Tutorial - FrankenPaper 

Dear Gayle, Fibonacci numbers are appealing to look at. They are 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,54. It creates the spiral we see everywhere in nature, sunflowers, pineapple, flowers etc. The next number is achieved by adding the previous two numbers together. It provides a pleasing, balanced appearance

OMGoodness absolutely Devine, finally understand what FrankenPaper is and I love it TFS 🥰🐞😘

Fab tutorial love the sewn pages and the look 👌 I agree with you about having a machine with more ßpace on the right 😊 tfs Alison ❤️

Reminds me of Crazy Quilting!!! I will have to give this a try!!! You always inspire! Thank you!

I know this is older but someone mentioned franken paper and i had no idea what it was. I searched and your video came up! Now this looks fun to do!!

Liked this tutorial on Franken paper!

Love your Gonzaga template! GO ZAGS!

Gayle, you just keep pumping out the videos!!! I can't keep up!! :) Thanks so much! Love it!!

These came out so pretty!! I made my first one recently and scanned it into my computer and was able to even copy it onto coffee dyed paper. Fabulous tutorial 🌺 Elizabeth

Such an awesome idea!

Thank you for showing how to make this FrankenPaper! Beautiful!!!!!

Thank you Gayle. I can't wait to make FrankenPaper. You always give clear instructions.

Love it! I've been wanting to try this ever since I seen them in Nik's journals. Yet another technique added to my "gotta try" list, lol! *hugs!

Really enjoyed this video .... just started to do my first junk journal & I'm having to learn a whole new language .... now I know what franken paper is xx

Everything I create develops a life of its own, too, just like our kids did. Thank you for such a fun process video. Tomorrow Frankenpages!!

This is AMAZING!!!! I have so much scraps and didn't know what to do with them. Thank you so much.

Loved learning about this process! Saving my scraps to give it a try. Did some fussy cutting while I watched. Valuable crafting time together! TFS, Gayle!

I don’t know if anyone else already told you but there are what is known as large throat or long arm sewing machines out there. The problem is they are really spendy. I looked into them when I first started sewing in my journals a couple of years ago. Too rich for my blood. 😂 Thank you for sharing your process, I am jazzed to try this out myself. Gentle bear hugs xx

Great way to Up cycle those previously paid bills in my house, lol! Thanks for sharing

Wow, its beautiful! Looks like a paper quilt! Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Can't wait to give it a whirl.

Thank you for generously sharing your process, Gayle!

Gayle I really love 💕 this. I’ve never seen this paper before.......it’s great for using up different bits of paper. I’m going to watch you’re tags now xx Mags

Thank you for the Franken paper videos.I watched the tag one,too,and am excited to try my hand at using up some scraps.I also like the way you have sorted your scraps.Lots of good ideas.

So pretty and so much fun. I've done one of these and enjoyed it so much. Thanks for the tutorial. You've got me anxious to do more but misery is setting in cuz I've got to leave for work. 😟😑

I love to see other peoples take on a tutorial its fun to see u do Niks tutorial as your styles are so different. Its cool.

Just found you ! Love watching your videos. I love making junk journals and coffee dying and baking my papers!

I wish I had that many scraps. But I could do it with fabrics! Like a crazy quilt. I have a Brother quilting machine that has a big throat but it only does straight stitches. I love listening to you.

They turned out awesome looking! Keep on crafting!

Love love your Frankenpaper(s)! I definitely need to get a sewing machine again!!

Turned out so beautifully! I was nodding and laughing out loud through the entire video. Sounds corny, but this new junk journaling journey of mine has helped me to really connect with so many people during all this isolation. Anyway, thank you!

Thank you, I love this

Gayle, really love your videos! They are so insightful, creative and so inspiring! You’re a gem...love your personality! Never saw this done, and am excited to know that my paper hoarding actually has a valuable purpose!! Thanks for sharing...

Fun, fun, fun. I have some one-sided designer paper that I’ve coffee dyed. Just think how neat the coffee dyed side will look! Thanks for sharing, 💐

Thanks so much for your easy ways to follow your tutorials. You are awesome!

I really like how we can see what you're sewing in this video! Thanks!

So excited to try this. Never seen of this before. Thank you. X

Thank you! I am going to make some Franken paper it will be fun.

Love it. Looks like a patchwork quilt.

I've been wondering what FrankenPaper was. You make it look so easy! Thanks for sharing

THX I didn't think in using a template, I think that is why I haven't tried it. Now I will. You show how easy it really is. THX

I am STILL a LURKER - haven't begun any type of journal yet. That being said, however, I have watched TONS of videos. When I saw you grumbling about your wasted threads, I wondered if you save some of them to use as a "nest" under flowers/buttons for tags or for your strips of "snippets". I'm still getting caught up on your videos - started at the ones where you didn't talk at all and am up to this one. I'm thoroughly enjoying them all.

Love the process. Thanks for sharing.

I love this👍💜.. I didn't know what Franken paper is or was! Now I do. Thanks to you lol... 😁 Thank You for sharing 😊

Brilliant what a great way to use up scraps thank u x

Love this idea....they look really great. Thanks so much for sharing. hugs x

I've done this with glue only. It looks nicer with stitching. TFS. Tere

Had to re watch this one. Time to try it with my NEW sewing machine. I feel like our sewing machines need named. Gonna have to work on that!

LOVE making Frankinpaper....yours turned out fantastical!! Would love to see how you do your tags!!! XO

Thank you Gayle! Enjoyed watching and learning! 😊

Great tutorial! Thanks for doing this!

Just beautiful, your papers are great. You inspired me to make some and so I did and I sewed on both sides, all edges, I used one-sided papers and I like how it looks. I thought it would be too many seams but surprisingly it looks really good. So I will be making more. Thx for sharing again sweetie.

So pretty!! I love it!!

Thanks Gayle! I really enjoy your videos. You make me laugh!! And that's great!! I really enjoyed the franken tag video you made and I plan to make some. Thanks so much!!

Thank you! Been wanting to see a tutorial on this for awhile. You make it look so easy, thank you! Much love and hugs

Lol, you're too funny...lol "No major sewing machine company has contacted me yet..." But your idea IS worthy of a patent...😉 Yes, I agree your materials and process direct you, they tell you what it wants to become. Beautiful Franken-papers!!

Oh that looks great Gayle! I just made my first franken tag today. Thanks for showing us how. Hugz

Love your journals! Set to make one now!

Beautiful tags! Thank you so much! :)

I really like your bag storage.

Hi Gayle, Great tip on using the template. Thanks.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are the best. It was really fun to watch. I like these papers, specially the thread, looks so nice. I'll be making these, just because I know how to do that now :)

oh Gayle girl, I wish I could say thank you in person bc just with the comments I feel it's not enough, u have no idea how much I'm learning from ur videos, I'm impressed and amazed, thank you so much again :-) :-) :-)

They make "long arm" sewing machines with the quilters in mind, mostly, I think. I'm sure they'd be glad to sell you one!

It's funny you said that none of the major sewing machine companies had contacted you. I always say that they didn't ask my opinion. Enjoyed your video.

Wow! I have learned I need to organize my trash better. Lol. Totally kidding. None of us throw anything away! Lol. Love these and I do need to work on my organization better.

Very nice

Loved your style. Clean as I prefer 🤓 and loved your joke about major sewing machine companies!

Great pages. And smooched is a real word.

These are so awesome Gayle!!! Tfs

Thank you

If I put this much work into one sheet, I'm scanning it to print out later. I just started junk journaling and I've been scanning all of my designs because I spent so much time on my pages. They're beautiful, though. Juki industrial machine has a bigger space so you wouldn't curl up your paper. There's other brands as well. But they're industrial and cost 4K!

Was woundering what Franken paper was lol.. Tyfs Gayle I'm learning lol

Hi Gayle 😁 there is a sewing machine like the one you described, it’s a long arm embroidery machine , but unfortunately it’s cost is around £3/4 thousand pounds here in uk , so you’ll be better off with the one you are using 😂 , I’m off to make my frankinpages 😂😂 great video 😘

Thanks so much! You make it look easy. I tried to do Franken paper this weekend, and it was not good looking at all! Lol!

Super cool! TFS

That kind of sewing machine is called a long arm. Now a days it often is sold with a table but when I was younger it was just a quilters sewing machine.

Very pretty!

Thank you... ❤️

So fun! 😎

Love, so pretty!

These Franken papers are soooo cute! And they do make a machine with a 12” space btwn the needle and arm. They are very expensive. I have a Bernina 880 with a 12” sewing space and a $12,000 price

Hi Gayle. Can you or have you used the cardstock Frankenpaper as a journal cover? Would you ModPodge over it to make stronger and give it a layer of protection? Would you cover chipboard with it? Any ideas or suggestions? I looked for a video you might have but couldn't find one. Thanks so much. Love watching your channel.

Hi Gayle. New subscriber here. Omgosh, I love this. Can I just ask you why you dont leave the white paper on the back and just sew it on with the yummy stuff? Sorry, I'm new to this and just wondered if there was a reason. Thanks so much for sharing x

Love the sewing around the whole page good idea girl you h come up with some great ideas I wanted to ask you about the DT for Mrs cogs that you mentioned you are on? Is there a place to see your work for the DT somewhere and to see who else is on this DT . I am new to journals and am finding so many talented ladies you gals all seem to know each other and everyone knows Mrs Cogs

I am new at paper crafting and I have never heard of FrankenPaper.

Do you ever lower the machine’s feed dogs and do free motion stitching on the paper?

I would like to suggest a video topic. How about a journal to store ephemera and die cuts etc? Thank you

Thread (per inch or yard) is very cheap. I find that I 'waste' a lot less by merely going to each seam in turn, w/o cutting the ends in between, but clipping away the very short intersecting threads when totally finished.Edit: Do you ever stitch around the entire perimeter?

When you were quilting, did you learn how to "jump" over things? It makes it more tedious on cutting threads after, but it saves a lot of time & thread!!

Wow! Never heard of FrankenPaper but now I have. Great tutorial! I want you to know you've kept me company while in bed with terrible kidney stones. I muted you, sorry. I just wanted to watch while in agony. Not fun! Now my pain meds kicked in so I'm rewatching it with low sound. Tfs GOD Bless

The machine-of-your-dreams already exists: It's called a Long Arm Quilting Machine.

Absolutely wonderful tutorial using your scraps--need to get mine organized too. Pages turn out great! Do you have a scanner? I have scanned in some of my gelli printed papers as jpgs and then printed the designs on to label sheets then stamped words on to the individual labels--fun! I enjoy your videos a lot. Looks like your sewing machine likes paper better than fabric--hee hee :)

I'm convinced that faber-tac makes great money because of the spillage on the tip when you leave cap off, we just buy more because it's so great. Lol

Hi, I love the Franken paper. Does the glue make it very hard to sew on, or make your needle get sticky?

Hi Gayle, do you ever go around the whole outside border with your stitching?

Gayle do you have any online gelli plate tutorials? I’d pay to learn from you! 😊

What were the dimensions of this? So cool looking. Looking forward to making some.

GOnzaga.....i think we live in the same city...

I might have missed it, but why do you use fabric tac on paper and not a regular craft glue?

Where do you learn this technique