Why Gluebooks? What’s the purpose? Why make them?
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If you are not familiar with gluebooks, and have questions about why someone would make one, what's the purpose, or what do you do with them when you’re done, then you've come to the right place. That's what I'm talking about in today's video.
A gluebook is something you glue things into. Also, you take something else, like an old school notebook and turn it into a gluebook. You can even take a junk journal and turn it into a gluebook. Gluebooks are art journals made with using papers.
I'll show you lots of examples of upcycled papers that I've turned into gluebooks, and I'll also show you some of the simplest ways to create a glue book from materials you probably already have at home.
I hope you're ready for lots of ideas!
0:00 intro
1:32 What is a gluebook
1:56 What do you put in a gluebook?
3:14 Is it like a scrapbook?
3:49 How can this be meaningful?
5:34 Isn't it kind of pointless?
7:04 What do you do with a glubook when you're done?
8:46 How to make a gluebook from things at home
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🔴 I'm Margarete Miller. I'm a collage artist who loves to use vintage papers and vintage themes in my art. I also love all things postal, including lots of postage stamps in my art. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I have stumbled across what I call “paper therapy” lately. I started out decorating journal spreads, but found I didn’t necessarily go back and fill in the journal part all the time. The meaning is coming from the decorating. It brings me joy to glue and use stickers and paper and other ephemera. So to find videos like this and read the comments where others are doing the same thing makes me so happy. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent!! 👏🏼 You were already more than half way figuring this out for yourself. So glad I could help 💙
“Paper therapy” is a perfect term for it!
People often don't understand my love for paper. Nice to see likeminded people.
There are many of us out there. Sometimes it does take a little effort to find us 😉❣️👍🏼
I finally have a name for my hobby! I used to call it "scrapbooking", "junk journaling", or simply "paper crafting". But I don't like writing in my books or adding personal ephemera and pictures. I just like the creative process of combining pretty stickers and washi and papers to create an aesthetically pleasing end result on the page.
Yeah, it's scrapbooking. I don't know why this person thinks it's something new or different. They used to sell actual scrapbooks with either light or dark paper and you just did exactly this - cut things out and glue them in. Some people also put old cards or letters and ticket stubs - anything that meant something to them personally. It is fun! I just don't know why anyone would act like it hasn't been around for at least a hundred years. It has.
Hi, I'm "this person". I explained in the video what is a scrap book and how it's different from a gluebook. It's there if you care to learn.
The creative process really is the best part. 👍🏻 FYI, scrapbooks are all about memory keeping. Gluebooks are different because that's not the goal. Gluebooks can be any kind of papers that are not related to your past or to your memories. They can be just for fun.
@@MargareteMillergo Margarete, Go! I used to feel so guilty for saving each little cool thing that I found. Now I know that I can call it paper therapy and give everybody the bird who 15:13 wants me to throw my collection away!!💌
@@ellen4956rude
When I was a child I would save all kinds of pictures from advertising, cereal boxes, magazines, newspapers, etc, anything I found nice or connected with and paste them in a notepad or make a book. People thought I was wasting my time. Now I know this is a real art!!!
That’s what my mum did from a child in the 1930’s and I grew up doing the same, we’ve always called them scrapbooks.
It is!! 😉 I hope you’ll start it up again, making a gluebook ❣️
@@MoonSpinners For me, it was the 1970s and 1980s.
@@MargareteMiller Yes, I just might!!!
@@MoonSpinners Same. My mother kept books like this from her mother's childhood. But, I don't understand the difference between a scrapbook and a glue book. I've never heard of a glue book until today. Something new. 🙂 Or is it?
I love this video! I'm 69 years old and have been collecting pictures from magazines, ephemera, souvenir ticket stubs, postcards, and the like my entire life. All that stuff currently lives in boxes in a closet. I think that creating glue books with it is a fabulous idea. Thank you!
Wonderful, Kerry! I'm so glad you've got a new idea to play with. Have fun pulling out those papers and putting them to use 💜
Now I have a name for what I’ve been doing. I kind of stumbled on the craft during the lockdown - it’s not only relaxing, it’s really helped me get on top of my anxiety and panic attacks since my mother passed away 18 months ago. Thanks for shining a light on this.
I do the same with my greeting cards....
Sorry for your loss 😿 💔
Sorry for your loss. Glad that you found something to help ❤️
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When I was a child, I'm 60 and from the UK, we used to have scrapbooks, you could glue pictures, out of magazines and other paper things, in them, these have been around since the victorian era I think!
Yes I’m from the UK too and I too remember our scrapboooks from childhood. We all did them didn’t we?! But now I’m an avid junk journaller and somewhat obsessed with different ways of using the mountain of paper I’ve collected over more than 50 years!
I'm in Australia, & always had "scrapbooks", well into my married life. I still have them, & what memories! 😊
Yes! These type of creative books have been around for hundreds of years. 💜
I am also from the UK and agree that this is closer to what I think of a scrapbook than the definition that was given in the video. Perhaps that's a regional difference in understanding of the word scrapbook
Some may think gluebooks and junk journals are a waste of time. As for me, I am disabled and have no immune system and can't go anywhere. They really help me to cope and I feel so much better when I work on them. Thank you for this video! Be blessed🌿
I'm so glad you can work on gluebooks and it helps you. Thank goodness for the ideas and inspiration you can get from videos, too. I hope they continue to keep you creating! 💜
I bet your books are beautiful! Do you have a youtube channel?
I feel the same way, and I also have the same ailments! I don’t go out of the house at all, and also have an auto immune disorder and the process helps me too. I do tend to want to be too perfect! But really I love it bc I can do it however I want … I love collaging and decoupaging things including mason jars, wine bottles… etc! I just moved and I have to sift through everything and get my set up back together and pray that I can jump start my small biz as quick as possible! One of my specialties is shabby flower making! Most shabby chic lovers are huge fans of them! I have to locate the two big boxes of them! They’re gonna be the first thing that I upload on my channel next! It was nice that I saw your comment! I’m gonna sub if you have content on your channel!
@jfe1195 How kind your comment is. Thank you! I do not have a channel. I do it to help pass the time and being creative is good medicine. Be blessed 🌿
@thejarfancystudios4638 Thank you for your comment! Autoimmune can be extremely challenging. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus. It has destroyed my immune system. It's great that you are so creative. I know that helps. Hope you get settled and all goes well. I don't have a channel. I enjoy TH-cam though. Be blessed 🌿
A few years ago, I became disenchanted with day books: those daily mediations for women who do too much, or parents or whatever. So I decided to make my own. Who knew it was a glue book. 365 different mediations with a collage around it in a large coffee table type book. It took 3-4 years to make, but now I get great peace in going to a specific day and reading the thought there. Your video had inspired me.
My goodness, what an amazing project!! I hope you are really proud of yourself for what you've created. And yes, keep going! 🌟
This is the best idea ever. I'm going to do this too. Annie
I love this idea! Did you cover pages of an already bound coffee table book or bind it yourself after it was done?
That would be interesting to see
@@Vivienne_Plum I have no idea of how to post photos or I’d show you. But I used a bound book (the title, which I kept, is “Real Simple Solutions .” I glued over some pages, I used parts of some pages, I glued some pages together, I made doors. One page had a file box on it, so I made cards that slipped out of the box. So, I did all sorts of things; each page had a quotation that spoke to me (or a poem, or a short essay). The only commonality was that every piece pleased me then and still does. Some pages had more than one day also.
I literally just did this last night because i didnt want to throw away a sequoia park brochure and some roses cut off a yogurt packaging and called the book stick eveything here book! Glue book makes more sense 😂 thank you universe for showing me its normal and many people do this ❤❤
So glad you found gluebook a and are enjoying creating them 💜👍🏼😉
I've never heard of Glue books before.
Thank you for giving me a new hobby ☺
I’m so happy the algorithm brought your video to my feed. I’ve been doing this for years but always just called it scrapbooking but never felt it was actually scrapbooking. Love it, just love it!
So glad you found this video, Joanne❣️ I hope it's given you some ideas to play with. 👍🏻
BEST VIDEO EVER. I have found that my glue books can be the basis for bigger collage pieces. SCRAPS WITH PURPOSE. Best way to recycle.
Awwww. Thanks, Beverly!! 😘😘😘 I've never thought about using the pages for bigger collage pieces. Kind of like a staging ground? I like that idea!
I was gifted an old glue book someone had made in a big old red book. 3 inches full and 8 1/2 x 10 or so. A friend of my husbands was going through donated books and was going to toss this out but decided to keep it. Then she shared it with me and I loved it so much... she gave it to me! Definitely one of the best gifts ever... This person who made the book had glued articles, patterns, recipes, advertisements, almanac type things etc. It is not artistic papers/ephemera really, more just a keeper of all the things they liked I guess. In some places only the top was glued and I could lift up to see more glued underneath and sometimes even a picture or text ofthe original book. I was so fascinated. I had to look through the whole book several times to make sure I didn't miss anything. My favorite things to see were craft related.....how to fold an envelope or how to crochet lace or do tatting or make a rag doll etc. Also interesting was alll the old remedies for everything. I learned so much reading through it all. So fun. It had a lot of the old work basket type things and many things I would want to use in my junk journals... but of course I can't bear to tear anything out of it. I feel like it is a piece of her history I get to preserve and share with others. Makes me wish I had a youtube to do a flip through. I appreciate your videos, thank you!
Oh, please do a flip-through. We would love to see it! I love finding treasures like you described!!
You can always take pictures or scan some of the images to use in your crafting.
Your artistic gluebook looks tidy. Its flat, not lumpy bumpy, like many junk journals on TH-cam. I like the fact that people find papercraft therapeutic. I still don't know difference between junk journals and gluebooks.
I'll have the video out next week where I explain in more detail. A LOT of people have asked this question. 💜
Isn't it just that a junk journal is where you make the book itself out of different papers and things and you may or may not also use a junk journal as a gluebook by then adding things in. A gluebook is where you are gluing (or taping) things into a book you did not make - either it's a new manufactured notebook, a book you are repurposing, a planner, etc. So basically in a junk journal the pages themselves are the art, and a gluebook you are making art on the pages. So junk journal could also be used as a gluebook but not the other way around. Hopefully I have that correct.
Thank you for reply. I noticed that some people reuse rings to make a makeshift binder.
I used to do scrapbooks when i was a kid. The quality of glue for papercraft is better now.
As you thumbed thru - looking for something “unique”, I’m thinking IT IS ALL UNIQUE! At least to me! Beautiful compositions - lovely colors - awesome shapes - who knew it could be so much fun to collect & display PAPER! I adore it! And you totally inspire us to “see” what is there … an awareness perhaps. Thank you, Margarete!
Hi Margarete! I love to make glue books out of old books I have altered. I am a big collector of paper fodder (can’t throw old books or magazines out before I check them for pictures I might like to use in glue books). So I have a huge selection! I find it very relaxing and quite therapeutic. Thanks for your great channel and cheers from Oz. 🤗❤️🇦🇺
Ahhh, yes. Altered books are so awesome, too. I’m so glad you’re thinking up ways to create with them 👍🏼😉💙
It's the first time I've actually been able to fathom what glue are, used for etc. And yes, I believe taking one's mind to another place of relaxation is crucial to remain sane, from the hurlg burly of life! Thanks Margreth 😊. Your explanations are so succinct and interesting fodder for the brain 😂
My thoughts also.
Hi Margaret, I've been sticking pictures in A5 note books since 2017 where it became a Chtistmas glue book. I have 3 of those. Then pictures from a UK magazine called Evergreen. That stopped 2 years ago. Then this year I started getting This England same company as Evergreen. My other goto magazine is Daphneys Diary.
Margarete, I must tell you something funny that happened to me. I spent A bit of time making an altered book for a friend of mine. She likes to journal so I thought she might like it. It turned out great. I sent it to her and heard nothing. Finally I asked her in email if she received my altered book. She said um, dear, I hate to tell you this but someone wrote all over your book. LOL. I said hon, that was me, I used rubber stamps mostly and the images went with the pages. Poetry book. I could not get her to understand it was supposed to be that way. LOL
Hi Margarete, I like to make a glue book page or two or three (depending on the vacation) for each vacation or trip that I go on. I use things collected on the trip: maps, brochures, business cards, stamps, etc. I always have the pages (I use index card-sized cardstock)and a glue stick with me but seldom get around to making the pages until after my return, whereupon I can relive and enjoy the experiences all over again 🥰.
Thank you so much for your videos, instructions and motivation. I have been following you for a couple of years and am very grateful to you for introducing me to the world of collage.
Greetings from Austria!
I love this idea!
When I first heard gluebooks I thought Here we go, another silly time waster (I can’t get into junk journals even though I journal-pen to paper-like crazy. Thanks for sharing your insights into this craft. It definitely shines a light on a new way of dealing with life as it bombards us from all sides.
I do something that I call creative journaling and that might work well for you if writing is a big focus. I basically view it like a decorated diary or journal, but it isn't exclusively for diary entries, I also decorate and stick in things I like just because I want to keep them. I find that everyone has a slightly different idea or definition of these terms anyway, and perhaps what you consider a junk journal is a lot more restrictive than what I would
Thank you for your encouraging comments. And thanks for watching 💙
My creative outlet is constructing Glue Books. Started doing them as self care while learning to live with mental illness.
Good for you. I have read several places that making things with our hands actually releases happy chemicals in our brains and I believe it from my own experiences -sewing and fabric crafting and photo scrapbooking. I hope it continues to help you.
Glue books are great for self care and mental health. Good for you for taking this up as a hobby. 👏🏼
Thank you for todays video. I never show my glue books on videos because I feel people wont understand why I do so much of them. I honestly feel myself relax in every inch of my body working in them and making them just something that I understand lol.
Well, you're not alone out there, with your love of working on gluebooks💜. There are lots of us 😉🌟👍🏻
Any book that I make whether it is a glue book or a junk journal or a book that I have used to practice book binding, they are all important to me. I have a friend who has done quite a lot of handcrafting and she had never done any paper crafts. She got in touch with me soon after her husband passed away for suggestions. I thought for a nano second and mentioned glue books and discribed them as best I could and linked her to a few YT videos. She just loves them and reccomends them to everyone. There is a reason for glue books
How nice that you were able to help your friend with a great suggestion. Yes, they really can be so helpful 💜
Thank you❣️ now I know what to do with all the pretty magazine pictures that I don’t want to throw away❤
I've been holding onto some outdated Happy Planners of various sizes. Now I know what to do with them!
Awesome! So glad you’ve got a new idea to play with 😉❣️👍🏼
Great video! I like to make junk journals, but I give those away. It's the process I love, I don't journal.
Glue books are my favorite. Collage art is relaxing to me. I have books with several themes: color, alphabet, random, paper dolls, surreal collage...
I do it for all the reasons you mentioned.
I would advise anyone who thinks it is silly to grab an old book and some basic supplies and just go at it. I have a grandson who thinks it is really fun to create the most bizarre character (paper dolls) he can.
Also, I gave my older grandsons junk journals. When we are out and about I like to show them things we obtain that would go INTO their junk journals ❤
I make a glue book each year to collect anything I come across that I want to keep for myself while making jj for others. I make a small collection, setting them aside until I have the time to glue them into my glue book. I love looking at my older glue books and reading some of the notes I make about particular items. Sometimes, I put things in pockets or envelopes in my glue books with the intent that I might use these in the future on another project. Although there isn’t much “journaling” in my glue books, they are a reflection of my tastes and likes… and these make me smile. 💝
Thanks so much for sharing this. So many great suggestions here. 👏🏼
Thank you, Margarete! Your explanations are always so concise, helpful, and encouraging!
You're so welcome, Sue!! Thanks for watching 😘
Love glue books, the whole concept is so therapeutic. And I especially like that it really only has meaning to the person who is making it. Just another form of art. TFS Hugs * L
I agree. It is very personal. 💜👍🏼🌸
I think your gluebooks with the coil binding is just precious !!!❤
Thanks so much! I do really enjoy working in this size 💜
This explaining of what glue books are and why do them was very helpful. I'm new to all of paper crafts. I've made one bee themed journal and I haven't decorated most of the pages yet. I see all of these, weather it's junk journals, glue books, or any kind of journal making, it's all a process. I get so much joy when I'm doing anything creative. At 67 years of age now I've done just about every craft imaginable. I still enjoy sewing and crocheting and wood crafts and craft shows. However this past year the paper has taken 1st place in my creative life. I am going to start a glue book now and it doesn't seem to be as daunting a task as was my bee journal. Thanks for explaining this to me. I'm going to watch your suggested video of 8 things or ideas on glue books. ❤❤❤
I mean, why do anybody do anything? It’s fun, brings joy, and records history of your life and interests. ❤
Yes, sometimes it doesn't look like traditional art and therefore people question if it's a good way to spend time. I'm hoping to help confused people see that indeed, it's worth the time 👍🏻😉💜
I hadn’t heard of a gluebook, so thank you for sharing! It reminds me of Pinterest boards…saving images with a common theme. I love this! ❤
this really reminds me of when I was a teenager. I used to print out anime and classic art work so I can glue them all in a book. Each image had a meaning and I loved that book. I think I will be remaking it... thank you! This was a forgotten memory that I forgot about it it was so precious to me.
I've been saving the dots from hole punching for a long time. Use for fillers in little windows. Great to make from those little scraps.
Well, now i know what I made when I was a teen lol I used to cut all the movies recaps from the weekly TV magazine and stick them in a chunky notebook. I still have it, and now i have a name for it 🙃
That is actual gold!!!!!
(((I have movie stubs from nearly 25 years!))
That’s so cool! I’m so glad you kept it ❣️
I have truly been inspired! I am now going to start a glue book to put scraps from some of the themed journals I make. These will remind me of what I made and for whom. I will also add pictures of the babies I make books for, the bride and groom, the recipe, et cetera.
I really didn’t NEED another project, but here I go!!
😂 I know what you mean!! I do like that idea, though, of using a gluebook with scraps from project to keep track and use as a record. GREAT idea!!
Oh your glue books are tidy, compared to mine 😁
I love making them, I’ve always collected scraps of paper, and I’ve always made books since I was about 8 years old.
Im a scrapbooker, card maker and general crafter. In my collage days i did a lot of collages on items. Now I collage in books and call them junk journals. I can spend hours working in them. I enjoy whatever you want to call them. Its really therapeutic ❤
I agree. It’s therapeutic, indeed ❣️
I started what I was calling a mixed media journal but now realize what I am doing is a glue book. I loved seeing your glue books!
I have wondered for years what is a glue book and what they are for. You answered all my questions and more. Thank you. I love your explanation on why people like to make and use one. Not many people understand why some people “have” to create and love the process.
So glad this was helpful, Sally. I hope you’ll start on one soon❣️😉👍🏼
I use lots of things in glue books. Magazine pictures, greeting cards, ticket stubs, artwork of my grandchildren, brochures from places I have visited when on vacation. Anything that is paper related is a possibility of being used! Enjoyed seeing your glue books. ❤
Your books are so pretty and interesting! Thanks for sharing!
In this day and age with everything being electronic it is so sad to realize that pictures and papers and so many of the happy occasions in life, are nothing but a capture on an electronic device. Nothing to touch, feel, hold or even pass on to the next generation. I get such joy out of making handmade journals and albums. Thinking of a design, collecting the papers and embellishments, the layout, the cutting, the pasting, all of it. I am always astonished when someone asks why I am doing this, or why do I bother to make these for others. I understand that this isn't for everyone, but It makes it hard to explain the joy and emotional therapy these creations can bring. So it was especially nice to read some of the positive comments and to see that people are still doing and enjoying some of this type of crafting.
I had a notebook with thick paper, almost as thick as construction paper. I totally took magazines and collage similar colors and images totally from magazines. It was almost like painting. Sometimes, I did a little painting too. It was peaceful. I almost always found a message come through. You've made me want to do this again. Thanks.
I wasn't really sure what a gluebook was and this video explains it perfectly. I found 3 sketchbooks that I never use and now I can use them as a gluebook! I like finding a use for everything that I have. Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoyed it! And now I'm so excited about using my new/old gluebooks!
That’s fabulous! I’m so glad you’ve got some new ideas to play with 👏🏼❣️😉
I've not make a glue book, but I've always thought that I would like a place to keep all those pieces of ephemera and momentos I've collected over the years (besides in a box on a shelf). thank you for this.
New sub. Excellent content and presentation.
I think this is a perfect ongoing project (s) for my autistic daughter. ❤ thank you
Absolutely! With some guidance, she could really love it 💙
Thank you for you explanation of a glue book.
I have been a bit confused about what they were for. You did a fantastic job of explaining.
Thank you for taking the time snd share your own personal gluebooks.
You are so welcome! I’ll so glad you enjoyed this 🙂❣️👍🏼
Margarete: I absolutely love glue books. I’ve done a travel size made from a magazine. I work in a three ring binder for my random glue book. I’ve done little 2 1/2” squares with quotes on the back that sit in a small box of the same size. And now, I’m working in an altered book. It is such a creative, inexpensive, calming way for me to relax. Eventually, I would like to teach a class for adults.It is just plain fun! Good video. Carol from California
I made my first gluebook from watching your class in Collage Makers Summit 2024, and absolutely loved this lesson. I glued all sorts of little bits and pieces in the book, and liked the challenge of trying to coordinate the facing pages. Since then, I'm on my 2nd gluebook and will soon start yet another one. I love the idea of using up my stash of collage fodder. Thank you for a wonderful lesson.
Great explanation of glue books! I love to glue book in composition books usually with a color theme, they are so relaxing for me.
It doesn't matter what form of craft, painting, fabric, glueing, photography or writing, it is all creative and relaxing and very personal. Sometime this i share, sometimes not but whatever I have done it was part of me. What yu showed and what you said was so very correct and meaningful.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Maude. ❤️
I saved a book that was for writing down phone numbers and addresses. I really liked the cover but have no need for the pages. Now I have some ideas of what to do with it! Thank you so much, Margarete!
That sounds like a perfect gluebook to me 💜😉👍🏻
I thought I was the only person who used ephemera and small beautiful papers this way! I love your books!
Thank you. Keep on creating 👍🏼❣️😉
I happened across this on my home page and so glad I did! Like someone here said, I sometimes make junk journals and don't even go back and use them. I just like making/using the paper.
Exactly. And that’s perfectly fine. You are using your time to do something you deeply enjoy 💙🌼👍🏼
Find them in lots of places like old books (i love old paper in some books), inside patterns of junk mail envelopes, magazines, old catalogues may have some nice patterns or pictures to use, calendar pages, children's books... I love to find things at thrift stores. I enjoy hunting for these items!
Thank you for explaining this! I have been fascinated by videos here on YT and started my own journal and have begun buying stickers and cutting out pictures from old Smithsonian magazines I was going to recycle. I guess it reminds me of elementary school. I've never considered myself as artistic but I'm enjoying exploring gluing stuff into an old journal. I found this very helpful, thank you! 😊
I’m so glad you’ve already got a project to work on. Have fun with it! 💙
I love playing with paper! My favorite is junk journaling and making collages. It is therapeutic for me, I love your explanation. Thank you.
Thank you for this. Sometimes it’s the creative journey, not necessarily the destination(finished product). For me creating something I think is beautiful is therapeutic, whether it’s useful or not. It’s meditative and calming. It’s using my own unique imagination to make something that makes me happy. 😊
I have just recently learned to accept that it is okay to just benefit from the making , and if the result is not perfect, or I don't have anyone to give it to, that's okay.
It has only been very recently that I have been able to feel that it's okay if my paper hobbies do not produce anything other people can appreciate. That has been a very long time in coming😮.
Thank you for this video. I really want to try gluebooking. You’ve provided some great ideas here.
Great!! Glad it was helpful! 💜
This gives me an idea of what to do with my collections and souvenirs. Thank you!
Perfect! I’m so glad you’ve got a new idea to play with 😉❣️👍🏼
Greetings from Australia. I'm in my 60's and we made scrap books at church to give to the childrens ward at a local hospital. There was nothing formal about it, just cuttings out of magazines.and birthday, Christmas cards that our parents had. A nice book to flip through. I get it. I'm a card maker and love sending them once I've made them. Make a card, send a card. I wouldn't know what to do with a glue book once I completed it. There is only so many times you can look at it. That is just me and if it makes you happy - do it xx
Thanks for your comments ❣️
I want to thank you for those introductory questions, I never knew about a gluebook. So, here I am, ready to learn.
Out of all the videos you do, glue books and journals, are my favorite ones to watch!!!
I love your style in gluebooking, Margarete. Thank you for the inspiration.
Thanks so much! 🌟❣️🌟
This was very helpful, thank you! I love your bluebooks and I feel so inspired to start my own - today!
Oooh I am SO inspired by this! I bounce between yarn and paper-crafts depending on what im inspired by. I’ve been in a huge yarn craft kick lately, but this has inspired me to dig up my paper-craft supplies! About a year ago I purchased some packs of vintage ephemera from a little shop but I haven’t used it for anything yet, this is the perfect use for it.
Neat!! You’ve got ephemera ready to go 😉❣️👍🏼
Thank you so much for this video! I have done multiple crafts throughout the years...but I'm new to paper crafting. This video helped me to understand the difference between glue books and junk journals!
Love , love, love your artistry and inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing. 😊
You’re so welcome! Thanks for stopping by 😉❣️👍🏼
This is amazing, I have old unused journals which might be perfect for this! Thank you for talking about this and the ideas!
This was very helpful with info for getting started or refreshing on the basics.
I love seeing your pages since they show ideas for
themes or combining items. Thank you!
You are so welcome! Thanks for stopping by❣️🙂🌸
I love these! I might enjoy making these more than junk journals! I have lots of yearly planners that I start but never finish. I’ve wondered why I don’t just throw them away. Now I have a purpose for them!! Thank you so much Margarete ❤
Perfect! You’ve got a great foundation. 👍🏼❣️😉
I love this video and also glue books. I hope to see more of your glue books with tips and ideas. I especially love the red glue book. You have great ideas and examples of all you do - I am starved for more of your ideas. Thank you, (Greensboro, NC, USA)
Let me know what kinds of questions you have. I’d be happy to answer them! Thanks for watching 😘
I love glue books! It's always so good to see you flipping through your glue books or something you're collaging in. They just fill me with so much calm and so much inspiration.❤❤❤
Thank you, Angela. I’m so glad! I hope you are working on one, too 💜
I am so happy that I found your channel. This is just what I've been looking for. I love the presentation as well .
I have been interested in starting a glue book for a while now. This gave me some great ideas, and more motivation to start.
I make my own signatures for my home made leather traveler’s notebook. I always make and dedicate one with 50-60 lb art paper in it. I love to sketch and paint but this specific book I love to collage and glue in it. Sometimes I write on a blank page if I feel like I am in the depths of despair or really praying about something sad in my life.. In a few days I love going back to this page and collaging something beautiful over the writing, praying and committing the situation to God. It always lifts my spirit!
Some times I collage, glue book style to get my creative juices flowing for the day!! I love collecting free ephemera!!
Love your channel!
Great idea to collage in layers like that. Hanks for sharing your idea and experience 💙
I am very inspired by the beauty of your glue books-thanks for sharing them!
You are so welcome! 💙
Thank you for showing us your glue books. They’re so inspiring, I loved this video 😍
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching ❣️
Thank you for your encouraging thoughts and words.
I'm a card crafter and is using my cardstock, stamps and dies to create a journal page per week - I had to start doing this as I've lost my Mum at the age of 86 on 9 March 2024 and we were close as I was her carer in every aspect including financial and yes, there is a 'daughter' - less said other than I had to do something for me and I wouldn't call my pages a glue book or junk - for me it's a creative page which always surprise me when it's finished and best of all peaceful and quite time for me.
I like to buy random postcards and I was thinking about how to give them a home where I can enjoy them, obviously I need to start glue books, never knew they existed and came across randomly, thank you very much for the inspiration!
Awesome! I do love using postcards in my work. They are such a great "page" among my other pages in my gluebooks. 👍🏻
So inspiring. I've been gluing images and things into books for years, but I like the idea of doing them with themes. I also love the idea of reusing old notebooks and planners by gluing things into them. Thank you! 😊
So glad you enjoyed this❣️💜🌟
this is great 'therapy' for my hoarding. i hate throwing things away and i have hyper empathy, almost feeling like im hurting an objects feelings by getting rid of it. this is a thing i can do to help calm those feelings and isolate the hoarding to a specific place almost. its hard to explain but it helps me a lot
Glad this was helpful 💜
Hi Margarete! It was your introduction to 4x6 Zutter bound journals and rolodex cards years ago that started my collage journaling. I will always be grateful to you for the fun and creative journey it has been for me. I appreciated this video!
Really?!! So cool! Ok. I take back my words about not loving the Zutter. It you’re being creative with it and love what you make, then that’s awesome 👏🏼❣️🌟
@@MargareteMiller At the time, The Zutter binder was more reasonable than buying the Cinch binder. I also like that it's smaller and easier to store. (As I recall, you found yours at a garage sale 😉- you can't beat that!)
Interesting. I always thought of these as junk journals.
Glad I watched and waited. You addressed my postcard question. Thank you
So glad!! 💜
That's a great way of explaining what they are. Ive recently got imto making junk journals but don't use them to journal in but just emjoy finding things to stick into them. So now I'll call them glue books instead, makes more sense of what I'm actually doing and it's definitely therapeutic for me. Thankyou for explaining ❤
Margarete, thank you! This was very helpful! Now I think I'm ready to dive in! Heaven knows that I have plenty of papers and clippings to use! I especially like the books using book rings. Bulk would not be such a critical issue with these. Thank you again! I really enjoyed your presentation!
Thanks for watching! I’m so glad you’re ready to jump in. Go for it. 👍🏼❣️😉
Love your glue books, postcard art, and Rolodex collage cards!💕
Just beautiful work!! You have such a gift for combining elements. Thank you for sharing! ❤
Thank you so much! 💜
Thank you❤ I can't get into journals but I'm going to try glue books! I like bits, printing an entire journal gets overwhelming ❤
Thank you Marge rete I have been junk journal making for a while now and your explanation of the glue book and also defining scrapbook was helpful.
You're welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻😉💜
Thank you so much for this video! This is the hobby I have been looking for. I am so excited to get started.😊
Awwww. I’m so glad to hear this! 😉❣️👍🏼
As a Junk journal maker and a scrapbooker… some of what you are doing reminds me of the techniques of Junk journaling. Glue books also also remind me of masterboard, or collage sheets that you could put in junk journals. It I look for colour/ image inspiration I often use Pinterest for this. I think that glue books are also another great way to use paper in a creative way that inspires imagine.
Yes, I agree with you. Papers used to make art certainly do inspire imagination 💜 Thanks for sharing.
I really understand what you are talking about. I have a lot of stuff I have on hand that I have nothing to do with, now I understand a glue book. You are an inspiration to me now. Thank you
So glad this was helpful, Jackie❣️👍🏼😉
great explanation for glue books, definitely something I want to do!
Go for it❣️ You’ll have a lot of fun with it 👍🏼
I’m literally so excited right now to fill up old journals with all my beautiful paper and not have to worry about actually journaling if I have nothing to say, because I’ve just discovered glue books!
Yay!! I'm so glad you've got a new idea to play with 🎉
I do these, but I use it to record random thoughts, inspiration, and noting my books read, but all with a more random quality than other journals. I love vintage and wit and deep thoughts, and I just put it together in a way that really represents me and the way I think. It's so fun. It's a great relaxation technique and it is so fun.
This sounds like a commonplace book . I keep one as well!
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing 💜
When i first saw gluebooks i thought “wow, what a waste of money on something pointless.” Months later i decided to make a recipe book and i wanted to hand decorate the cover, so i gave paper crafting a try. It is SO zen and creatively satisfying to sit and cut and glue… i fear i’m gonna be “wasting” a lot of money and time of this “pointless” endeavor lol
It IS zen. So true. I’m glad you’re enjoying it 👍🏼❣️😉
So clever. I love that you do videos like this. Thank you!!!
You're so welcome. Thanks for stopping by ❣️