 Hello and welcome everybody, it's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and welcome to my mess on my table. I am working on this Christmas journal and I was thinking maybe you would like to join me. I need to finish front and back cover insides and I was thinking I'm gonna create some pockets because otherwise it will look quite plain and also I'm missing some small decoration, something like clusters like I created here. So maybe today I'm not sure if I will do clusters as well but I definitely want to do some of these pockets and then probably clusters so we will see. I did create this journal and the base of that journal it's same like my Halloween folio. So if you watch that tutorial or tutorials that there was 5 videos where I was creating that Halloween journal the inside is exactly same, I just added to every those quarter gaps I added writing papers and also the cover I created kind of like just half cover that second spine here and flap here I didn't create that, I created just that base here. But the rest is exactly same like it was in that Halloween folio so if you watch that you know that it's following exactly same tutorial, if you didn't watch that you can go to have a look and you can use any kind of papers, the papers of your like and create some journal with many openings and if you will some writing papers to those gaps, quarter gaps between pockets you will have really beautiful and very big writing journal for Christmas or for any kind of occasion and I'm gonna create some of these pockets. I've got here these gorgeous papers, I will have to have a look if I do have front cover, I don't remember the company, I think it is Dawcraft Red Robin Collection but I'm not sure if I do remember that right but I really think it's Dawcraft Red Robin Collection so I do have here my offcuts from making that basic in my journal I do have here few types of envelopes and I would like to create even here, I would like to create some kind of multi-opening because I just love that, especially on Christmas theme journal it's like when you're opening your gifts, you know that that waiting and that excitement what else you will find, so it's always amazing so I'm gonna grab few envelopes and I will try to put some kind of layers using these envelopes some stack of envelopes just you know to make a layer and then I will put them together you could here also this big envelope, maybe that will be also good to use you know to create another pocket like large pocket here I would love that so on the base I will use this large envelope because it's actually fitting nicely to my page and the rest I will create from these three envelopes and create some multi-opening here and for decorating those envelopes I'm gonna be using the same papers I used in this journal and also book pages, I love to use book pages they are always looks nice no matter what kind of theme or you know the time related to the journal it's always looks amazing so I'm gonna start with layering first and then I will reinforce these envelopes I'm guessing so this first one it will be in the spine but I do have here quite large pocket with big space here between folding and between entry to that pocket so I can place it this way it will be not hard to get into that pocket so first I'm gonna glue this to make sure it will stay folded so this one I'm gonna actually glue to with a book page I guess kind of like extend that envelope and glue it together with this first one with the book page to have entry from this side not from here but from this side I'm thinking so first book pages inside to make sure that my envelope will stay still will don't get ripped off so I'm gonna put some book pages, glue them inside and reinforce the envelope with it it doesn't have to be covered all the way because I will use decorative papers on it later on it's gonna be actually like this and then I'm gonna place the glue and my sons are actually excited that I'm gonna be cooking or cooking the baking again I didn't bake for a long time because I was telling them that I'm gonna be fat you are not eating all these cakes and stuff like that and then I am eating it only and then I'm getting fat you know at Christmas time I am allowing myself to eat those cookies so I do have reinforced this one and now this envelope and as I said I'm gonna be using envelope for gluing it together with this other envelope so first I'm gonna cut the book page slightly smaller right here I'm thinking that that will be exactly what I need I'm gonna fold this this will be glued anyway so it's okay if I will fold it now I wanna create same entry or draw some entry like I do have here on that envelope so I'm gonna slide it in and draw that pattern oh not with white one that will be interesting this one and I really hope this year will be snow through the Christmas time I know that in Montana I think it's already in Montana it's already snowed in I think my dear friend Evie she wrote me a message that they are already snowed in that's quite amazing you know I love snow I'm not sure if I will love it this year because of all that crisis with gas and heating so hopefully everything will get sorted I don't wanna get freeze but I do love snow especially on Christmas time everything looks peaceful and so quiet and nice and sparkle you know and when I'm talking about Evie Evie's page she does have YouTube channel and she does have also Etsy and if you haven't visited her Etsy lately I was so lucky to grab one of her gorgeous journals so if you didn't see her Etsy yet or you haven't been there now go to have a look Evie does have new stuff on her Etsy and her journals are gorgeous really gorgeous so I'm waiting for my beautiful gorgeous journal from Evie where I will place it this way I'm gonna glue these two together with that book page and from this side I think I'm gonna just reinforce it for now with medical tape it's very transparent so it's perfect to cover these spots because it's invisible kind of ish and it's holding really nicely hold it okay see I'm glad I'm trying that now because this envelope it's longer than this envelope so I will have to think about that in that case I will place my small envelope not over the edge but on my large envelope and this okay I'm gonna do it slightly different way than I thought this I'm gonna glue here over the edge well now I know what I want now I know what I want for Christmas I don't know actually I'm not sure what I want for Christmas so this will be here and this will be here okay first I'm gonna decorate that large one these snowflake papers they are so lovely so first I'm gonna make a mark and cut the paper in the slightly smaller I think one quarter of inch smaller then is my envelope so I know I can fit in it I'm gonna cut the paper right here so I do have cut that paper in the size which I can fit on my envelope and I realize that because I didn't see this bigger than my the envelope before I can now create an extra pocket which is quite great so what I'm gonna do I'm not gonna cut this paper in the size which will fit here I'm gonna cut it slightly shorter I think about one inch shorter yeah about one inch shorter so somewhere here somewhere here I'm gonna cut that paper and I'm gonna create another pocket because there is never enough pockets in my journals they are always like big surprise even for me so if I will do this one here I'm gonna cut the entry again so again I'm gonna slide the paper inside just that edge go on go there like this draw the pattern and cut the pattern here if I will find my scissors ah there they are so cut the pattern here and I will have to use this stress ink for these papers a little bit more than for others because the background of these star papers it's quiet wide which is not matching too much the rest of those papers so here I'm gonna be using a little bit more of this stress ink so I will put the paper this way and therefore I can glue the envelope underneath the envelope will reinforce this edge of that paper so if I will glue that envelope to that paper and then glue this decorative paper just on these three sides glue it down that way I will have entry from here so I'm gonna start to distress all my pieces and I'm gonna be using again ground espresso distress ink and distress actually all edges on all these pieces so I do have distress edges on that large envelope and on these two pieces this is that off cut and same like before I'm gonna be using it I mean before I mean that Halloween one I'm gonna be using it to decorate my envelope here so use my stuff right use any kind of off cuts and leftovers to decorate that rest and here you can see how much better way the paper looks together with the rest of the bowl I place it under my magazines so all these papers are in vintage style and these stars were quite like too bright so with the distress ink it's getting much better together so here will be this one and I'm gonna make a mark for myself this way and I'm gonna distress this spot a little bit more to avoid you know bright very wide bright shining that envelope through once I will have there the pocket and here I will have decorative paper as well so I have this one and here I will have this one and now these envelopes so I have distress these two envelopes as well from both sides and here where I will have my kind like flipping and flapping here I would like to create frame on this the envelope on this large one so as a background I would like to cover the window which is going to that envelope so here on the top I'm gonna be gluing this this book page and then always in this empty one and then I will create from those decorative papers I will create some frame so the book page will be somewhere here I'm guessing by size right here and cut off any kind of excess and I'm gonna distress the edge here as well it will be probably invisible because I will have there that frame but to make sure it's all matching I'm using here this nail file just to sand the edge of that book page to make sure it's nice and even with the edge of my envelope and now I can choose some paper so if underneath will be the red one so what I'm gonna use for the frame there will be the red one so for the frame oh it can be nice to have green frame I'm gonna be using this paper pardon me so from this paper I'm gonna cut the piece same as it is my envelope here can just slide it there and use my scissors here scissors cut the paper around and now I can cut the window in that paper and I think I would like to have kind of like decorative window but I don't have dye which will make the decorative window so it will be reinforced with the acetate sheet inside anyway so I'm gonna fold it half draw some pattern I'm thinking something like this some waves and so I do have this piece and I do have very strange frame so I'm gonna reinforce it with acetate sheet I'm gonna put that acetate sheet on all that piece so I did reinforce my frame with acetate piece and I put acetate piece on all that space here and for decorative element I did sewn all around with zigzag stitching and before I will glue it down I also added a double sided tape on these three sides so entry to that frame will be from here so this one will be kind of like closer for that frame and before I will glue it down I do have here these hole reinforcers and I'm thinking to decorate also corners oh come on decorate also corners with eyelets but before I will put their eyelets I'm gonna use these reinforcing circles distress them first with that ground espresso distress ink well I think my ink this is the ink I'm using quite often so right now it's quite dry so I can go with full pot I will have to re-ink it I can put these reinforcing circles into the corners so it will be kind of like another layer they are not too much visible but they will be visible I'm not sure if that makes sense it will make another layer on my frame something small but decorative hopefully I place them ish straight so now I can punch the holes fix those eyelets and then I can fix that frame on my envelope eyelets and because I will be gluing it down on double sided tape I'm gonna also squeeze those eyelets with my players to make them really flat like this from both sides so I do have all my eyelets fixed and I'm gonna also add one of these labels I got from Etsy even on Christmas time we do have work especially on Christmas time it can be Santa's workroom so that's gonna be yep this can be right here and I'm gonna glue it to my envelope I'm gonna lift up this one to make sure I'm not gonna go with that frame over the fold so I will be able to close this envelope I'm gonna click it this way place my frame right here it's holding nicely I'm gonna flip it over this will be glued here so here on this panel I'm gonna use exactly the same paper kind of like continue the pattern so I'm just gonna cut the paper in the size I need and glue it down this I will do just very simple just glue it down I just gonna glue it right here I added also that zigzag stitching all around no it's good to touch it and it looks quite cute like all around and I can always add there some decorations I did add the zigzag stitching around these three sides here as well so I'm thinking I can already glue it glue these two together I'm gonna do glue there don't play don't play too low don't play and I can glue it on this spot so I'm gonna grab my glue here this end I'm gonna cover with medical tape just to make sure that it will be not on the way when I will slide in and out some inserts that medical tape holds really nicely and it will cover beautifully the edges of that envelope and that book page so on these three sides I'm gonna put the glue will be glued right here I've got here this part which I can glue right here so on this end I'm gonna add same paper like I've got on that envelope here so I'm gonna add same paper here just the piece I need to cover the spot between edge of my envelope and entry to that pockets from here and of course match it all together I'm gonna distress this small piece with that ground espresso and then I will make that sewing effect all around and I'm ready to go I'm ready to glue it right here so then I will have entry to that pocket from this side I will have pocket here frame here another pocket here where it will be pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket on the pocket and we will create few more I'm gonna glue this small piece here and on the top something I've got so many of these offcuts okay this one not actually the pocket I may go use one of the postcards wait this is too big that's so shame I tried to do my Christmas like card you know I'm so terrible with cards but I'm trying and I have to say that I do enjoy it to create cards I love this picture so I'm gonna cut the postcard and use the postcard and under postcard I'm gonna be using the book page because I do love book pages and I think it will look amazing on this spot so all links for things I'm using if you can buy them somewhere I will put links down below I will also try to have a look if I will find this collection but as I said it's probably 3-4 years old collection not on the market anymore okay oh yeah he will be gorgeous on that pocket first I'm gonna grab my book page cut the book page and of course I'm gonna add stitching on both these pieces because I love that look well I actually decided to go on that book page with my beautiful washi tape and add there the frame using this washi tape because it's really gorgeous washi tape I like that writing and I think it will look amazing so I'm gonna add the washi tape I will add the stitching on the Santa or Saint Nicholas and that will make my kind of decoration on that front so if I will I will like it much more with the writing all around so I'm gonna sew it together I'm guessing so that inside I'm gonna add the glue glue it here and then sew it on the edges of the Saint Nicholas so I'm gonna be using this one as another pocket and I'm gonna add the glue on three sides and that way I'm gonna create top loaded pocket using this picture so some tag I can add inside with small nodes or maybe weekly planner tag or shopping tag some small nodes right here so it will be opening this way pocket here behind opening that way pocket here and also yeah pocket here I forgot here we do have envelope pocket here and pocket here pocket here so first I'm gonna add book pages into that large envelope and kind of cover this sticky sticky side another one put it here so maybe it will be even good if I will use only wash a tape I'm gonna give it try actually maybe that will be not bad idea if I will put wash a tape here okay it's got stick so it belongs there wash a tape and then I do have which one I'm gonna use I'm gonna be using this this is very teeny more no I wanna have quite more visible which will be this ho ho ho if I will find the end ho it's here summer there you go so this will be kind of finishing the look of that flap hopefully it will go well we will see I like it, I like this writing all around it's going quite nicely together so I do have my opening here come on hold opening here pocket opening here and pocket and pocket and I would like to have something here this is too red so on this spot this is also from I think three years ago when I made coffee coffee packs so I do have few leftover maybe I can use that or just this this year I do have so many wash a tapes so I'm gonna be using many wash a tapes strip of book page because I do have book pages everywhere so strip of book page then my wash a tape some kind of color maybe lace could be nice to add there that softness some numbers because I like numbers I like the look of them on my projects and maybe from this post post marks something maybe some gray one because there is too much red yeah I'm gonna go with this gray picture I just will slide it yeah behind that behind that lace that lace it's quite beautiful so I'm gonna slide that post mark behind that lace a little bit up where it's up there you are my little snowflake she doesn't wanna go there so this one and maybe one small one on the top small one here and I'm gonna keep it this way just to calm down a little bit that red color and I think I'm done with this so now I can add it to my journal I'm gonna just have a look that will be really nice here yes I will like it here so I'm gonna add on all the background I'm gonna add the glue to make sure all that envelope will get glued properly nicely so first I'm gonna add the glue with this glue stick and to the end I'm gonna add this liquid glue to make sure that all is covered with glue just place my Santa Santa Nicolas right here and I think that's all what I will do here gonna have a look if I can slide my first postcard or Christmas card here I can actually look at that how big it is so I can slide it from this side to that pocket or I can place it to that envelope which is totally different and bigger pocket perfect and here I do have Santa Nicolas here I will have space and so many other pockets and I think I'm done for today this was quite quite longer process I believe that video will be very long so that's all my sharing for today thank you so much for sharing your time with me today, thank you so so much for joining me if you like this video please give me thumbs up, subscribe to make sure you will get another sharing from me share my video with your friends and on your social 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