Hi Luise, you are an amazing artist, presenter, teacher and motivator. You inspire me to try so many new techniques. Not all turn out to my liking but as you mention it is in the trying that we find ourselves. I love how you look at the pages and see so much. And let me say that you have such a fun sense of humor that makes your videos just so fun and inspirational. Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your time with us
This is a fascinating series! I love that you're encouraging us to be individually creative instead of following a pattern. Your techniques give me so many ideas. 😊
Loving this series! It is interesting to see how the layering is all coming together to create a masterpiece! Thank you for taking the time to teach us these technics and letting us see the process through your eyes!! Can't wait for the next video...
Good day Luise, I am loving this series. I appreciate the way you explain possibilities, likes and dislikes, problems and discoveries and help us see what the creativity inspired... how one thing can lead you to another because you saw something new in yourself and your art. My crafting days started with rubber stamping and I've had nothing but enjoyment with every new and wonderful thing I've learned along the way. Mistakes or 'oopses' are a learning tool for me. I'm LOVING what you're showing us! Thank you for sharing and can't wait to see the next part.
Thank you Luise. I do know that I am a beginner in the Junk Journal realm, but yes, we all bring certain skills with us when we start. There are many new things to learn, but thanks to inspirational artists like you, we are encouraged to experiment, and 'never give up too soon'. 🧡💚🤎
Maybe what we should say is that we are explorers or experimenters with junk journals. I always appreciate the inspiration I get from you…..so much to play with❤
I really appreciate you doing this series! I think I'm a "middle of the road" person - not clean & not so grungy. You give me great ideas on how to do my thing! Thank you!
Hello Luise I have been following this series. You explain the process so clearly. I cannot thank you enough for your creative inspiration. Your upbeat personality is endearing. I just love watching you so much. Please take care and be safe Mary Suzanne from British Columbia Canada
I love all your videos, but as a beginner this was the best talk yet. I fell much more confident to just get started collecting paper and making them into backgrounds without having a detailed "plan".
You explain everything so well. Thank you for your time and patience. I am loving this series. ❤ I adore the grunginess but am needing to do a more clean journal for my upcoming travels, so this is perfect for me. Making a grungy journal will just have to wait 😊
This might be long, lol. When starting my creative journey I was spending like crazy, buying anything and everything after seeing it used in one video. Eventually I became overwhelmed with a bunch of mediums that I didn’t really know how to use effectively. Then I started looking at almost everything in my world as having potential or interest and I collected the “trash” until I needed a bigger house to store it all. It’s easy to fall into either trap. If I was starting again I would not buy every color of paint, the largest watercolor set I could afford, and a dozen different types of paper. So much can truly be done with just a few items and a lot of “junk” mail and packaging. Start with the cheap stuff until you figure out what you love. Creating is truly about the journey, not the destination. I love all the details you shared about using water soluble and permanent products in the same project. It takes some planning to get the desired effect when mixing multiple mediums, but for me, mixed media art is the most visually interesting. Thank you for the amount of time you spend creating informative content for us in two languages. What you share with us is priceless. ❤
What an amazing technique of using stamps to integrate lines. On that 3 butterfly page, using something with an irregular shaped line would hide the wonky line - something like a flourish or leaves. But using the acrylic block side was awesome
I felt very identified with your words. I remember that when I "started" someone who was selling me one of my tools asked me if I was "beginner" and I answered, I'm new to junk journaling because before we called it crafts, and I've been doing that since I can remember with my notebooks, my diaries, my albums, etc. I even made my own baby album when I was 7 because no one ever made one for me before hahaha. We are not "beginners", it is just that we had not realized that we have always been doing it in one way or another, by keeping the movie ticket and sticking it in our diary, etc.
I am loving this series so much and getting a lot of inspiration from it. 1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the intensity of the vintage photo reinker... 2. Your process makes a lot of sense to me... unfortunately my chaotic mind is all over the place in practice😆!!! 3. I get what you mean about the off the page butterflies looking 'dead', but I actually really love that look - it gives a less uniform look to the page and also seems quite realistic. 4. Am still in awe that someone is using my no. 1 shade of green in the distress line. The earthiness of Forest Moss😍 just _speaks_ to me. 5. I really love both of your colour combos and have saved them to try myself - with additions. And these may seem like odd choices, but splashes of Aged Mahogany (my fav red❤, or more specifically red/brown shade) would look amazing with your grunge colour combo and the 'dirtiness' of either Tattered Rose or Victorian Velvet (again, more favs even though I'm generally not a 💗pink girl) would look great with your clean combo. And I also think all three of these colours would do justice to your stunning 😻printable too. I've def gotta try all of this!!! Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into these vids and breaking things down with your explanations... and in a second language too. Us native English speakers of the world tend to be so very lazy with other languages and I'm always in awe of anyone who is fluently bilingual even if the odd word does get the better of you (because some of us can't speak our own language properly either🤣).
Every time I see the opening part of your video I mean to tell you how impressive it is but then I get involved in the video and I forget. The visual effect is stunning. Thank you. I am going to tell my husband that I have permission to collect paper from you. He knows that you are my junk journal hero 🦸♂️ so he will have to allow me to collect more. 😅. Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦
Good morning, Luise I really enjoy watching your videos. I'm a beginner too and hope to develop my own style of crafting. Thank you for your beautiful work and techniques.
Hello Luise , thank you for this very interesting video ! I’m watching a lot of videos about junk journaling, and i’m totally fan of you ! Effectively the more difficult for me is first to find my own style, secondly to say it’s OK, I finished my page .. I try a lot of things that i found beautiful , but how difficult is it to find the final harmony among all these attemps ! Thank you also for the quality of your videos ,and your way of speaking so distinctly and calmy, you are the one I understand best in English 😄 ! You know french people are not very good at languages ! Have a good Day Luise and thanks again !
I’m finding the series helpful. My only wish is that there was more in terms of moving along more quickly. Easy for me to say when I’m not filming and producing two videos for each topic. Dephemerember was my intro to junk journaling and really spoiled me with two videos per day lol. Thanks as always Luise.
Hi Luise, I so love the way you teach!! I have watched many videos on junk journaling and I have tried many techniques but I do not always know when to use what. I love the way you are teaching us the two different styles at the same time. Now I can say, "oh, for this style I distress this way and for the other another way! Your thought processes and teaching are invaluable!!! I am learning that my style at this time is closer to clean but not so perfect and how and why I want to change things to make a grungy journal in the future. I am so so thankful for your teaching! Cindy from Fairfax Virginia USA
oh I love your process and found these videos to be amazing and educational...it is nice to know you can switch the steps around, it is the thinking ahead on each step that is hard to remember lol
Only a little in, and looking forward to your stamping techniques! I think I can offer a view on the question of number of pages. I've noticed there's two bug types of crafters and artists (possibmy all creative types). You have the technically inclined and the free-flow types. (And yes, you can be one type for one thing and a different for another, or flip-flop between! But this is just an overview) The technically inclined (including those really new who need the step-by-step instructions, as well as those who want their results and/or experiences to be nearly identical to yours) want to know those little details. Some get completely lost if they have to translate a concept into something physical - in a project that only vaguely resembles the instructors, even if they've watched it or had it explained to them a thousand times. It's a leap some just can't do at first - there's just so MUCH new that it's easier to cut out as many decisions as possible and just "follow along". I think this struggle happens more (or is stronger) in those who come from a more disciplined creative background, like counted cross stitch, crochet, knitting, quilting, etc... where beginners start with patterns. It's only after much practice and time in that craft that they can possibly create their own new patterns, etc. Just my thoughts on it. I don't feel it's any less creative to want or need "exacts." (Exact measurements, number of pages, etc.) I understand what you're trying to do... to show us various techniques that can be applied to any type of junk journal, be they "clean" or "grungy." These are things that can be applied to any junk journal, at any time, not just THESE specific journals. I've already had a few moments over this series where I had to rewatch something cus the results... beautiful! Jotting down quick notes, hoping to remember to try them (and a reference to the specific video so i won't lose it in the jungle of saved vids, lol)... this series has been full of little tips and tricks that will end up taking my journals from "oh, cool." To "You... MADE this???!!! That's AMAZING!" Thank you.. this has been a great journey so far! Edited to add (much later due to a power outage interrupting me lol)... i think you helped me figure out why i love junk journaling so much. Like you said, its a bunch of different techniques, different ways of "playing"... it's like a bunch of little happy projects that combine at the very end to make one gorgeous whole project... a completed junk journal.
I had a thought when you did that stamp on the wrong angle perhaps do the same stamp in the opposite angle to form a cross x. It would have been a narrow cross but still look good with the line. Love how you used theblick yo make a line though. As you say, there are no mistakes that can't be fixed. Love your videos as hsusl. Sending hugs from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I’ve found using spray Distress Oxides on a Gelli plate (or silicon mat) make fantastic inks for stamping. You can blend colours that way & add a bit of water to make a nice loose effect & get the cool oxidation effect. If you want more of a detailed stamp, stamp off first & use the 2nd generation.
Thank you Luise! When you sprayed the paper with the distress oxide and it ran down the page, did it run because that paper was not the photo paper? (I do understand that the oxide ink is water soluble but not on the photo paper I think! ) Thank you! I bought the photo paper and really am trying to learn how to use it and how to use these mediums! Thank you for your help!!💕💕💕
Love your work and your videos. Really inspiring and educational 🖤. Can I ask what those plastic cases are you store your stamps in? Where could I get those?
@@luiseheinzl Thanks, I have only seen DVD cases with that round thingy on the inside, so I was confused... I found those clear ones on Amazon, of course they don't deliver to my area 😅. Thanks anyways and keep up the good work!
Hey Luise, Thank you so much for sharing all this useful experience and tips ; it was great to follow the series ! Thank you so very much! I have a question about distress oxide inks. Have you ever tried to mix it with red wine by any chance instead of water ? You have so much experience with these inks and I have never tried them... Do you think it could work or could there be any bad chemical reaction ?
Many people also don’t realize how very very inexpensive it is to buy your digitals and print them out. They are thinking of the prices they pay at craft stores.
Hi Luise, you are an amazing artist, presenter, teacher and motivator. You inspire me to try so many new techniques. Not all turn out to my liking but as you mention it is in the trying that we find ourselves. I love how you look at the pages and see so much. And let me say that you have such a fun sense of humor that makes your videos just so fun and inspirational. Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your time with us
My thoughts, exactly! Ditto ❤❤❤❤❤
“Run through the world with open eyes.” Love this! Your videos are inspirational. Thank you!
Awesome video Luise 🙌 you did a great job. Also a big thank you for the shout out. Love your papers 😍
This is a fascinating series! I love that you're encouraging us to be individually creative instead of following a pattern. Your techniques give me so many ideas. 😊
Loving this series! It is interesting to see how the layering is all coming together to create a masterpiece! Thank you for taking the time to teach us these technics and letting us see the process through your eyes!! Can't wait for the next video...
Good day Luise, I am loving this series. I appreciate the way you explain possibilities, likes and dislikes, problems and discoveries and help us see what the creativity inspired... how one thing can lead you to another because you saw something new in yourself and your art. My crafting days started with rubber stamping and I've had nothing but enjoyment with every new and wonderful thing I've learned along the way. Mistakes or 'oopses' are a learning tool for me. I'm LOVING what you're showing us! Thank you for sharing and can't wait to see the next part.
Thank you Luise. I do know that I am a beginner in the Junk Journal realm, but yes, we all bring certain skills with us when we start. There are many new things to learn, but thanks to inspirational artists like you, we are encouraged to experiment, and 'never give up too soon'. 🧡💚🤎
Sending you kindest regards dear Luise. Thank you for sharing your creative process so generously . You’re truly my favorite You Tube creator.
So many wonderful ideas, Hints and Tips, thank you very much for putting this series together ❤
Maybe what we should say is that we are explorers or experimenters with junk journals.
I always appreciate the inspiration I get from you…..so much to play with❤
I am loving this whole series. You do a great job of explaining and encouraging us. 😊
I really appreciate you doing this series! I think I'm a "middle of the road" person - not clean & not so grungy. You give me great ideas on how to do my thing! Thank you!
Hello Luise I have been following this series. You explain the process so clearly. I cannot thank you enough for your creative inspiration. Your upbeat personality is endearing. I just love watching you so much. Please take care and be safe Mary Suzanne from British Columbia Canada
Hi! Sorry to hijack your post! I got excited when I saw you were from British Columbia Canada. So am I! 😊
Loving this series. Thank you for your generous soul❤
I love this so much! I have often wondered what to do with those stencil line areas. Looking forward to what comes next!💙
Totally impressive! I love watching your process and I appreciate you in-depth instructions! Thank you for doing your videos in English.
I love all your videos, but as a beginner this was the best talk yet. I fell much more confident to just get started collecting paper and making them into backgrounds without having a detailed "plan".
You explain everything so well. Thank you for your time and patience. I am loving this series. ❤ I adore the grunginess but am needing to do a more clean journal for my upcoming travels, so this is perfect for me. Making a grungy journal will just have to wait 😊
What a great idea to provide definition to the edges of the paper.
This might be long, lol. When starting my creative journey I was spending like crazy, buying anything and everything after seeing it used in one video. Eventually I became overwhelmed with a bunch of mediums that I didn’t really know how to use effectively. Then I started looking at almost everything in my world as having potential or interest and I collected the “trash” until I needed a bigger house to store it all. It’s easy to fall into either trap. If I was starting again I would not buy every color of paint, the largest watercolor set I could afford, and a dozen different types of paper. So much can truly be done with just a few items and a lot of “junk” mail and packaging. Start with the cheap stuff until you figure out what you love. Creating is truly about the journey, not the destination.
I love all the details you shared about using water soluble and permanent products in the same project. It takes some planning to get the desired effect when mixing multiple mediums, but for me, mixed media art is the most visually interesting.
Thank you for the amount of time you spend creating informative content for us in two languages. What you share with us is priceless. ❤
What an amazing technique of using stamps to integrate lines. On that 3 butterfly page, using something with an irregular shaped line would hide the wonky line - something like a flourish or leaves. But using the acrylic block side was awesome
Great tips for pages and added interest, can't wait for the next one😍
I felt very identified with your words. I remember that when I "started" someone who was selling me one of my tools asked me if I was "beginner" and I answered, I'm new to junk journaling because before we called it crafts, and I've been doing that since I can remember with my notebooks, my diaries, my albums, etc. I even made my own baby album when I was 7 because no one ever made one for me before hahaha. We are not "beginners", it is just that we had not realized that we have always been doing it in one way or another, by keeping the movie ticket and sticking it in our diary, etc.
I am loving this series so much and getting a lot of inspiration from it.
1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the intensity of the vintage photo reinker...
2. Your process makes a lot of sense to me... unfortunately my chaotic mind is all over the place in practice😆!!!
3. I get what you mean about the off the page butterflies looking 'dead', but I actually really love that look - it gives a less uniform look to the page and also seems quite realistic.
4. Am still in awe that someone is using my no. 1 shade of green in the distress line. The earthiness of Forest Moss😍 just _speaks_ to me.
5. I really love both of your colour combos and have saved them to try myself - with additions. And these may seem like odd choices, but splashes of Aged Mahogany (my fav red❤, or more specifically red/brown shade) would look amazing with your grunge colour combo and the 'dirtiness' of either Tattered Rose or Victorian Velvet (again, more favs even though I'm generally not a 💗pink girl) would look great with your clean combo. And I also think all three of these colours would do justice to your stunning 😻printable too. I've def gotta try all of this!!!
Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into these vids and breaking things down with your explanations... and in a second language too. Us native English speakers of the world tend to be so very lazy with other languages and I'm always in awe of anyone who is fluently bilingual even if the odd word does get the better of you (because some of us can't speak our own language properly either🤣).
PS. Excuse the essay!!!
Every time I see the opening part of your video I mean to tell you how impressive it is but then I get involved in the video and I forget. The visual effect is stunning. Thank you.
I am going to tell my husband that I have permission to collect paper from you. He knows that you are my junk journal hero 🦸♂️ so he will have to allow me to collect more. 😅. Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦
😅❤️ thank you so much and a hug for your hubby!
Good morning, Luise I really enjoy watching your videos. I'm a beginner too and hope to develop my own style of crafting. Thank you for your beautiful work and techniques.
Loving this series! I definitely feel the need to cover the white. Im working on it. Thank you for sharing your amazing process
Just started watching this series, and it's so inspiring! I'm already brewing up some new ideas!
Video very helpful with different techniques. You explained everything so well in detail. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Luise , thank you for this very interesting video ! I’m watching a lot of videos about junk journaling, and i’m totally fan of you ! Effectively the more difficult for me is first to find my own style, secondly to say it’s OK, I finished my page .. I try a lot of things that i found beautiful , but how difficult is it to find the final harmony among all these attemps ! Thank you also for the quality of your videos ,and your way of speaking so distinctly and calmy, you are the one I understand best in English 😄 ! You know french people are not very good at languages ! Have a good Day Luise and thanks again !
You are, as always, inspiring.
I’m finding the series helpful. My only wish is that there was more in terms of moving along more quickly. Easy for me to say when I’m not filming and producing two videos for each topic. Dephemerember was my intro to junk journaling and really spoiled me with two videos per day lol. Thanks as always Luise.
Hi Luise, I so love the way you teach!! I have watched many videos on junk journaling and I have tried many techniques but I do not always know when to use what. I love the way you are teaching us the two different styles at the same time. Now I can say, "oh, for this style I distress this way and for the other another way! Your thought processes and teaching are invaluable!!! I am learning that my style at this time is closer to clean but not so perfect and how and why I want to change things to make a grungy journal in the future. I am so so thankful for your teaching! Cindy from Fairfax Virginia USA
Aww 🥰 thank you so much ❤️
oh I love your process and found these videos to be amazing and educational...it is nice to know you can switch the steps around, it is the thinking ahead on each step that is hard to remember lol
Thanks Louise!
Thank you, Luise'
Only a little in, and looking forward to your stamping techniques!
I think I can offer a view on the question of number of pages. I've noticed there's two bug types of crafters and artists (possibmy all creative types). You have the technically inclined and the free-flow types. (And yes, you can be one type for one thing and a different for another, or flip-flop between! But this is just an overview)
The technically inclined (including those really new who need the step-by-step instructions, as well as those who want their results and/or experiences to be nearly identical to yours) want to know those little details. Some get completely lost if they have to translate a concept into something physical - in a project that only vaguely resembles the instructors, even if they've watched it or had it explained to them a thousand times. It's a leap some just can't do at first - there's just so MUCH new that it's easier to cut out as many decisions as possible and just "follow along". I think this struggle happens more (or is stronger) in those who come from a more disciplined creative background, like counted cross stitch, crochet, knitting, quilting, etc... where beginners start with patterns. It's only after much practice and time in that craft that they can possibly create their own new patterns, etc.
Just my thoughts on it. I don't feel it's any less creative to want or need "exacts." (Exact measurements, number of pages, etc.)
I understand what you're trying to do... to show us various techniques that can be applied to any type of junk journal, be they "clean" or "grungy." These are things that can be applied to any junk journal, at any time, not just THESE specific journals.
I've already had a few moments over this series where I had to rewatch something cus the results... beautiful! Jotting down quick notes, hoping to remember to try them (and a reference to the specific video so i won't lose it in the jungle of saved vids, lol)... this series has been full of little tips and tricks that will end up taking my journals from "oh, cool." To "You... MADE this???!!! That's AMAZING!"
Thank you.. this has been a great journey so far!
Edited to add (much later due to a power outage interrupting me lol)... i think you helped me figure out why i love junk journaling so much. Like you said, its a bunch of different techniques, different ways of "playing"... it's like a bunch of little happy projects that combine at the very end to make one gorgeous whole project... a completed junk journal.
Thank you so much for your thoughts! I will keep that in mind!
I thank you 😊
I had a thought when you did that stamp on the wrong angle perhaps do the same stamp in the opposite angle to form a cross x. It would have been a narrow cross but still look good with the line. Love how you used theblick yo make a line though. As you say, there are no mistakes that can't be fixed. Love your videos as hsusl. Sending hugs from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I’ve found using spray Distress Oxides on a Gelli plate (or silicon mat) make fantastic inks for stamping. You can blend colours that way & add a bit of water to make a nice loose effect & get the cool oxidation effect. If you want more of a detailed stamp, stamp off first & use the 2nd generation.
Love it
Great video
Thank you Luise! When you sprayed the paper with the distress oxide and it ran down the page, did it run because that paper was not the photo paper? (I do understand that the oxide ink is water soluble but not on the photo paper I think! ) Thank you! I bought the photo paper and really am trying to learn how to use it and how to use these mediums! Thank you for your help!!💕💕💕
Luise I’m stopping the video while you are talking about your pages. I would love to know how you store your papers?
I've just reorganized my whole stash. Still in progress, but there will come an updated room tour!
Awesome!
Hi Luise--Thanks for the inspiration. Do you have a favorite printer you would recommend. Thanks.
I use an Epson eco tank printer. That's very good because the ink is not so expensive and it lasts for a very long time
Love your work and your videos. Really inspiring and educational 🖤. Can I ask what those plastic cases are you store your stamps in? Where could I get those?
Thanks! Those are DVD cases, I bought them on Amazon
@@luiseheinzl Thanks, I have only seen DVD cases with that round thingy on the inside, so I was confused... I found those clear ones on Amazon, of course they don't deliver to my area 😅. Thanks anyways and keep up the good work!
Hey Luise,
Thank you so much for sharing all this useful experience and tips ; it was great to follow the series ! Thank you so very much! I have a question about distress oxide inks. Have you ever tried to mix it with red wine by any chance instead of water ? You have so much experience with these inks and I have never tried them... Do you think it could work or could there be any bad chemical reaction ?
Hi! That's a very interesting question! I've never tried it but I don't think there would be a bad chemical reaction
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Many people also don’t realize how very very inexpensive it is to buy your digitals and print them out. They are thinking of the prices they pay at craft stores.
You are to Junk Journaling as what Bob Ross was to painting
😳 thank you so much ❤️