Fantastic instructions. Thank youj

Amazing video, beautiful finished product! You are a calming voice as you teach, will I try this, perhaps! I don’t think I’ll be as calm! Thanks, Karen Dirmish, learner

I love this! I’m going to use it with my students next year…..thank you!

This is bloody brilliant 🇬🇧

BRILLIANT!! I'm so glad I found this, I never thought about using an old purse I bought long ago..you had me cracking up both at you and myself. I'm a DIY'r too. It really struck me when (if not making your own journal wasn't enough AND the notebooks) you finally broke down and actually BOUGHT a couple of pens..I found that hilarious 😂because in a DIY'r world we would make the pens if we could!! Thank you so much!!!

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Perfect

Cool idea 🙂

lol @ ice cream truck drive by.

Fantastic ideas

So clever. Thank you for great tutorial.

your paperclip idea is fantastic. But having it recessed by carving out only top layer of carboard... is GENIUS!!! thank you for showing us how to make this clever journal 😊

Why not interleave sheets of cereal bag non stick plastic between covers and paper so it can be pressed?

Extremely creative. I am impressed!

What a beautiful and useful watercolor sketch book you made. Thank you for such clear and concise directions. I do outdoor sketches and am so anxious to make this book. Thank you so much for making and sharing this video.😊(I may put a pocket inside the back cover.)

That's some nice leather, looks like you took good care of your bag, nice to salvage old reliable items and give them new life

What a great travelers note book cover!

Love it thank you for showing how to do it, you make it look easy.

Excellent tutorial..concise, and to the point….well done! Thank you!

Where did this lady go? She's brilliant and amazing. Please come back and educate us.

Bloody brilliant

Brilliant tutorial! Made perfect sense to me! I have made accordian books before without covers. So now I can go ahead and create sturdier ones with covers. ❤ TYSMFS! I am saving this video for reference.

Looks fab! Thx 4 sharing.

this is such a great idea! I haven used the Arc punch but as you said, the holes are too close to the edge. I have used quilt template plastic for covers but they got brittle and broke. I still love the idea, though! I made one using my 2 hole punch that I use the most. I use binder rings to hold them together and they are secure. My cover is some teal fake snakeskin that wraps around with a flap that has an elastic loop that holds it shut.

I have made a few of these over the years using different sized papers. I love working in them and when they are full, you cam lay them out flat and see them all at once! You can use the pages singly or unfold as man my as you want. I discovered that I have lost track of what to cut, so makinga practice one out of copy paper first saves me frustration and paper! You can make them portrait or landscape, depending on which folds you cut.

Thank you so much for posting this tutorial! You make clear & simple. I've made small one page books for writing but never thought to make this as a sketchbook. I suggest an alternative binding. Hedi Kyle's non-adhesive binding is great. You will "lose" the first and last panels of the book, however you can use watercolor paper for the covers and have 2 surfaces to paint on. I have so many new ideas for art (not specifically for writing) books. Thank you so much for the inspiration!

it´s amazing! such inspirational...and your hands are magical! greetings from Mexico <3

So cool! Thank you so much for sharing this with us... 💕🙏🏼💕

New subscriber. I love this idea. Thanks for the inspiration. Blessings and 🤗

Thanks for inspiration! I’m starting this right now😊

“I still have my old friend. I never have to give it up.” I love that through my soul.

Thank you for this tutorial! I made one these and I love it. I made a few personal adjustments, like I covered mine with gel prints instead of fabric. It is perfect for what I wanted. Thank you!

Great video! So many ideas in one video. Others would have made 3 or 4 videos out of it! Thanks very much!

Wow! This is absolutely ingenious!!

do you plan to make more videos in the future, beth?

I made mine for fieldnotes size. Horween dublin.

This is so clever and easy and I love it!

I love this. It looks super nice and well done for something so simple!

Thanks for sharing this it's a great idea and I have to try it

This was great, Beth! My wife recently bought me a traveler's sketch book and this was very helpful.

So incredibly beautiful!! Absolutely loved this video :))

Awesome

Awesome upcycle. Thanks for sharing.

This made me remembe'r I had about large sheets of water color paper just sitting around. Sure enough they're 22x30. Can't wait to try this.

AWESOME!!! TYFS! ♥️🙏

What an inspiration! I would like to save my sketches and paintings in one place, in chronological order and this way makes that possible, no matter what paper I did the work on! I am so glad I found this video!

Fabulous instructions!!!

What a great little project!

I have made these books before too but not with the band, very clever. This year i just made a few extra as I have a few friends I want to give some too. This will give them a finished look, thanks for posting this.

Congratulations!!!!