the fact that she’s been filming these videos for years and still has the patience to explain everything in such detail is so sweet ❤🇧🇷

Dear Johanna, did you know, that the handwriting in the book is German? As far as I could tell it talks about the book being a Christmas gift for a "dear, little" person called Lilo, a peaceful Christmas, upcoming better times and contemplative hours. What a journey the book must have had now being yours and being turned into a sketchbook. Greetings from Germany, Carolin

For anyone new to creating books like this your instructions were so clear and easy to understand. You say you have done this so many times, but how thoughtful for you to do it once again for anyone new to your channel. The books you showed were gorgeous, and I have to pop into my local town tomorrow so I'm going to try and pick one up from a charity shop. You have encouraged me through this to stretch myself creatively through sketching, which in all honesty I'm not great at 😬 but I'm happy to try. Bless you Johanna x

What I love with your tutorials is there’s no complicated math involved 😅 you make it clear and digestible, great teaching skills! Thank you for continuing to share your tips and tricks! ❤ Ps: currently working for a local shop, on a collection of very similar journals and notebooks, from old book covers ( the red ones with gold embossing are ubiquitous in France), using this simple pamphlet stitch which I learned from you ! So thank you from the bottom of my heart❤️

I love how you tore the pages to make them fit into the book cover. It gives the book a nice look. You're a great teacher; you make everything look so easy. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Oh my gosh…what beautiful book covers…those readers digest are nothing like I’ve seen…must be old !😊👍🏻

I have like 1000 + Readers Digest books...they are so beautiful so I just use them everywhere around my house. I'm thinking i may use a few for sketchbooks. Why do I have so many Readers Digest?? My son worked at a homeless shelter that had so many books they let us take them for free. Great idea Johanna!!! love your channel and your voice!!☺

I love that you used so many different types of paper, that's a great idea 😊

I've reinforced with Tyvek before, but the fabric is a much nicer idea, plus I have tons of scraps. Thanks for the idea!

Dearest Johanna, I could watch you make journals all day on you channel!!! I love it!!! It just reinforces the procedure!!! Thank you for sharing!!! ♥️♥️🥰🥰🌺🌺

This process was so much easier..i remember stitching small pieces of paper together the same way as you did with individual section of pages....as a kid. combining page section was such a great idea

Thanks for the great idea for using old book covers and lots of plain paper. I might try doing a color theme.

Love this video! I enjoy and love binding my own journals. Thank you for sharing😊

Love the different paper types. Beautiful cover! 💕

I love how simple this art journal came out with all types of papers! 💖🦋

This video was soooo helpful. I just discovered your channel! So excited!

Great little tutorial. I love the cover and the different papers you chose.

I already knew how to do this because of your channel, but I enjoy watching your videos! Really beautiful book!

You did an amazing job. We wish you all the best.

Thanks so much for such a simple and thorough step by step video! Blessings from Ohio.

Thank you so much I really appreciate your hard work ❤

Happy is the day when I see you released a new video. I never get tired of your videos as I watch them over and over. Lol. So no worries if you repeat yourself. Lol

What a fun idea! I cannot wait to see your artwork in this beautiful sketchbook! 💛

You make everything look so easy. ❤

Love this. I need to make them for my daughters. TFS

Thank you so much for this inspiring idea! The book cover is so beautiful. I was wondering, do you know of and/or could you show us how to bind it without sewing through the spine?

Love that. Looks really nice. Thanks for sharing 😊

So cute, love the book cover, so pretty!

Great video, Johanna! Looking forward to your art work.

Thank you, Johanna, for being patient enough to go thru the process again. I've yet to make a more than one signature book. Now I see one of my problems is I put too many papers in a signature. Lol. I get befuddled on how to reinforce the spine. I used a shipping tape then the material. I see now I could have saved my tape. Lol Thank you, sweet girl, for this video. 💖

Thank you Johanna!

So very awesome! I have not made them 5 signatures but I may give it a go…

As a former librarian, I love this!! Too many books in landfills. Thanks!

I love this!!! Easy to follow and you made something that seems impossible easily possible ❤

Thank you...this was so clear...I am always looking for ways to bind the books.

You make this look so easy. I will definitely have to try this method. Thank you for the tutorial.

I love this idea Thank you for sharing! 💜

Thx so much for explaining.

I love this tutorial, thank you! Would you ever make a tutorial where you use an old book cover, but you hide the stitching inside it?

I really like your repurpose of an old book cover to art journal. I would love to see how you would repurpose an old book to journal or art journal without gutting the book. Curious.

It looks great 😊

Nice 🎉. You make it so easy 🎉

Thank you for sharing ❤

Thanks for the tips!

Love it💕

So very pretty!

Thank you for sharing your process..................................😻

I am always so excited to watch your videos and even though I have known how to do this for a while I still learned a new trick!

I like this little art journal. No need to buy one any more.

Great idea.

I like the tearing idea. Is there a reason why you didn't use the first page as a template for the rest?

So pretty! And how awesome (for me at least) that the book is German and made the long way down to you! In case you are wondering what the title says: "The burning bush". It's a novel writen by a Scandinavian (Danish) female (Nobel Prized) author and the book seems to be from 1930! How awesome (I mean it survived the 2nd world war and is in such a good condition! What a double treasure you found and made out of it! ). The story is about a man and his faith. I also have tried to figure out what words were written on the inner back cover... so in case someone is interested in: - Meiner lieben kleinen Lilo mit dem Wunsch eines friedlichen Weihnachtsfestes und kommender besserer Zeiten für besinnliche Stunden zugeeignet von Ihrer Toni Kriegsweihnachten 1944 - Dedicated to my dear little Lilo with the wish of a peaceful Christmas and better times to come for contemplative hours from your Toni War Christmas 1944 - Lots of greetings from (Nothern) Germany! Lucia

Great job! Carol from California

Wow, that Heidi book. I wonder how old it is?! ❤ I still have mine wich is the original one after the film came out (1952)

Kullandiginiz firca ile surdugunuz beyaz tutkal mi ne tutkali ve ortasina yapstirdiginiz kumas mi gul desenli olan

oh myyyy dear johanna😮😮😮🥹 the sketchbooks looks with pink binding and black mechanical binding and the brown sketchbook paper…which you reuse… and cut.. they look like that ones i send to you loong loong ago …remeber? from switzerland far away☺️ i still watch all your videos and love what you create❤❤❤ so nice to see you using them for this cool tutorial… much love from switzerland take care lovely xoxo faithy😘

very cool

Lovelyxx

Where do you buy the books from? Thanks in advance 😊

How do you make your pages lye flat when they're bound? Mine just stand right up and make it so difficult to write on

I am subscribed for sure like you simple beautiful ideas ✂🙎🏻‍♀gisele

If you use a squared page for the template it's going to be easier, no need to measure.

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The poor spine of the book😭 Ever tried making a hidden spine?

When I make these in this process...the spine area gets wobbly...and if I tighten it, then it doesn’t open fully...you held your journal closed the entire time. Can you please make a video where you work on it in real time and show us how to make the spine flexible but also strong?