Miss Natasa you are my absolute favorite journal artist, and for good reason! You should do these unplanned projects more often. So much fun to watch it all unfold, hear about your thought processes but best of all I feel it reminds us all to just let go and create. Thank you so much for sharing your genius with us 🌹

You are one of my favorite "journalists!" Your voice and accent are so calming! I am one who notices others' hands. Your hands are so graceful and so in sync with your voice! I always am nudged to get crafting after watching your videos. Thank you for inspiring me and always making my day brighter!

I love how organic this looks, almost like it was found in a forest.

The slightly Gollum-ish "I want to frame it." Cracked me up 😂😂😂

I absolutely love this video and journal. In fact, on a trip to get my morning pills, my body went on autopilot, and I grabbed a paperbag, some sewing pattern paper, and a few other things!😊 I am itching to try this. I enjoyed watching you play seeing your process. I love the binding and the closure...I love it all really! Please do more videos like this. God bless.

This feels a little like going back to your roots! Sometimes structure can get a little boring. This is NOT boring! Imagination is a good thing and it’s so fun when you take us along on your journey! Fun to watch!

I'm not into grunge much but you make it look attractive! I enjoyed watching you make this journal. I'm so happy that you and Banjo have a good relationship. I know it was rough going in the beginning but I think you did a great job rescuing Banjo. Not just physically but emotionally also. I hope you have many years together ❤

Thank you, Ms. Natasa for going outside your beautifully well planned style to bring us an equally beautiful AND inspiring free form journey! Using rocks from your drive to distress and hand lotion that Banjo wanted as a snack is the icing on the cake that sets your videos apart!! Thank you for sharing not just your creativity with us!

I love it when Banjo makes an appearance!

4:43 Those studs.. I also found this name for them on amazon: ‘Four-Jaw Square Rivets’. 17:02 Those crazy tea bag paper inserts on the cover… how unique and creative! That addition of structure to the lotioned/wrinkled/sponge-painted paper bag in the form of a cardstock rectangle… how clever!! As for the ‘hours’ (hours!) that his journal took to complete… Nothing wrong with that from my perspective… Those hours were hours of fun. Totally repeating this whole experiment with the only difference that I am hand-sewing, not machine sewing (way more enjoyable for me). Thanks a lot for all the inspiration!!

I’ve not been a fan of “grunge,” but I believe you’ve just changed my mind!! Using the paper bag for a cover? GENIUS!!!

Natasa, I love the way you can piece things together, not only repurposing but also transforming the old everyday things into something new and beautiful. This grunge style is elevated into something unique and stylish, thanks to your signature touch. Thanks for sharing! 😊

I love repurposing garbage into something beautiful. Thank you, Natasha, for another wonderful tutorial. Play time is important! 😉

Thank you Natasa I had given up hope of anything worth watching on KZfaq tonight. Now I can settle back and watch you. Such a pleasure ❤

Love, love, love. This shows once again that you do not need heaps of purchased materials to make something fabulous. Such a gorgeous result that still is so distinctively Natasa. That closure is delightful. I’m glad you got to play and have fun, and my next medicine bag can look forward to a similar treatment! ❤

Wow, that is some grungy goodness! Love watching you go through the thought process of creating it on the fly (with no previous planning).

It's amazing how you can wad up a paper bag and turn it into a beautiful journal. I love your grunge style. Thank you so much for sharing.

Your creative IQ is off the charts.

I want to say that upon all my viewings of KZfaq that feature creating journals and other creative items, you are the best out of the top ten.

You have a unique and incredible talent. I have loved all of your videos! A crumpled up paper bag! When you said you might “frame it” I literally laughed out loud!

Love this journal! It has a masculine look. Which is great. Men need journals too. Also a welcomed peek at your dog. Just adore journal videos that include pet family members.

what a great Frankenstein journal. Give Banjo a kiss on his nose for me, that dear sweet doggie

I love it!! To me, it's masculine....it would make a great gift for a guy. Thank you for teaching me a new way of making a journal!! I appreciate you!!!! 🧡

Thank you for not losing many words but starting at once.

Dear Natasha. You are my artistic hero. Period.

(music playing)...Grunge, grunge, grunge, grunge... I love grunge and you just hit the ball out of the park. LOVE IT. Please do more of these. Thanks!!!!

So great that you do crunchy grungy, and the exact cuts like in the quilt-type creation. You do inspire me to create more. Thank you Natasa. And thanks for the Banjo visit.

Even though you didn't plan what you were going to do you were still very concise. The way you processed that paper bag really made a great book cover. Love the stick idea. Also, I was so happy that Banjo made and appearance. 🙂

What a piece of art. It's gorgeously grungy. Tfs all your talents with us.😊

Natasha, I absolutely love this journal. I couldn’t get over what the hand lotion does to the bag. And love the stick on the binding. That cover is amazing! Love it all! Love seeing your doggie too! So cute! TFS! ❤

Oh my goodness…this video made me so happy. I have a whole stack of paper/cardboard rubbish that I challenged myself to making into at least 1 book…you’ve jump started my brain. Thank you for sharing!! 🥰

I don’t know how I missed this when it first came out, but now that I’ve seen it, I want to rush to my craft room and make this. I L O V E I T .

Fantastic. Transforming a plain bag into beauty is a talent!

What an odd and simply beautiful way to make a paper bag come alive! I kept watching video thinking if Frankenstein had a book to carry with him, this would be it! I guess all the stitches did it for me! (I’m a fan of Frank) Thanks for a new look on grunge👍❤️

Rags to riches... what fun!

You just make me so happy, every time I watch another amazing video you have come up with such wonderful ideas for all us crazy crafters out here to challenge our self with. Thank you so very much for all the time and effort you put in to making your videos so easy to follow and so enjoyable. Love you😍

I love how you took pieces of nothing and turned it into something fabulous and useful. I also love how you used the scraps from the signatures and made awesome embellishments. TFS❤

I would LOVE more videos of you just playing and having fun. I love your process and also love your way of thinking aloud. You are lovely and fun, and very creative, much better than anything that's on tv! And love your pup aswell. You always give so much, and inspire the need to create. Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy your content. 🖤

That is gorgeous, beautiful, ancient looking, clever, unique, one of a kind, leather bound, amazing, so creative and I can't wait to slather lotion over a paper sack !

Hello Natasa - How nice Banjo made an appearance! He looks so much calmer compared to when you first rescued him. I was so glad to see he settled into his new home with you and your family! He is very lucky! Lynn

You are a book making genius! Thank you for the hours you spent for our enjoyment! Love to see Banjo=:)

I too am in love with this. Beautiful work!!! Thank you for sharing your talents.

Natasa, you never cease to amaze me. Your are not only a terrific teacher but, you are one of the most creative artists in the "junk journal" community. The ease at which you create using the most available items is truly the best. Thank you for the gift of sharing.

This is amazing! Makes me want to get out all my scraps and create

Absolutely beautiful and I can imagine it took hours and hours to complete. Thank you so much for your concise videos and instructions. You are a great teacher!

You are a genius manipulator of paper to accomplish the end that you desire ... as someone who has the imagination of a gnat, and rarely takes flights of fancy, but I do LOVE paper and mourn every bit of waste I put into trash (especially if one side of the paper has no writing on it! ... watching and listening to you create, manipulate, and produce objects of fascination just gives me moments of thinking outside of my box! I appreciate also how much precision you present. For me, your videos are quite joyful, with so many possibilities!

OMG! This project is so COOL! I'm definitely going to try it. I would have thought that the lotion is greasy and so the paint and glue wouldn't stick. Well I guess I was wrong. I loved watching your process. Thank you 😊

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

I LOVE this journal! And I love watching your creative process unfold. Thank you for sharing that in actuality it took several hours, that decisions were made over time and not instantly. Makes me feel better about my "making" process!

Love it! If you ever got into making horror movie props, this technique with the sewing looks like an evil book made out of human skin

Благодарю Вас за творчество, интересные идеи!

The doggies! So sweet.

This was a delicious return to ✨grungy renaissance✨ and I loved watching you puzzle out where you wanted to take this project next! Each moment of discovery was a joy to see (along with your dog, Banjo!! Hi Banjo~💕)- I’m happy that YOU found joy as well in the process, that’s important too!

Love it! I never thought grunge could be so pretty!

Fabulous, creative, love your stuff! I was glad to see something that would appeal to men. Please create/ show some more masculine treasure books we can make as gifts. Also, do you ever worry about the acidity of paper? I have things from parents and grandparents that have faded and yellowed significantly over the decades. Thanks again. You are an inspiration.

hair conditioner works pretty well too, but glycerin works REALLY well!

I can’t believe you turned a brown paper bag into such gorgeousness 😮 It’s very “book of shadows “ ❤❤❤

Love the cover and that it’s slightly smaller than the signatures. Also the amazing front label thingy. And that every page is torn. Oh yeah and the closure. And the stick in the binding. I guess this means that I love every single thing about this journal!! Hugs 🤗❤️

Awwww,, sweet dreams Banjo! Love this journal! I have a bag of leather off cuts I picked up at a second hand shop too. I was just doing some craft room organizing, found them again, and thought. "WHAT can I do with these",,, now I know! Tyfs

That would be a wonderful journal for someone on a long hiking/camping trip.

Natasa! That's flippin' gorgeous!

Я была незнакомка с такой техникой и мне очень нравится! Теперь я тоже хочу повторить это для себя. Спасибо за идею и интересный эксперимент!

On more than one occasion, after watching your tutorials...I find myself asking if she'll ever run out of ideas. NOT TODAY!! Your amazing creations and teachings. are the reason I love my own journal shelves. Thank you again for all the inspiration, Natasa! Love you much!❤

Oh Natasa, can 't erase the smile from my face. It is so much fun to watch you doing this impossible thing of turning a paperbag that looks like having been pulled out of the dustbin ( and enjoying its time there) into something special and unique and, yes, beautyful, while listening to your comments....I love your humor , your videos, especially the crazy ones, and the next paperbag that comes around my place better takes care to be up on the tree before I get it. Wait, I am sure I have seen one?...?..thank you for this idea, and I hope that you will have more of them. Greetings from the other side of the world! Jutta

Phantastic!!! Thank you very much!! Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

Your imagination is so inspiring!! This is going to make a great travel journal idea I got while watching. Great job, Natasha!

I love your well-planned videos and lists of steps, but it was fun to watch a different process. I will definitely make this. In fact I may make several to give to friends! Thanks.

It’s so cool to watch people just play. Your journal came out amazing 💜

This is so beautiful, I love hearing the texture of all the papers as you handle it. I think this is one of my favourite pieces of yours so far. The metallic paint on the cover, love it. All the components go so well together, closure is great too, thank you 😊💜👌

I love how you are always looking for new experiment when your work is already stunning and your skill is great. I also love re-purposing, I use all junk paper, bags, packaging etc to make my journals as well but of course that can only be for personal use. I am not confident enough to make trash into treasure that can sell. I love this journal a lot and the cover is the part I love the most. I can never get tired of watching your videos because it always give me inspiration to try new things. Thank you for sharing again.

I love this. I have so many paper bags that I can't bring myself to get rid of. I love the faux leather look and all the grunginess of it and the addition of the studs and strap closure. Can't wait to try this.👍🏾❤️

Steam Punk Treasure Journal Sublime🎉

So grungy! Super fun watching your process! Thanks so much for sharing!

This little journal turned out so cool! I love the grungy style. And I absolutely love your little paper ruffles that you make. So fun and a great way to use up scraps!

I wish that in the "thumbs up" options there were a LOVE IT option. Thanks for always sharing your imagination and creativity with us. It is so very much appreciated. 🥰🥰🥰

It’s beautiful! The journal came together just right! I never thought to tear a letter size envelope into a page. I don’t know why!! lol! 😂 Thanks for the inspiration, Natasa 🙏🏻💖❣️

Love it. Beautiful and inspiring. I’ve made cards before incorporating the twig. But most of all I love the leather closure. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely beautiful! Love your creativity. A must try indeed!! I quickly grabbed a bag, scrunched and lotioned it up already.... now to gather all the rest. Can't wait to complete this incredible journal. Thank you for your inspiration! 👌🙌🫶

💕 hello 🤗 I'm going to make this and love it even more than the previous projects you have created and inspired me to try my own. This is da 💣! Thank you so much for your sharing your creations and showing us in simple steps how we can do it....... even if it takes hours. We need patience and see the beauty as the project progresses. Have a wonderful and creative day!🤗💕

Natasa, you were the first I’ve ever watched and you have helped me so much on my JJ journey that I’ve even started a business. All that aside, I am loving this video. Please do more of the fly by the seat of your pants inspiration. I truly enjoyed this so much and love seeing this side of your creativity. - Tabby

Stunning! Thanks for the inspiration. Love the hand lotion trick.

Loved the kicks from yourlap and your giggles!💙

From a paper bag! Turned out fantastic.❤

Thank you so much for letting us in to see some of your magical brain waves. Your creativity excites and inspires me to my core! Your videos are a pleasure to watch!

Oh oh! I am in journal love! Now i know I have a bag of leather and suede scraps I will be hunting out in the morning.❤

Absolute perfect imperfection! I love this journal. Thanks for sharing this inspiring tutorial.

Loved the way you played with grunge effects ! And I'd love to see you play like this more often ! Thanks for all the inspiration.

You, my dear Natasha, are a junk journal genius! This creation is one of your best and very inspiring! Thank you for sharing.

Leaving, and even adding more of, the crinkles in the bag made this much more interesting and beautiful! I love it! ❤❤❤

Love this! TFS Hope you have a great day. 🌞

It's gorgeous! I love how you treated the bag, & how you let us see you figuring it all out. The cover is divine! So many great ideas to use in our own ways - thank you 😃

You take the cake for sure! Love the journal and the process!!!

O dear o dear, you made my day! I’m in need for a special journal to house comforting words - my dear hubby is in some months on his trip to the next world, you see lots of comforting words are quite handy. This journal you created here is exactly what will express it. So off I go and collecting papers etc. ❤

Just brilliant! I love the way you did this - and how we see the process evolving. Like when you had one tab on the front cover, then two and finished with 3 - the journal then just completely pops. Amazing. Love it - love the stick too - so wonderful to watch and incredibly inspiring. Thanks for all your work, it must be a lot! It's actually really helpful to know it takes you hours in a way because being new to journalling, I have nothing to compare to and no stashes to draw from as yet. Great to see Banjo looking so cute and happy. I hope you had fun playing in this less structured way, the results are certainly amazing. Thank you x

Gorgeous Paper Bag Journal. Love all the details you added on the cover and pages. 👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you for sharing.

My dog loves hand lotion too! After my shower he waits for me to put moisturizer on my legs and then he licks it off. He must have the best moisturized tongue in W.A. !! 😂😂 Love to see Banjo's so settled now.

I love this. Love grunge. Amazing journal.

Another winner!!!! Brilliant!!! ♥

I love all the great embellishments you added to the paper bag-just fabulous.

Who needs tv when you can watch Natasha craft on a whim! Lol...lovely bag journal...you did an awesome job! ❤❤😊