 Hello everyone, welcome to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming with a very different video. I do have so many beginners on my YouTube channel and I know and I read many times that they wish they know everything what I know about doing journal making. So today I decided to put together my very oldest pictures from my very oldest journals I started to create in 2014 and I hope it will encourage to everyone of you who are beginners just to continue because I was starter and beginner a while ago as well and I always love to create and I have to say when I saw today all these pictures, especially the Japanese one with samurai, it was kind of surprised me how much creative I was at the start. I do believe more skilled we are, more tools we get and more supplies we get. We are losing that beginners determination to learn and show what we can do. I do believe that more skilled you are in journal making the lazy you gonna get. I see it on myself that I'm not trying to use all my skills on my journals and I see it on other channels as well. We are getting to use only printables and stamps and that's probably it and we are forgetting to use our mediums and embossing folders and stuff like that and it's so shame. So for all my beginners just go to have a look on all my pictures. I was amazed how beautiful journals I have created and I watched when I watched those pictures and I saw all those materials and all those techniques I used in those journals that was quite amazed me and also ashamed me that I'm not using all these materials and skills I learned and I tried through to that time that I'm not using it lately that I'm getting kind of like lazy because in my mind I tried everything already so I'm gonna stick with those quick and easy you know so for all my beginners I hope you will get comfortable with what you are doing and you will actually start to be proud of what you're doing because when I see those journals now I know at that time I wasn't proud of what I made and I was thinking because I'm beginner my journals they are like nothing you know compared to those skilled journal makers but when I see those pictures now I feel like oh mine how beautiful things I did create it while ago and I didn't even realize that so please please please for all my beginners make picture of your work get it to your computer and go back to have a look on these pictures in 2-3 months maybe later and you will see you will see that difference how you will look at your work after few months you will be so proud of what you have created what do you know how creative you can be and how beautiful things you can create and one more thing I know when we are beginners we don't have all the tool which those skilled people and skill artists you are using I hope you will always find a way how to substance something what you see on on YouTube or on any other platforms on Instagram or maybe Pinterest that you will always find something what you have at home to use it in your journals because there is so many beautiful things you can find and so many great tools you can use instead of buying stuff which is then laying in the drawers and I know what I'm telling you because I do have full craft room of tools which I'm not using and more and more I do have more and more I am disappointed from myself because I'm not using those tools I'm not using those stamps dies stencils what I am using are just digital mostly and it's so sad so if you are beginner please just trust yourself that you will be probably more creative than I am right now I hope you will find lots of inspiration in the pictures I have put together I try to put together some nice pictures please forgive the quality these pictures are from my work between 2014 and 2016 I didn't add there all like newest pictures because that will be just too much I do have like a lot of pictures so if you will like this video and you will want to see more of these flip through the journals by photos I can do more videos with inspiration like this I hope you will enjoy it and I hope you will find there something what will kick that inspiration kick that creativity and you will go and have a fun in your craft room thank you so much for joining me today thank you so much for all your amazing support and wonderful comments I wish you all beautiful day have a fun take care of yourself and I will see you soon bye