Wow just amazing!! What is even better is I just stumbled upon your channel and I absolutely had to subscribe!! Just beautiful work I love everything I’ve watched! ❤❤❤
Happy you found your way here - welcome! So delighted to hear you are enjoying exploring the channel... that's wonderful to hear. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and subscribing - much appreciated.
So many wonderful things to love- those textured backgrounds are delightful! I also loved the incorporated dried flowers among the pages with your collage. Even the warm colored pages were so beautiful and soothing. A wonderful walk through your beautiful arty altered book! Thank you
Yes, it's really clear when autumn hits, isn't it, and all those warm rusts and oranges start coming! So happy you enjoyed the flip through. Thank you for sharing such a lovely, thoughtful comment.
OMGOODNESS!!! Alison this is EXQUISITE, EXQUISITE, EXQUISITE!!!!! I Looooooooooooooove the covers and the pages are just breathtaking it even has my favorite rusty tags and all of that GORGEOUS EPHEMERA!!!! The music is wonderful, this is such a treat! Thank you!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Thank you for that amazing comment - I read it with a huge smile on my face! Yes, it's probably my favourite journal that I've got on the go at the moment, and the closest to being full - I shall be sorry when there's no more space to play in there. Ah well, I'll just have to start another altered book journal when that happens... Thank you for all your lovely coments today.
Such a stunning book Alison. I found myself pausing the video on almost every page so I could take in every single little detail. You are so, so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. Xx
I'm so happy to hear that - it's definitely one of my happiest places to play, this book... I shall be slightly sad once it's full! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
✨ @w0rdsandp1ctures I found myself doing exactly the same, having to pause and zoom to see the beauty within each page, so many beautiful details everywhere😊😊 You are so very talented 🤗✨
@sheilastyrebriere @PaperInspirationsAU In a few weeks time there will be a longer flip through of this book, with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page, so you'll get another chance to zoom in then! Thank you both for your support and lovely comments here on the channel.
Love your journal - as I have msny watched - but yours the one I'm most personaly drawn to, the ideas, selections - even your background music! Saved and will be my go-to guide. Thank you.
Absolutely lovely!!! Looking forward to you explaining your process and sharing your creativity and techniques! Thank you so very much for inviting us on this journey!!!❤❤
So happy to have you along for the journey! We'll have a look at some other books in the meantime, so the talking version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Very happy you enjoyed flipping through this one with me. It's definitely one of my favourite journals. Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Well, you can find that rusty look in a tag video - hang on, I'll find the link for you... ua-cam.com/video/ydDRv40KKTA/v-deo.html It may not be exactly the same ingredients, as I tend to experiment and play differently each time I get rusty. I do also talk about it in more detail in the other flip through version with commentary - ua-cam.com/video/URbc-Oo7k00/v-deo.html I hope that's of some help to you for now. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Your techniques are amazing and the colours you use or create are just wonderful. The tag with the crackle flowers is just beautiful and then you do the flowers again on the next page and they look so ethereal. And like others have said the cover is amazing with those texture details. You have opened up how to use of all my Tim Holtz mediums. Thank you for sharing your gorgeous book.
So happy you like it all. I'm very fond of those crackle blossoms too - and there were months in between those two things happening. I had made the tag ages before I thought of including it in a journal page! So happy to hear that these videos are inspiring you to play around with your Tim Holtz mediums... there is so much joy to be had with them. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here if you haven't already seen it - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you for sharing your talent and creativity! Absolutely LOVE your style and so looking forward to the follow up videos. Working on an art journal is at the top of my To Do List! You’ve definitely inspired me now!!
So happy to hear you feel inspired to play... there is a Few Minutes of Fun video showing the background of the next page in this book being created (and the rest is coming soon), so look out for that if you haven't seen it. And the next episode of Books, Books, Books is coming up later today! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave your lovely comment.
Happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I'm so happy that you enjoyed seeing inside this altered book... and yes, I'm sure there will be some more journalling pages to come in here. It's just been a very busy time lately, but sooner or later I'll get to catch my breath and play in a journal or two! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Yes, I love all that scrunchy brick texture, and I was really pleased with the reflective "glass" (acetate) in the window frame. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much for such a beautiful, thoughtful comment. (Haven't yet opened the pages on some of the really personal journalling... and I may never - so you are definitely right!)
Thank you so much... yes, the cover was almost accidental - just me having a play with some of the (now sadly discontinued) Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap, and wondering how it would look with some added rusty texture!!
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much... I'm happy you love it. There's a longer video coming up this week with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page spread. Watch out for that on Wednesday, if you're interested. Have a great week.
Glad you enjoyed it, and yes, we all have our own individual pleasures. I shall never understand pot-holing or baseball, for instance!! But it would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you ... it's just one of many journals - there will be more coming your way in this Books, Books, Books series. Maybe one of these days I'll actually fill one up completely!!
I started working in some of my art journals years ago too, and then they go on the shelf and I get distracted by all kinds of other projects (including other journals!)... but they're always there waiting when I need them again! So happy to hear you're inspired to pull your altered book off the shelf and play. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Happy you enjoyed it... if you haven't got any on your shelves already, charity shops very often have them to give away. Bizarrely, they often pulp the older hardback books - they're definitely missing a trick not tapping into the craft market!!
It was a delight to see this stunning book😍...multipal times! Love how the seasons changes in your pages, how you use the thread and all those gorgeous flowers and fabulous details 😎 I am looking forward to hear you tell more about the making. Thank you so much for sharing and have wonderful weekend, Alison🌞
Thank you, Edith, for such a lovely comment (on IG as well as here!). We'll take a look at some other books first, so the talkie version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. You have a great weekend too.
So inspiring, thank you. I love your vintage style and the colours are speaking to me... telling me I CAN go finish all those half done pages in many journals. Really enjoyed!
Absolutely you CAN... I sometimes have pages left for literally years waiting for the inspiration to strike (see the Books, Books, Books episode coming up in a couple of weeks!). So happy you're enjoying the inspiration.
This altered book speaks to my personal aesthetic. This is the direction I’ve been trying to take but didn’t know it yet. Thanks for sharing the absolute beauty of this book. 🤗🇨🇦🤗 Elizabeth
Wow just spectacular. I also stumbled upon your channel and had to subscribe. Love your work glad I found you. Lots of amazing ideas. Thanks for sharing! ❤❤
I'm delighted you found your way here - welcome! Happy you liked this, and I hope you'll enjoy exploring more on the channel. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and subscribing - much appreciated. Happy weekend to you.
I don't, I'm afraid... I made this years before I started any filming. It's painted Tim Holtz tissue paper, and there will be some videos with painting of tissue paper (in fact, there already is one showing a large journalling page, where I'm painting my own Printed Tissue botanicals with watercolours ua-cam.com/video/AMisrNYVfRo/v-deo.html if you're interested), and at some point I will probably get to some rusty textures too, but possibly not on a book cover. Happy you enjoyed it, and thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Crackle paste through a stencil and some sprays, as far as I remember. I'll take a look at it and see whether I could create something similar for A Few Minutes of Fun some time soon! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Just beautiful. I can't decide what I like best an original book cover, with secret art journal inside or your lovely altered cover. I was also wondering if you think out your book before altering it? Or is this something you'll discuss in depth later on?
Glad you corrected think to thin... I was about to assure you there's no planning ahead! I don't tend to thin out, no - I like the crazily chunky look you end up with, and how that stands up on a shelf as a sculptural object. At the point when I can't open it to work in any longer, that's when I'll know it's full! I do glue several pages together, to get a firmer working surface. You can see that in the Few Minutes of Fun episode where I'm working on the background for the next page in this book - here if you haven't seen it ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html (and the collaging over the top is coming up in about ten days' time too). I have other hardback book journals where I haven't altered the cover at all so, as you say, it's a complete surprise when there's something inside. (In fact, it's not unknown for me to take a book off the shelf in the studio to tear some pages out to use in a project and discover that actually it's got art journalling inside!). Happy you enjoyed the video, and thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.
Hello Alison! LOVELY!!! Seeing your flip through of this art journal was so enjoyable! I loved how you allowed time for my eye to scan the whole page spread to see the overview of its contents before then moving the book around to allow my eye to wander around the page with a magnifying glass of sorts to take in all the beautiful details! Thanks for taking your time & energy to share your creativity and inspiration! Have a wonderful day!!! 🙂 PS I am curious about how you do ‘rust’ as an accent on your pages as well as on your metal pieces (wire, nails, etc. - or are they already rusty?)
Thank you so much, as always, Sue, for a wonderful comment - such a pleasure to read. And thanks for the feedback on the camera movement - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around!! It's many different rusting techniques picked up over the years - some with paint, some with ink, some with texture pastes, some with a combination of all those things. I'm sure one or two will come up in A Few Minutes of Fun some time, but I'm also thinking of creating an actual class looking at some of the ways I do it. But the rusty wire mostly comes ready-rusted, except I do now have lots that held up my sugar snap peas in the garden last year and is now ready for playing with in the craft room. PaperArtsy Rusting Powder is a marvellous thing that I use a lot... shop.paperartsy.co.uk/rusting-powder-3322-p.asp - and that bottle will last you ages and rust lots of stuff. Hope that helps for now.
So happy you enjoyed it... and thank you for your lovely comment. There are pages left because it's still an active art journal. In fact, there's a page I'm working on in the Few Minutes of Fun series... the background is in the link below, the collaging is still to come. ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html
Yes indeed, and yes I do... there's a whole video about exactly that in this book right here: ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html and obviously I'll also talk about it in the narrated flipthrough in a few weeks' time. Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks so much for watching and commenting.
What a beautiful book! Did you gesso the pages to start with? Do you just use one page or glue several pages together for extra strength? What is that frayed fabric you used? How did you do the cover?
So happy you like it. There's going to be a video coming which talks through the pages in some detail, so that will answer many of those questions. That's coming up in a couple of weeks' time. But some of the questions are already answered in these videos in which I'm working on a background and the collaging of one of the pages in it: ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html (background video) ua-cam.com/video/IX8xtM9Ylo8/v-deo.html (collage video) And the cover is basically a version of the rusty crackle tags and tissue paper... It's Tim Holtz Collage Paper, with rusty texture created similarly to the rust texture on these tags (but with slightly different ingredients... which will be turning up in another rusty recipe some time for A Few Minutes of Fun). You can see the rusty tags in these videos, though I think you may already have seen them? Though for the book I added the tissue paper first and then rusted over the top... ua-cam.com/video/ydDRv40KKTA/v-deo.html (rusty texture) ua-cam.com/video/5mXswUtDO3I/v-deo.html (tissue paper added) Hope you're having a great week.
Sorry about that - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around. The commenter above you felt the opposite and really enjoyed it, so you win some and you lose some, I guess! I suppose you could try slowing the video down to watch, but maybe better to wait for the version in a few weeks' time where I talk through the pages in more detail... I've filmed that differently, so hopefully it won't do the same thing to you. Thank you for the thumbs up despite the seasickness - that's kind!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Oh great, then I will wait for your new video! I didn't know if you were aware some people can't handle this kind of video, but like you say, other people like it, so... In the end, you should do what you prefer, you can't please everybody. ❤️
Wow just amazing!! What is even better is I just stumbled upon your channel and I absolutely had to subscribe!! Just beautiful work I love everything I’ve watched! ❤❤❤
Happy you found your way here - welcome! So delighted to hear you are enjoying exploring the channel... that's wonderful to hear. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and subscribing - much appreciated.
So many wonderful things to love- those textured backgrounds are delightful! I also loved the incorporated dried flowers among the pages with your collage. Even the warm colored pages were so beautiful and soothing. A wonderful walk through your beautiful arty altered book! Thank you
Yes, it's really clear when autumn hits, isn't it, and all those warm rusts and oranges start coming! So happy you enjoyed the flip through. Thank you for sharing such a lovely, thoughtful comment.
OMGOODNESS!!! Alison this is EXQUISITE, EXQUISITE, EXQUISITE!!!!! I Looooooooooooooove the covers and the pages are just breathtaking it even has my favorite rusty tags and all of that GORGEOUS EPHEMERA!!!! The music is wonderful, this is such a treat! Thank you!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Thank you for that amazing comment - I read it with a huge smile on my face!
Yes, it's probably my favourite journal that I've got on the go at the moment, and the closest to being full - I shall be sorry when there's no more space to play in there. Ah well, I'll just have to start another altered book journal when that happens...
Thank you for all your lovely coments today.
Such a stunning book Alison. I found myself pausing the video on almost every page so I could take in every single little detail. You are so, so inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. Xx
I'm so happy to hear that - it's definitely one of my happiest places to play, this book... I shall be slightly sad once it's full! Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
✨ @w0rdsandp1ctures I found myself doing exactly the same, having to pause and zoom to see the beauty within each page, so many beautiful details everywhere😊😊 You are so very talented 🤗✨
@sheilastyrebriere @PaperInspirationsAU In a few weeks time there will be a longer flip through of this book, with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page, so you'll get another chance to zoom in then! Thank you both for your support and lovely comments here on the channel.
Love your journal - as I have msny watched - but yours the one I'm most personaly drawn to, the ideas, selections - even your background music! Saved and will be my go-to guide. Thank you.
Oh, what lovely feedback - thank you so much for that. I'm delighted that you are finding so much joy and inspiration in the videos.
Stunning! Love the colors and textures! 💖💖💖
Thank you so much - I'm always happy when I'm working in this book!
Absolutely lovely!!! Looking forward to you explaining your process and sharing your creativity and techniques! Thank you so very much for inviting us on this journey!!!❤❤
So happy to have you along for the journey! We'll have a look at some other books in the meantime, so the talking version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Stunning, absolutely stunning, a wonderful book, every single page is beautiful, love it dear Alison 😍❤️🫶
Thank you so much, Silvie - very happy you enjoyed flipping through with me.
What a fantastic journal and the use of an altered book! Beautiful work Alison, thanks for the inspiration 😊
Very happy you enjoyed flipping through this one with me. It's definitely one of my favourite journals. Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Stunning, can't wait to see you go over the cover in more detail, how you doi the rust like look.
Well, you can find that rusty look in a tag video - hang on, I'll find the link for you... ua-cam.com/video/ydDRv40KKTA/v-deo.html It may not be exactly the same ingredients, as I tend to experiment and play differently each time I get rusty. I do also talk about it in more detail in the other flip through version with commentary - ua-cam.com/video/URbc-Oo7k00/v-deo.html
I hope that's of some help to you for now. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Your Art Journal is simply beautiful it is a breath of spring with every page thank you so much, I have learned so much form you
Thank you so much - what a lovely comment.
Your techniques are amazing and the colours you use or create are just wonderful. The tag with the crackle flowers is just beautiful and then you do the flowers again on the next page and they look so ethereal. And like others have said the cover is amazing with those texture details. You have opened up how to use of all my Tim Holtz mediums. Thank you for sharing your gorgeous book.
So happy you like it all. I'm very fond of those crackle blossoms too - and there were months in between those two things happening. I had made the tag ages before I thought of including it in a journal page! So happy to hear that these videos are inspiring you to play around with your Tim Holtz mediums... there is so much joy to be had with them. Thanks so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Incredible altered book. The details are amazing. I certainly admire your imagination and work.
Thank you so much - what a lovely comment.
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Love the warm oranges with the blues
Thank you ... I do love a touch of orange, but only when it's autumn (although rust is allowed any time!). Happy you enjoyed the flip through.
love seeing all the pages ...SO GOrgeous!!! LOve to learn more about it all!! LOve the colors and lay outs so much details...STUNNING!
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here if you haven't already seen it - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Your latest stamps should be arriving this week and I can't wait! I've been on a wait list for them!
Oh, exciting... I hope you have lots of fun playing with them. Do tag me in if you're sharing anything on Instagram!
An absolutely beautiful & creative art journal. Thanks so much for sharing. I’ll be watching for the flip through with more details. TFS
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
This is just exquisite...I am learning so much about composition and the use of color from your videos...thank you!!!
That's wonderful to hear - thank you so much for letting me know.
Absolutely gorgeous! Every spread is a beautiful work of art. I love your colour combinations.😍✨
Thank you so much - isn't it fascinating how specific our individual preferred colour palettes can be?!
Wonderful pages Alison and all so different. I love this cover so much.
Thank you so much, Tineke... yes, it's one of my favourites, that cover.
This is such a beautiful book! I just love all your colors selections and all your art and choice of words!
Thank you so much - I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed it... and yes, the words really matter to me, so I'm happy you noticed them too.
Oh, that was a treat, I really enjoyed that journey through the pages!
I'm so happy to hear that - thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
Books, books, book? Yes! Yes! Yes! ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Beautiful art journal Alison. This work is so YOU!❤
I do always feel happy working in this particular book. Thank you so much for stopping by, Pamela.
Stunning! So much texture and my kinda colours! Really a beautiful book!
So happy you like it. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment.
So beautiful, encouraging and peaceful enjoyment.
Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks you so much for your lovely comment.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing your talent! :)
Very happy you enjoyed flipping through this altered journal. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you for sharing your talent and creativity! Absolutely LOVE your style and so looking forward to the follow up videos. Working on an art journal is at the top of my To Do List! You’ve definitely inspired me now!!
So happy to hear you feel inspired to play... there is a Few Minutes of Fun video showing the background of the next page in this book being created (and the rest is coming soon), so look out for that if you haven't seen it. And the next episode of Books, Books, Books is coming up later today! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave your lovely comment.
Really lovely.and what glorious birdsong in the background!,
Thank you - yes, it's a nice track isn't it... one of the ones from the UA-cam audio library!
Your journal is so beautiful. I love your style and look forward to seeing how you created some of the pages.
Happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Absolutely wonderfull!! Bravo . On voyage à chaque page. Comme l' histoire d' un livre. Merci de partager.
Merci beaucoup - very happy you enjoyed turning the pages with me.
Such a gorgeous book! I would definitely like to see more Book, Books, Books episodes.
Thank you... Books, Books, Books episodes are going to be weekly for now, so watch out on Wednesdays! Happy you enjoyed it.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Yay! That’s exciting news.
This altered book is stunning and very inspiring 🤩 I’d love to see you make more pages (I already watched you making one)
I'm so happy that you enjoyed seeing inside this altered book... and yes, I'm sure there will be some more journalling pages to come in here. It's just been a very busy time lately, but sooner or later I'll get to catch my breath and play in a journal or two! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Thank you so much for sharing! My favorite spread was the window wall garden!
Yes, I love all that scrunchy brick texture, and I was really pleased with the reflective "glass" (acetate) in the window frame. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Beautiful!!
Thank you - happy you enjoyed it!
Qh so beautiful!!!
Thank you so much!
Its stunning 🤎💛 I'm running out of superlatives for your work. Thanks for sharing your art journal, i always feel it's quite a personal thing to do 💛🧡
Thank you so much for such a beautiful, thoughtful comment. (Haven't yet opened the pages on some of the really personal journalling... and I may never - so you are definitely right!)
Just so amaizing, so lovely, it will be inspirations ❤❤ thanks a lot for this beautiful moment
So happy to hear you enjoyed it - thank you for taking the time to let me know with your lovely comment.
Absolutely beautiful and the cover is stunning
Thank you so much... yes, the cover was almost accidental - just me having a play with some of the (now sadly discontinued) Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap, and wondering how it would look with some added rusty texture!!
So beautiful it took my breath away-thank you for sharing
Ahh, thank you - hope you've caught your breath now!
This is utterly beautiful, Alison!
Thank you so much, Patty - it's definitely one of my favourite journals to play in.
This is stunning and something I would love to do. Looking forward to the explanatory video!
So happy you like it, thank you. We'll look at a few other books in the meantime, so the chatty version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. But in the meantime, there are already a Few Minutes of Fun showing the next page in this book under way. The background is here - ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html - and the collaging is coming up in about ten days' time. So that will keep you going for now, I hope! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Absolutely beautiful book x
Thank you so much... I'm happy you love it. There's a longer video coming up this week with me talking in more detail about what's involved in each page spread. Watch out for that on Wednesday, if you're interested. Have a great week.
I enjoyed this look thru. It speaks to me but, it wouldn’t to those around me :). So sad for them! Journals are for us who understand. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, and yes, we all have our own individual pleasures. I shall never understand pot-holing or baseball, for instance!! But it would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I adore your work in this art journal - beautiful
Thank you so much - happy that you love it.
Splendid!! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful journal.
You're welcome - thank you for always taking the time to leave lovely comments.
Stunningly gorgeous!!
Thank you so much.
That is very, very pretty and so unique. I love it. ❤❤
Thank you so much - happy you love it.
Absolutely love it ! 😍 wonderful work -thank you for sharing!
Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
Magnificent artwork!
Thank you... it's definitely one of my favourite journals.
Your art journal is so lovely. Thank you for sharing it ❤❤❤
Thank you ... it's just one of many journals - there will be more coming your way in this Books, Books, Books series. Maybe one of these days I'll actually fill one up completely!!
Gorgeous book. ❤️ I would love to see more books.
Many more on the way - this is just episode one of Books, Books, Books! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
WOW. Just stunning your work is beautiful💜💜
So happy you enjoyed it - thank you so much for your lovely comment.
So fabulous! I started an altered book so very long ago and only did a few pages. I must get it out and play in it again. Tfs and inspiring!
I started working in some of my art journals years ago too, and then they go on the shelf and I get distracted by all kinds of other projects (including other journals!)... but they're always there waiting when I need them again! So happy to hear you're inspired to pull your altered book off the shelf and play. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Beautiful Mixed Media Journal
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment - so happy you like it.
Oh my! All the lovely texture and images makes my heart sing! Just beyond!❤❤❤
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment.
so much amazing inspiration, now off to look for an old hard covered book ♥
Happy you enjoyed it... if you haven't got any on your shelves already, charity shops very often have them to give away. Bizarrely, they often pulp the older hardback books - they're definitely missing a trick not tapping into the craft market!!
Beautiful! Love the designs.
Thank you - it's definitely one of my favourite journals to play in.
What a joyful, creative, and inviting journal! I just want to wander into its pages and enjoy the experience. ~Terri 😊
Very happy you enjoyed it - thank you so much for watching and commenting.
It was a delight to see this stunning book😍...multipal times! Love how the seasons changes in your pages, how you use the thread and all those gorgeous flowers and fabulous details 😎 I am looking forward to hear you tell more about the making. Thank you so much for sharing and have wonderful weekend, Alison🌞
Thank you, Edith, for such a lovely comment (on IG as well as here!). We'll take a look at some other books first, so the talkie version of this one will be in a few weeks' time. You have a great weekend too.
So much texture and layers in your art, it is amazing! Thank you for sharing your books, books, books.
So happy you enjoyed it. Plenty more books books books to come!!
Alison, your videos sing to my creative soul. The journal is absolutely beautiful! Thanks you so much for sharing. I can’t wait to see more videos.
Oh, what a lovely comment, thank you - that made my heart lift. Happy you found your way here.
So inspiring, thank you. I love your vintage style and the colours are speaking to me... telling me I CAN go finish all those half done pages in many journals. Really enjoyed!
Absolutely you CAN... I sometimes have pages left for literally years waiting for the inspiration to strike (see the Books, Books, Books episode coming up in a couple of weeks!). So happy you're enjoying the inspiration.
Absolutely Beautiful!!❤
Thank you so much.
Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤
Thank you so much - it's a journal I love working in!
Magnífico!!
Muchas gracias!
This altered book speaks to my personal aesthetic. This is the direction I’ve been trying to take but didn’t know it yet. Thanks for sharing the absolute beauty of this book. 🤗🇨🇦🤗 Elizabeth
So happy to hear you found inspiration in these pages (I know I do, looking back over them). Thank you so much for sharing such a lovely thought.
So inspiring, so beautiful !
Thank you so much for that lovely comment - very happy you feel inspired.
Wow just spectacular. I also stumbled upon your channel and had to subscribe. Love your work glad I found you. Lots of amazing ideas. Thanks for sharing! ❤❤
I'm delighted you found your way here - welcome! Happy you liked this, and I hope you'll enjoy exploring more on the channel. Thank you so much for watching, commenting and subscribing - much appreciated. Happy weekend to you.
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You are so talented. Beautiful!
Thank you so much for watching, and for your lovely comment.
I thoroughly enjoyed that glimpse into your creative mind! Every spread is beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
What a lovely comment - thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Gorgeous, love it thanks for sharing xx
You're welcome - happy you enjoyed it.
What an amazing book! Really love seeing all the different colors, techniques, and textures. ❤
Thank you so much - yes, I shall be sad when there's no more room to play in this book - pages here always seems to turn out well.
Gorgeous stunning and creative❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much - happy you enjoyed it, and thanks for taking the time to let me know.
That my dear was exquisite book!😁♥️♥️
Thank you so much - happy you liked it.
Just beautiful
Happy you like it, thank you.
Stunning! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much - happy you enjoyed it.
Beautiful!❤
Thank you very much.
Absolutely wonderful. Every page is a masterpiece
Thank you so much - very happy you enjoyed it!
Absolutely beautiful. I could look at it all day 😍
So happy you enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to let me know.
Love this journal❤
That's lovely to hear, thank you.
Beautiful!❤
Thank you.
Gorgeous
Thank you!
Beautiful
Thank you.
Exquisite Alison 💕
Thank you so much, Cathy... see you later!!
Love the book so much! Looking forward to more. Do you have a video of how you did the cover? That is stunning
I don't, I'm afraid... I made this years before I started any filming. It's painted Tim Holtz tissue paper, and there will be some videos with painting of tissue paper (in fact, there already is one showing a large journalling page, where I'm painting my own Printed Tissue botanicals with watercolours ua-cam.com/video/AMisrNYVfRo/v-deo.html if you're interested), and at some point I will probably get to some rusty textures too, but possibly not on a book cover.
Happy you enjoyed it, and thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Beautiful 😻
Thank you very much.
Wow ❤ I love the tag with the flowers. I would love to know how you make it 😍
Crackle paste through a stencil and some sprays, as far as I remember. I'll take a look at it and see whether I could create something similar for A Few Minutes of Fun some time soon! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures It would be awesome 😍
Wow!
Happy you like it... thanks for watching and commenting.
Just beautiful. I can't decide what I like best an original book cover, with secret art journal inside or your lovely altered cover.
I was also wondering if you think out your book before altering it? Or is this something you'll discuss in depth later on?
Thin out
Glad you corrected think to thin... I was about to assure you there's no planning ahead!
I don't tend to thin out, no - I like the crazily chunky look you end up with, and how that stands up on a shelf as a sculptural object. At the point when I can't open it to work in any longer, that's when I'll know it's full! I do glue several pages together, to get a firmer working surface. You can see that in the Few Minutes of Fun episode where I'm working on the background for the next page in this book - here if you haven't seen it ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html (and the collaging over the top is coming up in about ten days' time too).
I have other hardback book journals where I haven't altered the cover at all so, as you say, it's a complete surprise when there's something inside. (In fact, it's not unknown for me to take a book off the shelf in the studio to tear some pages out to use in a project and discover that actually it's got art journalling inside!).
Happy you enjoyed the video, and thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.
magnifique!!!
Merci beaucoup!
Hello Alison! LOVELY!!! Seeing your flip through of this art journal was so enjoyable! I loved how you allowed time for my eye to scan the whole page spread to see the overview of its contents before then moving the book around to allow my eye to wander around the page with a magnifying glass of sorts to take in all the beautiful details! Thanks for taking your time & energy to share your creativity and inspiration! Have a wonderful day!!! 🙂
PS I am curious about how you do ‘rust’ as an accent on your pages as well as on your metal pieces (wire, nails, etc. - or are they already rusty?)
Thank you so much, as always, Sue, for a wonderful comment - such a pleasure to read. And thanks for the feedback on the camera movement - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around!!
It's many different rusting techniques picked up over the years - some with paint, some with ink, some with texture pastes, some with a combination of all those things. I'm sure one or two will come up in A Few Minutes of Fun some time, but I'm also thinking of creating an actual class looking at some of the ways I do it.
But the rusty wire mostly comes ready-rusted, except I do now have lots that held up my sugar snap peas in the garden last year and is now ready for playing with in the craft room. PaperArtsy Rusting Powder is a marvellous thing that I use a lot... shop.paperartsy.co.uk/rusting-powder-3322-p.asp - and that bottle will last you ages and rust lots of stuff. Hope that helps for now.
Just stunning. Such beautiful and imaginative work . I was just wondering why you left pages in the back of the book?
So happy you enjoyed it... and thank you for your lovely comment. There are pages left because it's still an active art journal. In fact, there's a page I'm working on in the Few Minutes of Fun series... the background is in the link below, the collaging is still to come.
ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html
Alison, do you use the pages in the book? If so, I assume you glue a few pages together to make the page more sturdy. Gorgeous book!!!
Yes indeed, and yes I do... there's a whole video about exactly that in this book right here: ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html and obviously I'll also talk about it in the narrated flipthrough in a few weeks' time.
Very happy you enjoyed it - thanks so much for watching and commenting.
What a beautiful book! Did you gesso the pages to start with? Do you just use one page or glue several pages together for extra strength? What is that frayed fabric you used? How did you do the cover?
So happy you like it. There's going to be a video coming which talks through the pages in some detail, so that will answer many of those questions. That's coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
But some of the questions are already answered in these videos in which I'm working on a background and the collaging of one of the pages in it:
ua-cam.com/video/KnJv3HypkX8/v-deo.html (background video)
ua-cam.com/video/IX8xtM9Ylo8/v-deo.html (collage video)
And the cover is basically a version of the rusty crackle tags and tissue paper... It's Tim Holtz Collage Paper, with rusty texture created similarly to the rust texture on these tags (but with slightly different ingredients... which will be turning up in another rusty recipe some time for A Few Minutes of Fun). You can see the rusty tags in these videos, though I think you may already have seen them? Though for the book I added the tissue paper first and then rusted over the top...
ua-cam.com/video/ydDRv40KKTA/v-deo.html (rusty texture)
ua-cam.com/video/5mXswUtDO3I/v-deo.html (tissue paper added)
Hope you're having a great week.
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Thank you.
Hi, I've given you a 👍 but I had to stop watching because the constant movement made me feel unwell. What I did see was beautiful ❤
Sorry about that - I wanted to get the page as a whole as well as the close-ups, as you say, but was a bit worried people might end up feeling seasick with all the moving around. The commenter above you felt the opposite and really enjoyed it, so you win some and you lose some, I guess! I suppose you could try slowing the video down to watch, but maybe better to wait for the version in a few weeks' time where I talk through the pages in more detail... I've filmed that differently, so hopefully it won't do the same thing to you. Thank you for the thumbs up despite the seasickness - that's kind!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures Oh great, then I will wait for your new video! I didn't know if you were aware some people can't handle this kind of video, but like you say, other people like it, so... In the end, you should do what you prefer, you can't please everybody. ❤️
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Thank you!
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Thank you!