Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts: Amazon.ca: Jason Thompson: Books

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Is your journal collecting dust instead of keeping your thoughts? Have you gotten out of the habit of writing on a daily basis?

Making Journals By Hand will get you excited about keeping a journal again, with fresh ideas on how to make and keep your own daily journal, travel journal, garden journal, art journal, recipe journal, and more. Use art studio techniques such as rubber stamping, wax resist, leaf transfer, paper cutting, and plaster paper, to enhance and really personalize the pages of your journal.

--Know How: More than 20 journal projects, with lots of variations.

--Writing Tips to keep you writing every day.

--Creative Sparks: Practical advice on changing points of view, with prompts to get the creative juices flowing.

--Inspiration and Ideas: Ideas for themed journals to record travel adventures, gardens, dreams, baby events, weddings, and family events.

About the Author

Jason Thompson is the founder and president of Rag & Bone Bindery, and author of Making Journals By Hand (Rockport Publishing 2001) and Playing with Books (Quarry 2009). He is highly regarded as a book designer with integrity who creates unique handbound books and other fine bindings, as well as a popular blogger who writes about bookbinding, book arts, artist books, and paper craft.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Skimps on Content, Feb 22 2003

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Missnorth (MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts (Paperback)

While the journals in here were really beautiful, it doesn't look like the author put a lot of effort into explaining them. It only took me about an hour to read this book and, even with a few creative ideas(mostly from the pictures), the general content was sparse. Some of the shaded sections on the side looked like space filler (for example, one on "themes" describes a travel journal's purpose as "chronicling your travels"...no way!). It bothers me when writers use pretty pictures to try and pull off the appearance of a quality book. Flip through this book in the library to get some good ideas, but don't expect thoughtful written advice.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Creative and Inspiring, Aug 10 2003

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Ann (Silver Spring, Moldova, Republic of) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Journals by Hand: 20 Creative Projects for Keeping Your Thoughts (Paperback)

I loved this book, but when I got "Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand" I was surprised to find "Making Journals by Hand" is actually included in that text in full: word for word, page for page, project for project .

Instead of buying "Making Journals by Hand" and "Making Memory Boxes", save some money and buy one book: "Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand". This book combines all of the projects above and then some.

All of these books have great projects and instructions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars expansive techniques, but the art is up to us , April 9 2003

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Ellen Etc. (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews

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This luscious book peeks into the art journals of many talented artists, giving step-by-step instructions on basic techniques for compiling and binding journals that mix image and word. Because the contributors are all highly talented artists, this book should have been more intimidating to my non-artist self than it was. Instead, it is encouraging and freeing, and the author provides short helpful tips on the process of writing a journal along with illustration and decoration. I read the book in two addictive sittings and am looking forward to spending more time with it, and with the books and websites listed in the bibliography, even if I never try any of the techniques. Thank you, Jason, for a generous, empowering, and visually stunning book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration!
I have read this book over and over and still I keep going back to it for inspiration for my journal projects. Read more

Published on May 1 2002 by K. S. Karshna

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Unique
Making Journals By Hand is an excellent introduction to artistic techniques that can enhance an artistic journal, not to mention directions for actually making the journals in... Read more

Published on Jan 8 2002 by kircur