 Hello everybody. Welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting. Last few days I spent with organizing and moving furniture in my craft room. And I'm far away from to be finished. I still have lots of things to organize. And right now I'm inserting my stamps and I was thinking maybe we can do some craft together. So I'm gonna swap my camera, move to my table and maybe we will do something beautiful. So right now I am digging in my Tim Holtz stamps. And I was thinking I didn't use them for a very long time. And to be honest I never did kind of longer video with stamping. So I do have here this very, very cheap mini notepad. And I use that notepad few times to add these papers into my journals. And today I was thinking how about if that rest I will turn into mini something. Maybe just stamped book probably. So that's what I will work today. It does have really very fragile cover. It does have very fragile papers. These papers are from very light paper. These sheets are from very light paper. So it's nothing strong. And I will probably use also the glue to glue them sometimes together. And I will use those Tim Holtz stamps. And I would like to show you few techniques I learned. I'm not using them often because I'm still not very strong with my stamping. But I'm learning. My son Jacob, he loves stamps. He sometimes is crafting with me and he's amazing with stamping and I'm learning from him. So those techniques which I am trying to show him, he is then kind of teaching me how to do it properly. Or how to do my stamping properly. Because mostly I do all kinds of smushes all around. And he told me that I am too hard on my stamps. That I press too much or I move my hands while I am stamping. And that's not good and it's really funny that I do share those techniques with him and then he's teaching me. So today I would like to show you few techniques and maybe create something really beautiful from this cheap notepad. First technique will be semi-transparent stamping. Kind of like layering stamping. I'm not sure about exact words but we will use stamps. We will use clear embossing powder and create kind of like see-through page. For background stamping I'm gonna use this beautiful stamp. This is Papillon collection. I do believe it's very old collection. For that background stamping I'm gonna use Ice Spruce Distress Ink. Because I would like to use clear embossing powder. I'm gonna use this anti-static pillow. It does have anti-static powder inside and it's perfect when you need to make sure that your background paper will don't catch any embossing powder where you don't want to have it. So I dabbed that anti-static powder on it. I'm gonna use this beautiful butterfly and for my embossing effect I'm gonna use this stamp and dose. This is clear embossing ink in the bottle. I have to say that I am using this one now the most often. Because I found it very easy to use, always juicy. And now clear embossing powder. And because I did use that anti-static powder this embossing powder should get stick only on these butterflies. I'm gonna use my heating tool and melt that embossing powder. And as you can see that embossing powder got melted. And if I will leave those papers you will see that these butterflies got kind of like semi-transparent look. And it's just because those papers are very light and once that embossing powder is melted through that paper it does get this semi-transparent look and that's perfect. I do have in this bottle mix of Distress Ink. I have used Teedye Distress Ink. And I think I used also Ground Espresso a little bit, quite a lot. And I mix it with water. These two Distress Ink Reinkers or Inks. So I'm gonna spray that. And now with cloth I'm gonna take off here and there that water but not all of it. And I'm gonna dry the rest again with my heating tool. So it's dry now and on the opposite side I will use Distress Ink Broken China. And just with full ink pad I'm gonna kind of slide that ink pad very softly. I'm not pressing too much, just very softly. And again I will use my mix of Teedye Ink and do exactly same like before. So this is how it looks like now. I do have that semi-transparent look. I do have there also blue color in those butterflies just because it's semi-transparent and from that opposite side when I slide it, when I slide that Distress Ink pad it left here and there some kind of ink so it does have those colors see through. And my paper get loose a little bit so I'm gonna just rip it off and place it over there. I will put them together once I will have more papers finished. And because this clear embossing powder make this semi-transparent technique I'm gonna show you also another technique how you can do from very cheap paper kind of like fake vellum look. But first I'm gonna stamp a little bit that paper. I'm gonna be using another stamp from Tim Holtz and do some stamping. So I did my easy stamping and I also Distress that page with Ground Espresso. I'm gonna rip it off straight away because for this technique I need to have just this sheet and I'm gonna be using this Fragrant Wax, Fragrant Wax. It's this one fresh linen and it is for refreshing grooms. But you can use candle, you can use any kind of paraffin. I wouldn't recommend to use baby oil which I heard many times that ladies are using for this technique baby oil. I wouldn't recommend that because baby oil doesn't get dry. It will keep your paper still oily and it will also kind of move that oily greasy feeling on another paper so I wouldn't recommend any kind of oil. The wax, bee wax, these paraffins, candles or furniture wax these are perfect because they do dry and you can just wipe any kind of excess with the cloth and your paper will be clean and dry. So I'm gonna use these. First I'm gonna wipe a little bit on my paper and I will be using heating tool to melt that wax on that paper. If you don't have a heating tool just preheat your oven, wipe a candle or this Fragrant Wax on the paper and place the paper in your oven and that wax will get melted. To spread that wax evenly I'm gonna be using this brush which I am using all the time for my, for this folks volume technique. I'm gonna just spread that wax on my paper and I will also kind of wax the other side as well. Once you have that wax on all of your paper you just need to take some cloth and wipe any kind of extras from your paper that will also bring more transparency to your paper. And it's better to stamp it before this technique because then that stamping is permanent. Yeah it's permanent, it's the right one, it's permanent. So any kind of extras and I do have my second page and if I will place them together you can see a little bit those butterflies underneath. But because I would like to have their more visible page I'm gonna take another paper and do another stamping and because I am in that blue brown color I'm gonna be stamping first with that light blue. So it will be just that background and now I'm gonna stamp over it with this espresso truffle memento. And I do have kind of like an offset, I think it's the right word, that I didn't place the stamp exactly so I do have kind of like shadow behind. So I did all my stamping, I also sprayed the paper with my mixture and I used also that broken china distress ink for this paper. And I'm gonna take another one and this time I will use stencil, this is a stencil from Studio Light and the name is MaskMB02. I will put all names down below for all stamps and stencils. So I'm gonna be doing kind of like stamp in stencil. So first I'm gonna apply ink. So for this technique I'm gonna keep that stencil and paper as they are now. I'm gonna take a stamp and stamp through the stencil. Now when I do have that stamping down I'm gonna take my stencil out of it and I do have stamping and stenciling at the same point. I'm gonna flip it over, place my stencil back and just with brush to kind of like, you know, brush off all that ink in the background of this paper. Now I'm gonna take my inks and just, oops, just easily wipe that ink on the edges and I can use my spray and kind of match all these papers together and dry it with my heating tool. I do have here another paper and for next technique I would like to use the stamp and gold foil. This is foil for hot foiling. So it's very soft and it's easy to transfer that foil. And I'm gonna use strong PVA glue. This one is a really good one and this dabbing tool. I'm gonna add a little bit of that glue on my dabbing tool or distressing tool and it's good if you will have prepared something that you will immediately clean your stamp because this depends on glue which you will be using. This one it dries very fast and I don't wanna mess up my stamps. So I'm gonna add the glue on my distressing tool and I'm gonna dab, dab, dab, dab, dab that glue on that stamp, the stamp on paper. Do not stay there for a long time otherwise you will transfer the paper on your stamp. Then take the foil and place it over that glue nicely. So I'm gonna clean my stamp and clean my table and also wipe out a little bit of that glue from this one. Then take your foam folder and try to press the foil where you put your stamp. Here is quite intricate stamp so I hope it will transfer nicely. And we're gonna give it a try. And I do have golden gold foil ink. I know it's kind of distressed but for my vintage look it's perfect. And now I can stamp around and do some spraying to kind of match it all together. So I have made few more papers and I also glued two papers together and then folded them to some kind of base pocket and then did stamping. I do have this way four of them, always double layer folded and some stamping all around. And I do have here also double layer of paper and some stamping on it and I will create another pocket. I like to use my sewing machine so I will add there some sewing here and there. And then we will move to the cover. So before I will put together these pockets I would like to go one more time back to that gold foil. I'm gonna take glue stick and I just wanna try if that glue stick will also hold somehow that gold foil. So I place that glue stick here and there, not evenly. And I'm gonna cover this paper with that gold foil. Well I do believe it will work. Look at that. Good. I'm gonna let this dry and I'm gonna take my pockets. So I do have these two, these two and this one. So this way. And I would like to create closure. Today I'm gonna take as a closure these beautiful buttons, sorry for my hands, that's my stamping everywhere. I would like to take these beautiful buttons and kind of use them as a closure on my pockets. And for that I'm gonna take just paper punch and cut the circles. So from cardstock, from some old craft envelope, that heavy one. I cut one inch circles and I already sewn one button to that circle. On the one button I will leave long string that will be as a closure. The string which I used for sewing that button to that cardstock. And that I will glue on the top of my paper. The other one I will sew just very easy way. So I'm gonna take that one which does have string and I'm gonna go right here. The other one I'm gonna glue on the bottom. That will create closure for my pocket or for that booklet or something. Same way I will create those closures on those other pockets. So I do have sewn the buttons, I also glued them on these pockets and the pockets I glued on these three sides to the background paper. So that way I do have opening here, it will be like side pocket. I can open these totally so it can be like writing spot or like another holder or pocket. This is exactly same. Here I do have bottom pocket which I will sewn onto this paper with my sewing machine. And this I do have prepared once I will sewn this as a flap with my sewing machine like this. I can now take my prepared closure, put that glue on that bottom circle and glue it on the right spot so I will match that bottom circle. This one with the top one on the kind of right spot to find the right spot and then I can close my pocket. And here I do have these two last two folded papers and I would like to use them as a pocket. So first I'm gonna sew these two sides on each of them like this. And before I will glue them on my paper, I'm gonna put weight on the flaps so these flaps will hold down. And for that I'm gonna grab my paper where I put that gold foil. I already ripped that gold foil from that paper so you can see how it looks like and I really like that. I'm gonna use again broken china and my mixture. I do have my strip of paper color a little bit more than those address but it's still very fragile paper and I would like to use dies. I would like to use these dies from some pool. These are creative expression. Graph dies by some pool. Here is maybe some... Shabby basics. Whale tail tuck I guess. And I'm gonna use these two dies and cut these shapes. So for that to make it a little bit more stronger I'm gonna glue it on another paper and make a little bit more thicker paper from this one then I will use those dies. So I do have here my little collection and I really love the look of these. Look at that. That golden stripes, that golden imperfection makes that perfect. So I'm gonna grab these tap pools or I'm not sure how to call them and I will glue them right on the edge of these pockets and I also used this is die from Elizabeth Graph dies and this is from collection 1736 Reinforcement Variety Pack. It's from Planners Essentials. Elizabeth Graph dies. Wonderful collection of those Reinforcement kind of Holore Reinforcement. I do have these taps fixed on the edges of these two pockets. I also put two taps on the papers on the sides and those smaller Reinforcement I placed like decoration here and also here and here and here. You know on spots. Now I'm gonna use my Gropo Dial, push the holes in those Reinforcement and where there are holes here in those taps I'm gonna fix an eyelet. So I do have fixed eyelets and on these eyelets I will probably just hang some decorations. I've got here these stars. So maybe, oh yeah, maybe stars. Do I have more? I think I do. What I was thinking I do have here is these stamped circles but I do love those stars a little bit more. So I'm just gonna hang them there. And yeah, I think that will be cool. So I do have my pockets and I'm gonna take a glue. I do have here one of these stamped sheets. So here I'm gonna put a glue on these three sides. Oops, come here. And I will place it. I'm gonna go from the bottom. So I will have my pocket with pockets. By page with pockets. And I do have here that leftover from that sheet. I did cut also these three labels. Maybe I will just add them to the pocket. I'm not sure. I did use those dies from Tim Holtz. They are new one. Vintage labels, very easy word. Okay, vintage labels, new dies from Tim Holtz. So I did use that to cut these three. And it does have that beautiful embossing effect. I really like that. So maybe I will just add them to one of these pockets for now. And here I do have that leftover. So you can see that Elizabeth Kraft's die made beautiful kind of like template. So I'm gonna just cut this here. And maybe I can use it somewhere just like decoration. I like to use kind of like negatives for decor. So I think I do have a lot of things prepared. Which I can add to my new mini notepad. You do have so many pockets. You do have pages, decorated pages. So now I'm gonna grab that cover. Which that notepad had from the start. And I will have to extend it, I do believe. So I'm gonna kind of destroy it right now. Then I will put it back. But right now I'm just gonna rip it off, this one. So for altering that notepad cover I do have here this beautiful fabric. I'm not sure about the right name of this fabric. I think it's called Muslim, but maybe I'm wrong. I do have here clear embossing powder. I do have here my altered shoe wax or shoe polish, liquid shoe polish. I add there just black acrylic paint and mix it well. So now it's like black shoe polish with a brown background. And I do have here Nuvo acrylic painting. This is mushroom color and with my brush. So first what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna cover both these pieces with this fabric. I'm gonna use for that just glue stick. So I do have both cover from one side with that fabric. On this soft front piece I'm gonna use this Nuvo painting. It's really beautiful kind of like very warm gray color. It's called Mushroom. It's like gray mixed with pink. It looks that way. It has kind of like pink background. So this painted piece is now nicely dry. I'm gonna take my stumps and I will do some easy stumping. I think like this. Tips this way. I'm gonna use embossing stamping ink pad and stamped all this. But before I will use that embossing ink pad. First I'm gonna use my anti-static pouch or this one. This, what is that pillow? And make sure that once I will use clear embossing powder it will don't get stuck somewhere where I don't want to. I do have stamped those images. I'm not sure if you can see the shadow of my stamping. I'm gonna use that clear embossing powder and cover all these images with clear embossing powder. And of course use heating tool and melt it. Finally melt it. Now I'm thinking I use two complicated stumps. I will see. Maybe I should use just some easy stumps like this one. Here with that writing. And I'm gonna wipe my altered shoe polish over that image. And I will see what's gonna happen. So I'm gonna keep this one the way it is right now. For that back cover I'm gonna use just ground espresso and just slightly go over the edges. The rest I will do once the journal is all together. So I do have front cover. I need to put something here inside. So maybe one of these pages will be good to use. And from that I will probably start with all the rest. So I'm gonna put pages in some kind of order but before I will glue them I will take a glue. Add a glue on this piece of fabric. Fold it over the edge here. So this will be kind of like finished. And now I'm gonna take one by one of these papers. This will be first one. I do have here that eyelet. Not this one. Maybe something without an eyelet. Maybe this one. And I'm gonna glue it to that front cover. It will be journal which is going lift up. So I'm gonna take my first page and just place it right here. And I will also try to make it straight but if I will be not straight to be honest I will don't mind that much. I've got here this medical tape. It's perfect tape for gluing pages together because it's strong and it holds really well. So I think my second page will be these two pockets. So first I'm gonna place it right here to match these two together and glue it from this side. And here as you can see that medical tape is very transparent. So it doesn't cover that gold that much. I'm gonna lift it up. And I'm gonna take another page from my composition. And I think that can be these butterflies. And I will do exactly same. With this gluing one page on that previous one I'm gonna put together all these pages. Lift it up. Make sure here they do look kind of similar. And I'm gonna take this one and again glue them together. So I did glue that last page. I'm gonna take my back cover and I'm gonna use this shorter piece. I'm gonna put a glue on this rest from that top cover. And I'm gonna also put a glue on that fabric here. That fabric goes on my page and this chipboard. I will glue it straight to the edge of that last page. Like this. Now just flip it over. And first make sure I'm on the right spot. And just flip it over. Hold it down. Make sure it's all sitting nicely. I'm gonna check it one more time. Yeah. Now I can cut this one a little bit shorter I think. Kind of same size fabric around. And now I can open it one more time. Take my brush. One more time ground espresso. And I can go a little bit more on these edges. Once I know how big they will be. Like this. On the back cover here I can do some stamping. Or I can place there some background paper. If I will want so. But this way I do have decorated mini notepad. Using mostly my stamps. And some inks. And it looks like this. It does have pockets. It does have decorative papers. It does have those eyelets where I can hang maybe small tacks. And I have to say I did really enjoy that. So this is my small creation for today. If you haven't used your stamps for a long time go to Dick in those drawers. In those baskets. I did it for two weeks but I also removed furniture in my room twice. It was exhausting but I'm so happy I did it because I saw again how beautiful stamps I do have. And it's great motivation to see what tools you have. And it's a great inspiration. So this is my sharing for today. I hope you found something inspiring. I hope you will try to pull out your own tool. And to do something beautiful using simple notepad. Thank you so so much for visiting me today. Thank you so much for spending your time with me. Have a beautiful day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.