How to Make Junk Journal out of an Old Book Part 3 Step by Step DIY Tutorial for Beginners

Okay. If I still have, if I have some pages that still stick out, I can do some trimming or tearing just to make them nicey nice. And that sometimes happens because, um, see how this doesn't, it's not flush against there yet. We're going to glue this straight to that back. So that's going to be flush against it. That's going to pull it in. But if you find, because you now have added the thickness of this cardboard spine in there, that might push everything this way a bit. So you might have some stuff that sticks out and I can just trim that down later. Um, but what I will do, it's not glued in yet. Let me just trim it now, since you're all attached to spine. Okay. Where's my big ruler. I'm just going to do a little more trim in here. I'm going to have to deal with it. Once it's in there, it's easier. Sometimes it's easier before, before committing to the big finale. I don't have my, I'm going to get my cutting mat. This apparently is a cutting mat. Look at that. Who knew? I didn't know. Somebody asked me once what this was. It's apparently a grid and a cutting mat. It's made by Fiskar and I got it at the, uh, the thrift store and, uh, I just thought it might be a nice glue mat, but who knew it has other purposes. Okay. That looks pretty straight, right? Okay. Where's my, where'd they go? There they are. Okay. My craft knife. I'm just going to trim this down just a little bit more. Okay. There we go. All right. Let's, let's do another remeasure. Let's retract for safety reasons. I'm going to be a good steward here. Yeah. We are almost in there. I'm going to call that pretty darn close. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good. Huh? Maybe a few little hairs in there. Not going to worry about it for another day. Um, okay. So let's glue her in and we are all done. Then that is your journal construction using a repurposed book cover. Um, so the world is your oyster with those. Just go to town, go to the old, maybe the used bookstore or the garage sale or the estate sale or ask your neighbors and friends, Hey, you got any old books? They don't have to be old. Um, they can be newer books. You can use newer book covers and um, they use the nice quality book, uh, book board in them and uh, it's thick and it's the right fit. You know, you're, it's just strong right from the get go and we're making our spine extra strong. So you're not going to have any problems. Okay. I use a lot of glue here. I do. And uh, got to make sure I've got my upsie downsies right here. Closer, farther, closer, farther. Okay. So I know this is up. Yep. And then I'm just going to put it down there and you do have a few seconds to massage around and get in the right place. But the ultimate tester is going to be closing the book and you want to make sure it is in the center. Mm hmm. There we go. Push that. Um, you can take this whole clump and push to get it to sit down nice and low. You don't have to crumple the paper, but just give it a good shove. And uh, then what I like to do, see now it's all nestled. See that right in there, checking in the bottom. See how the inner spine is right against the outer spine. That's what you want. Push it down. If it's not, you can get in there and you can even, you know, use your ruler and slide it in and squash down if you need to do that. Although you shouldn't. And, um, okay, it's getting that all down there. Yeah. Okay. Double checking again. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. There's my up. And then I just usually clamp this with a clamper, which I had right here at the ready. Hang on. Okay. And I'm just going to clamp it just to hold it in place. And then I go get a well-earned snack after all that. So I'll probably leave this in place for about an hour. Honestly, this glue will grab faster than that, but because it's such an important connection, I just let it sit for about an hour. And honestly it takes me that long to graze my snack. So I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you had fun. It was fun for me to show you guys. And I have a lot more, um, uh, ways I can show you about how to make journals. And, um, I hope you like what's coming up soon. I'm doing a podcast now do it. It's called the paper outposts and joy of junk journals. Come check it out. There's a link below the video and I'm Twittering. If you'd like to tweet or like to be Twittered at, uh, jump on board. I'm doing Instagram and, uh, Pinterest and, uh, um, what else does feel like there's something else I'm missing. Oh, anyway, I've got my playlist down below. If you want to follow along on a playlist like the using up the book pages playlist or the, how to make, uh, uh, an actual journal covers and signatures playlist, something like that, or the alphabet challenge, or I think I might make a separate page layout playlist because that seems to be something that's developing out of my, my videos now. Um, and I think that they're a, um, art form to themselves, or at least they're a creature to themselves because making ephemera and sticking it on the page is one way to fill a page, but creating the page from ground zero and just using things to build the page right from that place is another thing that's a really handy skill to know because, um, you're going to be faced with many blank pages in your journals and you may want to put cool things on them. And this is just, this just gives you options. You're going to have many, many options. Um, uh, and I got a lot of ideas coming. I, um, please like subscribe and share. If you find value here, if, um, you have any ideas for me, I'd love to hear them. I love reading your comments. Um, please let me know what you'd be interested in seeing, or if you have an idea and you want to say, could you possibly try that? I will definitely put it on my list of, uh, videos and I'll give it a try. Why not? Um, and, uh, what else? That's pretty much it. So I'm going to sign off now. You have an awesome day. And as you can see, it did not take us that long to make a journal. I think we are at the one hour and 22 minutes is probably going to be broken down into two, three parts, I'd say. Um, but there you go. You should be able to make a journal in a, in a couple hours. And then the rest is just play time with the page layouts and the ephemera and the embellishments and the fun stuff. It's all fun stuff actually. But I just wanted to show you that this doesn't take that long. And if you do it right with me, you can stop me, rewind, look again to be doubly sure. And don't expect perfection right out of the gate. Um, expect learning curve, expect, um, trial and error. And I strongly encourage you to go listen and watch everybody's videos on how to make a journal because you are going to find things that totally make sense to you. This person said it a certain way. That person has a different technique that works better for you. Um, and that's what I did. I watched about a billion how to's, um, back in my day and I took little pieces and parts from everybody. And I basically created something and I tried a few things that worked for me like the crocodile bite. I thought I need to be, I need a bigger hole. And maybe it's the blind as a bat. Um, you know, 50, 55 year old now who, uh, uh, you know, has trouble finding the way through the forest. But, um, um, the crocodile changed my world with that. And, uh, uh, the darning needle, the nice soft edge. So I don't, uh, needle stick. So I don't keep poking myself as it's coming through. But anyway, um, there you go. Have an awesome day, happy crafting. And I cannot wait to see what you guys make. So please put them on the Facebook page so I can see too and Google over your stuff and we can all learn and grow together. And it's because you guys, we are, uh, spreading the word that fun can be simple. Take care everyone. Bye.