 Hey everybody, if you follow me on social media lately or you've been paying attention on my YouTube channel you know, I'm obsessed with making paperclips and This is just a sampling of the ones I've made lately stored in this little storage book Generally these ones that are in here are a Three inch paperclip. I think yeah, there are three inch paperclip Decorated On the front side these are sort of Mixed media assemblage type Little works of art And I've already done a couple of videos on these how I do the paper clips inspired by Lollipalooza and people over in her paperclip art Facebook group which I will link both in the description below both Lollie's channel and the Facebook group So I'm not going to show you how to do the paper clips today But what I am going to show you is how I made this little storage book I posted the little storage book and I got so many comments on it And so I'm going to share with you how I did it. It's actually very very very simple As you can see it will hold A 16 paper clips Yeah, 16 paper clips and these are again the three inch paper clips. They're pretty dimensional I've made some that are more dimensional But these are pretty dimensional and it will hold fairly comfortably 16 paper clips Does it poke out a little bit? Yes But I have this elastic hair band that I put here like this and that keeps it closed nice and closed And it fits nicely on the shelf now This is what it looks like without the paper clips in it. This is one that I haven't put anything in and you can hear it yet Hasn't been broken in yet So this is what it looks like I'm going to show you how I did this now You're going to need a reader's digest condensed book. That's what I use to make these the cover It's a nice size cover. I remember to grab a ruler It's a nice size cover that measures Seven and one two three four five sixteenths no five eighths, sorry by about five and eight to here and Then the spine is about one and three-quarters inches ish One and a half One and a half so the spine is about one and a half inches I think that's a good size for not only storing your paper clips, but maybe you're going to do a swap with somebody It's kind of a nice thing to fill it up with paper clips and then mail them The whole book full of paper clips that would be cute and then you could just store them on your bookshelf Now I didn't do anything to the spine Will I later maybe I kind of like the idea that it's sort of a hidden little collection of artworks on your on your Bookshelf nobody even knows it's there until they go to pull it off and maybe read it and realize there's no book guts in there It's full paper clips So I'm going to show you how I did that I went back to the thrift store and I got another Readers digest condensed book. This is a little this cover on this one's a little bit different You can see that these have This fancy paper and this one doesn't have that which is fine But the size and the spine are the same They're the same size So the first thing you're going to do when you get your book is we're going to cut the guts out So you're going to need an X-Acto knife or a straight edge And we are going to go here Okay, we're going to go in here and We're going to slice carefully the paper here Lightly gently you don't want to cut through the book spine. You just want to cut the paper That's holding the book block in the text block. So just go slow Pull this doesn't hurt to pull the cover back Just whatever you do. Don't cut the spine See the first one's usually the hardest one to get out Now with the next one you can just sort of pull all of this business out of your way until you just see the paper so if you like to collage with text or Print on text like with your jelly plate then this comes in handy If not, and you don't do any of that then you could just put this in your recycle bin. It is paper So it's recyclable What we really want is this part So I'm going to let me grab a pair of scissors and I'm going to clean up this a little bit To get rid of some of this drag we bits. There we go Okay, that's a good start So now we're going to take some of this canvas Messy canvas and we're going to just cut a piece That is the width here of the spine from fold to fold or crease to crease plus about another inch Very straight Okay, that is not straight in the least a little bit. So let's straighten that up Shall we these aren't my fabric scissors and I'm sitting down, which is a funny angle to cut fabric But there we go That's better. Okay Now we want to have it be about the same Length as this fancy paper inside the book cover. So I want to cut it to about there You notice I'm not measuring anything, right? I will be but You can just eyeball this. It's fine. That's good. That's close enough All right We need a garbage can holy cow already. We're only like two minutes in The next thing we want to do before we do anything else is we're going to fold this piece of fabric in half Give it a finger-pressed crease and Then mark not with that use a pen Darken the dark in the the crease with a pen Then you want to measure out from that fold About a half an inch On either side then connect your two line two little marks With a straight edge and you want that your piece of fabric to look like that Set that aside Okay, now We're gonna get to the pages the signature So to make the signatures inside of our paperclip storage book We're gonna use file folders. These happen to be black file folders. I had them so I used them They worked out really well actually and you want to cut so we're gonna cut The main part of the page to seven and a half by Five and we're gonna preserve the fold here. We're gonna preserve that so That part's kind of important oops bump the camera Okay, so I have this Cutter and this is nice because I can set this Two seven and a half I'm going to put the fold of the file folder up against the guide back here Push it up tight Push it up square this way So now we have this Then we're going to change this to five And we're gonna put these in this time our fold is here against this guide And we're cutting off the extra width remember. We're preserving the fold so don't cut the fold off. It's important So you should be left with something that looks like this Okay Then we have those two scraps That have the fold right Let's cut those to five Again preserving the fold Put that down for safety. We have these two bands and this is what the paperclip slides on These bands are two inches So we're going to move our guide to two inches or they're about We want to take our short pieces preserving the fold We're going to basically cut them to two inches So we have two I'm sorry four of these pieces You want these two pieces That again are seven and a half by five and then you want four of these That are five by two Now if you're going to do a tag Um, you could do these the same way but the positioning on the page and the way you're going to assemble It's going to be a little different which I will show you and some of it's going to depend on how big your tags are Because you could use you could do this with tags. All right, then the next thing we're going to need is our book cover our piece of fabric our pages And some book binding tools. So I have some cording Just wax cotton cording. It's nothing fancy I'm going to use my book binding cokey tool And I have a book binding my favorite book binding needle in here in this little this is a um Accessory kit that came with a book binding tool that I have but I like keeping my basic book binding tools in here It's very I've found that it's very handy. So All right Now I'm not one for measuring this part. I just go for it. But if you're a measurer by all means do that I'm going to eyeball this and I'm going to pick the center Poke a hole I'm going to go in about halfway between that center hole and the edge And I'm going to poke another hole And I'm going to do the same thing on the other side And then I'm going to take this other one and do the same thing. I'm not measuring anything. I'm just eyeballing it Nobody's going to see this Nobody's going to know. All right, I'm going to take our cording back off the nice long piece write our needle I really should put my glasses on for this So I can see what I'm doing, but it'd be a little sharper if I have my glasses. So hang on just one second Okay glasses are at hand Alrighty So now we're going to go into the center hole of one of our little folders And we are going to line Our folder up with our fabric making sure that Any part of it that hangs over the edge on the top and bottom is equal distance From here and here that they're they're eyeballed. They're about the same Again, just eyeballing you don't have to I mean if you want to measure it by all means, but you don't have to So I'm going to just hold it in place And then I'm going to use a little binder clip I also have the fold up against that pen line that I made I'll show you in just a minute Okay So I have that About centered vertically and it's up against that pen line I've got the needle sticking in the center hole. I'm going to poke it through the fabric And pull I'm going to leave I don't know a couple inches two three inches on the inside Then I'm going to pick one of those outside holes And I'm going to go up through The fabric on the pen line and then through the hole in the paper Pull it tight hold this so it doesn't pull all the way out pull it tight though Then go out the other hole and make sure the needle's going on the pen line Pull kind of tight and then go back up into that center hole This is your basic pamphlet stitch So go through the fabric and then I'm going to put one And if the thread under this center String on one side and the tail end on the other side. I'm going to pull tight And then I'm going to tie it in a knot Twice and then I'm going to trim it down There we go When you're done Should look like that So we're going to do that to the other one and the other one's going to go over here on this line So again, we're going to line it up and this time we have Besides eyeballing the top and bottom space also make sure That this edge lines up with the paper that you already the page that you already sewed in And then hold it down open it And use your clips to clip everything together There we go Repeat the stitching process that you just did the same way Just like that Now you have something that looks like this Yeah, okay, so before we put it in the book Now we're going to assemble our page and then put it in the book Which is the opposite of how I did the first two by the way, but this is easier if you do it this way So do as I say not as I do All right, so you're going to need some double stick tape You could glue this if you don't have double stick tape, but the tape is easier You don't have to wait for anything to dry So put a piece on one side on the top and bottom And then along this edge push it down Back in paper up and then close the other side of the page and push You've just sealed that knot inside and created a double double strength layer of Folder cardstock So we're going to do the same thing to the other side. This is easier So you're going to need two of your shorter pieces for each page You're going to put the fold over this taped together edge And you're going to position it so it's about a half an inch from the top and a half an inch from the bottom Approximately that was pretty good eyeballing on my part, but that won't happen twice push oops Push it down pretty firmly And then put a binder clip to hold it in place like that Then we're going to take some more of our double stick tape And we're going to put it on this short end You probably could do this before you put them on here Now that I just thought of that that's probably a smart idea I think I thought of that when I was making any other two and then I just forgot Oops Okay, then once you have the tape on there Press it in good and then remove the back of paper And push it down and do the other side and remove your binder clips And you have a page with two bands on it with with which you can hold paper clips now If you're going to do tags Then you probably want to put a piece of tape here to hold it on this edge But then you probably want to put one across the bottom to make it a shallow pocket that you can just slide the tag in And if your tags are big Then you might only be able to get one band on each page for your tags So that's an idea. I actually had late last night on these two Let's be smarter about this and let's tape these up now It's always the last one that doesn't want to come off. There we go Okay, take your clips off And now you have something that looks like this With the bands Yeah, but now we've got to get it in here So we're going to glue it in So this is where you need something like yes paste and you need some a bunch you need four binder clips um The big ones are the best clips and I use these really only for doing things like this Watch me only have three That would be like so typical All right, let me see if I can find one more. Hang on got some in the spares drawer. Okay, you're going to need Four of these bigger ones. I really only use these for things like this, but they do work really well for it Um, and you're going to need a really strong glue that doesn't dry too quickly Something like yes paste Um, but pva glue would work but something that's going to hold this Canvas in securely because this canvas is what's holding your signatures in your cover So you want something that's going to be pretty secure so We need a palette knife And my yes paste which I hope I can get open. Oh, yay. Hey, that was way too easy It's usually not that easy mine's getting a little bit thick Uh, yes paste is water soluble. So I'm gonna Put some water in there Just mix it up a little bit just thins it out a little bit, which is fine Makes it a little easier to spread so I'm going to spread it on the spine and about one inch out on each side of the cover front and back Now these pages don't have a right side up They could go either way. So when you glue it in you don't need to be worried about which side is up and which side is down Doesn't matter Have a wet rag or a baby wipe handy This paste is really sticky and you can Wipe off What gets out everywhere. I'm really Okay, there we go So now we're going to take our signature signatures our pages and we are going to Eyeball it again where eyeballing it lining it up with the middle Yes paste takes a long time to dry So if You don't get it placed exactly right the first time. It's totally fine This is where before you get too far into it do yourself a favor and put at least one of these On each page so they don't fall down and get pasty and icky I'm going to grab a clean palette knife And I'm going to push the canvas into The paste on both sides Any parts that seem like they don't have enough paste There's nothing underneath there You can grab a little bit and put it under there Okay, and I can do this and check Looks pretty good looks Can't see looks pretty good Push push push it into the glue. This takes a long time to dry So once you get to this point you're going to want to let it set overnight to dry Because it's going to take a while to dry Before you set it aside and just let it dry you want to Take a baby wipe and wipe away any glue that's sticking out anywhere If you've gotten some on your pages wipe it off before it dries It it won't stay sticky once it dries That's how you know it's dry all the way with yes paste. It's not sticky anymore While it's wet supremely sticky stuff If you've worked with it before you know exactly what I mean. So just take your baby wipe like this and wipe away any Yes paste is just out in a place where it shouldn't be Okay, then take your other two binder clips and put them Like this and it What they're just doing is they're acting as a temporary stand for the pages to hold the pages upright While everything dries once it dries you're good to go and you are good to See a little bit of glue You're good to store your paper clips or fill it up with paper clips and share them with a friend So once it's dry It'll look like this And then you can fill it up with your clips and you're good to go It's exactly how I made this one So I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do to store your paper clips and or share them I think it's a cute idea and these little these books aren't so big that they take up a ton of room In your library or your art space. They are just the perfect size. I think so that's all for today If you want to join lolly's um facebook group or watch her youtube channel and see what she's doing In regards to art and her paper clips. I will link both in the description below. I am So excited by her group. It's keeping me Very inspired right now and I don't see me stopping making paper clips or tags anytime soon It did lead to me making art tags, which is something I've done before Um, but I had set aside for a while and her paper clips re-inspired that so I'm doing both at the moment Um, but it's a lot of fun. So I will probably be selling The one that is full of paper clips I am going to go through and sign said paper clips, which I haven't done yet And listing it in my sd shop if you're interested Um DM me, uh either You can use my email address, which is in The description of the video or you if you're friends with me on facebook or over in one of the art groups with me You can message me on facebook And ask me about it. I have not listed it yet and I have to take the paper clips out and sign them all Um, but I will probably be selling that. I'm continuing making paper clips And I do let go of them reluctantly but because I love them, but I do think I'm going to sell that I may sell these two extra covers too. So again, if you're interested, let me know damn me. Um What else if you want to follow me on social media and see what paper clips I'm making or tags or whatever other creative things I'm getting up to every day Um, or support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups You can definitely do that and I welcome that Click on the link tree list of links in the description below And when you do that, you're going to find a whole bunch of places where you can find me on the internet So check that out. Don't forget to like share and subscribe go over to loli blues's channel and show her some love and That's it for today. Go out and have a great day And do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys