Lindsay, I have to say (as we in England do) that is flipping genius! I have lived a long time on the earth, have painted for more than 60 decades, sold more paintings than I can remember and still I learn something new every day! Thank you for posting and I wish you and your loved ones happiness always.
This is really cool Lindsay! I want to try hot glue now. I was lucky enough to get some padding compound at a thrift store and ever since I've gone a little nuts making blocks and sketchbooks haha. A quick tip, if you buy watercolor pads on sale, you can always glue around the other three sides and make a block! I did this with a Arches pad from Michaels- sale+coupon came out to about $7 for a 9x12 pad that I made into a block!
Lindsay! I have been watching your videos on painting and crafting and DIY tutorials. I love YOU! Keep up the great videos. I watch something of yours every day. You have taught me so much and I appreciate your devotion to the arts.
Hi Lindsay, Mimi here. I just discovered you and wow, I'm so glad I did. This is such an awesome tip! I'm going to get out my glue gun and make a couple of the diy blocks. I can't wait to check out your other videos. Thanks so much for this fantastic tutorial! Have a great day!🌻
Lindsey you have more usable common sense than anyone else I know!!!! Lol! Honestly that is saying a lot because my mom can squeeze a quarter from a dime ! heeheee! TFS with the rest of us commoners!!! So simple, economical and definitely usable. Off to make mine now. YAy!👍👏
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! What a fantastic tutorial! This makes me so happy that I don't need to spend the $$$ for a block, I'm new to watercolor painting, started this week!!! Love your tutorials!
Thank you. What terrific idea and money saver. As a relative beginner water colourist, I was appalled at the price of blocks compared to pads. By the way, I love your videos. They are incredibly inspiring and informative.
I have just been pricing watercolor blocks. OMG they are expensive. Am new to watercolor. Never tried hot press, I love using glossy card stock with brush pens. Will make a small block with the card stock. So nice to try something with materials and tools I already have. Before I buy another thing, I will be binge watching your channel. Lindsay, Thank you so much !!
Hi Lindsay, this is a really useful idea. It's both easy and saves money. I'm a beginner and do a lot of pictures about that size. Thanks for posting the instructions.
What a great idea! I found spatulas almost exactly like yours at the Dollar Store! They were in pastel colors. The handle might have been a little different. I found them in the cosmetics department when I was looking for mica eyeshadow to use fir a shimmer spray. I didn’t find an eyeshadow I liked, but I saw the spatulas and thought they’d work well for pastes and gels when making cards or mixed media art pages.
That is such a clever idea! I am looking for a sketchbook, to fit into my travel bag I will get for christmas this year. I kind of had problems to find a sketchbook fitting into the bag. But now you gave me the idea, to make my very own Sketchbook! Thank you so, so, so much!
Juhi Manral I mean. Maybe you could take a screenshot and look at it and take INSPIRATION from it I don't think you should like just copy it... Understand what I mean?
Grey Pinetree i dont think she is wanting to "just copy it." It may just be that she finds it to be something she wants to learn how to paint. like how most of us learned how. by watching how other paintings are made. or alot of people would just simply learn how to make it to have as decor in their own homes because it matches the theme or is a painting of something they love. what i find wrong is someone taking someone else's painting and selling it or taking credit as their own etc. but i dont think that is her intention. she may just want to see how one certain thing is made, then incorporate it in her own, as her own just as inspiration
This is really great! Instead of buying a watercolor block, you can just buy a pad and use this technique to turn it into a block. Arches watercolor blocks can cost twice as much as their pad counterparts, so this saves some money.
I make a lot of my own pads...and I used to think I had to spend money on padding compound, BUT I found that an thick tacky glue works fantastically. I hold it together with a ton of binder clips. I never thought to use hot glue though...I think I may give it a try!
Thanks Lindsey - what a great idea. I will share it with my students for an upcoming 3-day watercolor class I'll be teaching in Pacific Grove, California. We are going to be painting on location in the morning, and then in the studio in the afternoon using our sketches from the morning as inspiration. I want to keep it super simple, so this is perfect!
Thank you for this video! This works amazingly well. made several of these in one day. Was so excited just didn’t wanna stop. Finally tested one out and truly enjoyed it. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊👍
THANK YOU for all your art and craft videos, but especially this. This video was in my suggested videos, but I only read the title. Tonight I picked up a pad of Canson XL cold press watercolor paper on clearance at Walmart. Earlier this summer, I bought a high temp hot glue gun at a garage sale (my first glue gun and I'm 51. Why did I not get one sooner??). I looked up your video and gave it a try. I used binder clips to hold the pages together. It worked great! I need to work on my glue technique, but it's functional. I also had a silicone wedge brush I picked up on clearance at Hobby Lobby. As cheap as it was to make this block, I can make several and have multiple paintings going at once. I really didn't want to mess with wetting and stretching paper, so I got this is a good solution! I may cut some masonite down to use as the backing. Anyone do that or another cardboard alternative? I wonder how much buckling there is with the last few pages in a block.
Attention those who, like me, want one of those pink silicone spatula things she used to smooth on the glue: After watching this I got a bit obsessed with wanting one of them. In my head I knew I could make use of that tool in many of my crafting hobbies. I'm usually able to find things that I see like this. I searched Amazon with every term and word combo I could think of that would define what that was; silicone, rubber, chisel, pink, tool, and on and on. I Googled those terms. I went to every craft website I could find and searched there. After a few weeks I had to surrender, defeated, by a tiny silicone spatula. Fast forward to yesterday. I'm in Michaels looking at the various types of Mod Podge for a project I'm working on. I let my eyes wander from the top down and then something caught my eye. I could barely believe it but there it was. In a pack of Mod Podge tools. It was destined to be lol. TL; DR it's a Mod Podge tool sold at Michaels
Walmart and Daiso. But I'll check out Michael's too. You can also use a hand held scrapper that I bought from Walmart in the cooking utensil area that was only 99 cents! Thanks
Another wonderful money saving, fun idea from Lindsay! This was a great tip for watercolor paper but a fantastic idea for using left over scrapbook paper! Looking forward to making little journals/notebook gift pads for my group!! Thanks Lindsay!!!
thanks Lindsey for this wonderful idea for the watercolor blocks I will be making some for my trip to Northern Minnesota it is so pretty there right now.
I love this. I'm also going to make tablets for card making from by big tablets that I have bought from Michael's on sale. I have more then enough that I can make small tablets for envelopes, money envelopes, A4 cards, flip books. I can share with my sister. I'm like you, I don't always like all the sheets. I can make a tablet and use those for a tablet for my purse. Love this idea! It's not only for my paint pallet cases. Thanks Lindsey! Enjoy celebrating your day!!!
What a fantastic idea!!!! The blocks are so expensive and this will save a bundle, plus no more having to worry about taping down the watercolor paper. Thank you so much!! Love it
This is brilliant! Just made my own "travel" pad (for whenever we can travel again) and i love it!!! I might try to do de same with my mixmedia pad just for fun!
I have made my own paper pads for notes with this method and had been thinking about doing my own watercolor stack for painting adventures too. Great minds etc... LOL. Those of us who live in the south might want to reconsider using hot glue though; I live in Texas and the trunk of my car probably can get up to 120 to 130 degrees F in August when it's in the low 100's Starting around 11 AM and the hot glue would just make a mess when it melts in my art supply bag so I use Aleene's Tacky Glue to secure the edges of my paper pads. It's not as fast as the hot glue but the extra time it takes is well worth it.
+Rich Boden I hope you'll post your results with that here, I'd like to know how it works out! Although past experience with home decor made with high temp glue in a house where there was a power outage for a few hours resulted in that home decor being on the floor from melting glue. I gave up on hot glue here in Texas long ago.
Aha, here it is. I could remember how to make the block/pad but not how to attach the cover. I'm old enough now though I can blame faulty memory on age instead of blonde Polish moments. Thanks Lindsay.
Thank you for the great tutorial, I plan on doing this with multimedia and other types of painting paper too. In place of a pallet knife I use cut up pieces of plastic from things like microwave food trays, bottles, food container lids, etc. Upcycle.
I bought my MIL one of these KOI paint boxes for taking with her on her trip to England (shes a brilliant water colourist). I used your review to choose them. (I chose this over the cotmans because I wanted her to not have to mix much .. just sit and do a quick paint.. she is going with friends so her painting time may be limited.) I bought some water colour postcard paper pad.. but I might make her one of these to, this is a totally brilliant idea! Thank you!!
This is so frickkin' cool! I find that full 22" x 30" sheets are extra prone to moisture damage if I leave them out during the wet season. I will cut them up and turn them into blocks in the future. Genius!
Great money saver. I'm going to tell a friend who is always buying pads for writing songs-- I have all the supplies so it would be easy for her to do and as a single mom with 3 kids any money saving tips are welcome!!! Thanks so much!!!
Hi Lindsay. I tuned in because I thought you were going to paint that adorable little postcard for us, but instead was pleasantly surprised at this very helpful video. Fantastic idea! You're the best. P.S. Loved the live watercolour video from Friday. So pretty!
Oh Lindsay, I'm so glad you made this tutorial!! I love painting on small blocks, but I never remember to pick one up. This is Great, I always cut my paper down to fit in my Koi box, but usually only a sheet or two, Besides usually store bought blocks don't fit the Koi box. I'm making one tomorrow to take with me when I'm waiting to pick up my son. You're Awesome!! TFS Alice
Thank you so much, Lindsay. This is going to save me so much money. I normally buy full sheets of Arches, because being able to cut different sizes works best for me. Now for the math to see how best to cut one or two, for a block. You have helped me so much, with so many painting tips and tricks, and the supplies involved. Bless you!
Lindsay this is AWESOME!! Watercolor Blocks can be so expensive and I hate taping my paper down so learning how to make my own is perfect! especially since one of my favorite papers to paint on is Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper and that doesn't even come in blocks.
What a great video! I've been wanting to make pads of paper from scraps but wasn't sure I wanted to buy padding compound. Never thought hot glue would be the answer! You've done it again, you frugal gal!
Thank you so much for this video! I cut my 9x12 pads in quarters and use the sheets to do little paintings for cards. While most of the time I don’t have buckling, making blocks like this would help keep the papers together and clean. I also just bought a koi kit for my vacation so I will make one to fit that too. I love following your tutorials and just bought one of your classes, so looking forward to working my way through the class!
That is the same watercolor set I took on vacation with me last year. I did make some small spiral bound pads to take along though. I hadn't thought of anything like this. This is perfect.
Wow, I am amazed at what you come up with, you are so handy at all these type of things and you always do a great job. Thanks again for the ideas you share.
Terrific video, as always! Love this! Paper is so expensive, it's great to have a DIY way to make blocks. Thank you so much for your helpful and cost effective ideas and tutorials.
What a great idea! I wasn't planning on watching the whole video, but it kept my attention the whole time. Thanks for always great ideas and love your cheerful presentations!
I never thought of using hot glue for this! I always thought I'd have to buy special product to make my own, but now this feels completely attainable. Thank you! 🌱
mee too but I figured "why not?" and I tried with cheap paper just in case and best yet is is ready to use in minutes in stead of hours with a wet padding compound. I hope you try it:)
Lindsay,
I have to say (as we in England do) that is flipping genius! I have lived a long time on the earth, have painted for more than 60 decades, sold more paintings than I can remember and still I learn something new every day!
Thank you for posting and I wish you and your loved ones happiness always.
+TheRealGrandadNo1 thanks:)
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich does it also work if we stick alot of printing paper together
I think itll work, but you shouldn't use printer paper for watercolor, because it's too thin.
TheRealGrandadNo1 Wow! 60 decades! That's 600 years, so you may be one of the oldest artists following Lindsay.
@@OakblossomChi - LoL! And you're a good proof reader 🤗
This is really cool Lindsay! I want to try hot glue now. I was lucky enough to get some padding compound at a thrift store and ever since I've gone a little nuts making blocks and sketchbooks haha. A quick tip, if you buy watercolor pads on sale, you can always glue around the other three sides and make a block! I did this with a Arches pad from Michaels- sale+coupon came out to about $7 for a 9x12 pad that I made into a block!
I was thinking about doing that! Thanks for letting me know it works:)
This is so smart! Paper blocks are horribly spendy...you just saved me some bucks. Thanks Lindsey.
Lindsay! I have been watching your videos on painting and crafting and DIY tutorials. I love YOU! Keep up the great videos. I watch something of yours every day. You have taught me so much and I appreciate your devotion to the arts.
Hi Lindsay, Mimi here. I just discovered you and wow, I'm so glad I did. This is such an awesome tip! I'm going to get out my glue gun and make a couple of the diy blocks. I can't wait to check out your other videos. Thanks so much for this fantastic tutorial! Have a great day!🌻
Lindsey you have more usable common sense than anyone else I know!!!! Lol! Honestly that is saying a lot because my mom can squeeze a quarter from a dime ! heeheee! TFS with the rest of us commoners!!! So simple, economical and definitely usable. Off to make mine now. YAy!👍👏
This is SUPER DUPER FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!
I LOVE IT! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
GREAT idea ! can't wait to make one...a LOT cheaper than BUYING a block 🤗
Thanks so much! I found out 4x6 papers can be sent as postcards from my travels this summer. Just what I needed!
Ho neat, Lindsay! So much less expensive!!! I will try it!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! What a fantastic tutorial! This makes me so happy that I don't need to spend the $$$ for a block, I'm new to watercolor painting, started this week!!! Love your tutorials!
Thank you. What terrific idea and money saver. As a relative beginner water colourist, I was appalled at the price of blocks compared to pads.
By the way, I love your videos. They are incredibly inspiring and informative.
What a great idea! ❤ Thanks, Lindsay.
That’s brilliant!! You’re so crafty! I always buy the tiny postcard blocks ... but this is so much more affordable 🤩🤩🤩
What a great idea! I've used this technique for book binding and PVA glue is really good for this. You can order it on Amazon for under $10.
I have just been pricing watercolor blocks. OMG they are expensive. Am new to watercolor. Never tried hot press, I love using glossy card stock with brush pens. Will make a small block with the card stock. So nice to try something with materials and tools I already have. Before I buy another thing, I will be binge watching your channel. Lindsay, Thank you so much !!
Hi Lindsay, this is a really useful idea. It's both easy and saves money. I'm a beginner and do a lot of pictures about that size. Thanks for posting the instructions.
What a great idea! I found spatulas almost exactly like yours at the Dollar Store! They were in pastel colors. The handle might have been a little different. I found them in the cosmetics department when I was looking for mica eyeshadow to use fir a shimmer spray. I didn’t find an eyeshadow I liked, but I saw the spatulas and thought they’d work well for pastes and gels when making cards or mixed media art pages.
Thank you Lindsay you're the best much love 😘😘😘
That is such a clever idea! I am looking for a sketchbook, to fit into my travel bag I will get for christmas this year. I kind of had problems to find a sketchbook fitting into the bag. But now you gave me the idea, to make my very own Sketchbook! Thank you so, so, so much!
Fabulous. I just made one with painter's tape around the edges. This is much better-glad I saw this video.
This is SUCH a fantastic practical and $$$saving tutorial! Thank you!
+Jen Wilderdyk thanks!
Please Lindsey, do a tutorial on the water color painting that you did on these pads. It looks absolutely stunning.
Juhi Manral I mean. Maybe you could take a screenshot and look at it and take INSPIRATION from it I don't think you should like just copy it... Understand what I mean?
Grey Pinetree i dont think she is wanting to "just copy it." It may just be that she finds it to be something she wants to learn how to paint. like how most of us learned how. by watching how other paintings are made. or alot of people would just simply learn how to make it to have as decor in their own homes because it matches the theme or is a painting of something they love. what i find wrong is someone taking someone else's painting and selling it or taking credit as their own etc. but i dont think that is her intention. she may just want to see how one certain thing is made, then incorporate it in her own, as her own just as inspiration
Kat Castanares yeah yeah I don't think he wants to copy it but I mean if she takes a screenshot she can look at it and maybe try to paint like that
I hardly ever paint anything. I just love watching her paint. It is therapeutic for me. I find it very relaxing.
This is really great! Instead of buying a watercolor block, you can just buy a pad and use this technique to turn it into a block. Arches watercolor blocks can cost twice as much as their pad counterparts, so this saves some money.
I was thinking the same thing... Have you tried? Was it successful?
Lindsey, THANK YOU!!
I make a lot of my own pads...and I used to think I had to spend money on padding compound, BUT I found that an thick tacky glue works fantastically. I hold it together with a ton of binder clips. I never thought to use hot glue though...I think I may give it a try!
Thank you Lindsay! Created these blocks in two sizes to take on my vacation. They really helped made my long flight bearable! Keep being awesome!
thanks!
Thanks Lindsey - what a great idea. I will share it with my students for an upcoming 3-day watercolor class I'll be teaching in Pacific Grove, California. We are going to be painting on location in the morning, and then in the studio in the afternoon using our sketches from the morning as inspiration. I want to keep it super simple, so this is perfect!
Thank you for this video! This works amazingly well. made several of these in one day. Was so excited just didn’t wanna stop. Finally tested one out and truly enjoyed it. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 😊👍
Great to hear!
I am absolutely impressed!
THANK YOU for all your art and craft videos, but especially this. This video was in my suggested videos, but I only read the title. Tonight I picked up a pad of Canson XL cold press watercolor paper on clearance at Walmart. Earlier this summer, I bought a high temp hot glue gun at a garage sale (my first glue gun and I'm 51. Why did I not get one sooner??). I looked up your video and gave it a try. I used binder clips to hold the pages together. It worked great! I need to work on my glue technique, but it's functional. I also had a silicone wedge brush I picked up on clearance at Hobby Lobby. As cheap as it was to make this block, I can make several and have multiple paintings going at once. I really didn't want to mess with wetting and stretching paper, so I got this is a good solution! I may cut some masonite down to use as the backing. Anyone do that or another cardboard alternative? I wonder how much buckling there is with the last few pages in a block.
Attention those who, like me, want one of those pink silicone spatula things she used to smooth on the glue:
After watching this I got a bit obsessed with wanting one of them. In my head I knew I could make use of that tool in many of my crafting hobbies. I'm usually able to find things that I see like this. I searched Amazon with every term and word combo I could think of that would define what that was; silicone, rubber, chisel, pink, tool, and on and on. I Googled those terms. I went to every craft website I could find and searched there. After a few weeks I had to surrender, defeated, by a tiny silicone spatula. Fast forward to yesterday. I'm in Michaels looking at the various types of Mod Podge for a project I'm working on. I let my eyes wander from the top down and then something caught my eye. I could barely believe it but there it was. In a pack of Mod Podge tools. It was destined to be lol.
TL; DR it's a Mod Podge tool sold at Michaels
yes!and it is super useful):
Walmart and Daiso. But I'll check out Michael's too. You can also use a hand held scrapper that I bought from Walmart in the cooking utensil area that was only 99 cents! Thanks
TheAnnie Canvas you're doing God's work.
Thx for this
Another wonderful money saving, fun idea from Lindsay! This was a great tip for watercolor paper but a fantastic idea for using left over scrapbook paper! Looking forward to making little journals/notebook gift pads for my group!! Thanks Lindsay!!!
thanks Lindsey for this wonderful idea for the watercolor blocks I will be making some for my trip to Northern Minnesota it is so pretty there right now.
I love this. I'm also going to make tablets for card making from by big tablets that I have bought from Michael's on sale. I have more then enough that I can make small tablets for envelopes, money envelopes, A4 cards, flip books. I can share with my sister. I'm like you, I don't always like all the sheets. I can make a tablet and use those for a tablet for my purse. Love this idea! It's not only for my paint pallet cases. Thanks Lindsey! Enjoy celebrating your day!!!
Jen of Eve mentioned your wonderful you tube page. Glad I came. Thank you for sharing!
What a fantastic idea!!!! The blocks are so expensive and this will save a bundle, plus no more having to worry about taping down the watercolor paper. Thank you so much!! Love it
This is brilliant! Just made my own "travel" pad (for whenever we can travel again) and i love it!!! I might try to do de same with my mixmedia pad just for fun!
I have made my own paper pads for notes with this method and had been thinking about doing my own watercolor stack for painting adventures too. Great minds etc... LOL. Those of us who live in the south might want to reconsider using hot glue though; I live in Texas and the trunk of my car probably can get up to 120 to 130 degrees F in August when it's in the low 100's Starting around 11 AM and the hot glue would just make a mess when it melts in my art supply bag so I use Aleene's Tacky Glue to secure the edges of my paper pads. It's not as fast as the hot glue but the extra time it takes is well worth it.
Thanks for this tidbit. I live it Texas too.
holy cow! I live in Maine so it never crossed my mind:)
There are some ultra high temp glue guns and glue sticks out there that might still work even in Texas heat.
I have some of them. I might try them
+Rich Boden I hope you'll post your results with that here, I'd like to know how it works out! Although past experience with home decor made with high temp glue in a house where there was a power outage for a few hours resulted in that home decor being on the floor from melting glue. I gave up on hot glue here in Texas long ago.
A great idea and very frugal. Will definitely try this.
You posted this just as I needed it. Thanks so much.
Another brilliant idea from the past. Really enjoying revisiting your wealth of tricks in all your vids. Thanks Lindsay!
What a brilliant idea. Excellent.
I could not love this video more!! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Aha, here it is. I could remember how to make the block/pad but not how to attach the cover. I'm old enough now though I can blame faulty memory on age instead of blonde Polish moments. Thanks Lindsay.
this is one of your most frugal ideas I love it.
What a great idea. I'll be trying this one this weekend.
Thank you for the great tutorial, I plan on doing this with multimedia and other types of painting paper too.
In place of a pallet knife I use cut up pieces of plastic from things like microwave food trays, bottles, food container lids, etc.
Upcycle.
I bought my MIL one of these KOI paint boxes for taking with her on her trip to England (shes a brilliant water colourist). I used your review to choose them. (I chose this over the cotmans because I wanted her to not have to mix much .. just sit and do a quick paint.. she is going with friends so her painting time may be limited.) I bought some water colour postcard paper pad.. but I might make her one of these to, this is a totally brilliant idea! Thank you!!
This is so frickkin' cool! I find that full 22" x 30" sheets are extra prone to moisture damage if I leave them out during the wet season. I will cut them up and turn them into blocks in the future. Genius!
This is so clever - well done Lindsay!! 👏🏻❤️👏🏻
Clever & as a bonus I now know what the blocks are :). TFS
Great money saver. I'm going to tell a friend who is always buying pads for writing songs-- I have all the supplies so it would be easy for her to do and as a single mom with 3 kids any money saving tips are welcome!!! Thanks so much!!!
Great idea Lindsay. I'm making a bunch of these pads right now
Hi Lindsay. I tuned in because I thought you were going to paint that adorable little postcard for us, but instead was pleasantly surprised at this very helpful video. Fantastic idea! You're the best. P.S. Loved the live watercolour video from Friday. So pretty!
+Lori Hill I probably will do a tutorial on it since people asked. I thought is was too simple to bother with but I was wrong lol;)
You're a genius Lindsay! Dominic, thanks for the rubber cement idea. That's what I'm going to try.
Oh Lindsay, I'm so glad you made this tutorial!! I love painting on small blocks, but I never remember to pick one up. This is Great, I always cut my paper down to fit in my Koi box, but usually only a sheet or two, Besides usually store bought blocks don't fit the Koi box. I'm making one tomorrow to take with me when I'm waiting to pick up my son. You're Awesome!! TFS Alice
What a great idea! That's awesome!
Wish I had known this possibility a few years ago. Lol! So neat and going to try it. Thank you!
What a fantastic idea. Thank you so much Lindsay for sharing. I love your tutorials.
Great idea! Super helpful😉🖌🎨👏🏼
What a awesome DIY !!!!
Excellent idea! I am going to do this for my Koi set!! Thanks, Lindsay!!
cool!
Thank you so much, Lindsay. This is going to save me so much money. I normally buy full sheets of Arches, because being able to cut different sizes works best for me. Now for the math to see how best to cut one or two, for a block. You have helped me so much, with so many painting tips and tricks, and the supplies involved. Bless you!
Brilliant!!! Another fantastic way to save money. TFS!
Lindsay this is AWESOME!! Watercolor Blocks can be so expensive and I hate taping my paper down so learning how to make my own is perfect! especially since one of my favorite papers to paint on is Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper and that doesn't even come in blocks.
Why are you a genius?!?!?! Great idea, thanks for sharing.
What a great video! I've been wanting to make pads of paper from scraps but wasn't sure I wanted to buy padding compound. Never thought hot glue would be the answer! You've done it again, you frugal gal!
Clever idea, I've been using PVA glue but hot glue would make for a nice quick drying time ;) Thanks Lindsay
This has worked really well for me. Thank you.
Fantastic idea, i am going to do this for sure. I am new to watercolor and was wanting to try to a block pad. Thanks so much.
This is brilliant! Blocks are always more costly for less paper >.>
Thank you so much for this video! I cut my 9x12 pads in quarters and use the sheets to do little paintings for cards. While most of the time I don’t have buckling, making blocks like this would help keep the papers together and clean. I also just bought a koi kit for my vacation so I will make one to fit that too. I love following your tutorials and just bought one of your classes, so looking forward to working my way through the class!
What a fabulous idea.....and so easy to do! Thank you so much for sharing all your ideas!!! WOW! :0)
Awesome Lindsey!!!🎉
Thank you!! 😁
That is the same watercolor set I took on vacation with me last year. I did make some small spiral bound pads to take along though. I hadn't thought of anything like this. This is perfect.
Wow, I am amazed at what you come up with, you are so handy at all these type of things and you always do a great job. Thanks again for the ideas you share.
Great Idea Lindsay. As usual, you come up with the very best ideas. Thanks so much.
What an awesome idea! Do you ever sleep, cause you come up with the greatest ideas?! Thanks, can't wait to try this one!
You could also connect the overlap with one of those velcro dots and that way you can take the whole cover off when in use
Can't wait to give this a try.
You have the best ideas and methods to accomplish them. I love your channel and learn something every time I visit. Thank you
Terrific video, as always! Love this! Paper is so expensive, it's great to have a DIY way to make blocks. Thank you so much for your helpful and cost effective ideas and tutorials.
I love this so much! I've already done it 4 times after watching it the first time. Thx!!!
awesome!
What a great idea! I wasn't planning on watching the whole video, but it kept my attention the whole time. Thanks for always great ideas and love your cheerful presentations!
Brilliant Lindsay....you're the best....TFS!
What a wonderful idea! Arches-look out!! I'm going to try this tomorrow. Thanks, Lindsay.
Mary Ellen
Love this idea. Great to customize your watercolor pad choices.
I've made these with craft glue but I'm going to try the hot glue! Thanks for the idea!
This just changed my life. Glue sticks and glue gun will be getting a workout in my house!
Genius ! I need that koi palette!!
Lindsay, I LOVE this DIY!!! I take that same koi watercolor kit with me all the time and now the paper block!! This is the most awesome thing ever☺
love love love this!!!!!!
"sacrificial paper" You crack me up. And I will be doing this... great idea. Thank you.
Very handy to know! Thanks for sharing!
Fabulous idea
I never thought of using hot glue for this! I always thought I'd have to buy special product to make my own, but now this feels completely attainable. Thank you! 🌱
mee too but I figured "why not?" and I tried with cheap paper just in case and best yet is is ready to use in minutes in stead of hours with a wet padding compound. I hope you try it:)
Great idea Lindsey! Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Very helpful. Thank you. Blocks are soooooo pricey!
Did it and it works great! Thank you