What is a Glue Book? My Opinion
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- As someone who hopefully creates inspirational content I sometimes forget and use abbreviations or lingo to explain stuff....this causes confusion. In this video I hope to clear up some of the confusion I've caused about glue books and what they are to me.
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Hahahahahahaa! Ceri I laughed so hard at your comment about not doing the high note😂 You’re too funny! Thank you so much for your kind words about me, I really appreciate it❤ This is a wonderful video, great explanations, and I think this will help so many. Glue Books are so fun, relaxing and a great way to express your creativity. They are a fun activity for all ages and all levels of crafters.
Thank you Nicole, I hope to make your glue folio in a video soon……..I’m living the idea.
You are a great Artist! What I took from this video was, there is really no wrong or right. Pull colors, textures, things that are drawn to you. Those glue books are very satisfying and beautiful. It seems very peaceful and satisfying to make.
They give me some down time in a very busy life and it helps me cope with pressure
Evening, I'm watching you in Australia, I really need to do a glue book, thank you for sharing your books, I'm going to start one when I get back home xx
Wonderful!
💜💜💜 very fascinating - I love your thought process in creating! Thank you!
You are so welcome Amy
This is the most inspirational video I have seen in a very long time. It's 10 pm and I want to stay up all night starting a glue book. I am so excited I can't stand it. Your books are beautiful. The things you put together as theme pages are things I never would have thought to consider (toilets and showers?? But it's gorgeous!). I am SO happy I found your channel. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us.
Now I understand glue books better. Thank you for sharing your beautiful books!
I totally agree with your opinion on Nicole. She gets me to giggle as I am being inspired. I love the “random “ book you are working on! The theme idea gives me something else to think about and use in one of my glue books. Thank you!
You're welcome
Gluebooking has been such an amazing way for me to be creative without the cost normally associated to crafting. It cost me nothing to get started, and has been a lot of fun. 😊
I totally agree, it’s great for my mental health.
So intriguing! Couldn't sleep and ( like another commenter) I wanted to get outta bed and gather those magazines and images I just can't part with and start a book! So creative to focus on either colors or theme!!! LOVE your books AND that the pages don't have to be "finished" - TFS!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
I love your books. Especially the last one you’ve working on.
No confusion. Thank you.
I really like this idea of focusing on colors without having to create a unified “story”! It’s a great way to utilize images that are visually appealing just by virtue of color! Also love the idea of unifying images based on some concept that is personally meaningful to you!
Totally agree
Thank you Ceri. I'm so happy I found you. You have given me so many ideas. I love your style! You are so generous to share so many brilliant ideas!
You are so welcome!
What an inspiration you are to watch. Your talent is extraordinary. I love all the pictures you chose for your glue book. Thanks for always sharing from the heart.
You are so welcome
I call mine "my gluing book" and I use junk catalogs as gluing books, then I throw them away when the pages are all glued up.
Ceri I've said it over and over; I am so inspired by your creativity. Thank you for letting us have a peak at your "gluebook". It's amazing as is everything you craft.😊
Thank you so much Linda
Ceri, This is an inspiring video. I loved all of your glue books. I'm new to this type of art/craft and never understood the purpose of a glue book. My favorite was your "random" glue book. I have aphantasia, "No mind's eye." After watching your video, I realized that I enjoy images and often want to save them because they catch my eye, but had no place to keep them. So, I need a glue book to save them. Thank you!
Wonderful.
Hi Ceri, thanks so much for this video. I love Margarete and I love Nicole too! This video has helped me make up my mind about a whether or not to start a glue book and how I would do it - yes, I will be starting and more than likely more than one kind. Your explanation of why you glue into each of your books has freed my mind and enabled me to make my own plans for glue booking - off to my studio I go to get my books and glue sticks out! Jacquie
Have fun Jacquie
I loved this flip-through of your gorgeous books, Ceri. Thanks for sharing. Like you, I love colour and the juxtaposition of different colours. "Glue book" is not a term I use although I've come across it. I don't like the term "junk journal" as it sounds really trashy and seems to denigrate the awesome creativity you see in some people's work on this theme. I have decided on the term "bonnie book" to cover absolutely every kind of book you can make!! It's a nod to my Scottish ancestry - my grandmother described all things good as "bonnie" and it resonates with me! I am not into journaling but I'm definitely into making and embellishing books, and I don't really like specific labels that confine one to a particular style etc. All the books you showed today are so eclectic and inspirational, and all fall under my "bonnie" definition lol!
Thank you, I respect your opinions but wanted to make sure you were aware that junk journals are only called that because traditionally they were made of junk or discarded paper items. I think bonnie books is a great name. Have fun creating.
Oh that little planner is so cute!
Thank you
Love your explanations of the different kinds of glue books… I’d not heard the term until I watched others of your videos where you were using the book pages to spread glue on items, and mentioned people wanted you to do a flick through your glue books 🤔 I wondered why they would want to see a book of pages folded in half! 😂 … and you folded and tore off each page as it was sticky… I was a bit confused. Not any more 😊 Thank you x
I love all your glue books. The colour one YES! The last one especially with the pictures that inspired you YES! I have one of Christmas incorporating the best Xmas cards and images, one with cute animal, sea themed ones and birthday one. The cards end up tuck spots for photo. It’s a wonderful, carefree hobby with no stress. Just joy and basically, free. 🙏🏼🥰
Absolutely
This video is so charming to me! I LOVED EVERY MINUTE!
THANK YOU CERI
Dear Professor Ceri, thank you for illuminating and clarifying the topic of glue books. You have cleared up this debacle to my satisfaction to the point where I am now inspired to make use of the several composition books and spiral bound notebooks in my stash; in fact, i have already succeeded in covering a composition book and a spiral notebook this afternoon! You are a wonderful teacher! I am grateful! Deb. From Monterey
Glad it was helpful
Ceri, I am so glad that I seen this video, even though it is a year old. I realized the reason I had a hard time starting my new glue book is because like you, I needed to see the purpose. I liked your idea of a spread having a theme. I think this will help me as well in my next glue book. I too, watch Nicole. I am inspired by her to make a random glue book, which I will attempt in a smaller book until I get the hang of it. So now thanks to the two of you, I will start two new glue books. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and the reasons why.
Fabulous
This is very inspirational to me. I love to do collage and I will use your ideas to enjoy myself with paper, glue pictures.
I had a picture of a large pink, peeled grapefruit half and I used it as a cloud floating above a city, with a woman sitting on the pink grapefruit "cloud" & she wears a very green succulent skirt.
Wonderful
I think your clarification should help a lot of people and sending them to Nicole will too. Your color book is so well done and I LOVE your "themed" glue book too.
Thank you so much!
26:48 The castle is the Neuschwanstein which is in Bavaria. It was commissioned to be built by King Ludwig II. His castles are absolutely amazing! I was able to tour three of them when I lived in Germany, and I will never forget the experience. I love that you've included this in your glue book. I plan to create a travel journal and include some of the photos I took of the area, the castles, etc, and some of the pamphlets and post cards I bought while there. If ever you get the opportunity you should go visit!
Thank you Rachel for letting me know, yes the castle is beautiful as I'm sure all of his design are.
Love you glue books. I made one from an old catalogue following one of Nicole’s videos. I have started doing monthly spreads in it, although I am very behind!
But you’re having fun and that’s great.
Fantastic!! Very inspiring. I'm starting a new glue book now, and like you suggested, I'm going to place a whole background down (NOT collaged), and then go from there. It might be kind of challenging, too, to match the colors or theme or whatever. Like you also said, it's ongoing, so sometimes you have to wait to find what needs to go there. LOVE the stripes! Going to start with that, I think. By the way, I looked up "famous staircases" and it said the one in your book is from a Vatican museum in Rome! Amazing image. As always, thank you for sharing your thought processes! :)
Wow thank you for the research, I didn’t know that………but loved the staircase.
I love glue books because it's can be a nice relaxing thing to do-- I usually watch tv shows on my computer and work on mine. I've done a general bird themed one and then a hummingbird specific themed one as well as just random ones. I saw someone say a glue book can only be a glue book if it uses images cut from magazines/catalongs/books and not using other sources. However I see plenty of people who use packaging, stationery , etc in their glue books and I think it all works. I think the important thing people should ask is -- am I having fun? am I enjoying this? Because I was doing a certain style and getting frustrated and realized that wasn't for me and so I stopped and went back to doing what I like (which is generally just gluing things in a mostly random way)
don't listen to anyone who offers "RULES" on glue books or any art. Do your own thing, that is where the JOY is! Have fun!! Isn't Ceri Great!
I tend to go with the rule of "do what makes you happy", there shouldn't be rules for creativity, people try to create rules so they can fit expectations into a box.
Ceri, I really enjoyed this video!! You have inspired me SO much. That last one with the larger pages.... Oh My Heavens! And the story behind each spread! I love them!! Thank you so much for sharing! Thoroughly enjoyed and can't wait to start! 💜💜💜
You are so welcome
Thank you for the well informed video! I absolutely love your random glue book and I am totally inspired to start one. I really enjoyed seeing what you made and I am amazed at your creativity. I totally agree! I love Nicole’s videos and am so inspired by her! She has the best personality and does such creative things! Not only does she inspire and motivate me, but she always makes me laugh through her videos, which I enjoy and need! Thank you for the video!
Nicole is a joy.
I really enjoy your videos. I love your personality and detailed explanations, and I've learned that not everything has to have a purpose other than to be pleasing to the one creating. Big lesson.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing about Glue books. Enjoyed the whole segment! Yet, another rabbit hole I can see myself falling into! You got me started on Gelli pages recently. Have had hours of trying to find the things needed to begin the fun process. You can really inspire a person (this person) to try something new! Thank you!
Have fun with your creativity
I love this video, which I watched this evening as I worked on a glue book of my own.. You have a wonderful eye for combining images in a way that highlights something interesting about them--the color, the light, the theme, whatever. I really enjoyed seeing your pages. Also, since most of my family think it is extremely weird of me to enjoy making glue books and junk journals, it's always a pleasure to see someone else who GETS IT, who sees the joy in this type of creativity. Very happy to have discovered your channel, and look forward to watching many more videos!
Thank you, it helps me relieve the stress I sometimes put myself under and glue booking helps with my anxiety as there’s no rules or expectations as it’s just for me.
Thank you for the excellent, thorough description of what a glue book is or can be. Most interesting, something I haven't done but could easily see myself making one. I have removed pages of magazines years and years ago of things I wanted to keep (ideas etc) and putting them into a glue book would work nicely. Thank you again for sparking inspiration and helping me to understand glue books.
Glad it was helpful!
So clever and enjoyable! Your glue books are fascinating. I intend to put one together for my great grandchildren. All under age 5 at this point. As a young child growing up i always enjoyed the Sears Catalog, so many objects to gaze upon, dream about, or learn from too. Thank you so much for putting this video out for all of us to get inspired.
I love the concept of your last book. I did Margarite Miller for a year and I learned a lot, but I am not very happy following rules. I make junk journals with specific topics and in my style, but I find lots of images that I love that won't work in journals in my genre and subjects. Your book with spreads on many topics will work perfectly for me. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful!
I SO enjoyed the journey through your various books, and the treat of hearing your thoughts & explanations of what you created in the various books & why. I also appreciated how you support your various inspirations & people who inspire you, very generous thing to do and not much done in the videos I have seen. I commend you for sharing your thoughts & inspiration, and for being brave & opening your creations to share in their various states of creation. Well done!
Thank you so much, that’s very kind of you.
When I was a child my mum made me a scrapbook from brown paper, so I could stick newspaper cuttings in from the Queens silver jubilee. 😊 fast forward to today and I make journals from junk mail and stick whatever I want into them. Im not an artist and my glue books are nothing like yours but thats ok. I enjoy doing what i do, it keeps my hands and brain busy.😊😊 And my husband and kids support me by giving me things they think I will find interesting and can stick in my books. 😂 Thank you for all that you do and see you in the next video. ❤❤xx
As long as you enjoy your creative time that’s important.
Ceri your random glue book is like the reference books we created in art school many years ago before google and Pinterest. Some pages were about what feelings the images evoked while some were references for a specific subject cats, Egypt so on. Now they are called glue books. I guess everything evolves. - Kristin
You’re do right Kristin.
love the colour one, was watching Nicole yesterday... definitely gonna try that. I've been collecting images for nearly 2 years, I'm never gonna use them all in collage so I might as well stick them in a book - or I might use an old mag to stick them in
Thank you Ceri that made things alot clearer to me. I am going to make a glue book as you have inspired me.❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing your thought process with gluebooks!!!! Love your style in crafting. ❤
Thanks so much! 😊
I'm so glad you did a flip through. You know, I always feel guilty when I'm taking time for my gluebook. It probably is because I should do more housekeeping or usefull things. But you see, because of your video, I will allow myself to enjoy putting beautiful images in my book wich I allready started when I was a kid. So thank you so much again Ceri.
Have fun.
Hi Ceri…nice to see you… love your channel!!! Thanks for info!
Thank you Ceri.Very helpful ❤.
Thanks so much for your explainations and your wonderful examples. The term glue book had been unclear and a bit confusing, and you cleared things up nicely for me. I often find myself working with a color theme with my collages, and love the effect. Haven't worked with black & white yet, so thanks for the prompt on that. I always enjoy your videos, and this one was especially satisfying, so thanks for sharing your creative journey with us.
Thank you Linda
Hi Ceri, I found this interesting mostly because I never even heard of a glue book until I started watching your UA-cam videos a while back. And I agree that there can be many definitions of a glue book--if you have a book and glue stuff into it, I guess It could be a glue book. Silly, right? Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
You're welcome Janet
Very nice video, thank you. Question: what's the best glue you can recommend for glue books that will keep things intact for decades? What holds glossy paper, like magazine photos or photographs? Thank you 😊
I just use a glue stick in my glue books and have had no problems. I am heavy handed with my glue application so there’s plenty to keep it stuck. The brand I use is called Pritt but it depends on where you live and your weather conditions as to which is the best glue for you.
@@CeriGriffiths thank you 😊
Love the progress you've made in your glue books.
I hope you have a delightful day. Love&hugs to you and Biscuit. 🦮
Thank you, You too Darcy. Hope your hand heals quickly.
Thank you
Beautiful! I love this idea and I am going to save stuff back from my junk journal making to keep for myself for one of these glue books.
Wonderful
Wonderful clear explanation and beautiful glue books. Very inspirational ❤
Thank you so much
Ohhh I love the color glue book so much! I could so help you will purple... love purple and I always find it. hehehehe
I think we’re always drawn to certain colours.
I love LOVE your take on gluebooks! Where were you when I first heard about them and was utterly stumped by them? All I could think of was the deadly dull enforced occupation of rainy days - a scrapbook. I had a hard time Trying to get my head around just glueing stuff into a book. I couldn't understand the big "WHY". But I did keep trying. I finally started gluing some things in. But I dunno where everybody gets all their source material from. I can never seem to find interesting magazines. Not ones I want to cut up anyway.
But that last one you showed. Now THAT appeals to me a lot. I do however want to know where you got that spiral bound notebook with plain pages in it - I keep looking for those and always have a hard time finding any.
Where did you get it?
I do see some fabulous images online that I'd love to stick in a book, but my efforts at printing just fail to meet up with the original images colour. Sigh.
One more, where do you find your most interesting interiors images?
The spiral bound plain page book was on sale in WH Smith, most of my images come from magazines friends save for me or free catalogues. I once found some magazines in a charity shop and the magazine was called interiors and that’s where must of those images have come from. I also pick up the free magazines in supermarkets etc. I sometimes pop into travel agents as they have holiday brochures for free as well.
Love the large glue book! Great idea!
Love this video. I love your inspiration and cheering us on to glue. Love the Scottish page. I went to my local thrift shop to find an old book to use as glue pages. Now I’ll be looking for magazines and catalogs. You’re so much fun! Vicki from Oklahoma.
Thank you Vicki
Relax cut GLuuuuue! Love watching Nicole. Your glue books are so very neat and tidy and my brain LOVES that. However I'm not so neat and tidy lol
Lol…..I’m not always neat and tidy but it is my happy place.
Your glue books are a joy to view. They certainly inspire the thought process. Since you like hot air balloons, when you come to the states visit Albuquerque, New Mexico in October. Over 900 hot air balloon festival. Creative shapes, colors, themes and beauty. Amazing.
I was in Albuquerque a few years ago. Pity I missed the festival.
HI ! I was just flipping through channels and found you. I really like you. Yes, I am a newbie junk journaler , scrap booker , bla bla bla ..... And you just gave me lots of inspiration and smiles, because I am totally confused LOL :) Subscribed *****
Thank you Carrie and welcome to my channel
So darned inspiring. Your explanation is spot on. You have inspired me to make some Glue Books. I have been collecting images for the past 12 months and they have sat in boxes as I haven’t known what to do with them. Now I have a starting point thanks to you. Yeah! 👍🤓😝
Wonderful!
Thanks, Ceri. I really have problems with college. BUT, I can do your kind of collage. I will probably start very small. But you really inspire me.
You can do it
Do you know about printing with fruit or vegetable? For example, cut an apple horizontally, put it on the stamp pad, and then print. It is a circle with a star in the middle. Purple cabbage is also wonderful --wavy lines --
Oh I remember doing that as a youngster.
I love your glue books they're beautiful!
The composition book pages,do you glue them together or remove a certain number of pages. New to the crafting, thanks so much for your channel and explaining everything❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I normally glue two pages together but I don’t remove any.
You make me smile. Sundays are blue days for me. I still miss My John, my husband, and Sundays were wonderful days for us. He was from Somerset. Just saying. Anyway, thank you for giving me smiles today. You are a joy.
So happy to provoke good memories, stay strong. ❤️
Ceri, Thank you for another great video. You sooooooo inspire me! I also loved the iris page as well as the whole book. One thing I noticed is that there were NO wrinkly pages. And, you use glue stick, correct? I don't know how you did it and I hate to ask you to explain…..but could you? haha Thkx, Jan
Jan I’m not sure if I do anything special, I put glue stick on the magazine piece to be glued down, lay it on the page and then smooth it out with an old store card.
Thank You for this beautifull inspirations, now I realy understand what I can do. I'm new on Your channel, sevenplaca talkt about you, and I'm verry happy about that. My English is not so good, but I try to understand and learning scrapbooking and English too.😂
Thank you Helga and welcome to my channel. Your English is fine.
Now I finally know. I always thought this was how it is. But didn't know for sure. Yes. Gluebooks are just the new style scrapbooks. Glue pages. Ahhh. If I just remembered to use them. I do use a lot of junk mail to put under my work. Tfs your books are fun and amazing.
Thank you
I’m with you Ceri! I just can’t do pink, purple or red as a red head these colors just clash with me. Love the glue book! The green pages? My favorite! I just don’t have magazines to do a glue book. Maybe I should gelli print a glue book?
Sounds a great idea.
Thank you for your explanation.....I am so new at this and to date have not tried it,,,,but I intend to!!! I love your books and I think I get it now. This is different from your Masterboards which I now understand the purpose of and think they are fabulous! Thanks for sharing and inspiring and teaching me a different form of expressing art! Huge fan here!!!
You are so welcome!
Thanks so much, I found you from another person's recommendation and so glad I have. I was confused about glue books, about what is the point of it? Why fill up pages with pictures? For what purpose? I was in quite a dilemma, being fairly new to paper crafts. But your examples and why you made them and what they do for you is enough. It's good enough. I now feel I can have a go and not feel I'm being ridiculous and wasting my time and glue. I can't wait to get started. Thanks very much
You are so welcome, basically it just gives me some quiet mindful time in a busy life.
Your video helped me to understand better what a glue book is. I really enjoyed watching the flip throughs and your explanations. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful
I think your Dracula castle at 26:51 might be mad king Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria. It is a different angle than is usually shown, so I won’t swear to it. Disney’s Cinderella castle is based on Neuschwanstein, too!
Very interesting, thank you
I've often wondered about this! Very helpful and interesting.
Thanks for watching!
So glad you shared. So inspirational. Love everything you showed us. 😊
Thank you Donna
Lovely ❤❤ I love the bathroom pages...we need an octopus and a diver for sure...xxx
Yes we do
I love hot air balloons, we have been to Albuquerque, New Mexico in the USA twice. Every year around one thousand balloons are there for a whole week. You can make an appointment to ride in a balloon but you have to do that a year ahead of time. Just walking around while they are blowing them up and watching them play games in the early mornings and evenings. It is fantastic. The balloon fiesta I think is in September every year. You should go it is wonderful
That sounds incredible Karen
Fabulous, and inspirational. Thank you so much. Now, off to visit Nicole
Have fun, you’ll love Nicole.
Love the idea of a colour glue book. By the way to avoid confusion I call my table saver a glueing book not a glue book. I’m going to have four categories, glueing, colour glue, collage and a general scrapbook British style. I even have one left over from when I was a kid made of coloured sugar paper. ❤❤❤ thanks for the videos.
Thank you Lucy.
Amazing video! This makes me feel motivated to jump back into creating after a long dry spell ❤❤
You should, it’s good for the mind to create and have you time.
Totally inspired! Thank you for the clarification. Can't wait to get some glue books started. On your color glue book in the composition books do you glue pages together to strengthen them? Do you tear pages out? I have a huge stack of these and would love to get one started for me and some some of my grands. What a fun summer project. Thank you.
I personally glue two pages together for strength and I don't rip out pages as I feel it weakens the spine. I'm planning on a video in the future where I show the colour glue book prep as inspired by Nicole so watch out for that one if you've not already started your own glue book. Should be out in October.
I love your idea of putting down a colored whole page background and then the images in that color- brilliant are you. The filling of ridges is a problem for me as well. Thanks!
Thank you so much, the idea of a full background was actually Nicole’s not mine but I also love it.
Thank you for the beautiful description of glue books. Yours are amazing. I do believe I’ll have a go of it Thanks again ❤️
Have fun.
Hi Kelly! Always fun watching you
Love the strawberry paper too
Thanks so much 😊
Loved the way you explained the glue books. I also follow Nicole and she is a hoot. I have started a colour glue book recently. Really think your random glue book is amazing and what a great idea, although random, each page tells its own story. That is so creative and your choice of pictures are really beautiful. What is the other glue or collage book you have, I remember you working in that book doing a remembrance to Queen Elizabeth.? Love your channel and thanks for sharing all your knowledge and creativity.
That’s my larger glue/collage book which I collage about memories
Love this! You could almost call this, "In The Mood". Now i gotta go start one, 😊 TFS
Wonderful
So cool & loved your wisdom in this! Thx for inspiring me !
You are so welcome Stacy.
This was very inspirational, I need to become more free with my creativity. I absolutely love how you come across. Interesting I love purple and yellows and shy away from reds even in my clothes. I love your creative spirit. 😍
Thank you so much Debbie.
You could call your glueing books 'paste pads' instead. 😂
Love your glue books though, I want to start one now too. ❤
Great idea, thank you
Once again you hit it out of the park!! (USA baseball reference)🤓
Got it, thank you.
I’m so glad I found your channel, I love the way you Explain your books, and I love every single one of your books, I really need a spiral book like the big one that you have, did you get that at an art store?ty❤
No Vickie I got it on sale in my stationary store it was a sketch book.
That really has been so so helpful to define each book etc thanks
Pleased it helped
Oh hi, Ceri.😊 It's nice to put a face to a voice. I've been binge watching your videos and it's the first time that l see your face.
I do pop in occasionally.
Those are beautiful. Loved watching this video. TFS
Thank you so much Nanci
Amazing pages Ceri. You have an eye for interior design as well. Love that toilet! 😅
Oh thank you!
Thank you so much for this video. I wasn’t especially confused about glue books, BUT I was excited to have you suggest Nicole’s channel! ❤ thank you for keeping us newbies in mind, we are looking for ideas across the board 😊
You are so welcome, Nicole is lovely I’m sure you’ll enjoy her channel as well.
Ceri thank you for your explanation of glue books and you beautiful examples.
Glad you like them
Great video even for someone who isn't into glue books - yet. Maybe this is the inspiration to get me started. Your videos are very instructional and fun to watch. As a fairly new subscriber, i have learned a lot and look forward to seeing more.
Happy to hear that Rhonda thank you
Love the glue books! Do you have an address where you accept happy mail?
Unfortunately no, I only accept happy mail when I’m doing a swap with someone.