Journal Making Tutorials

Learn how to make your own journals...

Here are my tutorials for making your own art journals, created mainly from recycled materials which you already have available to you.

I create many tutorials for FREE, so if you use one of my ideas (and share it) please return the favour and credit me. Karmic love is what it's all about.

Make an Art Journal From Leftover Greetings Cards This tutorial is first in a series showing you how to make these larger art journals first by recycling your greetings cards. Click on this writing to go to Part I (of II) to show you how to organise your cards and create signatures and pockets. From there you can go to Part II which shows you how to create the cover and bind the book.

Make 5 Mini Books from Recycled Greetings Cards These mini book tutorials are part of the christmas greeting card series and designed to go into the pockets of the larger art journals above, though of course they can be used for anything. In total there are five separate technique videos, click this writing to view the first which is a simple Japanese stab binding.

Make a Dos-A-Dos Book with a Cardboard Box Dos-A-Dos simply means Back-to-Back, two or more books held in one by placing their backs together. Recycle a cardboard box out the kitchen and get this cute mini book.

Make a 100% Recycled Art Journal from Cereal Boxes One of my most popular tutorials. This whole journal is made from recycling anything and everything I had that would otherwise have been thrown away. Go rummage for treasure disguising itself as rubbish and make yourself a fab journal.

How to Make a Large Box Journal This is a requested tutorial showing how you can adapt my popular Cereal Box Journal to create a different desired effect with a few simple tweaks on the original.

Make a Recycled Wall Art Journal Do some journaling outside of the box by making the wall your art journal. With simple packaging and recycled items you can turn a journal entry into some artsy style home decor.

Make a Recycled Piano Hinge Journal I LOVE the look of Piano Hinge books, but hate the way it cuts into your page. Here I have come up with a technique to avoid the cutting of pages and have sturdy pages for painting by more recycling of post consumer packaging.

Making My New Recycled Loose Leaf Journal It's time to put together a batch of loose leaf pages and make them into a journal - here's a tutorial showing me creating it :)

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