 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting back again. Today I'm coming to share with you my first collaboration, sorry for my voice, I don't feel well last few days. I kind of signed up for my first collaboration ever and I already screwed up and I'm really very sorry for that. I a little bit messed up with the dates, my video for this collaboration supposed to be posted at Saturday. I forgot to check out this list, I didn't receive properly notifications, it's just because my computer doesn't work really well with Facebook. I'm going a little bit late with my project for this collaboration, but I would like to to you to have a look on all these channels. This is collaboration hosted by Rachel, Rachel is owner of YouTube channel Rach and Bella Kraft and here are the names who are going to be making project for this collaboration. And this should help to new channels, new artists in our family to get more views to get bigger audience. So please go to have a look, I will put down below link for Rachel's channel just to make sure you know where to go for all informations. I'm going to quickly show you what I have created and I also have for you tutorial for the base, for this journal, how you can make the base. I didn't film how I am decorating the base with the pages but you can imagine that, just glue pages on the base. So we have been provided with digital kit in boho style, I found myself that I'm not too good with boho style with so many colors. So I choose blue line of the papers which were provided to us. So I'm going to open my little journal. This is by the way kind of inspired by those crossbody bags which should have here on the bottom those tassels. So I think I'm going to just be quiet and quickly show you what you can expect as a base. Those papers have been provided by Rachel as well. So this is the cover and we do have there this little journal. You know it is made from file folders and there is so many openings and I really love the cascade of these pages. And it's very easy, it's very easy and there is so many pockets. So this is what I have created. I know this needs to get a little bit some kind of tuning to make it the way where it can be called boho. I found myself that I'm not too much into that too blinky style. It's just something that I don't know how to do. So I hope this creation it's good enough to call kind of on the way to boho style. I have to say I did enjoy very very much to create with these beautiful papers. They do have gorgeous colors and I'm so happy I did join this collaboration. You will see there are so many beautiful projects and there is so many names I already know. So I can't wait to see their projects for this collaboration. And as I said I'm very sorry for delay with my project. Now the tutorial will come and as you will see it's really easy to follow. I hope you will enjoy it and you will have a fun. For creating this beautiful file folder journal you will need to take four pages. You will need to take four of file folders. I'm going to be using two file folders with this middle tab and two file folders with this side tab. These you can cut straight away in the size seven inches. So move it on seven and cut it. Keep this for your tabs. The file folder with this middle tab. If you want to keep that middle tab in the middle you need to cut this file folder. The folder is eleven and one quarter eleven and five eighths of inch long. So you will need to cut it two and what is it? If you want to have the size equally so between two and one quarter and two and three eighths. And cut. And again from that opposite side again flip it and move it between two and one quarter and two and three eighths. Just between them and you will get seven inches in length. So with this cutting you will have base seven inches here. So once you do have your file folder scattered in the size you just need to start to fold them and that folding is really easy. You're going to grab the side which is shorter and you're going to fold this longer part to the middle. Like this. Take your bone folder and burnish to make that fold nice and crisp. Flip it over and now this one you're going to fold exactly much this fold here. And burnish. With that you do have beautiful cascade of pages. You're going to grab next one and do exactly same. Again with that longer side on the shorter side of your file folder, a longer side of that cut. Just fold it to the middle and that opposite side much the fold you just created. Same is with these in the middle of the folders you're going to grab this shorter side and fold these longer edges to the middle. Flip it over and then much fold you're going to create now with the fold you created before. So you do have your top pages done. Now if you don't like these sharp corners just grab your paper punch and punch these corners. I'm going to be using this middle corner punch and punch all these corners. From the left overs you can create your extra tabs. So measure your foldings and then decide how long tab you want to have. I would like to have here about four and a half tab plus half inch for gluing on the base which means five inches. So I'm going to grab my yellow team cut five inches long piece from one side cut five inches long piece from opposite side. This I can use in the middle, sew it in there in folds. So this one can be sewn maybe here and create another steps. And these I'm going to grab this corner, take my scoring board and on that five inches it's here. I'm going to score half inch here and that I will use for gluing this piece somewhere in my miniature. Maybe like this. So I'm creating kind of like cascade. Same with this one where there is this decorative edge I'm going to punch the corner on that opposite side. This is five inch side and again I'm going to score half inch which I will use to glue it in my base somewhere. Maybe here and create these steps. For creating cover for your journal you're going to cut, I'm going to be using the file folder with this middle tab. And I'm going to cut, I'm going to tell you three and one eight, three and one eight from each side. Let me tell you three and one quarter. And just make sure, yes, three and one quarter from each side like this. So I do have a base, I'm going to place this base for cover on my scoring board and I'm going to score. So the tab is on the zero, my first scoreline is on four, four and one quarter, four and half, four and three quarter and five. Then I need to move this last scoreline on the zero and I'm going to score here seven and half, seven and three quarter, eight, eight and one quarter and one more, eight and half. I nearly forgot. So this will be back, backside of my cover. Here these will be kind of like top and bottom spine. And now how to put all these together? So I do have two file folders with these tabs up. I would like to have one file folder with the tab on the bottom. If I will flip it this way, I will don't see this cascade from here and I would like to see that actually. So I'm just going to fold everything the opposite way like this and then I do have it. You have one on the top, one on the bottom. I would like to have one middle tab as a first and then one middle tab as a last like this and all that between here. These are going to be added to my journal here and there. So these I'm going to zone in maybe right here. I think on this one where is short page. Yeah, I'm going to be sewing there one of these. These tabs I can use here to create cascade. One here, one here. And I do have one more of these. So first is here, second with this short is here. So I'm going to place it in there and I do have two more of these five inches long. So one going to be here and another going to be here. And I'm going to quickly show you how you can put all these together. So you're going to take your small tab, put the glue on this hinge on this fold and place it on the spot. You want to see it maybe right here so you can see the cascade. Then you're going to take your second. This is going to be sewn here and this one. Again put there a glue and glue it where you would like to see it right here. So then it's making the cascade here. I'm going to sew this. So just choose the fold where you want to sew it and sew it in there. I'm going to do same here. I'm going to glue this right here and sew this one here on the bottom where I will see that cascade later on. This cascade. So I'm going to place it here, poke the holes and just with easy sewing sew it together. And with the last one I do have here this tab. So I'm just going to put the glue in there. Place it right here and glue it. Now put these together. It's quite easy. You will just glue them side by side with the front to the back of that previous one and you will just put them together like this. So you're going to put a glue. First you need to glue this middle fold and create top loaded pocket. By that you're going to lift up one side. You know this is top of my signature page. This is top. This is bottom. So I'm going to just lift it up. Put the glue here and here and place it down. Then put the glue here on these three sides. Here, here and here. Grab that next like backwards and I'm going to place it there. Match these ends here like this and glue it together. I'm going to lift up this one. As you know we didn't put glue here yet. So again put the glue here and here. We are creating that middle top loaded pocket. And now I want to glue this one. So I'm going to put the glue here. On these three sides here, here. Grab this file folder with the top on the top. Here I do have top on the bottom. And I'm going to place it on that previous one. Again I'm going to match the bottoms and glue it together. I'm going to take last one with the top in the middle. Again it's that harmonic. So you can either glue these middle top loaded pockets. You can glue them at the first separately on each of these folds. Or the same way as I'm doing it here. So glue these two together again. Glue here, here. And here. Place this one on the top. Match the bottoms. And then don't forget that middle pocket. Just open it. Put the glue here. And on the bottom. And fold it down. That way you have created your... Yeah it needs to dry. And I think I forgot to put out. I forgot, see? It will show you if you forgot to put somewhere the glue. Or I did put but not too much. It needs to dry. So do not get the rush. But you will have one, two, three, four top loaded pockets. And you will have booklet like this. With nice cascade. With many pockets like this. With beautiful openings. Then you just will take this base. And of course I will decorate everything first with papers. I will do my sewing and all kind of decorating. Maybe some embossing. And after that I will start to put these papers together. I'm just showing you how you will put the base together. So once you do have decorated everything. Decorated pages here. And glued them together in the book block. You're gonna take this book block. And here it's good to create kind of like larger pocket. Kind of like top and side loaded pocket. So you're gonna put a glue just on the spine side. Here. And on the bottom. And just try to imagine this is already decorated. You're gonna glue it here between your score lines. And here you just need to have some closure. Decorate it the way you like. And you do have done beautiful decorated file folder journal. I hope this was inspirational. It's very easy to do. And it's so much fun. And this cascade of pages. It looks beautiful in so many styles. So I hope you will create your own file folder journal. And that was all for today. Thank you so much to all of you to stepping by and spending your time with me. Have a beautiful day. Take care of yourself. And I will see you soon. Bye.