page on a rather large journal that you had only done the front and back covers, so the episode dealt with doing page 1 and 2. I just wanted to say hello and tell you your videos are great and I am pleased I found you and I love Gayle too. Gayle will not know me from a bar of soap, but that is okay. I still learn so much from the both of you. Good luck with your new venture. Rose. (from Australia but I have been to Wales and I adore Aled Jones and his son - the voice of an angel).
Rosemarie I think this s the video you’re referring to, it was a five item challenge I did with Gayle, hopefully this helps. Five item Swap challenge with Gayle Agostinelli ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8KAvJqmPeX0.html Thank you for your kind words.
I just discovered your channel via Gayle Agostinelli. I am really enjoying your approach to mixed media and junk journals. I am also a big fan of standing while I work at a waist high table. However, don't bump your head.
Oh Ceri thank you so much. I’ve been searching for a cereal box journal start to finish by one who would do a tutorial that would be of exceptional excellence! That would be you. Your videos are simply stunning thank you for sharing your time and artistic inspiration always 🦋
Thank you Cheryl, if you do make one of these I recommend finishing the cover with a coat of modge pog or other type of medium to give it longevity when in use....to seal it all.
Great place to start for a beginner…a simple one signature journal with no sewing. Thank you for understanding the hesitation a newbie might have to get started on multiple signatures and all the bells and whistles that one can get carried away with in making a journal. I have already watched a couple of your embellishment/ephemera videos and it’s good to know this is a channel that can help with the entire process but in several stages. I’m a fan
Thanks for this video! So wonderful to finally fall upon you! Great tutorial! Thank you. Junk journalling is so therapeutic for easing my anxiety and depression. Thanks for mentioning that. It brings me great satisfaction during the tough times! Take care! Cheers from Montreal! ❤
Thank you so much, Ceri. I have only recently found you, and I am so grateful; you make journaling and journal-making accessible. Somehow, you bring a logic and structure to the process. I have always been mystified by it before, but now I am inspired. This morning, I watched your video on why you journal, and so much of what you said resonates with me. Enforced retirement through ill-health means I have time to reflect and time to create. I shall be making and writing two lots of journals: a current one and an historical one. So, thank you again. I shall be working my way through this playlist of journaling for beginners! 😁
Hi Ceri, having a look tonight through your videos. This was great. I didn't know you are doing a journal each month of 2022. I haven't seen any journal videos that I recall but so excited to see them.
I enjoyed watching this very much. I've been playing with junk journals for about 2 years. But my great fear is the cover! This team's very straightforward and I do have a cereal box! Wish me luck thank you for your well done video! From, n. calif
Thank you for sharing, you did such a nice job explaining everything. I looked at a lot of videos, I really enjoyed watching yours. I shared it to my folders ❤
Hopefully the new year is starting well for you. It will be fun to see what you have planed for us. Blessing to you. I'm doing a bit better after my procedures. Now to build up my strength. Should be a better year for me and my family. All the best, Arlene
Good morning Ceri! I stumbled across your channel and I have to tell you you’re a great teacher! I have wanted to make a journal and have watched a lot of videos but this one is by far the best one I’ve seen. I’m excited to get started and I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching all your videos! Thank you! 🌻
As I peruse all your videos, you have never failed to teach a little snippet of new information, Ceri. I absolutely enjoy Gayle Agostinelli, also...... her laughter makes me smile. So grateful for you today as I pray for the world, especially Europe. You cheered me up, Ceri. 🤗🦋 give Biscuit a hug from me🐾🐾🐾🐾
Thank you for taking this journal step-by-step to full completion. I am very new to all things creative, so I am very grateful for your calm presence and mindful explanations!
Hi Ceri. I love this series. I have not made a junk journal yet but after watching this, I feel confident I could do it. I have everything I need for supplies and now I have the steps to do one. THANK YOU!!
Happy New Year!!...I believe Winston Churchill said that we are two countries superstar by the same language. I'm in Nevada, USA. Every time you said you were going to laminate the covers together, I was thinking I have to get my laminating machine out. Not everyone has a laminating machine. Confusion set it that I don't need a score board, but I need a laminator? And then I never saw you use a laminator
Thank you so much! I’ve watched a bunch of videos and collected way too much stuff to start but didn’t know where to begin. A bit overwhelmed. This gave me a very simple journal to do.
Unfortunately neatness is in my nature, I’d love to create random and rough but my mind just isn’t wired that way. I’m pleased all of us are not creatively the same as that is what makes this community of Artists so interesting….we each have a style. Thank you for watching and your comments.
Oh my gosh, I came across you quite by accident and LOVE YOU! I'm a Brit living in the USA and love watching English crafters as it makes me feel closer to England hearing the accents and listening to you, I feel like we are old friends getting together for a natter and a cup of tea. I'm not new to paper crafting but I am to junk journals. They always seem daunting to make but your vidoes have inspired me to actually try making one! You have a new life long fan!! xoxo
Ceri, I am new to your channel. I have watched this particular video a number of times. The "perfect" part of me struggles w/ the imperfection of a junk journal making it not fun for me, but you make this look like a lot of fun. - I have got to learn the art of collage, any tips on it that you can provide for someone like me who struggles with things being "perfect"? I'm off to watch some of your other videos now. Thank you for sharing.
Bonnie, I’m a perfectionist but I’m trying to get to grips with “strive for perfection but accept excellence”, sometimes even excellence is to high of a bar to aim for, I’m trying to let things go but it’s just so hard some days.........as for collage the only way to find your rhythm or style is to do it, grab yourself an old magazine and then just collage over the pages with anything that comes to hand. To start with just collage, then maybe try to stay within a colour them, then maybe choose a subject, try just do abstract shapes, try to mimic collage created by other people you’ll never have the same materials as them so your creation will end up as yours.........but what’s important is to just do it.
I make mine and write all my angers, feeling and negativity in them then I do artwork to cover the 💩 I’ve been going through, so I turn my bad and ugly into something more beautiful. We all deal with our demons in our own ways.
Bravo. This is exactly what I needed. I loved that you covered with scraps. My hope is that by this time next week, I have a cereal box JJ too. Thank you so much.
I so enjoy your videos, Ceri! Do you know about The Handmade Book Club online? I just joined it and it is filled with ideas. I could imagine you teaching this class there!
This is amazing, you did great on your turorial of this junk journal, I love how you put the pages together or should I say signatures. I have been saving cereal boxes fo some time now and I'll have to get going on making some for myself and friends, I've also saved some other boxes like butter, cookies/biscuits just different sizes, I have made some a few years ago, small mini binder kind but sewn in the signatures, alot of fun! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I so enjoyed this video! You were very precise and I appreciated it!! I just found your video so I am excited to check out all of your videos! Thank You!!
Ceri, thank you for you wonderful tutorial, l to have suffed with truma very simular to the dear viewer you mentioned, my husband to sugested l write my fears, nightmares ect down on paper and burn them not long after my asult, l will say its a good way to banish your demons. But your idea of putting them in a journal is a fantastic idea, not just bland paper putting your thoughts on, using a journal takes the focus off all thing bad going through your mind as you have a beautiful journal as the main focal point and not the contents, l have watched hundreds of tutorials for beginers although they either go to fast with less explanation for us beginers, or like to talk about all things but journals, so l thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a beginner friendly explanation how to make them, l will put elastic in mine as l dont like the idea of throwing the beautiful cover out just the signature, thank you again, l dont often fine happyness these days although you made my day and certainly put a smile on my face as my mind is racing with wonderful thoughts on how to decorate my cover, your a champ, keep up the good work, especially for us beginers, Lee ( Australia )
Thank you Lee, turning something ugly like bad memories into something beautiful like your personal art is a great way of cleansing yourself and moving on.
From Cartonnage, I learned that cardboard has a grain. The cardboard fold very easily along the grainline, and not so easily on the cross grain. When I am gluing two pieces together, I try to glue the grain line so that it runs vertically on one piece and horizontally on the other. This increases the strength of the cardboard, which may be important depending on the project. Thicker chipboard that can be purchased is more dense even though it may be the same thickness as cereal box cardboard, which is why some crafters may glue the grain lines in opposite orientations. I use cereal box cardboard very frequently to make notebook covers that can be refilled once the notebook is used up, and also for small trays that are made in one piece and then folded up at the edges.
I always tell people it's ok to make a mistake....it's only paper! Just figure out the mistake, no stressing, you get as many do-overs as you need, it's only paper!
What a great video. So very informative, easy to watch and understand. Will definitely assist me in making one of these little journals. Many thanks for sharing your methods.
At the end of the video you mentioned others who make these kinds of books too, but I couldn't make out the names very well, can you reference them for me again. TIA
Yes Margaret, look up Gayle Agostinelli on RU-vid, Gayle releases a video a day so has many videos and makes loads of journals. The other person i mentioned was someone called Nick the Booksmith, Nik is very knowledgable about books and binding etc.
I made my own cradle from a kids story book cover and some masking tape, I found it here on youtube, for the life of me I sadly cannot remember who the lady was *hangs head* it works really well.
I’ve a playlist called how to create journals for beginners, there might be videos in there you might like ru-vid.com/group/PL9jo60Ix0S8L7uikjQp0Rj5_i7izXFG__
Great idea. Love watching new ways to do little journals. Hope your new year is great. Looking forward to your other journal videos. You are such good teacher. thanks for sharing your time with us.
You’re such a sweet and patient teacher. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to film with OCD, I commend you for doing it and uploading it for us! Thank you Ceri!
If you are doing Coffee dyed pages and want the crispy edges plan and cut your paper first then tea dye and it will fit the book and not have 2 sides with crispy edges and one side cut off.
Happy new year Thank you so much for sharing Wow I now think I can do this too. You’ve taken the degree of difficulty out of this process purely magical of you Thanks also for the lovely ideas of how to use a journal
Welcome, if you’re new to journalling I’d advise you also subscribe to Gayle Agostinelli on RU-vid………lots of videos with ideas and techniques for the beginner.
I am in the learning-how and gathering-supplies stage of journal making. This video is so enjoyable and very educational, thank you! What is a ‘glue book’ ? What type of thread did you use ? I appreciate your help 🌝
Lisa this video will answer the glue book question ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FnGwXY8Ugzs.htmlsi=UDqOo6SsYw5VNSiy as for the thread most use heavy duty thread, waxed linen thread or you can use anything that you consider strong enough.
I am so excited about this series! I'm new to this so it's wonderful to have a beginners series. I quit scrapbooking about 5 years ago after a 20 year go of it. I did give away 99% of my supplies including tools. But I'm happy to take a more frugal approach this time around and use what I have on hand. Definitely going for a more organic look. Just wish I still had my score board, poking tool, distress ink and my sewing machine! LOL Oh well! Thank you so much for these wonderful tutorials! I very much appreciate them! :) Looking forward to the next one!
Hello! I watched some of your cake decoration videos as well your crafting videos and you are a superb instructor with amazing talent. I have no interest in cake decorating, but after watching you explain/instruct… I want to decorate a cake 😊. You shouldn’t keep apologizing for the little noises when explaining what you are doing, it’s nothing if we can learn from you (and we also have volume control on our devices 😃). It is a privilege to learn from you ❤️❤️. Thank you for sharing your talents.
Thank you Joyce, I know I apologise too much but I think it comes from watching other RU-vid’s where they crash and bang around and hearing that disrupts the flow of the video......I’ll try to apologise less in the future.
I’m recently found your channel and I have watched a ton of videos and noticed that you use a glue stick often. Do you find that they hold? If so, what brand do you use? I’m asking because I haven’t had much luck with them in the past and the Art Glitter Glue can be very expensive. I have also found that particular glue shows through some of the thinner papers, especially book pages. I would love your take on this. Thanks so much.
Hello Jean, I use a brand of glue stick called Pritt, I’ve not had any glue show through and it seems to hold very well for me although I must say I am slightly heavy handed with my glue so theres a good application of it on my pieces. I hope that helps.
@@CeriGriffiths thank you so much. I appreciate the info. Btw, I really do love your videos. I haven’t had a chance to look through all of them, but I was wondering if you possibly have one on how to make a journal with an old book cover? I saw the one where you showed how to carefully cut through the webbing, but not one on how to then reuse that cover for a handmade journal. I hope that makes sense????
Vicki I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking but I’m guessing what would you use for signature pages, try using pages from sports magazines mixed in with a few blank pages.
Thank you for including mistakes for me to learn from! And your little story about the burn journal is priceless. I would be using that at 3 am when I wake with negative memories on my mind. You explained the process very well and I think I will have a go at one this week!
