 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to share with you a few collage envelopes. I truly felt in love with those small collages. I made those to use actually already colored paper. I've got inside the blue on all of these and outside I've got those beautiful book pages and I used as a base already colored paper. This is a I think it's teal that color. It's like very light blue, a little bit of green that very light, very light, beautiful color. So I made those using that already colored paper and then I was thinking why do not make my own paper? So here I made water-colored paper and today I'm coming to share with you how I'm making those envelopes and we will try to decorate one. So for the base I'm gonna use just clear paper, that printer paper, 80 grammars, just super simple paper. I'm gonna use book pages. I'm gonna use some painting. I'm gonna use this acrylic painting, but you can use the distress ink. You can use actually also water-colored, anything what will color your paper. So I'm gonna use this acrylic paint. And I forgot to bring water, which is totally important thing. So I'm gonna use my drinking water for that. I'm gonna spill a little bit of that water on my table. So what you need to do, it's make a space on your table. If you don't have glass or a table which you can, you know, use for coloring. Take some tray or put on your table some plastic, piece of plastic, where you can make like water-coloring spa. So I'm gonna put there a little bit of that blue color. Like this. I'm gonna use a brush and mix it with that color to make color at water. I'm gonna spread it all on my table. And in this water, color at water, I'm gonna dip my paper and that water-coloring makes beautiful, beautiful background. I love that water-coloring background. It always different and it makes beautiful maps and those splatters and no one paper you will have exactly same. So it's kind of perfect for artists, for some artistic artistic ending for some artistic effect. So I'm gonna just dip, dip my paper this way like this, like this. And then I need to dry that paper. So what I did before, I placed my paper on this cardboard and I let it dry. I'm gonna leave it here. I already prepared a paper, which is dry. Just bear with me. I'm gonna tidy up my table. Make sure it's clean. So I do have already prepared paper. It looks like this. This was dipping in I think in that leftover. So I was dipping like really hard. And for I let it dry and then I flat it with my hair straightener. So now I'm gonna choose which side I want to have on the top and I guess this more colored side. I want to have on the top. So for on that other side, I'm gonna use my book pages and I'm gonna do small collage here. I'm not gonna pay some huge, you know, attention which way I will put those book pages because I'm not creating any important art right now. It will be like background and I will make decoration on it. So this is just for make that paper stronger. And of course, you know, more interesting if you do have envelope where you've got two colors. I mean book pages inside and colored paper outside or other way. Book pages, book pages outside and colored paper inside. It's always so interesting. So I'm gonna use my book pages and I'm gonna cover all this sheet with those book pages. So I'm making like small collage here and I don't have enough. I like this book. These are books I read 25 years ago. And I've got loads of them. But I'm not reading them anymore. It's like nothing I want to read anymore. I think I'm not too romantic. And they were sitting in the cellar. So they've got that beautiful vintage color already which works for me, right? I'm gonna could make that paper nice and straight. Yeah, I'm gonna use it here. Just glue it over it. And I'm not even scared if somewhere it's not glued properly because I will use lots of sewing. So every single piece will be probably sewn. I'm gonna cut this to make that paper nice and straight. So now I'm gonna use my scoring board and I'm gonna score this paper to create the envelope. Oh come on. It's everything falling down. So normally I will wait till, you know, that glue will dry properly. But I guess to score. So I'm gonna create an envelope which will hold any four by six like those postcards. They are six by four inches. And if I wanna put this to envelope, I need to make that envelope just a slightly bigger. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna score here three eighths of inch, three eighths of inch here, three eighths of inch and here six and a half which will gives me that one eighth of inch a little bit bigger envelope. So six and a half and then six and seven eighths score line here and seven eighths. Then I'm gonna flip it this way. So we have three eighths of inch here and here is that six and a half and six and seven eighths. And my first score line will be four here, four inches, four inches and I need to be, you know, careful because it's still a little bit wet from that glue. I don't wanna rip it. So first is four inches and second score line it's eight and a half. And this scoring works on A4 size paper or letter size paper on any, you know, those printer papers. So that's all scoring. I'm gonna move my scoring board and I'm gonna grab my scissors. I'm not sure if you will see that. I should make it with the pencil. I will try to hold it the way where you can see those score lines. Probably this way maybe. So here I do have that three eighths of inch score line. I'm gonna grab my scissors and I'm gonna put that score line, where is that score line? I'm gonna put in, I'm gonna put where is that score line to this score line here. It's those four inches where we started four inches. So till here and here I'm gonna make a notch or angle cut like this and same way I'm gonna put this corner here on the top in angle like this. So what we have, we have this paper that here on the bottom it's like a fold. So now I'm gonna flip it this way where I do have those two score lines. Which way I can show you. This is this way. Okay so with my scissors I'm gonna start to put that not this one but this one first from the edge of paper till first cross line and here I'm gonna make that angle cut to this to this second cross line. So I will have this end here is that score line. So I will have from this first score line I'm cutting to that second score line cross and here I'm gonna continue with this score line till the end. So you will end up with two folds here. You can fold it straight away those and then you will fold this and we just create it or envelope the base and fold that last one and it's flap of our envelope. So it looks like this now. I wanna have that flap in that beautifully you know those corners I wanna have them a little bit in angle like you can see on envelopes. So what I'm gonna do this is that flap of my envelope I'm gonna fold those two corners together like this so here we've got those folds here is that shortest and this is that flap of that envelope here is the score line so about half inch above I'm gonna start to cut the angle just small angle and I'm gonna make a curve on the end so when I will fold it again those two inside fold so here I do have the envelope flap which looks like this. So I have created the base for my envelope and now I'm gonna start to decorate it. First what I would like to do is some soft stamping nothing too too bright too too you know too complicated so I'm gonna use this Prima marketing background stamp I really love this stamp it has so many different where is it script and types and fonts and I really love that so I'm gonna use for stamping and also for distressing this hickory smoke distressing from ranger it's like very dark gray it's not black it's very dark gray and I really like that effect so I'm gonna use my bone folder and I'm gonna start to stamp somehow just that soft stamping and when I'm going with my bone folder where I'm pressing my bone folder there I should have that stamping not everywhere else so here I will go this way yeah see where you go where you press your bone folder there is stamping and here and that's probably it maybe here it's kind of empty yeah like this it's good so just very soft stamping and I would like to add there also stenciling and I just bought from amazon collection of makeup brushes these they are different size and I wanted to try because I know many ladies are using brushes like this for distressing and it's true for soft distressing on bigger places those brushes are perfect and they are also for me perfect for stencils sometimes I do have very heavy hand and it was happened many times to me that because I do have heavy hand and I'm kind of pressing too much my distressing tool many times it was happened to me that I broke my my stencil that I folded that plastic material and that stencil wasn't that good anymore so those brushes are actually one of a kind like really I'm so happy I bought them and they are just normal makeup brushes I didn't choose any fancy fancy you know scrubbooking brushes and look at that how beautiful stenciling it makes you can press a little bit more to make you know darker stenciling or add there that ink more times but because those hairs are really soft so they are just sliding over your if you want to add there a little bit darker stenciling you just press a little bit harder and I am so happy I bought those brushes for that stenciling it will be wonderful I can manage much more easily where I want to place that stencil or you know where I want to make that stenciling effect so I'm gonna add a little bit more I don't know what I wanted to say I'm on oh mama really wonderful thing those brushes and they make like a tone in tone stenciling that's amazing I hope you will see that that it's not like everywhere same that they are making tone in tone I really love that effect so if you wanted some good tool for stenciling with distress inks I guess this one kind of works for you and any any those brushes you will find I think they will be same this this was very cheap no very cheap this was cheaper than those others not very cheap but cheap I will put link down below if you want to have a look but it's not like I'm working for that company or so I'm just you know I was choosing by price because I didn't know how they work so no that's all about the stenciling and now I'm gonna use my you know my usual tool for distressing all these edges I mean like this I'm gonna distress also these edges here and here and here and a little bit inside because when it will be open I want to match all those that envelope together so I'm gonna put a little bit of stenciling your stenciling distress inside so I do have that base done when it's open it looks like this so this is the pocket back pocket of my envelope this is the front and this is the flap so I will concentrate to decorate this I've got here those off-cuts and I'm gonna try to use them so first I think I'm gonna put this is you know that one of those off-cuts here is that score line so I'm gonna put in that score line just to separate it on two pieces you could hear this long strip so I'm gonna use as a first that long strip I'm gonna open my envelope and I'm gonna use glue and start to glue it down when it's too bright like this paper I'm gonna use a little bit of that black soot not too much I don't want to make it the dark too dark so I'm gonna put glue here on that blue side and here is the flap of my envelope so I guess I will start in there on the flap of my envelope gonna rip it here put it to angle distress it a little bit and I'm gonna glue this just using that stuff I've got and I've got here those strips they are from those office papers I think they are called linen papers or linen papers somehow like this so I'm gonna glue to one strip over it and I don't mind too much that if it will be not glued properly somewhere as I said I'm gonna make a sewing effect so I'm gonna use my sewing machine to secure it and now I'm gonna use those other sides so here I'm gonna use this one straight away I'm gonna fold that end and cut from the corners to the middle of that paper so I made that what is it fish tail I think it's called fish tail and I'm gonna do same probably put it a little bit longer like this and I'm gonna do same with this one but I don't have to have you know a similar pattern so one this one I'm gonna use with that with that watercolor effect I'm gonna distress this one and to give it some kind of more interest maybe I can you know I'm gonna just distress it this I'm gonna distress this small piece as well with that hickory hickory hickory smoke like this and these two pieces I need to cut it a little bit so I'm gonna use this one this line to cut it a little bit down it's too long and I'm gonna use those to decorate that front of my envelope here and I'm gonna place this small fish tail over it a little bit like this as a decoration on the top I'm gonna use again those strips so I'm gonna place one here and maybe I can put this small piece this one this one it's from that other side so I'm gonna distress it and use that small piece on the top the decoration I'm gonna use everything I can everything I can I'm gonna place it here yeah and we've got this back side so here I do have this last piece what I can do with it I like that effect so maybe I can make it in label shape I'm gonna cut those corners you know like Spetman label shape I'm gonna distress all these edges like this so for the decor yes I'm gonna put underneath those strips and this one I can place actually here because it's already with glue place it on the paper like this and I've got here few more pieces so here I'm gonna cut those corners to make them look more vintage gonna distress it yeah I'm gonna place it here which way I think it's just placing you know those off cuts those strips decorative way not sure where I will place this one yeah I can actually replace it underneath that will be good so like this and I think I'm done with gluing the base collage pieces so what coming now it's sewing and I would sewn everything all around of this label maybe all around first I will start with this small one then I will go on that bigger one this way and I will end up here I will don't sew through and then I will sew a piece here and then piece here maybe I will sew this one as well I already prepared one which has all those sewing effects to make it a little bit faster so I did use that zigzag stitching and normal stitching all around of those edges so it's just you know decorating the envelope with that stitching stitching effect where you can do as well to punch some holes here I used here I used zutter machine this is zutter bind it all and I have placed this this is the front of my envelope so this side I have placed into my zutter where are those you know those marks I placed that the front side of my envelope and punched so then I have this one those holes and to make it visible once there will be glued the flap I use distress ink to make it a little bit darker because here will be glued this flap so it will be not like a hole through but to make it you know a little bit more interesting I think it makes beautiful effect so I do have all that sewing here on the piece so what I'm gonna do next I'm gonna sew so glue it together I'm gonna put glue on those two flaps and fold it over so I do have my base of that envelope done and I have prepared few pieces to decorate my envelope and I forgot something you can also use embossing powder I think I have showed you here it's with embossing powder I made embossed effect and I think it looks really gorgeous I haven't used my embossing powders for a very long time so I use it here to decorate that background as well so you can use embossing powder and do some embossing effect I'm not sure if I should now maybe it's okay without maybe I can small one so I'm gonna use one of those La Blanche stamps because they are my favorites for embossing effect for floral or flourish flourish embossing effect the La Blanche stamps are my total favorites this this one and this one I love them so much they've got beautiful beautiful what is it beautiful design so I have prepared all I need I've got here heated up seafoam white powder I'm gonna try to make that white embossed embossed effect I'm gonna use this stamp you've got here this is anti-static powder I'm gonna dab dab dab a little bit not a little bit a lot of that anti-static powder on my envelope where I think I will have that stamping to make sure that that embossing powder will get stuck only where I want it I've got here embossing ink and I'm gonna put you know this stamp is very old so it's a little bit fault now and it's no good because when I do stamp for that oh I'm making like stamping everywhere mostly those edges place it on my envelope and try to press it properly I'm not sure we will see so now that white seafoam white and we will see how I did my stamping and I didn't oh there is nothing like literally nothing what did I do why is it not there that's all it okay I'm gonna make it one more time and if it will not work I'm not gonna repeat it I'm gonna try different okay so here versa mark so maybe this it's dry ah that was old one I've got here this this one this should be more hopefully and if that will don't work I'm gonna move on so first put a cult hopefully now and if I will be lucky enough I will place it at a similar spot like before you know where there are those layers of paper maybe that's the problem that it can't get there because of those layers I look better now it looks like it's there what's wrong with you do I have some different one I've got here some different white white embossing powder maybe it's not even because of my ink maybe it's because of that embossing powder I'm gonna give it try no not much no okay no I'm not gonna I'm not gonna continue with it so sorry I wanted to show you how beautiful it makes so we will be without embossing powder effect I'm just gonna make small layout on it I'm sorry where there is a well there is sometimes not way okay I did prepare for myself few pictures and few decorative elements I'm gonna very carefully wipe it down because it's full of that anti-static powder and full of that embossing so what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna try to do I'm gonna try to glue that my prepared pieces I've got here one picture this is from my collection on Etsy blue witty collection there are this is that is collection with birds I've got here some off-cut small labels which I had in my stuff this is label or specimen label made from book pages I've got here this number five this is die I have show it when I made those postcards I showed that die it's Marianne Smith uh Marianne Smith Marianne design sorry Marianne design die it looks like this these numbers are a really great great size I love that die it's on my favorite list of dies now and here you can see the number C like Charlie O like Oscar L like Lima 1418 so it's the number of the die and I have found it on Amazon so go to have a look if if you like the tie and I will try to do something here and what I can do and just you know some small layering lace okay so I'm gonna grab my glue and I'm gonna do some small layering here I think I'm gonna use this some way with the blue or with that yeah with the blue so to make it visible I'm gonna distress the edges of this piece which way I'm gonna place you and these labels I made from my uh scraps you know from those uh leftovers kind of ish leftovers yeah no which way I'm gonna place you I'm gonna place you place this one here of course I can see I've got also masking tapes so maybe we can add their small amount of masking just strips here and there and I like this masking tape it has very very delicate writing so I think if I will play this all right yes so here will be actually yeah what's wrong with you oh come on okay bear with me I need needle and I'm sorry I just punched the camera stand that's usual okay I'm gonna place here the piece of lace that soft decorative touch here can be yeah it can be here but I will need something underneath it's like you know that that lace has some thickness so I'm gonna use here I've got piece of card stock so I'm gonna use just piece of card stock to glue it here to make a like straight even even position for this label and I'm gonna place it right here okay especially on that here and same I will have to do now for most of my images I mean for those bigger ones which should be glued on the bottom this I'm gonna glue right here I think I will need for this picture some background steps okay I'm gonna cut it this way and here place it that way a little bit down that can work all right I think the best way I'm gonna glue it straight away to that picture just make sure that I'm on a right yeah right corner here and now I'm gonna put a glue here and in this corner that corner will probably sit on there like this and I've got this teeny mini small label here teeny mini small label here on the top of that and this I can slide underneath I thought was good choice actually I totally forgot about this this small piece I will place you here so this I'm gonna slide slide slide both those pictures and here I'm gonna use that specimen label and glue that specimen label here and the number five yeah maybe this way or I can place it this way and number five here I like those steps you know when pictures are going in steps but no no no I wanted to have it here yes there and number five it's kind of shiny so maybe I can try to match it together I've got here alcohol not alcohol sorry acrylic acrylic doubles this is espresso so I'm gonna start with espresso and I'm gonna just dab dab dab a bit of that espresso acrylic paint on that number five tool oh this is too long and I thought it will be like quick quick quick it's never too quick quick quick then I'm gonna use this white one or this is picket fence distress paint and I'm gonna do same I'm just gonna you know dab dab dab here and there not too much just like this and I'm gonna heat it up so it will get settled and that piece that number five is cut out of metal canum which I glued on a serrally piece on serrally box and here now it's too hot I need to wait because it's metal you know it's metal so it's kind of hot and I'm gonna just here and there not to those edges that the blue and the blue it's distress paint broken china I'm gonna show you how it looks like I'm gonna zoom so it looks like this it's really uh like very rusty piece so I'm gonna glue that down right here and I think it will be done up sorry again I'm gonna take my glue and if I will come come with another decoration maybe I will you know that embossed powder effect it's so gorgeous and I I know it will look amazing here but unfortunately you saw that sometimes you know it doesn't work the way we want so this is my sharing I thought it will be shorter but yeah it is how it is I hope you did enjoy it I hope you will try to do your water colored paper and maybe some collage on that paper it's so it's so amazing when you see how it grow up those those things we learn from each other so use them on making some projects it's so amazing when you can use all that stuff you have and I have to start to use everything I have because I've got so many so many and I'm mostly working just with paper and glue and that's so shame sometimes I'm editing you know of course distressing some editing all the time sometimes I'm editing what is it laces but mostly I'm working just with paper and I do have so much amazing colors and all that stuff so this way hopefully I will try to use it all ever again or all over again so this is my sharing for today I hope you did enjoy it thank you so much for visiting me thank you so so much for all your amazing comments have a wonderful day take care about yourself and see you next time bye