Very fun page! I think the page just needs a lovely happy caterpillar nibbling at those holes 🐛

That page came out beautiful! Thanks for the video! Surprises are part of the fun!!

So cute and fun! As usual! 💕 TFS 🤗

Just beautiful.

Loving the bright yellow butterflies😊

what a beautiful page Barbara - love what you did xx

Yellow the Sun is out. Wonderful.

What an interesting treatment to use the net coming thru the hours ❤️

Very cool. The colours work well together. I love how you did the background!

Always such great information and wow, beautiful art pages. Thank you!

A fun video, simple and very creative. Thank you for walking us through not only the accomplishments but also showing us the fails and how to improve or correct them. You are a wonderful teacher.....hugs from MN.

Very creative page. Beautiful.

Enjoy what you come up with and the bright color

Love this one so much. I love to see how a junk journal is actually used❤. Your mom is so pretty!

Love this.

Are you sure those aren't moths and not butterflies? Looks like they have left you some moth holes on that page! Love all your videos, you always try something new ❤️

Beautiful Barbara‼️

What a lovely page!! You make it seem so easy😂. But definitely a technique I want to try. Thanks! 🤗 ❤Tamara

Thanks for sharing. Love the butterflies.🦋🦋

Love this page and especially love your butterflies. Thank you!

Love the technique of ripping the holes. It’s a really fun idea. As always the page turned out great. For now, because I’m not as adventurous as you, I will live vicariously through you. lol

I never get my fill with your yummy snacks. They are so delicious. Awesome, background. Loved the butterflies🥰🦋

The butterflies are gorgeous.

Beautiful flowers ❤

I love this!😊

👏👏👏wooow...eine großartige Möglichkeit einer Seitengestaltung...meeega interressant und wunderschön👍😁

Hi Barbara, again, i love so much your background with mixed media technic, i have too this, I keep all the fillets of vegetables or fruits that I can find during my food shopping... i love the result... big kiss🥰🥰 Laetitia

love it

Beautiful!! 😊😊I save avocado's, lemon and sometimes beet bags have netting. I have only used once, on a cover, so thanks for this new idea.❤Jeannie

Love how this come out. Thank you for sharing. Hugs.

Looks great! I love the bright yellow butterflies! In fact I really like the combo of grey and yellow!

I have a journal I can try backgrounds in when I remember to use it! I love the amazing journal your friend made for you. So much fun! ❤

Beautiful job ❤

Barbara:a really nice job. Always very clever. Carol from California

Such an amazing technique...both pages are beautiful!! 🦋💛⚘️ Admire your bravery in experimenting...I'm still a bit tentative at times!! I like your idea of a separate journal for just trying out techniques!! 😉❤️🤗

Love this, trial and error is the name of the game. Turned out great!

Hi Barbara - you should use the negative from the die cuts to make a shaker pocket! Add acetone to the back and fill up each butterfly with different colors, THEN use it to make a pocket or tuck spot. I have not seen that done before, could be a fun add on!

This made me happy! ❤ 😘😘 aus Belgien 🎉

Very cool page 👍

Love hour layering! Looks nice.

I love trying new things in my junk journal. The results are not always the way I wanted but I love how it turns out :D

18:00 Those wire antennas, wow, such a small detail for such a big impact. And holes with something pocking out of them is a generic recipe for surprise, for sure. And what are we hunting for with all these arts if not a surprise, hey? Thanks for all you do!

It is a very beautiful page sweetie, love those butterflies 🦋 💕 you give so many ideas and inspiration ✨️

Love love love your work ❤ it’s so raw messy just like I journal beautiful 😻 xx. I have learnt sooooo much from you . Thank you

A lovely outcome! I enjoy experimenting with all my art ideas, that’s how we learn right? I’m crazy about the holes with something coming through from underneath. Going to play with that 😁

You could use a cotton bud on your embossing stamp pad, then use that to add the Versamark more randomly to your die cuts. Or even better, dip something into some watered down Gum Arabic (cotton bud or a dotting tool or try flicking it on?) then use that randomly on the die cut & add the glaze. As long as it’s still a bit sticky, it should be enough to hold the powder on & will dry with the glaze

Another cool page.........😻

Love how it turned out

Maybe some spray adhesive for the netting would have helped.

❤a delicious snack! Thank you.

Love this page!!!

Thank you for doing a spread with a modern flair! When I plan on embossing after during an embossing folder, I rub the embossing pad over the raised surface of the embossing pad and then run through your paper. Then i apply the embossing powder.

wonderful!

Très très beau ! J’adore !

Love this page, turned out great❤

I literally just finished my first complete journal today. That journal that you have here from Honey, I used a similar technique for the spine where the circle shows the signatures. It’s really cool how that part looks. I made the journal for my husband for his birthday. It was a little late because his birthday was February 29th. Anyway, it started out as a “dark journal”, one where he could put his sad thoughts but then the more I made it the more it just became funny 😆 instead, so I changed it into a free for all journal and put some color in it. He likes brighter colors so I had some of our boys coloring and painting pages in there. It turned out very interesting. It was very simple really. It took a lot of time but still pretty simple. I put most work into the cover and sewing in pockets. I left a lot of journal space and didn’t get very artsy with the pages. He’s a writer so I thought it would be best to leave it more for writing space. Hopefully he’ll use it. If not, it was a good test run!! I watch you and Louise almost daily and have been binge watching videos because I want to catch up on your old videos as well. I think it’s cool to see how your creative process grows and changes over time. Your videos are very inspiring and I like how you make it look approachable. Sometimes we look at something and think how could I ever make that? But watching your videos and seeing the process broken down, it makes sense how one could do it. I left Louise a similar message. You both inspire me so much and I like both your styles so I figured I should let you both know that I finally completed my first journal! Thank you! 😊 ~Tasha Rae (#TerribleTeaArtistry)

Fun technique! TFS the inspiration!

Lovely ma’am!

Lol definitely afraid but working on that. Masking tape and lemon netting, definitely mixed media😁. Those swatches are super helpful. Great effects Barbara 👏. Tfs and have a great day 💖💖💖

Very nice results, Barbara. You could have used foam tape for the netting too! Thanks for your post!

This is such a great idea for a journal, a bit like dephemerember where we used all different techniques in one journal, a great reference point, I was just flicking back through mine again the other day, take care 😉

Love it. And all I ever do is experiment in my Journals. Just making the journal is an experiment for me😬

💜💜💜 when watching Tim Holtz’s video, he said if you heat the powder too long, it will lose the gloss.

Very beautiful and thank you for doing the modern version! The only thing is I so wanted a third butterfly to the left bottom. Three holes, three butterflies, I guess I might be a bit OCD!

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Du hast mein Rufen wegen dem Oxidespray im Hintergrund einfach nicht gehört… ! 😜 Ich liebe dein Schmetterlinge 🫶 und die Seite ist auch mit gefärbten Spritzern wunderschön geworden 🥰. Tolle Idee mit dem Netz! Liebe Grüße Nicole

Great page! I have to get that stencil. I see you using it all the time and wish I had it. Our grocery stores lemon bags aren't as soft and pretty as yours. They are more of a stiff plastic. Maybe at Whole Foods...

Tip: Hold your heat gun further away (from the back) and when it starts melting bring it closer and eventually bring the heat gun to the front.

I love this netting. I have some from Avocados but it’s a green plastic. I can’t change the color. I think this yellow is so bright and cheerful. But man!! It has a mind of its own. You put it “here”, it wants to go “there”! Lol. Love the page though. I always forget to use my embossing powder and I love the effect! Gotta try it again. ♥️♥️♥️

I have experiments with a pancake hot plate instead of the heat gun. It provides a hot surface to melt the powders without blowing them away. It is a different effect, but works very nicely. You can also use a wet brush to apply powders, rather than pouring over. Also, different effect.

I love watching you experiment, I am more of a happy accidents kind of person so I would not be too worried about knowing the outcome of every technique before I try it, I love the idea of a separate journal just for experimenting and trying out backgrounds. Any excuse for a new journal ☺xx

So cute

So gorgeous 😮❤

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Haha, my husband just asked me 2-3 days ago if I needed the lemon-net for any creative purpose. I said no, but one day I will need it sometime in the future. (-: But we can buy lemon anytime. (-: That time is getting closer.

The trouble with the distress embossing glaze is that the liquid it sticks to must be viscous. Just water won’t do. You could try water with some added glycerin?

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OMG! That journal I love it. Is there a tutorial on how you made it?

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Hi Barbara, Greetings from Missouri, USA. Thanks again for another delightful junk journal video. I really appreciate your concise monologue explaining the steps you take and the rationale behind your decisions. There are so many tips and techniques I am learning. I like the idea of individual journals for experimentation and the different backgrounds. I think I will be doing this at some point in the future. I find I am gravitating to themed journals, so this makes sense to me. I have never used a die cutting machine and would not know where to begin with. Any suggestions for a beginner that is economical? Have a great day.

Dear Barbara, Thank you so much for your creative influence in my life- you have given me a bit of bravery for my own projects. However- recently you started playing a song on your channel- which used to be played ALOT on DIY Dollar Tree youtube channels that I used to watch -but stopped mostly because of the song. It's a beautiful song to most- I don't want to mention it by name- because I don't want to offend the artist who has a beautiful silky voice- and is probably a dynamite individual just trying to love life and take care of people and pets and the environment. And I love music- love it love it. But for whatever reason this particular song has it in for me and it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears. So selfishly I ask that if you have alternative songs for your channel- let them ring!! I know this is a strange strange request- and I can't tell you how your channel saves the day for me-you have no idea.I apologize to anyone I might offend. Hey, what do you expect from a flower child Vermonter?

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Could you show us a tab binding?

Vielleicht könntest du die mit Embossing-Glaze besprenkelten Teile über einem Toaster erhitzen? Auf dem Brötchenaufsatz? Dann fliegt nichts von dem Pulver weg. Wie auch immer, die Seite ist "trotzdem" fesch geworden

Hello Barbara! I’m confused as to why you use water with the embossing powder? I’ve only seen you use the water. Thoughts? BTW this is amazing as always!