 Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel is Eva from Bohemian Crafting. I was thinking for two weeks what I'm gonna share with you and I have to be honest with you lately in my mind it's all about Christmas. Look at that, I do have everywhere just Christmas stuff. So I was thinking maybe I will come up with something what can be used for junk journals as a junk journal maker. I love to create journals yet not around Christmas time. I know Christmas it's far long way but maybe I have something what can be used for both. So today I'm gonna scrap one of these old envelopes and I will try to create a gift box from this and I'm gonna be sewing today because I love sewing more and more. I'm learning sewing from many channels. I'm watching on YouTube so there will be sewing. We're gonna create something from this. I need a long piece of cardstock so I'm gonna be cutting this envelope here and in some nice width here. I'm gonna tell you first I'm gonna tell you measurement I think these are inches. So in inches this is 14 inches or in centimeters it is 35.5 centimeters. This fold it is in inches 10 inches and in centimeters it will be 25. 25 centimeters. I'm gonna cut my envelope. First I'm gonna cut off this folded edge so I'm gonna start here from this point this I'm gonna cut as a first that will be my left over and I'm not gonna count that. From that point I'm gonna cut six inches first which means here all that strip then from this point I'm gonna cut a three and a half and I think I was wrong with my measurement. Where is half on this one? Yeah I can't see that. I think somewhere here. Is it half? Probably. Okay three and a half which means here and from this point I'm gonna cut one and one quarter. Yeah one and one quarter somewhere here. So these strips and I will have really nice long strips if you will imagine this open later. I will have nice long strips. So I have managed to cut these pieces from my envelope. I'm gonna tell you one more time six inches three and a half and these are one and one quarter one and one quarter all these strips. These I'm gonna move aside for now and this one I'm gonna take. I'm gonna cut from this long strip two small ones. So here I'm gonna cut straight with that edge because I know that is straight. I'm gonna help myself with the ruler here and now I'm gonna measure seven inches here seven seven and I'm gonna cut these two at once, lay it flat, put there my ruler and cut two pieces seven inches long. You have my two cards seven inches long and those three and a half in the width. Now I'm gonna take scoring board and both of these cards I'm gonna score on three sides these two long and one of these short half inch. Half inch, half inch, half inch. I'm gonna do same on both of these cards. I do have my scoring done. I'm gonna take my cutting mat and I'm gonna take this tape any kind of tape which has curve and I will try to find some scoring tool. I found this scoring tool. It does have bubble or bubble on the end. You can use a knitting needle. You can use maybe tweezers or like empty pen. I'm gonna place my the curved shape on the edges of kind of like if you will imagine this way. Here I can see my scoring lines so this and this have to be pointed together with that curve and I'm gonna score with my scoring tool that curve like this. I can see there and I'm gonna do this on both of these cards. Place it here, match it here and score that curved line then I will grab my scissors and kind like follow in that half inch distance that curve and same here like this. I'm gonna do same on that second card. I do have prepared my both cards with that embossed curve and with cutted corners. It's all for now not actually all. I'm gonna flip it over and I'm gonna take cheesecloth and glue the cheesecloth from this side. I'm gonna be using this cheesecloth is 90 grade. It's nice and thick and I'm gonna fussy cut out around and remember you don't have to go to buy straight away this cheesecloth. Maybe you do have some old clothes which you don't want to use anymore. I'm gonna be actually using t-shirt for the main cover so go to have a look. Maybe you do have some old clothes and you have there something that doesn't have thick material. Just use it. Don't go buy straight away something which are because I am using it okay. I just wanted to give you options otherwise I would be using here that's t-shirt as well but I wanted to give you some options. If you do have cheesecloth you can use cheesecloth. If you do have old material old clothes use that. Scrub anything you can for the craft. Then fussy cut out the fabric around your envelope like this. I do have fussy cut out the fabric around and I'm gonna take my sewing machine and I'm gonna be making sewing or stitching kind of like inside around my embossing or that scoring line or not embossing. I do have my stitching done and now I can take scissors and with my scissors I'm gonna cut this curved corners just to that score line. Just few cuts around that curve and that's it and again here just to that score line not to that stitching just to that score line like this. So I can fold it this way and it doesn't make you know it's not hard to fold it this way. I'm gonna do same on that second piece. I do have my side pieces done now I'm gonna move to this long piece that large one six inches in the width that first I cut it and on this printed side I'm gonna keep this because it's nice and clean. On this printed side I'm gonna be using this old t-shirt just because it's nice and big and I believe I can find here big piece of fabric which will cover all yes definitely if you don't have old clothes maybe you do have old pillowcases or window blinders any kind of fabric will be good really trust me I'm using old fabric old handbags old t-shirts old pillowcases for such a long time and they always make perfect craft materials. So go to have a look what you've got at home and use what you have I'm gonna cut the piece which I need ish and glue it on this printed side and I totally forgot before I will glue it I want to do same corners I did here curved corners so I'm gonna be using for all four of them I think this one I'm gonna cut a little bit down because it's ripped off so I'm gonna move for a minute my fabric I'm gonna cut this one slightly just make nice straight edge now with my tape or you can take I don't know lid from glue anything what has you know curves or you can take paper punch if you do have large curved paper punch take that I'm gonna take my tape and like before from the edge to the edge and then draw the curve and then I will fussy cut out again from the edge to the edge draw now I'm gonna take my scissors cut out these corners and then I will glue the fabric on I do have all that piece covered with that t-shirt fabric sorry for my finger I do have new scissors and they are unexpectedly sharp so I just slight a little bit I do have that piece covered with that fabric and now I'm gonna sewn all around about half centimeter from the edge stitching just decorative stitching and also catch the fabric to that paper I do have the piece covered with the fabric and sewn around I'm gonna take my three pieces and I'm gonna decorate them I do have here these beautiful guys they are from creative expression these and it's called Celtic Collection Keira and there there are two dies one with that swivel and one kind of like a web edge around I'm gonna glue two of them to the sides this will be my inside where there is the fabric so to the sides here and here and one I'm gonna choose which side of this will be the flap I think this side will be flop so here I'm gonna glue it in the middle like this I think it's dry enough I'm gonna take my kind of like base piece I'm gonna flip it the way which will be pocket this will be flop with that decoration so this will be pocket I'm gonna get up uh those two small pieces and I forgot to cut one corner so this will be on this side this one will be on this side so I'm gonna get up one place it to that corner where it will be sewn much the sides take a pencil draw this shape here that corner then cut it off I'm gonna take that second piece place it the opposite corner and do exactly the same so now I can take bags or I can just put there a little bit of glue here and glue it down I do have them here don't want to move it too much I'm gonna take my sewing machine and I'm gonna start to sewn here right next to that score line I'm gonna start to sewn through to both packages and as I said this is inside of my back this plain side will be outside and again with the fabric here it will be inside of my back and I'm gonna do just straight stitching here so I do have sewn my front pieces on that rest I'm gonna take sewing double-sided tape and I'm gonna put double-sided tape on these edges on each of these cuts I'm gonna place piece of double-sided tape I also placed a piece of double-sided tape here and you can actually use double-sided tape on all all around and just glue it you don't have to use the sewing machine that was just I wanted it you know I'm in sewing right now so I do have there my double-sided tape then take your double-sided tape off and we're gonna start to place it together so I'm gonna hold my paper and I'm gonna fold this the way that I will match the edges and press and now these I'm gonna press around so I'm just gonna make an order and press it just lay them flat and I'm gonna continue here I'm gonna fold these inside they will go like last one fold this go with this paper and match the sides like this and now last we'll go these lay them flat like this can take my bonk folder and press if there will be any over edges especially in these curves I'm gonna take my scissors and cut it off I do have glued both sides I also took my scissors and anything what was peeking out I tried to cut this side it's nice and straight and here I do have still a little bit of leftover so I can take my sanding you know sanding tool and sand it a little bit to make it nice and straight I'm gonna take my sewing machine and with my sewing machine I'm gonna try to get you know as far as I can and just do straight stitching here with kind of like double or triple stitching here on the edges just to make sure here it will hold really nicely so I do have that stitching here and here and so far I do have nice nice back so now I'm gonna take those two strips oh no first I'm gonna take acrylic paints actually I didn't want to paint this one before I will sew it because I didn't want to mess up with my sewing machine you know to sew something what is painted with acrylics I'm gonna take acrylic paints and paint this all over and this can happen when you are quite hurry to mix your own color and you don't pay attention so I do have lots of color which I actually didn't finish to the tone I want on my table so I'm gonna use it and then I will somehow finish it with the tone I wish I need to be careful here so this should be a little bit more darker and I don't want to have that paint inside so I need to be really careful around the edges here and on that opposite side but rest I can paint paint like very fast I guess especially now when I do have all paint around my table so I'm gonna spend some time with the painting with this kind of like I'm gonna call that basic color and then I will come back once I will start to add colors which I want so I do have my two coats of that painting done and I think it's dry I do have here a water brush with water and I made from black acrylic paint from this one I made kind of like watery watery mix so I'm gonna paint it inside and a little bit around just a little bit more darker my box it's dry the colors so I stuck it with empty boxes in the you know in the size I want and I wrapped around this one it's not like decoration it's just holding my box closed I already prepared one of these strips one and one quarter of inch in the width and I glued on the box on one side that same fabric I glued inside that t-shirt fabric because I really like that fabric it's good quality and then I cut two pieces from that other strip one and one quarter so I cut it two strips I forgot how long I think one and three quarters yes one and three quarters two strips from this strip and I glued them on the same fabric just you know with this facing out and I'm gonna do it one more time with both strips that I'm gonna glue this one here oh sorry this one from this side so I will have covered both sides with this fabric and this one I'm gonna glue here so I will have from both sides this white fabric I do have both pieces wrapped in that fabric first what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this kind of in the middle of that white piece and I'm gonna make a mark about half centimeter from the edge here and about same here and same from that opposite side now I'm gonna cut slot here and I'm gonna give it a try if I can go through with this and the other one so now I'm gonna take my sewing machine and oh not yet now I need to measure how big piece I need here so I'm gonna just wrap it around and measure up I actually need this one so I'm not gonna cut it down I'm gonna use this piece I'm gonna use this piece as it is on my sewing machine I'm gonna sew around uh both of these pieces just straight stitching I do have my two pieces sewn around I made this one slightly shorter because it was just too long so I made it the way that they will meet here and I can use the eyelets and make it like wrapping with the closure so first what I'm gonna do before I will put them together I'm gonna pull out gold color I've got here this is um I believe chalk paint shabby chic chalk based furniture paint in golden color it it's just beautiful color antique gold and it works so well on papers on fabrics not just on furniture so I'm gonna apply this gold on the edges on all three pieces actually you do have the eyelets fitted I'm gonna try to slide because I forgot to slide it in before I added those eyelets but hopefully it will be okay one side other side yeah here we have golden dot but I think that's okay I do have the belt and I do have here my snowy paste it's a mix of white acrylic glue pva glue sand aquarium white aquarium sand and a little bit of glitter but the glitter got lost so I'm guessing the sand would do what I needed to do so that's my homemade snowy paste and I'm gonna add this snow on that buckle bucket buckle and I'm gonna let this dry it will dry till tomorrow maybe even longer it takes a time but in the end it always looks amazing so a little bit of snowy effect and now it just needs to dry and this is how my box looks like the closure here it can be filled even more I just don't have there too much stuff you can just slide it down open your box plow everything what you've got inside it can be perfect box for journal perfect box for Christmas gifts and I think no one will guess that it was made from old clothes and old envelope it looks like leather I have to say those three coats of acrylic paint does the magic and all that shading it did work really well so I'm really happy with how it turns out so that's my sharing for today I hope you did enjoy it thank you so much for visiting me today thank you so much for spending your time with me have a wonderful day take care of yourself and I will come back soon bye