Making Franken-pages - Using up those paper scraps!
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Oldie, but definitely a goodie! Thank you! Erica❤
What a totally fantastic thing!
Trimming - *whispers * you can take a little bit off each edge 😉😉🤣🤣
I did A Christmas (Vintage) book and pieces together a Christmas stocking. It's darling and I'd show it to you but don't know how to send it. Lol. Old ladies and technology!
You are so hilarious and fun. Love your upbeat personality. I always enjoy your creative videos! Thank you for this fascinating post. I’m gonna try sewing on paper now…
I love this concept. I have tons of paper. This would an ideal way to use them up. Activities like this really get my creative juices flowing. I can just play and now feel like I'm wasting material.
Are you kidding me???? This is the greatest thing since...scissors! Love this! I'm on my way to scrap-pile dive right now! Thank you for sharing!
I'm going to do this !!! Tomorrow will be a rainy day, so pajamas and crafting!!! It's going to be a fabulous day!!! I hope you have a fab day too!!! ~Liz~
Hi! I’m late to the party, but just found you and this is my first video watched. Thank-you so much - you’re a pleasure to watch and listen to.
I thought it was a child saying, "Hi-i-i-i". So precious your cat is talking to the sunlight coming through the door! Cats love to lie in the sun.... maybe that's why she is saying "Hi-i-i-i-" to the sun! So adorable!
I absolutely love these Frankenstein pages ,thank you for sharing your creative ideas ❤.
Nik, thanks! I love these pages and Your teaching! Wish I could go to Scotland to take a class with you in person! Maybe you will teach a class in the US for several days so I can come! Take Care, Nik, You are a treasure!
Just can’t believe this great video, I sew quilts , so why didn’t I think of this? Remarkable ...sewing looks great..
Very cool! Love the little cat voice.
I appreciate you demeanor and the ease at which you talk with your viewers. I find your videos very relaxing to watch and I have learned loads! Thank you for being a a bright light to UA-cam.
I have to say WOW.... I have so much scrap but thank you for that awesome ideas. Who knew. Im a fan for your next project.
OMG!!! This is a must try for everyone, where I live it's hard to get the really cool papers, so this has given me this idea to make my own, Huge thanks for sharing, Oh and I love them in case you didn't guest lol x😍🐺👍❤
anytime! Thank you for watching!! =)
What a topping idea. I always hate to throw any papers of any size away and now I won’t need to!
🌹 Rosie of Oz 🇦🇺
this may be the first video of yours i have watched. LOVE!!! have heard many people talk about your videos....and can see i have a lot to catch up on!!! FRANKENPAGES...who would have thunk???
YOU. ARE. THE. BEST. You always make a product that is better than everyone else's! LOVE IT.
Well, now I want to do things Nik ! I have so many un-started projects... that I don't know where to begin. Thanks for sharing.
Those are awesome! They look better than regular scrapbook paper.
Wow! So creative and so much of a surprise. I couldn't imagine what it was going to look like. Looks beautiful and well worn. Thank you!
Wow, what a novel concept.. Love, Love.Love the Franken page idea. I am a traditional album, card and journal maker so this will truly stretch my boundaries. Wouldn't this look cool on an altered box?!?!?!TFS
What a fun tutorial video with a couple of cool trippy moments. 😎💖 I was marveling at the silent sewing machine and your talking cat. (I’m 100% sincere bc these days with technology...Lol. Didn’t know that part was VO until you told us. But your cat definitely sounds like it’s greeting us.) TFS 🎉
What a great ideal I have plenty of scrap paper. Time to get busy with my papers. TFS !!
I think I just passed out! this is so awesome! your so talented!
Beautiful and hilarious. Hi to your cat.
New subscriber from NC. The sewing really makes the pages. Wouldn’t have thought to do that. Love love love
Love this idea Nik. I always enjoy watching your videos. You are a good teacher making a project easy to understand. Thank you! BLESSINGS
I've been doing this & I didn't know it had a name! I call them my "messy mess pages". But I just love them!!
I like that name! Ive heard "crazy quilt" too =)
They would also be stunning as covers! Love!
Finally! I was preparing my scraps and not hoarding them! ❤ Thank you for this ! I love your videos!
What a wonderful way to use your scraps. Thank you
>head thunk
I'm sitting here, watching your video, and in front of me on my desk is a scrap pile, glue, and my sewing machine. Seems a bit serendipitous to me, I'm gonna make up some franken-pages! Thanks Nik! ~~Leslie
Just found you after watching Mrs. Cogs for the first time. Love this idea! I have so much scraps and never throw anything away. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love this idea. It looks so great and junky. Love it.🥰
This is just the coolest idea and what do you need...scraps, glue, maybe ink and your sewing machine...LOVE it!! I'm, as always, soooo inspired. PatriciaD
Ok, I was feeling a bit down and shut inside, until I found you here! 😉😊 Oh my, wow and binge watching! I have loved Paper and journals all my life, even to the point of admiring and touching and comparing identical ones to 'spot the difference - why this infatuation... I used to love lining up at primary school to get our new stationery for the year, back in the days we had to cover our books ourselves 😀 - and of course my mother was a librarian, a book freak and a multimedia artie paper, mixed media artist, hmmmm.
So I want to do it alllllllll!!!! I want to design paper, I want to make it, I have been building a 'mountain ' of scraps, and recycling, not entirely sure why, but the imagination and excitement of repurposing runs overboard, and then I discovered UA-cam and tutorials on bookbinding, DIY journals, junk journaling etc and sigh..... and now I've discovered you lol 😂
Initially the idea of sewing (& paper), nooooo, but hang on.... wow .... yes I'm going to get out that 'new' sewing machine still in its box from 10 years ago. I'm going to go into a zone with my scraps, where everything I see has a beauty and use of its own now. ... I just got stuck, and struggle at times with an incurable energy-draining illness ....Thus it's sooooo wonderful to be excited. I'm a musician on SoundCloud too (or rather piano improviser), but I had to stop.... and this is where I've found myself (also in drawing and watercolor and colour pencil art), Cannot help myself lol. To create ...... a BIG thank you to you for your wonderful projects and ideas.... I'm going to get there! 😊
Do you also by any chance have a book on bookbinding? The name, travelling bookbinder rings a bell when I was perusing many of the bookbinding books on amazon, and I was spell-bound by the introduction in the preview. Please let me know; it's so hard to choose when one is online and can't touch and peruse the book at leisure in a bookstore. If so, I will get it 😀 .... and continue to watch your channel.
I love your sense of humour and feel like you're talking 'with' us and not 'at' us if that makes sense 🤔😉😊 After having written and published a couple of books (academic ones, certainly nothing like this), I have freshly inspired goals, ideas and hopes in my creativity Zone when I can manage and if not, my imagination and watching these videos take me to a wonderful place. Thank you for being you and for all that you share, Megan from Aussie land 😊🐈🌞🌎🎞🗝🏷📜📖📚✂️📌📝📜😊
They do look great. Thanks. I will definitely try this soon. Glad I found you❣️
This is so beautiful... I just started scrapbooking .. years ago I picked up on super sale from Micheal's ..the 12by 12 scrap paper and made simple cards with them... this is good to know when I have leftovers..
Such A FUN idea!! I LOVE FRANKENPAGES!! 💕
Nik, I’ve watched this again, although it was a year ago. But, I really really love 💕 this, I think 🤔 the stitching 🧵 made all the difference. Thank you so much xxx Mags
I don't know how anyone could give this video s thumbs down. I think this video has a fantastic amount of helpful information and hands-on instruction!!
Never thought to use my scraps this way.....what a marvelous idea!
These are lovely! I have so many scraps I need to use up! This will be fun!
That WAS fun! Can't wait to try this, and boy do I have scrapes and misc. to throw into this. The one on top left, as you were signing off, would be a lovely journal cover. TFS‼️
I love your ‘gifts’ of creativity, whimsy and knowledge. Thanks for continuing to share them...
You make the "bestest" Franken-pages! And OH look...you can sew in reverse so well! Thank you for the Nik fix...HUGS!
you rock, Anne, thank you! 🤗
Love you! You are so fun! Newby but I am sure I will be an oldie soon. 😁💕
welcome, Linda! Nice to have you here =)
Great "snowy day" process video. Love the talking kitty. As always, tfs!
Now I feel guilty that I throw my scraps away, haha! Love your tutorials 💙. You talk like we’re all good friends. 😊
Thank you, Barbara 🤗😊
I know I am late to the party...but I just started to do some fraken pages and I have to say your tutorial is by far the best!
I just wanted to say,I have only recently joined your channel. This video told me why I picked you to follow, what an amazing idea, I love it and will be making papers all day today. Thank you, you're amazing.
I love it. I quilt, but never thought of doing this with scraps. Can't wait to try this. But first, I need to but the correct glue.
So awesome Nik!!! Thank you for doing this video, it was so fun and I even learned to backstitch on the sewing machine...woo how!
Love the cat!! and this way to create a page of bits. Excellent inspiration!! Thanks!!!
i could have watched you making these papers all day.....loved them.....
Love em! Bee-yoo-ti-ful! Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic. Your scrap box looks so much more interesting than mine. Love how they turned out x
This page is wonderful it would make a great journal cover...! with a little top coat of sealer!!
would never have thought of this!! Thanks for sharing your talent!
So Cool, I love them, I don’t have a machine maybe I could plant something for seams, Excellent .Thank you xx💚
Oh dear!!! Just what I needed to do.... now I want to make a journal!! Lol I have so many unfinished projects. I am just one more away from declaring myself a Hoarder!! Lol I so enjoyed watching you make the journal pages. Thank you so much.
I was looking for ideas to put a decorative collage looking Edge to my journal pages and this gave me a great idea all I need to do is make them smaller and folded and then glue it in place on the edges of the book and I can even make them pockets and Tuck spots.
Awesome...great project for some group therapy ! Coffee and banana bread, Perfect day. Love the inspiration Thank you
Coffee and banana bread, yes please!😊
These are great. I love them. And, like all paper crafters, I have LOTS of scraps!! Thanks, Nik!
I am so in awe of your work,your books and recently your little craftiest,
I love your videos! You're so real and I think it's amazing! Thank you!!!
TFS your process here Nik, it is lovely to hear you chatting away as you are working, it makes me smile with your funny comments. I have done a similar technique on the past for making cards and tags and thought of it as serendipity paper patchwork.
Nik, This was awesome! I keep all of my scraps that are at least 1"x2" and now I know what to do with them! Thank you for sharing your creative mind!
Thanks for the tip Nik! 💖 👍 I too have a mound of scraps! Will dig them out and put together for more usage! You are fun to watch and you make me giggle!
wow.love this! now i know i was not hoarding scraps but preparing for these pages. :)
I totally agree! It’s not scraps it’s a Frankenstein-page kit!!!😂👍
loved this video. I made about 8 Franken-Pages. I am going to use them for cards. Very addicting
I love how your pages came out. That technique is perfect for days when you just want to doodle around, not ready to start a project. You've convinced me I need to buy an inexpensive sewing machine for paper crafting, I love the look of sewn pages!
AhHA!! The things I learn from you. Back stitching!! Can't believe it never crossed my mind!! Love your video's!
These are awesome. What a great idea. Thank you so much for sharing. Love the name!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this project!!!!!!! I have done this with small scraps to make a tag or piece to tuck, but never on a larger size. WOW!! These are awesome! thanks so much for sharing!
This is awsome, I do a lot of paper embellishment but never tried this, now I will
This is a great idea- one that I would never have thought of Thank you lynn England UK xx❤️
These are beautiful and such a good way to attack the scrap pile.Musttry one! The sewing sets it all off,that will be a challenge!Thanks for sharing your gifts with us.Carol Young
I started making these after seeing this tutorial. They've been so adicting. I also shared this video in a Facebook group and a few people have already started making them too!
Love this! Great idea making a master board
Wow! I love this idea. Creative, Charming, and Useful!
These look amazing! I have too much scrap paper and never thought of making this. This is such a great idea I will give it a try!
I’m also a quilter and so this is right up my alley. Thanks.
Love this method. I think they would make great tn covers.
Nothing like a weekend morning with my coffee watching your videos! Perfect😊 Loved this one! Thank you!
Brilliant! Looks amazing! Thank u again.❤
Oh, MY! My girlfriends been talking about you and I finally watched this video..... I love it!! Can't wait to watch more.
hello, so nice to have you here! 🤗
Made my first page! I love it. I used hash tags and x s around some of the papers instead of sewing.
I love this so much. It looks gorgeous and you make me laugh. Brilliant! thankyou
Really nice , I use to quilt so I know exactly what to do, why didn’t I think of this...great easy video
This is so totally clever!! Could not imagine the end results, amazing!! Thank you for sharing your creativity and making the video. Must try it 💗
Love these! Can’t wait to have a go! Thanks.
Always love watching your videos and seeing how things come together. Thank you for sharing your talent.
What a great idea I love it 🌼
So inspiring, now I see a Franken-wap-around-cover. LOL TFS!
LOL! It’s 6 am, and I jumped to go get the sleeping foster baby when I heard you say “Did you hear that? That’s the cat.” LOL It sounded like our baby when he wakes up! LOL
she's such a crazy cat!
Ab Fab! Am delighted to find your vid. These look so good, can't wait to tryout my own!
Such a beautiful page and a great idea.