When you start overthinking everything, it stops being fun and relaxing and starts to become stressful and a chore.

I'm 71 and have been clipping pictures, words and 'scraps' from magazines for years and sorting them into files and envelopes. I really was never sure what to do with them. 😂 I found your your channel this morning, it's like the ah-ha moment in "Close Encounters..." I'll be getting a glue stick and book today !!

Making a gluebook doesn't always "work" for everyone. Just don't overthink it. I started off by ripping up small pieces of magazine (size of about a quarter) and making a mosaic just of color on my entire page. This helps to just simplify it at first. There's no wrong way of doing it. ❤❤❤

I sat on the couch and watched your whole video 😂 You have inspired me to go do a gluebook page!! But for that, I have to get off the couch…hmmm…gluebook, couch, gluebook, couch 🤷‍♀️ If I get a video out soon, you’ll know which I chose 🤣

I just finished a gluebook. No rhyme or reason to it. It's made up of images that I liked from old magazines. Now I'm starting another one, same concept.

Hi, you are the first person I have come across in these glue book videos that totally resonates with me when it comes to glueing pics. I too want to just glue pictures that I love into my books and have them themed eg. Like beach, etc. I don’t like doing layers that cover up my beloved pictures so I will fill small spaces with pattern strips from magazines with the same colour or topic theme. I also have a A4 folder with full size images. Happy sorting and gluing. Thanks for sharing your video.

I just heard of a glue book. Been watching lots of videos. So far I'm still not sure of what is going on with a glue book. Plus, it's hard to find used magazines. Doctors office used to have them. Not anymore. I gave mine away when I moved from a larger home into a small apartment. I got tired of moving them. Boy, were they heavy. Now I could use them. I want to watch to see how you overcome this new art project. Good luck.

You can layer pictures to cover up smaller spaces. Consider covering up some of the pictures or parts of them. You could also adding other cuts of pictures that don't go with the theme to make a funny picture or add stickers to some of the blank spaces

Oh honey I feel you 1000th percent ( energy efficiency) beautiful way to put it , I mean I was like yeah she def like me she does give a flying fudge.. anyways ur book is beautiful please I hope u get better and out of ur rut. I mean I should speak to myself right but just know u got a new subby

What your doing works and the results are great. Looking through our many folders of images reminds us what we have and where we have a perfect spot to use them 😀

Energy Efficient - love that! I love my glue book because when quilting or knitting I mostly have to be precise and follow the pattern. I probably love gathering the images the most because I find it really relaxing. Limited decision making required. So many fun discoveries. I’m learning to embrace working on whatever pages hold my interest and then moving on when I’m not enjoying it. Some days I’m very decisive and in finish mode. Others I just browse and sort. The best thing is no rules and they are images that make me feel happy. No one may ever see it but me!

I would agree your gluebook is like an enmasse gluebook and thats ok. I enjoy working in my color gluebook. I might do an enmasse gluebook just not sure when though. Great gluebook session as always!

You have such beautiful images in your book and so many ready to add. And just going thru all your images made you happy.

I absolutely love your glue book! 🥰 This was so fun!!

I cannot relax, even if I do relaxing things, that work for other people. I am struggling with anxiety disorder, it wears me out (physically and psychically), constantly worrying about the smallest things. Sometimes I don't do anything all day. But making art makes me feel a bit better of myself. I also copy the images I want to use, to ease my anxiety, knowing I can do it again.

I really like your gluebooking videos😍 hihi wish you did them more often than every 6 months..😋 what helps me when I'm struggling ( because I feel like I've finally got the hang of it now😅) is to pick maybe 20 or 30 pictures beforehand and just make them work! Also i have "weird ' spots that are difficult to fill, but for those spots I also use fussycuts or a strip of color or a texture picture...

43:13 In that tall spot....why not add the fisherman as the skinny piece, and a bit of the trees above him to include in that other rectangle. Do you add 'generic' parts? Like that spot on the next page, could you add some of the field behind the marmot[?] ?? annnnnd you just tossed out the extra piece I was talking about....hahahaha

I've been doing glue books for about a year and the ones I first saw here more ..chaotic ...than some of the ones I'm seeing lately. I've found that having lots of square or rectangle images just doesn't work for me...even as a first layer, it's just not interesting to me. I like fitting shapes together and seeing how colors and patterns and things play together. And a lot of times when I first glue stuff down I'll only use glue on the middle parts so that I can tuck images under the edges. I've done some kind of themed glue books I did a bird one and then I also have one and started another..that is just patterns and colors, I have very few identifiable objects and it's totally about how the shapes, colors, and patterns fit together. I've tried different styles and making.. I don't know the right word..but more composed images (like Nicole on Relax Cut Glue does ) that make an image or kind of tell a story but that just isn't my style . And sometimes I just like a full page image a lot and just glue it in and don't make any changes. For me the less structured glue booking is the more fun it is

Hahaha! Energy Efficient instead of Lazy.... I am TOTALLY stealing that. Girl... isn't it funny how our house seems SO big when we don't want to walk to get something in the other room. Lordamercy! I really haven't gone back to my gluebook in a LONG time. Will I ever? Who knows. I like the way you do yours. It makes logical sense. However, does it need to make sense? hahah. I guess that is where the struggle is. I think I really just like doing my journals and mixed media art. Only time will tell I suppose. lol. Thanks for bringing us along! Love and hugs!

I've been watching a lot of glue booking videos & collecting a lot of stuff. Haven't made anything yet. I can't wrap my brain around it. I'm certainly not organized, but just can't get all this. It seems so random. I love the finished books. Have you watched Relax, Cut Glue videos? She is really good. TFS

I am gluebooking. Sort of...I travel from "Color gluebooks" to "Alpha" and to randomness- to enmasse...-as the spirit moves me... family members ask me--what do you do with them? And I have no answer other than I find it relaxing...does there have to be an end function after all?? Then there is Junque Journal partial gluebooks too. I am all over the place lately thanks for sharing your process...hugs, Julierose🥰