How to Make Junk Journal out of an Old Book!! (Part 1) Step by Step DIY Tutorial for Beginners!

Hi everyone, I'm Pam from the newspaper outpost. Are you ready to gut a

book

and repurpose this

book

cover into something magical of your own in your own

junk

journal

? Let's get started, this is a fun and easy process and I would like to say that if you are new to

junk

journal

ing, this is a great place to start because the cover is already done, it's done people, there is no work, no sweat, nothing , all you have to do is get the insides out of the book. Now I thought I didn't have any books, but I found this book and I thought AHA, I'm going to do this because I already have all the books I'm going to use, but I found this one in the garage College Algebra mm-hmm and I remember picking this one up at st.

The Vincent de Paul thrift store in our town, for some reason, has a lot of very old books and it's an amazing resource if you have one in your town, check it out because in the other bookstores I don't see very old books, but in this one store there are many. of very old books and you can go to antique stores, but you are going to pay a lot more for very old books, but if you go to second hand stores the price goes down a lot, so just a little note, but I thought this is well, when I originally found this book, why did you buy this book?

Why did you buy this book? Aside from being a massive hoarding process of accumulating book pages, this book was from 1939 and it had all these really interesting mathematical formulas in there. and I thought it would be amazing to use them as labels or collage and things like that, so really what I was looking for was the content of the book, so I knew that when I brought this home I would get it and now in a very gentle way. it's not like gutting animals it's not like gutting fish this no it's not mercy gutting it's uh I want to use the stuff inside and if I try to read page by page it's going to be a disaster it's better for me to get the full block of text Okay , so what else interesting?

I love this book. Look at that cake. Does anyone remember Pie? Yes, there it is, someone wrote it. Someone probably really knew what to do with pi. There you go, very important. Okay, so this little gadget. It was a freebie bonus, okay, I can draw some shapes with it, very nice, okay, so the whole conceptual line is not, maybe I'll back up a little and show you all my mess here, yeah, I think it's okay. come on, there's the rub, okay, that's the reality, friends, that's the reality, okay, so this can be one

part

of several because I would like to do this journal with you and I'm going to put this on my to-do list. reproduction of how to

make

real diaries.

I know where to find it and that will be linked below each video. How to

make

the actual diaries or at least the most recent videos that will be there. I have to figure out how to include it in all of them. Well, that's another day. Well, then this. one, what we're going to do is very simple, here you stand it up and you're going to contain its wings like this, okay, you're going to see the space, you're going to see the space, you want the space because that's going to give you the space when you're cutting with your craft knife. to get down here and not cut your spine.

If you want to keep the integrity of the spine intact, you don't want to cut any of this. The truth is, every time I do this, probably 75-80% of the time. The time I end up stealing this here, don't worry about it, if that happens you can still save it, there are ways to save it and I will show you those ways and you will also have to test the just the integrity of the book cover once it has been removed to see if it is strong enough to do what you want to do and I will show you ways to strengthen them, they are very easy and I think you will like them, so what? what we do is hold the book up, hold the wings back, okay now what you're doing is you're leaving, you don't want to randomly walk in whether you want to or not, just go because that's not going to turn out well, trust my.

If you want to see, I'll give you a C clip, maybe let me zoom in so you can really see it, so you just split this

part

and then we'll go back up, okay, look, okay, you see this paper in front is the o cover inside attached to the book, okay, and then you have the actual book cover here, the blue thing, yeah, okay, where do you want to go, you want to go here, near your text block, okay, this whole text block, This is the text block and you. you want to cut the superficial you don't want to go deep well so let's try it together we have two sides to play and if I messed up I can show you how to fix it okay as I do it I mess it up a little bit. alright, okay, and I would be very careful, this is a sharp instrument, be very careful while you do this, okay, make sure you have your glasses on and go slow, yeah, and there's a web back there that you're actually cutting , okay, actually I did. without cutting it today and this is just paper, I mean if you feel these things on the inside, it's like it's thick, it looks like cardboard paper, that's all, so they're not very strong, the spines of these books, these books with floating spine, okay, especially the old books you'll want to do the same on this side very carefully, they have a little more wiggle room here because you took out the first half, so you don't have to deal with that wing, you could even It would be better to start from there. the inside yeah, so okay, I'm going to try it that way, I'm not going to the spine, where can you see, you can see, okay, I'm not going to go to the spine, but I'm just cutting this paper that the paper.

What I am cutting is what is attached to the front or back cover. Okay, that's what I'm cutting. Well, close up. Well, I'm in the picture. Okay, holding your breath, going slowly. Angle the knife towards the text block, this will help prevent. keep you from cutting anything that you didn't have and didn't want, sometimes when I went down fast, my God, I end up cutting the spine and stuff like that, so you don't want to do that, let me go out like that. you can see a land, what's going on here, okay, so it's gutted, look, there's no blood, there's no blood at all, yeah, and for those of you who get dizzy cutting books, you shouldn't know that I saw to Zeliha, okay, I used to be dizzy at first. and some of the really old books.

I really have our time with anything from the 19th century, if it's already falling apart then I don't feel so bad because I know it's just falling apart and I'm actually rescuing it or putting it away, but these 1900 books I'm fine, I can, I've come down from the mountain and I know it's okay, now I can sleep at night. I know some of you can't, that's okay, watch me do it and that's okay. It wasn't too difficult, right, we have our text block all nice and loose and we're going to set it aside because we won't be using it in this project anymore, let's make a new journal, okay? what we have are two amazing covers, we have a very strong front cover and a very strong back cover that is already decorated, if you want to leave it natural and use the book that you see here, you can do that, you can cover it with fabric.

I showed you how to do that in my first five-part series on journaling, but in this one I don't think we're going to cover this, I just want to show you how to reinforce this. spine and go ahead and put your signatures and we're going to use this cover like we're really going to use this cover now remember even though I'm going to use this cover and maybe I'm not going to wrap it in cloth or something, there's still 101 million things that could do with this cover and in other words, maybe I'm not that excited about the fourth edition of College Algebra and maybe I want to put a design on the front, I want to put some layers on. or some pockets or you know whatever you want and you can decorate the spine, you can even decorate the back so you're not limited to what's on the cover and also this book probably has that.

I mean it's almost yes, it's a cloth style material, so technically there's already cloth in the book, so it has a good foundation, that's what I'm trying to say, it has a good foundation to work from, but let's move on. Let's go ahead and reinforce the spine and before I show you that You can also use duct tape and you can use packing tape and now I use binding tape because it's a super strong tape. I put a link below this. It's from DuPont. It used to be much more expensive and has dropped to about 15 or 16 dollars. for one roll so it's not that bad and you know, I've been using it for three or four years so maybe mine was a double roll or something.

I remember paying about 25 for it and I'm still using it and when you use it, you don't go through it as fast, but it's a very strong tape and when you put it down, you do it like you don't have much room to move it once it's down, so you already know. that and just live with that choice, okay, so what I'm going to do is strengthen the spine and I'm just going to put some tape on it, that's it, it's rocket science, whatever tape you use. I've heard some people say they weren't so lucky with duct tape.

I've had luck with the tape and haven't had any problems with it coming off, but some people have said yes, but I haven't had any. that experience then it could be the quality of the tape or the weather, the amount of humidity in your environment or maybe what you're sticking to, let's say you have a shiny surface you're sticking to or a waxy surface or something like that where it is not going to stick. Listen too, that might, I don't know, that might be the problem, I have no idea, okay, then come on, okay, super duct tape, super duct tape, okay, oh, super duct tape, okay, I need to cut it, okay, okay, okay , come on.

Try it, I usually make a cut and it cuts easily at that point. I'm going to put the nice straight piece on top just to make my life easier. Turn this here. I'll put it right there. I'm putting. I bring it down the center as much as I can and I'm putting it there now. I want to tell you that using the Tyvek tape this pretty much cures all ailments and if it had gone through the spine while I was cutting and if my knife went through the spine, just putting this duct tape here will cure a lot of that, so if you have a small tear or something like that and you don't want to lose your spine because you love the name of the book or something like that, you can know that with the Tyvek tape it's ready and this will give you strength to reserve your spine, it will be super strong, super strong, you will be super happy, okay, no, no, it's going to cut.

Skip the line, you don't need them all. I like to cut it above the bottom because you don't want the tape to show and you know these things don't have to put blue letters on it, but sometimes it's hard to cover. because it's a very deep blue and you need something pretty dense to hide the word Tyvek, so know that you want to cut a little bit above the bottom of your book and glue it a little bit lower than the top of your book, it's okay, now, now. okay, let's put it honestly, we don't really need more than this because this book is well constructed, but I'm just going to put in a couple more so you can see what it's like if you're not entirely sure. integrity of your book let's say you're using packing tape or masking tape, you can put another piece here and another piece here like we did before and I'll do it quickly now, okay, okay, you don't have to go so long with these, don't take it out too much, it seems a little shorter than that, don't use your cheese like it's NOT a good idea to use your teeth like my mom, I can hear you, okay, here we go, so I'm bringing it up to half an inch and just I'm putting it on the spine, it grabs on very quickly with no drying time, no, none of that is okay and here we go, yeah, okay, they're not much longer.

I don't need it as long as it's first, so you don't have to worry so much about it now. I love what was written there, but I will have to lose it because I want to show you this put. put down the extra pieces, okay, there we go, there we go, okay Erin Orion, so you just mold it into the shape of the book and then you just do a little test to make sure everyone's happy, okay, and it's very happy, okay? He's very strong and very happy and you have enormous integrity at this point you like the world to be your oyster at this point you can go to town and rock this puppy full of stuff now you have a couple of options here and you can do it.

I'm going to show you, I'm going to do it two ways, one way and the first way is the way we did it in the first series of videos where we drilled holes in this actual column and then left the column exposed. To show you an example of that, here's the exposed spine, we punched holes in the actual spine and this is an exposed spine, so you can do it this way, if you don't like that look you can just cover it with a piece of fabric or lace. or something like that and you can hide that the spine is here.

This is a very solid way to get a book right. This is a very good way to really anchor your pages and well, it works well in almost all circumstances. A cardinal good way to do it here is plan B and this is the one I mainly use when I don't want my column threads to be in the back of my book, let's say I just want college algebra shown because I'm weird or something okay and I just want this to show so there are a couple of things you can do here but since I'm usingShall we guide you along the garden path?

Oh, we could be a little different. It's actually about 8 and 8 and 3/4, so it is. not exactly 9 by 5 and 1/4 so yeah it's a little smaller than traditional for me so it's a good thing I measured it so it doesn't really matter how wide it is this way because the 5 and the 3/4 we are not dealing with that. measuring here the only thing we care about is the heightSo this is the way to cheat, well here we go, no measuring, okay, and then we just make a small mark how far we want it to go down, don't make it too long, a little shorter like at the bottom of the cream. paper, can't you see this, that would be helpful, okay, I'm just putting this here.

I'm measuring where I want the top to be and I want the top to be the same height as the top of the cream page or even a little lower, okay, and then the bottom at the same level as the bottom of the cream colored page, so you don't want it to stick out under or over, okay, not under or over your book and there we go, so let's cut one of these. babies magnet magnet magnetic ruler and glued okay we have no idea where to go here I guess we better measure you oh God okay we'll take it to the inch here we go so go from can you see me?

Yes, they go back. too close here okay, yeah, you can see me, okay, top mark, bottom mark, I'm lining up a line, a line, no, I'm going, no, I need my cut. side craft Mets front front side self healing okay, let's see, I'm going to test you, you were my sadness apparently now you're my cutting mat, okay, they're lined up and I'm going to grab my marker. my craft knife is very careful and goes slow mmm I'm just going to go down well and again go down slightly not slightly like a firm but not crazy pressure okay, that came apart in two strokes very happy, okay, then, okay, I did it What I have is that this guy is not exactly aligned, let's test the blowout and see where we are to see if we need to shave more, okay, so I'm testing, I know it goes very well together, look, how did you see that?

Let me show you again taking this and I'm just putting it here for the big test, I mean the test and the book folds easily, it's very easy to put them together, okay, let me go from there, okay, now you don't want any resistance there, okay, that's what you don't do. I don't want that, okay, so now what I'm going to do is cut off that last bit that I don't need any morning, I'm just going to look at it, you can round them off. Around these, it's totally style at this point, but this is not going to show enormously, but it will show a little bit, so you can make it attractive, so what I like to do at this point is make it attractive.

Well, this is a good time to bring out stamps and stencils and things like that because you can give it a cool look and yeah, that's cool, do we have this? I'll put this here that looks something like this. great and I'll take out that they'll turn me around still or in the process of rolling, I'm going to the second part now I figure it's okay, probably around the 14 mark okay, well, I think we're already there, okay, hello, welcome to part 2. Thinking this is part 2 of using and reusing an old book cover to make a journal and that's okay, I'm just using good old photographic ink to make something.

I want to do that first. You know what, let me do green first for some reason. Make it green first and I'll go over it with the brown, but basically you want to decorate this because it will show that you can wrap it with paper. I used to do that first with some decorative paper, but I didn't. relying on the strength of the paper and glue to hold my signatures, just as I thought I needed them to hold them, so I decided to just ink this and use it as a gluing surface, not gluing the sewing surface itself, would work. on the other side but it is a little bit more now that you have measured it and everything is perfect if you add a piece of paper it will be thicker and then you stick the piece of paper on it and then you realize that it is too thick and I have been in that path and I'm using the wrong one, we didn't really notice.

I've been down that road and thought, you know what? I'm just going to decorate this and make it look really real. great as is, I don't need to wrap it with more paper because it just makes it wider than it needs to be okay, okay, I don't know if you saw it, but these two didn't exactly line up, but that's okay. but because it is masked with ink that removes all evils, as you know, evils sneak in occasionally and we must deal with them, they are not evils, they are just fake little paws, yes, the handmade look is fine, yes, all.

Now that I've mixed my ink covers, life is going to be very interesting from here on out, okay, here we go, here we go, okay, so that's cool, huh? and you won't see much of this, but I'll see a hint of it and I think I'm going to yeah, no, that's silver, wait, yeah, I found the gold okay, so I think I'm going to run around the edges of this with a little bit of waxed gold gilt paste and that makes the edges show through. It's pretty nice, so I'm just showing you these extra fancy little tricks.

These are all you know, optional and you can do it, if this is your style then great, if not you don't have to do this part. You could do it with a different color, a magic marker, watercolor or paint, you could paint them, yes I have painted them before, that works well, just paint them, grab some acrylic paint from Walmart and paint them, then you could stamp them and it looks cute mm- hmm, maybe aligned with the style or theme of your journal, if you are doing a nature journal, you could put some butterflies or insects or something, very cool, and I will like the random things, yes, now it looks . like we have something cool and fancy metallic there, yeah we've massively upped our game using this gold gilding wax, yeah there we go, now I gotta get back to work on my baby.