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How to Make a Junk Journal from an Old Book
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Feb 21, 2025
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hi everyone anat kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to make a junk journal from
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an old book so all you need is a book
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that you don't use or need and I'm going
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to show you how to prepare it to make a
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junk Journal so what you need is an old
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book if you don't have an old book then
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use whatever book you have and I like
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the Vintage books they look really
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pretty and we are going to start with
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preparing our
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book we are going to strengthen the
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sides the spine and what you need is
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either gel medium which is a little bit
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thick as you can see looks like a cream
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I like to use Mod Podge for this because
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this is much more
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fluid the liquid is much easier to use
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so I like to use that so just take a
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brush and apply the Mod Podge to the
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first page of the book just when you
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open
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it and then
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apply the Mod Podge all the way on all
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the page make sure to reach all the
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edges and then simply close the cover
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and that
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will glue that first page to the cover
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so we're going to attach or glue the
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first three
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pages on the front and then we're going
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to do the exact same thing on the
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back and attach those pages too with the
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same technique
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okay so now let's do the same thing on
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the back apply the glue then close the
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cover and we're going to do that for the
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three last
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pages the glue the Mod
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Podge really get absorbed better on
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Vintage Pages they also look I like
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their look so that's why I like like to
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use the Vintage books but of course any
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book that you have will
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work of course you need it to be thick
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enough because you need enough pages for
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all the techniques and all the things
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that we're going to
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do and of course not too
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big okay next we are going to remove
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some pages because as we go
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and add more and more techniques and
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create
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Pages then the book is going to get
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really thick so we are going to remove
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some pages to allow room for all the
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things that we're going to make so what
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we're going to look for is the center of
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a signature signature is when you
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take the when the pages of the book are
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binded together so you'll see the
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threads in the center the string
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that is sew The
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Binding and what we're going to do
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is count one two three pages from one
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side or two pages and then
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remove a page then we're going to count
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two or three pages from the other side
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and remove that page as
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well and then we're going to do that
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repeating that on a few
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signatures in the book so once I've done
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that I'm going to look for another
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signature find the center where I can
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see the
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threads and then
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count where is the center 1 2 and then
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remove a
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page and then one two p pages to the
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other side and remove the the other page
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that is
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basically the other half of the
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signature and I'm going to do that with
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basically all the
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signatures and remove those
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pages and this will allow us later to of
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course add more things so for this type
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of book this thickness of book I removed
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about 20 Pages or so
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and of course we're going to keep those
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pages because we
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are we can use them for this project and
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for other projects so I'm looking for a
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spread and first we need to prepare our
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book for
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altering so what we're going to do is
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take Mod Podge or gel
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medium and glue together three pages on
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each side of our
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spread so what you're going to to do is
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just
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spread the Mod Podge or gel
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medium on the page and then
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attach the page next to
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it so this is two pages and then we're
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going to attach a third page on each
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side the only problem when working with
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an altered book is that you need to wait
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for things to dry I'm using a heat tool
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but sometimes it's not enough and
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especially at this this
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stage you need to wait for
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the Mod Podge or gel medium to dry and
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this is not something you can do with
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the heat tool because it's inside in
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between the
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pages so just wait a little bit until
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it's dry not exactly dry
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but more or less
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dry so just a few minutes will be enough
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like maybe 5 or 10 minutes
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okay let's finish this part and then
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we'll have thick enough and sturdy
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enough pages to work
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on okay so just putting something
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underneath it so it will be easier for
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it to dry the air will go on both the
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bottom and
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the so now we have two page spread to
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work in our junk Journal
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and this is what I've made so far with
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my junk Journal this entire tutorial
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series is available inside the VIP room
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I'm going to link that down below so in
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the description so you can
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see how to join and how to learn to make
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all these amazing pages in the junk
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Journal which I'm not finished with yet
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but but we're going to continue together
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filling all this amazing junk
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journal with really fun
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pages and techniques as you can
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see and all you need like I said all you
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need is a
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book so I really hope you like this
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tutorial please don't forget to
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