Always amazed at the care you take with every step. What looks so eclectic and haphazard in fact takes infinite attention to detail and the end effect is so lovely and organic. Each element you make and incorporate into journals is a mini work of creativity and art in its own right. You make us all believe we can be artists! Keep on keeping on.
Thank you so very much for doing these set of videos! I am new to this beautiful world. You are an amazing teacher with practical advice! I appreciate your generosity! I understand the time it takes for you to upload these videos.
Andrea, I've been doing altered book and paper journals now for about 5 years or so. Watching all different instructors and different techniques. However, I'm thrilled to watch you do a back to basics series, as everyone has their own personal way of creating! I've always admired your light touch as I tend to be too heavy handed. So, I'm very excited to watch this entire series and see how one of the "Top Queens" actually creates. Thank you for this terrific series!
I have been very unwell since November. Last week I decided to make folders for who I follow. There are so many wonderful ideas from you and others so I’ll be ready to to go. Thank you Andrea. You are so loved by me and hundreds of wonderful JJ. Thank you for sharing 🤗 hugs
Thank you so much for the video. I'm a newbie, so I appreciate your teachings. I love your detail, like sanding at the end. I like to take care of details too. It really takes a project from good to great! When I saw the envelope at beginning, I had no idea how to do that. This is FANTASTIC!!! I agree with comment below, I'm going to do this on all my envelope. I love it!! Can't wait to try. Thank you Austin, Texas USA
I’m so happy I found you!!! THANK YOU so much for doing these please they are so great to watch and learn you do beautiful work!!! Don’t stop doing these basic videos!!! This my boyfriend’s pic I am a 60 year old women that just is starting out.
I LOVE how you do this process!!! I just tried it yesterday, and it looks so much better than the way I've seen in other videos. So these are my favorite envelopes I've made. Thank you for the video. Austin,TX USA
I've just done my first decoupage on a tea-stained old envelope following your instructions carefully. It's lovely! I'm very pleased! My first true art project. Thank you so much ArtyMaze! Love your videos!! YAY!
Only just watched this process and decided to have a go. I was very pleased with how my envelope turned out. Most amazingly the process of using my nail file to iron out ( so to speak ) the little bumps in the napkins on the envelopes. It was great. Must remember that little process .
It's so beautiful!!! Love all the steps, easy to follow. Thank you so much for sharing. On to the next basic video. Actually there is nothing basic about your talents. 💖💖
Thank you for teaching all your secrets. I am learning so many techniques Completing envelopes. I am going to work on mine and see what I come up with. Thanks Andrea
Oh, my! I'm hooked. I'm a newbie, and now I can't wait to watch all your videos! The artist in you just flows from your hand to everything you touch. Thank you for the privilege of peering over your shoulder and watching your creative energy at work. Your results are breathless! I'm inspired to dig out some old envelopes and start practicing away! Thank you for sharing your talent so we can learn. Cheryl in AZ
IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOU, YOUR INSTRUCTION IS GREAT, YOU DO BEAUTIFUL WORK, IM SURE A LOT OF NEW FOLK WILL BE HAPPY WITH BASICS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WONDERFUL WAYS. SO ENVIOUS OF GLORIOUS SERVIETTES. CAMILLE AUSTRALIA
This is a work of Art,Arty Maze.It,s beautiful.Something I would like to keep to look at.Thank you for the wonderful video.I can't see myself creating something so beautiful but who Knows?With your step by step instructions I may give it a try.
I absolutely loved that you took an emery board to finish off your envelope. As an evolving paper crafter it is one of my must have tools. I say evolving because as a scrapbooker turned card maker, I have been watching and learning about junk journaling for the past COVID months. I love that I can put to use all the supplies I have acquired for my paper crafts and actually use them up. (Although my book hoard is starting to concern me. Lol) I loved your "process" and the envelope was absolutely fabulous. Your video was very informative and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do these.
Thank you, thank you for going back to basics!! I'm a newbie. I'm good with embellishing but it's the construction of the whole thing that intimidates me. Tfs.
Not only is the final product from your process is always amazing but when I watch you it is like being at a friends house and creating ❤️ thank you for all you share!!!
So pretty! God, I remember being new and it took me a year of watching junk journal videos before I understood how to put in a “tip in!” This is my kind of art work. No need to download stuff. We are able, without going through our printer ink, to make wonderful stuff with inexpensive supplies. It’s just the best! After doing it so much, and watching so many others do it for years, we forget that there are people who have never seen this stuff before! They find it, are amazed and want to do it too, but many times, we are talking at the experienced level and leaving them in the dark. Thankfully, there are so many videos in the archives to turn to now. But it never hurts to have the basics done again. Everyone is a bit different and it’s always still fascinating and inspiring. ❣️
So kind of you to give us newbies the benefit of your knowledge , very easy going and a pleasure to watch , your envelope is stunning , can’t wait to watch more xx
Thanks Andrea....I think I want to send actual mail in an envelope that I have antiqued and decorated!! This is wonderful!!... Of course I'll skip the cancellation stamp!
I am so delighted to find you. I've watched YT videos for awhile but am just getting up the courage to do my own. I like the way you are explaining the what / why of what you are doing and appreciate that you are starting a back to basics series.
It’s amazing how we all have little things we do differently so we can all learn from each other. My new favorite thing to do when using napkins is to take the whites off the backs before I start anything. Then I have them to absorb the extra sprays and I put them under when I’m stamping so the napkins catch the bit I didn’t get on the project. By the time I’m done with the original project I now have a totally unique napkin I can easily make a “matching “ journal card of something to go with the thing I was planning on making.
I’m back to report that I followed the tutorial and produced two absolutely BEAUTIFUL envelopes! I was a bit heavy handed with the gesso and the color but I kept going and am so pleased with the end results! Thank you, Andrea!! 😃
Fabulous no nonsense basic process. I enjoyed all of the video and it has taught me a lot and given me the confidence to have a go. I’m sitting in the garden (on a very hot UK summer day..August 2019), preparing my envelopes and tomorrow I will spray them with some of the sprays I have had for years. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you Have Never Made Any Of The envelops Before Yours Are Just Right Andrea and I Will Put it On My To Do list but it is quite Long I imagine like your own TYFS Lynn 🦋
I can not thank you enough for going back to the basics of journaling. I'm new to journaling and I'm clueless. All videos I watch everybody is doing all these fancy projects with all these products that I can't afford. It's so intimating!😩
Andrea, I could watch you all day long! Love your process and the finished envelope. The layers agree fantastic. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Hi I have watched this video 3 times today making my first envelope I am happy with the way it turned out. You have been on my mind all day as I have been working with your autumn digital kit. Thank you for sharing all your tips with us. I will be posting my envelope on fb tomorrow I so enjoy your videos,
Awesome process. So glad to hear that you don't throw away the backing on your napkins either! I use them as a dimensional background on the cards I make. Love the envelope!!! I'll be trying your techniques for adding color especially. Thank you so much for the video!!
Fabulous, this is, Ms. Andrea! Your explanations and techniques make the greatest foundation for us, many thanks. Looking forward for the rest of the series.
Hi thanks for your videos I have learnt so much from all of you talented ladies I see you live in Mevagissey I have been there a few times and stayed at Manderlay a guest house on the hill I was going to live there in 1997 but it did not happen but would love to go back one day I love your envelopes best wishes Vivienne from Tasmania
Thank you so much for taking the time to do these videos. I bought your Altoid kits, watched those videos, loved them. Now I’ve been watching your other videos and I’ve been learning so much. I enjoy having my morning coffee with you. Going to try this although my hubby likes the smell of me baking papers, lol. He thought I was baking him something to eat.
Going to use this video next Sunday and make several of envelopes following your directions, this is new for me and spent half a day Friday tea staining some envelopes, 5 just to play with and get the hang of making these lovely envelopes. Thank you very much you are so warm and full of information!
Thanks so much for the share. I never thought to sand down the wrinkles it made such a difference and really softened the look. Loved the video thanks for bringing us the basics its such a privilege to learn from a wonderful teacher. Love your style.
Looks absolutely gorgeous!! I was really surprised at the napkin flowers, they looked way prettier on than I expected. Thanks for going back over the basic even for the not so newbies.....
Wow, just wow!!! Thank you so much for doing this. I am brand new to this hobby, haven't actually even made anything yet, and this video was wonderful, the best I've seen yet. Now I want to make envelopes all day. It's so generous of you to share so much of your process and knowledge with us. I'll be watching many more of your videos, thanks again!
Thank you thank you thank you! After watching this video and the other envelope/snippet video, I think I finally "got it". I especially want to thank you for solving my wrinkled collage problem. Waiting patiently for #2 Back to Basics.
Thank you very much. I really enjoy this charming video and the beautiful envelope. A lot of work and tender loving care that transform an ordinary thing to an extraordinary one. It is not too simple for rough one like me. 👍🙏🏼❤️
Just beautiful, you've added a little bit of magic to a simple envelope. New to this, you make it look so easy. Thank you kindly for sharing your wonderful talent.
So cool. Thank you so much for the tips and your opinions. The reasons behind your opinions make perfect sense and I found that extremely helpful. Thank you so much!!!
Thank You! Thank You! I LOVE your method of taring the napkin and not wetting it! And using the sticky method for removing the napkin back! So much faster! Also, for the tip to using the white background! Wonderful techniques! Can't wait to see the rest! I feel like I've been to art class! TFS - Hugs, Christal
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this series! I have just discovered the art of junk journals a few months ago and this is great! The napkins you found are ones that I would have passed right by but after seeing you use them and how lovely they turned out I am going to have to look more closely at napkins!
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Always amazed at the care you take with every step. What looks so eclectic and haphazard in fact takes infinite attention to detail and the end effect is so lovely and organic. Each element you make and incorporate into journals is a mini work of creativity and art in its own right. You make us all believe we can be artists! Keep on keeping on.
Thank you & yes you can be xx
Love this envelope
Love watching you play.
Thank you so very much for doing these set of videos! I am new to this beautiful world. You are an amazing teacher with practical advice! I appreciate your generosity! I understand the time it takes for you to upload these videos.
Wonderful for a newbie like me!
Andrea, I've been doing altered book and paper journals now for about 5 years or so. Watching all different instructors and different techniques. However, I'm thrilled to watch you do a back to basics series, as everyone has their own personal way of creating! I've always admired your light touch as I tend to be too heavy handed. So, I'm very excited to watch this entire series and see how one of the "Top Queens" actually creates. Thank you for this terrific series!
I have been very unwell since November. Last week I decided to make folders for who I follow. There are so many wonderful ideas from you and others so I’ll be ready to to go. Thank you Andrea. You are so loved by me and hundreds of wonderful JJ. Thank you for sharing 🤗 hugs
Thank you so much for the video. I'm a newbie, so I appreciate your teachings.
I love your detail, like sanding at the end. I like to take care of details too. It really takes a project from good to great!
When I saw the envelope at beginning, I had no idea how to do that. This is FANTASTIC!!!
I agree with comment below, I'm going to do this on all my envelope. I love it!!
Can't wait to try.
Thank you
Austin, Texas USA
I am learning so much watching these 'back to basics' non tutorials ;)
Thank you for making them.
I also love the background sounds of the gulls.
I’m so happy I found you!!! THANK YOU so much for doing these please they are so great to watch and learn you do beautiful work!!! Don’t stop doing these basic videos!!! This my boyfriend’s pic I am a 60 year old women that just is starting out.
Oh my goodness. How beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
I am throughly enjoying this series. Thank you.
Thanks so much for sharing how you do these. Fabulous tips and beautiful result
I LOVE how you do this process!!! I just tried it yesterday, and it looks so much better than the way I've seen in other videos. So these are my favorite envelopes I've made.
Thank you for the video.
Austin,TX USA
I've just done my first decoupage on a tea-stained old envelope following your instructions carefully. It's lovely! I'm very pleased! My first true art project. Thank you so much ArtyMaze! Love your videos!! YAY!
Elizabeth Gerzowski Thank you. First of many I hope? Once you start that’s it you know! Lol x
Thank you for sharing.
For going back to basics I. Have learned a lot from you. Love your ideas and watching you. Thank you
Theola
Only just watched this process and decided to have a go. I was very pleased with how my envelope turned out. Most amazingly the process of using my nail file to iron out ( so to speak ) the little bumps in the napkins on the envelopes. It was great. Must remember that little process .
Absolutely lovely and wonder tips and techniques. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your ‘back to basics’ videos on anything. Newbie here!
It's so beautiful!!! Love all the steps, easy to follow. Thank you so much for sharing. On to the next basic video. Actually there is nothing basic about your talents. 💖💖
Thank you for teaching all your secrets. I am learning so many techniques Completing envelopes. I am going to work on mine and see what I come up with. Thanks Andrea
SO beautiful!!! You really inspire me! I am not artistic at all, but you make it so that I feel I CAN be creative!!!
The effects you have created are lovely. Always something new to learn.
Oh, my! I'm hooked. I'm a newbie, and now I can't wait to watch all your videos! The artist in you just flows from your hand to everything you touch. Thank you for the privilege of peering over your shoulder and watching your creative energy at work. Your results are breathless! I'm inspired to dig out some old envelopes and start practicing away! Thank you for sharing your talent so we can learn. Cheryl in AZ
IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOU, YOUR INSTRUCTION IS GREAT, YOU DO BEAUTIFUL WORK, IM SURE A LOT OF NEW FOLK WILL BE HAPPY WITH BASICS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WONDERFUL WAYS. SO ENVIOUS OF GLORIOUS
SERVIETTES.
CAMILLE AUSTRALIA
This is a work of Art,Arty Maze.It,s beautiful.Something I would like to keep to look at.Thank you for the wonderful video.I can't see myself creating something so beautiful but who Knows?With your step by step instructions I may give it a try.
I absolutely loved that you took an emery board to finish off your envelope. As an evolving paper crafter it is one of my must have tools. I say evolving because as a scrapbooker turned card maker, I have been watching and learning about junk journaling for the past COVID months. I love that I can put to use all the supplies I have acquired for my paper crafts and actually use them up. (Although my book hoard is starting to concern me. Lol) I loved your "process" and the envelope was absolutely fabulous. Your video was very informative and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do these.
Wow! Sanding it really made a difference!😮❤ thank you…🎉
Yes it most certainly does, lightly does it though xx
Thank you, thank you for going back to basics!! I'm a newbie. I'm good with embellishing but it's the construction of the whole thing that intimidates me. Tfs.
Not only is the final product from your process is always amazing but when I watch you it is like being at a friends house and creating ❤️ thank you for all you share!!!
Amazing project! Thank you for sharing I will for sure practice this! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
How fun. Love the back to basic idea.
Beautiful. I love your method. The result is stunning! It’s so delicate and thought out.
Thanks so much, totally relevant for me. The finished piece was amazing.
Great teaching video, and inspirational! Thank you for always showing your knowledge!
So pretty!
God, I remember being new and it took me a year of watching junk journal videos before I understood how to put in a “tip in!”
This is my kind of art work. No need to download stuff. We are able, without going through our printer ink, to make wonderful stuff with inexpensive supplies. It’s just the best! After doing it so much, and watching so many others do it for years, we forget that there are people who have never seen this stuff before! They find it, are amazed and want to do it too, but many times, we are talking at the experienced level and leaving them in the dark. Thankfully, there are so many videos in the archives to turn to now. But it never hurts to have the basics done again. Everyone is a bit different and it’s always still fascinating and inspiring. ❣️
Linda Beebe thank you, I had so many people contact me to do this, also thought it would be fun and yes we do tend to forget about newbies x
I am not a newbie crafter but am loving your Back To Basics today because we all forget things, and it nice to look at it again.
Beautiful, thanks from a Newbie. 🌸
Beautifully made envelope .. Love it!
So kind of you to give us newbies the benefit of your knowledge , very easy going and a pleasure to watch , your envelope is stunning , can’t wait to watch more xx
Very helpful ! Thank you :)
Thanks Andrea....I think I want to send actual mail in an envelope that I have antiqued and decorated!! This is wonderful!!... Of course I'll skip the cancellation stamp!
Nancy LeMieux thank you and yes definitely skip that part lol x
Thank you Andrea! You’re the best 💕
I am so delighted to find you. I've watched YT videos for awhile but am just getting up the courage to do my own. I like the way you are explaining the what / why of what you are doing and appreciate that you are starting a back to basics series.
It’s amazing how we all have little things we do differently so we can all learn from each other. My new favorite thing to do when using napkins is to take the whites off the backs before I start anything. Then I have them to absorb the extra sprays and I put them under when I’m stamping so the napkins catch the bit I didn’t get on the project. By the time I’m done with the original project I now have a totally unique napkin I can easily make a “matching “ journal card of something to go with the thing I was planning on making.
So pretty. Thank you for sharing.
I’m back to report that I followed the tutorial and produced two absolutely BEAUTIFUL envelopes! I was a bit heavy handed with the gesso and the color but I kept going and am so pleased with the end results! Thank you, Andrea!! 😃
Fabulous no nonsense basic process. I enjoyed all of the video and it has taught me a lot and given me the confidence to have a go. I’m sitting in the garden (on a very hot UK summer day..August 2019), preparing my envelopes and tomorrow I will spray them with some of the sprays I have had for years. Thanks for the inspiration.
Very good! Even an old dog can learn a new trick or two..
Thank you Have Never Made Any Of The envelops Before Yours Are Just Right Andrea and I Will Put it On My To Do list but it is quite Long I imagine like your own TYFS Lynn 🦋
I can not thank you enough for going back to the basics of journaling. I'm new to journaling and I'm clueless. All videos I watch everybody is doing all these fancy projects with all these products that I can't afford. It's so intimating!😩
Beautiful, thanks for showing all the steps. The results are sooooo very worth the effort. I like your simplified method of tea staining.
I tried this method of coffee dying the other day and it worked great. Thank you so much. Saves me time in the kitchen. Love it.
Thank you, Andrea. A Back to Basics series for beginners is truly appreciated!!! Very helpful info and valuable to see the whole process! 😀
Beautiful job! Love it! Thanks. Enjoyed watching.
You have inspired me to make a baby book for our granddaughter due any day now. Thank you.
Andrea, I could watch you all day long! Love your process and the finished envelope. The layers agree fantastic. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
coming back to rewatch this is so lovely and feminine!
Hi I have watched this video 3 times today making my first envelope I am happy with the way it turned out. You have been on my mind all day as I have been working with your autumn digital kit. Thank you for sharing all your tips with us. I will be posting my envelope on fb tomorrow I so enjoy your videos,
Awesome process. So glad to hear that you don't throw away the backing on your napkins either! I use them as a dimensional background on the cards I make. Love the envelope!!! I'll be trying your techniques for adding color especially. Thank you so much for the video!!
Fabulous, this is, Ms. Andrea! Your explanations and techniques make the greatest foundation for us, many thanks.
Looking forward for the rest of the series.
Hi thanks for your videos I have learnt so much from all of you talented ladies I see you live in Mevagissey I have been there a few times and stayed at Manderlay a guest house on the hill I was going to live there in 1997 but it did not happen but would love to go back one day I love your envelopes best wishes Vivienne from Tasmania
Thank you so much for taking the time to do these videos. I bought your Altoid kits, watched those videos, loved them. Now I’ve been watching your other videos and I’ve been learning so much. I enjoy having my morning coffee with you. Going to try this although my hubby likes the smell of me baking papers, lol. He thought I was baking him something to eat.
ScaryCheri lol that made me chuckle , mind used to think the same xx
Going to use this video next Sunday and make several of envelopes following your directions, this is new for me and spent half a day Friday tea staining some envelopes, 5 just to play with and get the hang of making these lovely envelopes. Thank you very much you are so warm and full of information!
Thank you so much. Followed along while I made one and it looks great.
Hi I love how you did this envelope, stunning, loved it. Thank you. Xx🧡💐
Loved it Andrea! Thankyou very much x
So beautiful and I really enjoyed that hour watching you. It did really help.
Thanks so much for the share. I never thought to sand down the wrinkles it made such a difference and really softened the look. Loved the video thanks for bringing us the basics its such a privilege to learn from a wonderful teacher. Love your style.
Learning so much from you. Thank you! (:
So beautiful! Tfs your process. Your products are just marvelous!
Gorgeous! I love hearing the sound of the sea gulls in the background!
Absolutely Beautiful ! A real labour of Love 🌺💯🥰
Looks absolutely gorgeous!! I was really surprised at the napkin flowers, they looked way prettier on than I expected. Thanks for going back over the basic even for the not so newbies.....
Hi Andrea, so Wonderful Job thanks so much
Great tutorial. Thanks for sharing your process.
Wow, just wow!!! Thank you so much for doing this. I am brand new to this hobby, haven't actually even made anything yet, and this video was wonderful, the best I've seen yet. Now I want to make envelopes all day. It's so generous of you to share so much of your process and knowledge with us. I'll be watching many more of your videos, thanks again!
Thank you thank you thank you! After watching this video and the other envelope/snippet video, I think I finally "got it". I especially want to thank you for solving my wrinkled collage problem. Waiting patiently for #2 Back to Basics.
Great tutorial Andrea really going to enjoy this series, thank you for taking time out to share your process xxx
Nice to watch your process, Andrea
I am a newbie...so I really appreciate your time and knowledge. I watched one earlier and I learned so much. Thank you
Thank you very much. I really enjoy this charming video and the beautiful envelope. A lot of work and tender loving care that transform an ordinary thing to an extraordinary one. It is not too simple for rough one like me. 👍🙏🏼❤️
These videos are so relaxing to watch and I learn so much. Thankyou xxxxx
Love your envelope. Thanks for sharing your process!
The envelope is so gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the process.
Thank you for this series. I too am fairly new to JJ. I’m learning loads.
Your envelope is marvelous. I will try the sanding tip. Thank you for starting this series. It is just what I was looking for.
Just beautiful, you've added a little bit of magic to a simple envelope. New to this, you make it look so easy. Thank you kindly for sharing your wonderful talent.
So cool. Thank you so much for the tips and your opinions. The reasons behind your opinions make perfect sense and I found that extremely helpful. Thank you so much!!!
Love your tutorial and the finished product.😊
Although I don't really mind a couple of wrinkles, the idea of using a nail file is genius!
Thank you for sharing, this is so helpful, You are so creative!
The envelope is beautiful TFS
Beautiful, how creative 💯👍
Thank you so much for doing it from start love everything you make you definitely a Wonder Woman lol xxx
Thank you for sharing your process with us. It really helps to see you do it.
Thank You! Thank You! I LOVE your method of taring the napkin and not wetting it! And using the sticky method for removing the napkin back! So much faster! Also, for the tip to using the white background! Wonderful techniques! Can't wait to see the rest! I feel like I've been to art class! TFS - Hugs, Christal
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this series! I have just discovered the art of junk journals a few months ago and this is great! The napkins you found are ones that I would have passed right by but after seeing you use them and how lovely they turned out I am going to have to look more closely at napkins!
that envelope is AMAZING!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!!
Great video, love how you call it a proces video!
Wow! I am so inspired. Going to rummage through my napkins to see what I have. Thank you so much for taking the time to film this.💙