CORRECTION!!! - ( STEP 10) - If the width of the spine is to have 12 rows of holes, there will be 13 spaces so width should be divided by 13 not 12. I actually DID divide mine into 12, but the spaces are so small that it didn't make a difference.

Dear Natasha, that was absolutely amazing, I just can't imagine why you would think that you may be confusing..... your tutorials are probably the best in the field. Your voice is calm, you are extremely detailed and you make me feel that I can do it. It's like you said, I always think that other crafters do everything faster than me, but when I listen to you I feel more energetic and confident and ready to start creating. Thank you so much.

From all crafters, you are the one who explain it best!!! Detailed AND understandable! Thank you! 🤗

I agree with the others, you do the best tutorials of them all. Love that you write the steps clearly down and give us a chance to screenshot the instructions. Thank you. You really are so thoughtful.

Hi Natasha, since I found you on KZfaq I'm devouring your precious tutorials on journal making. From the beginning to the end all step-by-step instructions are utterly precise. There is nothing superflues or overstating in your talking us through the whole exciting procedure. I so admire your ART of teaching and creating. I wish you all the best an THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your expertise with us!

This would be amazing for a monthly financial plan for a family, where each envelope is for a separate expense field. Say one envelope is for gas, one for groceries, one for rent .. etc. And you can plan everything and divide your income so you have some structure for how you spend your money.

I want tell you that this video is by far the most informative, without to much extra talking and precise video tutorial that I have ever watched. It was absolutely the most refreshing time that I have spent online in a long time. I will be looking for more! Thank You

This is also a great idea for tucking away all those cherished birthday and other greeting cards.

Natasha, honey I just read through the comments thus far... you sure do inspire a whole lot of people! Clearly I'm not the only one who thinks that you are wonderful! This book will be so handy to have on my desk, and it's beautiful t'boot! Happy Valentine's Day Sweetie, and thanks for sharing your time. MK. 🤗💗🌞🌵

Showing the written steps to your right is a genius idea! What a beautiful project. Thank you.

This is genuinely the best tutorial for anything I have ever come across. Super easy to follow and looks really fun! I can’t wait to try

Grandma had a block of wood and hammer to flatten thick seams n it works like a charm on the thick corners❤ Thank you for a wonderful video❤

Another gem! My Mom left me beautiful batik sarong materials from Indonesia. I will be using that fabric to make my own envelope book....just got an envelope maker too and I love that little tool! Thank you for always inspiring me (and everyone else). You are always a ray of sunshine and inspiration. You are very appreciated. Thank you Natasha.

I love that you add sewing! As a sewist of 50 years, I will add two tiny points here for you. Firstly, you'll see an improved look sewing around cover from the outer side. The bobbin side of machine does not produce as fine looking a stitch as the needle side. And where you stop & start, I would pull both threads to the wrong side. Once your threads are cut, gently pull up the bobbin thread up on the wrong side. The top thread will form a loop which you can pull with pin or awl. If you tie the two threads in a square knot, you'll never see a thread pop loose. If you are at an edge , you can adjust the knot to the wrong side. These were details taught in schools when home ec was still a required course.

I learned how to make junk journal’s years ago from KZfaq. It takes practice, start small, few envelopes, and learn the technique first, then you can Advance yourself. I didn’t have a sewing machine, so used glue. Once I Advanced myself, I used Buttons, lace, pockets, and much more, it was fun, and made them for gifts ❤️ KZfaq has a lot of videos for beginners. Thank you.

You work very clean and carefully, congratulations. There is no one like you. You do not talk unnecessarily, you do not steal our time. They steal our 1 hour for 1 tag xx

Thank you so much ! I love your videos. I’m from Brazil 🇧🇷 and speak brazilian portuguese... I’m having english classes and i’m so happy ‘cause I understand everything you tell us... 🥰 your explanation is perfect!!❤️

Absolutely gorgeous. I love that they are not over-decorated: really stylish. Thank you 😊

ALWAYS ALWAYS looking forward spending time with you. My head is always full of ideas after 'meeting you'! On this side of the world the day just started and you gave me enough to do again to fill up my spare time!!, Already excited and still have to get breakfast and do my work on the farm. After that I can start with this project! Have some alternative ideas already!!, can't wait!!!

That fabric you're using is called "kain batik" in Malaysia. It is a traditional fabric used by our ancestors and still used as our pyjamas/"kain sarung" nowadays.. Thank you for using them uniquely 💕

Love the journals. I especially like the written directions. Thank you for taking the time to write them down

I love the idea of storing ephemera in the envelopes so I made 3 books over this past weekend. I love them. One is all Christmas fussy cuts, one is all floral and the third is Tim Holtz "stuff"! Thanks so much for the great idea.

Thank You so much, you bring joy to myself and girls....I have daughters who could care less but want me to make them one....my daughter- in law and her grand daughter and my grand daughter love them. It skip a generation don't know why ....Thank You again

you are incredibly inspirational. Have done already the one with the junk envelopes. Turned out very well. This one will be my next project. Just have to gather materials. You are explaining and showing in an easy understandable way without any useless chatting and last but not least no annoying back ground music. Well done!

This popped up in my suggested videos just as I was wondering how I was going to organise all my little stickers. Perfect! I'm using the pages from an outdated road atlas to make the envelopes.

Love how you write the steps. Make it so easy to follow.

Good idea to put the fabric on the inside of the spine, slightly overlapping back and front pages. I would have missed that step. It has never occurred to me to use my sewing machine for a project such as this; you are brilliant!

I think you are a wonderful teacher. Our little craft group of mature aged ladies were keen to try our hand at making a junk journal and watching you has really been a true inspiration. Thank you so much. Tasmania Australia

You are so good at explaining.....you are a great teacher!!!! I love all you did!!!! Thanks for sharing your talents with us!!!!

What a Beauty, Ms. Natasa. Love your style! Just would like to say that you make the best crafting tutorials on KZfaq...very thorough step by step instructions that are easy to follow along with. The written instructions are an added bonus! (And you do not have your pets wandering over your workspace LOL.) Many thanks!

Great thank you, I love your tutorials so easy to follow and you give measurements which a lot of tutorials don't. Again thank you

I think making these type of Journals is a great way to also use up scrap pieces of various sizes to put inside the envelopes, thank you for your inspiring video 🐝💐

I like the idea of having an envelope for every month of the year to collect random things in. But I also like them as a space to hold ephemera to take things out! Very well done!

So glad that I found your video. This is amazing and your instructions are so clear. Thank You!!

I would like to congratulate you on your well explained tutorials and on all your sales. At this moment, there is nothing left in your Etsy store, really! I love watching your tutorials and have started (beginner) making some little treasures of my own and giving to friends. Thank you- you are a fabuous teacher! (Sue, Portland, Or)

WOW!!! This shows your passion, patience, dedication and creativity, those journals are beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!🙏🏻😊

Beautiful as always! Thanks for doing a tutorial on this. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

What a great tutorial! Not one drop of wasted time. Your voice is clear and easy to understand, photography spot on, directions excellent. I'm so glad I found you.

I love ALL of your things!!! Thank you so much. Can't wait to make it...

I know this is a 2 year old video but I still wanted to comment and say I love this idea! I started making Christmas junk journals but I made the spines so wide. I have a bunch of Christmas stock paper so I think I'm going to do the envelopes in it instead of tea dyed paper. Then I can put in hot chocolate packets, tea, gift cards, thin wrapped candy and the like. Thanks for the ideas! LOVE your channel and your sense of humor. 😉

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this! Thank you so much for taking the time to make a tutorial for us! ❤️

I stumbled across your video, not even seen one of these journals before but was mesmerised from the outset. Your presentation is precise, and calm. I love the way you point out the pitfalls like the bulky corners and show us how to deal with all the bits that can go wrong. So so good, that I’m inspired to have a go. Thank you. Your journals are stunning and invoke a feeling of excitement to look inside. Something to put on the coffee table for all to admire. 💗

You have the best videos on KZfaq. (And I've watch a ton!). Thanks for doing these and sharing. This retired senior citizen needs arty inspiration and you provide it in spades. Plus this keeps me sane! Lol

Natasha, I cannot thank you enough for all you do explaining step by step and having the written instructions for us. I love these envelope journals. thank you again. :)

That was so enjoyable to watch! Thank you! Inspiring and delightful, loved it!

Thank you so much for this idea. I actually made two books for myself after I saw the first video. She's absolutely right when she says to leave the envelopes open so you can bind them! I managed to bind one after closing the envelopes but it was very difficult with messy needle marks and poked fingers. I had to create a separate spine from my cover and glued it into a new cover after the sewing was done. Not easy. I use one book to hold ephemera and one to hold my stickers. They sit perfectly on my crafting cart and are so pretty, easy to grab with everything organized!

I watch all of your videos!!! I have learned so much and have been so Inspired by you. Thank you for taking the time to teach us. You are a part of my life every week. God Bless You!

This is amazing, thankyou for showing the whole process step by step and writing it out

This is an amazing storage idea. Well taught. I may add a motif glued on one half at the tip of each envelope flap in order to tuck in and close it.

What a great idea!!!! Thank you so very much for this amazing tutorial: everything is perfectly explained!!!

Going over this tutorial again, and again I got to say this storage Book is stunning. Love, love, love this fabric design and color. Thank you again

Thank you for sharing your talents and knowledge ❤

This is the best way, by far, I’ve seen regarding making a template. I’ve made it a lot harder than it really is. And I love this whole project.

Your storage books are absolutely beautiful. Your eye for detail is amazing. Thank you for showing us how you made them.

You are such a great teacher. Love your projects. Thanks for sharing.

I love the way you make the holes in the spine first! It looks so much easier and precise than the way I've been doing it (poking through both signature and spine at the same time). I have a journal ready to sew, and guess which way I'm going to do it! I Love your tutorials--they are so clear that I can watch it through once, taking notes, then watch again actually making what you are demonstrating.

I appreciate both hearing the directions and seeing the steps printed out. Lovely fabric that you used, cool process. I need to read comments below to see what people actually do with these books, how to use them.

Natasa!! What a beautiful book and an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much!

Such a wonderful tutorial. These are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.

I love your journal. It's awesome. I've used both paper and fabric to cover the inside of spines on the journals I've made. I can see why you use fabric as it's more durable. I also like the neatness of your corners and the way you keep them flat.

These are some of the most beautiful handmade journals I have seen on KZfaq! So colorful and designed and made with such precision! Great skills!

I really didn't care for junk journals and wasn't interested in making them until I happened upon your tutorial. Absolutely gorgeous. You have inspired me to do this. I especially loved the paper for your envelopes. Bravo, excellent crafting.

I loved this tutorial. The fabric is so beautiful. The pockets look like leather, beautiful paper. So creative I think of so many uses it can have. Thank you so much for sharing.

GREAT tutorial! I love this project! It would be fun to put photos of different trips or events in them too! It's very versatile! You are so meticulous! I want to try this but I'm not sure that I will get the same perfect look! LOL

Natasa, your videos are the best! The way you explain... it seems that I can really do that! Thank you so much! I loved this project and I think I will try it! 😍

thank you for another great video. I cant wait to make this. I need to get my envelopes made first. thanks for all you do

I just love your neat and tidy tutorials!

You have me saving cereal boxes and that's exactly how I put my covers on aswell natasa , thank you alanna

I never written any comments on what i see. I was VERY impressed on how detail you are. Thank you cause you have made the video enjoyable and so easy to see and how to do a envelope book. I was so very impressed. Thank you!

It was great Natasha. Given me lots of ideas. Love your material as well. Thank you.

This is my first time running into your page and I absolutely love your journal above!!! It gives me so many ideas like for bills, receipts, shopping lists for my projects, etc. Thank you for this and, of course, I subscribed :D

Beautiful. This looks like a fun project for a day I am feeling really brave and adventurous. 12 rows 😬😬😬 I do like the template, thank you so much for sharing how to do that!

Loved your video, thank you for sharing. The book is beautiful.

What a wonderful project/tutorial. I look forward to trying this project. Thanks so much for sharing this project...

I have like 10 sewing patterns that dont have a "storage" home... This would be a great storage idea for them.. Thanks for sharing!! 🤓🤓🤓

This is a Super way to use up that ugly paper we all have. Love this.

Immaculate. So well organized. Inspires me to lift my game. Love your style. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing this idea. Not only is it beautiful, it is very practical, too. You are a great teacher!

I mean just wow! Your work always looks perfect in the end. How do you come up with these different ideas? They are amazing and so different from everyone else.

This is wonderful! I'll definitely making myself one or two ( or three!) ;) Tfs!

THANK YOU FOR A VERY EASY TO FOLLOW TUTORIAL! I am going to try this one for sure!

Really enjoyed watching your Journal Book creation

Your such a good teacher thank you ❣️

I'm going to make these as Christmas gifts for crafty friends! I don't know if someone else has mentioned this, but you can improve results, prevent errors with the envelope punch if you actually measure on the two opposing sides. (I got this from a video on the use of the punch.) So instead of just rotating on the basis of one measurement, you flip a full 180 degrees, measure on the other side and then use both scored lines as the guides for the remaining sides. This is pretty much goof-proof, whereas rotating 90 degrees and lining up the score lines on 3 sides can amplify a small error due to simple angle of vision distortion. I had a lot of useless mess envelopes before I tripped over this advice.

Natasha - love this journal and your precise demonstration. Non-related to the content though, KZfaq put an ad every three minutes or so. I don't know if you have any control over this, but the ads sure are aggravating. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us.

Love the envelope journal! I hope to see more of your lovely ideas 🥰

I have that same batik! It's on my couch though (hiding some wear and tear), not on a journal LOL

I think this was suggested to me because I've been researching the cash envelope budgeting method in prep to receive my tax return, but WOW. I want 10. Saving this video for later because I can think of so many uses and looks and sizes lol but I would also like to say that I read the comments, and this is one of the nicest communities I've ever seen! Everyone's words are so kind. What a happy corner of the internet, thank you ❤️

Thankyou. This is the first bookbinding project that I have done. Brilliant tutorial for a complete beginner and it turns out well. I made one of these for a friend who is having a baby soon. I did twelve envelope signatures - one for each month of the first year of her baby's life. It turned out really well. TWEAKS: I stuck some Unryu rice paper onto the covering fabric to give it some strength and made it easier to manipulate and glue down. I reinforced the inside of the bottom of each envelope with a strip of sellotape - just to give it a bit of strength for the stiching. I put corner brackets on to just finish the cover off. I pricked each hole on both sides of the spine with a sharp bookbinding bodkin. I did a test strip of the book cloth and card with the sewing machine to ensure that I had the correct tension and stitch size. I hand turned the machine through the reinforced spine sections as they were much thicker. MISTAKES: I had the outside of the cereal packet on the outside of the book - amateur error. Even having made bookcloth I could see the picture through the fabric and paper but it's not too bad really. I found it difficult to make a set of identically sized envelopes but actually - in the final outcome that doesn't really notice. It was a fiddle to get the envelopes stitched in correctly to start with and I did a couple the wrong way round so I had to pay attention to which way round and which way up the envelopes were.

Excellent tutorial! I love watching you make these journals... by the time I am seeing them they’re all sold... but the tutorial is perfect for encouraging me to make my own!

Loved watching your video!! You put so much work into these journals, and they came out so beautiful! I love the colors that you used! You are such an informative teacher. Thank you for sharing. God bless!

Thanks for the envelope refresher. I’m making an album at the moment and I wanted to make a clear envelope but I’d forgotten how 😂😂 it’s been a while since I got my envelope board out.

I am not a native English speaker, and it can be a challenge for an instructor to be clear. You speak clearly and it helps a lot that you have written instructions next to you. So I agree with a previous comment. You are the best.

As always, you are a great teacher.

Great tutorial, you are a very good teacher, you were very thorough. Beautiful. Thank you xx😁❤️❤️

Also, the Martha Stewart score tool has the template to make envelopes. This would be great for the larger sized ones.

Excellent tutorial and so inspiring! Now to explore your other videos. Plus your a fellow Aussie, so how great is that!

Never seen a tutorial that was this easy to understand and enjoyed watching

I just love this, your tutorial is so clear and concise. Can you share what paper you used for the envelopes? Is it double sided card stock or is it lighter weight than that? Thank you, can’t wait to try this.

This was great. You are so talented. Love all your videos. Thank you.