Johanna Johanna hey guys welcome back to
my channel and welcome back to the next
episode in the nameless art journal
series we're gonna be adding some beads
and some charms to our journal binding
threads that we left long in the last
video so this is going to make
everything a little bit more tactile and
it's gonna give it it just kind of
enhances all the senses because it has a
sound it has a feel it looks pretty and
you can add really interesting pieces
just by tying them on with some simple
knot so I'm so excited for today's video
I think you guys are gonna really enjoy
this process Before we jump in there I
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video so in this video I'm going to be
showing you how to add some beads and
charms to your binding friends and this
is actually going to be quite a quick
video because it's really simple it's
there's not actually that much to it
once you've got your strings on your
journal which you should by now if
you've bound your book we're literally
just going to be adding beads and charms
onto those threads and so
it's important to have your strings nice
and long to start off with because we
can always trim them when we're finished
have all of your little found objects
and beads all together before we start I
like to pull things out beforehand so I
can see how they look alongside each
other and then we're just gonna start
choosing strings to add beads to it's
really as simple as that and start
threading things on I like to add
buttons I like to add beads I also like
to add any found objects so here I've
got like a souvenir spoon I've got these
little scissors that aren't sharp which
is kind of important I've also got
little sewing spools and washers and
just random things I found around my
house and from my craft rooms use your
creativity to pull things together
anything that has like a hole you can
thread through or something that you can
tie a string around nice and tightly all
we're gonna be doing is is adding our
bits and pieces on by threading them
through the string or tying them on with
really simple knots so you can add as
many beads and charms as you like to one
piece of thread I usually like to just
do the top part of the thread so that
the end has some some thread hanging off
it I don't like to be it all the way
down to the bottom but you could add as
many beads as you want you can feed all
the way to the bottom of the thread if
you wanted to I like to just sprinkle I
hope I'm calling it sprinkle but
sprinkle a little bit of charms here and
there onto each thread so that
everything sort of hangs in a way that
complements each other as a whole
instead of looking at one string as as
one embellishment they kind of come
together to embellish the book so you
have to look at all the strings as a
whole once they're finished which is why
I like to just do a little bit of
beading onto each thread and all you're
going to do is add your beads and your
charms by putting them through and then
tying off simple knots whenever you are
finished with that thread so sometimes
you may have to tie a knot two or three
times to make sure that the bead isn't
going to come off the end I like to
finish with a very very small bead on
the end so that I only have to do one or
two little knots and that holds
everything onto the string with things
that you need to tie I like to just as
you can see with my scissors I took two
threads
I tied them together around the scissors
so that it had that extra bit of
strength to hold it on so tying the two
together just makes it feel like it's on
a little bit firmer I did the same with
the souvenir spoon and you can see that
the knots that I'm doing are just super
simple knots I'm just tying the string
around itself tying it nice and tightly
and then either double or triple
knotting the same thread so that's not
gonna come undone just make sure that
it's not going to be able to slide off
whenever you are attaching to the book I
like to do some beads at the top and
some beads that hang a little bit lower
or lower down on the thread as I said
before because that you have to kind of
look at it as a whole I like things to
sit in different positions so that when
they're hanging beside each other they
really complement each other and your
eye can kind of just move around the
charms if that makes sense so there's
really not that much to it I'm literally
just I literally just thread on my
buttons right on my beads and tie them
off and make sure they're not gonna be
able to come loose or fall over the knot
you may have to get creative with your
knots and how you thread things on
depending on what object you have but
just really make sure that everything
isn't going to come off by threading and
tying however many knots you need to do
with my little bottle here I'm again
just tying some knots are really simple
knot around the top of the bottle
because of the shape of the bottle it
isn't able to slip off so I just do like
a double or a triple knot around the top
of the bottle and that just keeps on
really well what I really like about
this method of adding charms to the
journal is that easy and quicker than
using like jump rings and chains and
things and also you don't have to have
jewelry making skills or jewelry making
tools you just need to be able to tie a
simple knot which is kind of why I
started doing all of my beading like
this because all I had to do was tie
knots on two strings and I really much
prefer to use my hands when I can rather
than using a tool I feel like I have
more control so I really just like to do
my beading like this I like the way that
it looks as well and
also really like how easy it is to add
to this so if I decide I want to add
something else to this journal in say a
year's time I can do that
really really easily so that's basically
you guys super duper easy if you have
any questions leave me a comment down
below I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and I hope that you are enjoying this
series make sure you get your charms on
this week so that next week we can start
using our journal and again you guys
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for stopping by my channel today and I
will see you in my next video bye