Thank you for that amazing comment - I read it with a huge smile on my face! Yes, it's probably my favourite journal that I've got on the go at the moment, and the closest to being full - I shall be sorry when there's no more space to play in there. Ah well, I'll just have to start another altered book journal when that happens... Thank you for all your lovely coments today.

Yes, it's really clear when autumn hits, isn't it, and all those warm rusts and oranges start coming! So happy you enjoyed the flip through. Thank you for sharing such a lovely, thoughtful comment.

I'm so happy to hear that - it's definitely one of my happiest places to play, this book... I shall be slightly sad once it's full! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.

✨ @w0rdsandp1ctures I found myself doing exactly the same, having to pause and zoom to see the beauty within each page, so many beautiful details everywhere😊😊 You are so very talented 🤗✨

@sheilastyrebriere @PaperInspirationsAU In a few weeks time there will be a longer flip through of this book, with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page, so you'll get another chance to zoom in then! Thank you both for your support and lovely comments here on the channel.

So happy to have you along for the journey! We'll have a look at some other books in the meantime, so the talking version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.

Thank you so much - what a lovely comment.

Thank you, Edith, for such a lovely comment (on IG as well as here!). We'll take a look at some other books first, so the talkie version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. You have a great weekend too.

Thank you so much - I'm always happy when I'm working in this book!

Thank you so much - very happy you enjoyed it!

Oh, what a lovely comment, thank you - that made my heart lift. Happy you found your way here.

Thank you so much - yes, I shall be sad when there's no more room to play in this book - pages here always seems to turn out well.

So happy you enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to let me know.

Absolutely you CAN... I sometimes have pages left for literally years waiting for the inspiration to strike (see the Books, Books, Books episode coming up in a couple of weeks!). So happy you're enjoying the inspiration.

Thank you ... I do love a touch of orange, but only when it's autumn (although rust is allowed any time!). Happy you enjoyed the flip through.

Thank you so much, Silvie - very happy you enjoyed flipping through with me.

So happy to hear you found inspiration in these pages (I know I do, looking back over them). Thank you so much for sharing such a lovely thought.

So happy you like it all. I'm very fond of those crackle blossoms too - and there were months in between those two things happening. I had made the tag ages before I thought of including it in a journal page! So happy to hear that these videos are inspiring you to play around with your Tim Holtz mediums... there is so much joy to be had with them. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.

Thank you so much, Tineke... yes, it's one of my favourites, that cover.

That's wonderful to hear - thank you so much for letting me know.

Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks you so much for your lovely comment.

What a lovely comment - thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts.

So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here if you haven't already seen it - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you so much - what a lovely comment.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you so much - isn't it fascinating how specific our individual preferred colour palettes can be?!

I'm so happy to hear that - thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.

So happy to hear you enjoyed it - thank you for taking the time to let me know with your lovely comment.

So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Merci beaucoup - very happy you enjoyed turning the pages with me.

Thank you... Books, Books, Books episodes are going to be weekly for now, so watch out on Wednesdays! Happy you enjoyed it.

@@w0rdsandp1ctures Yay! That’s exciting news.

Ahh, thank you - hope you've caught your breath now!

So happy to hear you feel inspired to play... there is a Few Minutes of Fun video showing the background of the next page in this book being created (and the rest is coming soon), so look out for that if you haven't seen it. And the next episode of Books, Books, Books is coming up later today! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave your lovely comment.

Oh, exciting... I hope you have lots of fun playing with them. Do tag me in if you're sharing anything on Instagram!

Thank you so much - I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed it... and yes, the words really matter to me, so I'm happy you noticed them too.

So happy you like it. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment.

Thank you so much... yes, the cover was almost accidental - just me having a play with some of the (now sadly discontinued) Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap, and wondering how it would look with some added rusty texture!!

Thank you - yes, it's a nice track isn't it... one of the ones from the KZfaq audio library!

Yes, I love all that scrunchy brick texture, and I was really pleased with the reflective "glass" (acetate) in the window frame. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

I do always feel happy working in this particular book. Thank you so much for stopping by, Pamela.

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much - happy that you love it.

Thank you - happy you enjoyed it!

Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.

Thank you so much... I'm happy you love it. There's a longer video coming up this week with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page spread. Watch out for that on Wednesday, if you're interested. Have a great week.

So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you so much, Patty - it's definitely one of my favourite journals to play in.

Thank you ... it's just one of many journals - there will be more coming your way in this Books, Books, Books series. Maybe one of these days I'll actually fill one up completely!!

Happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you so much - happy you love it.

You're welcome - thank you for always taking the time to leave lovely comments.

Many more on the way - this is just episode one of Books, Books, Books! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Glad you enjoyed it, and yes, we all have our own individual pleasures. I shall never understand pot-holing or baseball, for instance!! But it would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

So happy you enjoyed it - thank you so much for your lovely comment.

Thank you so much - happy you liked it.

Thank you so much - it's a journal I love working in!

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment - so happy you like it.

Muchas gracias!

So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you so much.

Thank you - it's definitely one of my favourite journals to play in.

Thank you so much for that lovely comment - very happy you feel inspired.

Happy you like it, thank you.

Thank you so much - happy you enjoyed it, and thanks for taking the time to let me know.

You're welcome - happy you enjoyed it.

Happy you enjoyed it... if you haven't got any on your shelves already, charity shops very often have them to give away. Bizarrely, they often pulp the older hardback books - they're definitely missing a trick not tapping into the craft market!!

Thank you so much - happy you enjoyed it.

That's lovely to hear, thank you.

Thank you so much for watching, and for your lovely comment.

I started working in some of my art journals years ago too, and then they go on the shelf and I get distracted by all kinds of other projects (including other journals!)... but they're always there waiting when I need them again! So happy to hear you're inspired to pull your altered book off the shelf and play. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

Happy you like it... thanks for watching and commenting.

Thank you so much for such a lovely comment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you!

Thank you so much, Cathy... see you later!!

Thank you.

So happy you enjoyed it. Plenty more books books books to come!!

Very happy you enjoyed it - thank you so much for watching and commenting.

Merci beaucoup!

Thank you.

Crackle paste through a stencil and some sprays, as far as I remember. I'll take a look at it and see whether I could create something similar for A Few Minutes of Fun some time soon! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

@@w0rdsandp1ctures It would be awesome 😍

Thank you!

I don't, I'm afraid... I made this years before I started any filming. It's painted Tim Holtz tissue paper, and there will be some videos with painting of tissue paper (in fact, there already is one showing a large journalling page, where I'm painting my own Printed Tissue botanicals with watercolours kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7OZptV_vrzKgqM.html if you're interested), and at some point I will probably get to some rusty textures too, but possibly not on a book cover. Happy you enjoyed it, and thank you so much for watching and commenting.

Thank you!

Thank you so much, as always, Sue, for a wonderful comment - such a pleasure to read. And thanks for the feedback on the camera movement - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around!! It's many different rusting techniques picked up over the years - some with paint, some with ink, some with texture pastes, some with a combination of all those things. I'm sure one or two will come up in A Few Minutes of Fun some time, but I'm also thinking of creating an actual class looking at some of the ways I do it. But the rusty wire mostly comes ready-rusted, except I do now have lots that held up my sugar snap peas in the garden last year and is now ready for playing with in the craft room. PaperArtsy Rusting Powder is a marvellous thing that I use a lot... shop.paperartsy.co.uk/rusting-powder-3322-p.asp - and that bottle will last you ages and rust lots of stuff. Hope that helps for now.

Thank you!

Thin out

Glad you corrected think to thin... I was about to assure you there's no planning ahead! I don't tend to thin out, no - I like the crazily chunky look you end up with, and how that stands up on a shelf as a sculptural object. At the point when I can't open it to work in any longer, that's when I'll know it's full! I do glue several pages together, to get a firmer working surface. You can see that in the Few Minutes of Fun episode where I'm working on the background for the next page in this book - here if you haven't seen it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html (and the collaging over the top is coming up in about ten days' time too). I have other hardback book journals where I haven't altered the cover at all so, as you say, it's a complete surprise when there's something inside. (In fact, it's not unknown for me to take a book off the shelf in the studio to tear some pages out to use in a project and discover that actually it's got art journalling inside!). Happy you enjoyed the video, and thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.

So happy you enjoyed it... and thank you for your lovely comment. There are pages left because it's still an active art journal. In fact, there's a page I'm working on in the Few Minutes of Fun series... the background is in the link below, the collaging is still to come. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html

Sorry about that - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around. The commenter above you felt the opposite and really enjoyed it, so you win some and you lose some, I guess! I suppose you could try slowing the video down to watch, but maybe better to wait for the version in a few weeks' time where I talk through the pages in more detail... I've filmed that differently, so hopefully it won't do the same thing to you. Thank you for the thumbs up despite the seasickness - that's kind!

@@w0rdsandp1ctures Oh great, then I will wait for your new video! I didn't know if you were aware some people can't handle this kind of video, but like you say, other people like it, so... In the end, you should do what you prefer, you can't please everybody. ❤️

So happy you like it. There's going to be a video coming which talks through the pages in some detail, so that will answer many of those questions. That's coming up in a couple of weeks' time. But some of the questions are already answered in these videos in which I'm working on a background and the collaging of one of the pages in it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html (background video) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f75oq9d-nr_Qn2w.html (collage video) And the cover is basically a version of the rusty crackle tags and tissue paper... It's Tim Holtz Collage Paper, with rusty texture created similarly to the rust texture on these tags (but with slightly different ingredients... which will be turning up in another rusty recipe some time for A Few Minutes of Fun). You can see the rusty tags in these videos, though I think you may already have seen them? Though for the book I added the tissue paper first and then rusted over the top... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r8p0hdlllbGvhHU.html (rusty texture) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9OIptqG2aqzY30.html (tissue paper added) Hope you're having a great week.

Yes indeed, and yes I do... there's a whole video about exactly that in this book right here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdR6qZZ53tbPiGw.html and obviously I'll also talk about it in the narrated flipthrough in a few weeks' time. Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks so much for watching and commenting.