 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming with a small idea for those who like to create journals and who getting stuck on how to name your journals. So here I do have a few ideas and this will be like freebies for you. You can download it. The link will be down below if you would like to use these names and create your own book plates for your journals. First, I need to create some kind of book cover, which I don't have right now. I am going to use this serali box for that book cover. I'm just going to open it and cut it in the size I want. I would like to create kind of like the Traveler's journal or Midori size journal, journal cover only this time. So I'm going to cut it to the size eight and a half on the how tall that book cover will be. And here I'm gonna cut the sides five, then spine, I guess one inch and then five again. So first I'm gonna cut this side of that box. I'm gonna use my paper guillotine. If you don't have paper guillotine use a knife and ruler and cut this off. Now I'm gonna measure from one straight side down there eight and a half inches and I'm gonna cut that rest. So eight and a half is here and here I'm gonna use my ruler and knife and cut this off. So I do have this size eight and a half. Now I need to create that front and back of my cover. You can use this side of your serrally box like a spine of your book. I don't want to have this big spine. So I'm gonna try to find the middle and fold it in the middle to find the middle of that small small spine of the box. I'm gonna fold this together and press it here. So here I do have a middle of this part of the box which will be the spine of my book and from that middle I'm gonna measure half inch on one side half inch on other side, which will gives me I'm gonna make a mark. Here you can see if you are cutting with knife and you have wooden ruler. How it can end up. So I do have half inch on one side and half inch on that opposite side from the middle of the box side and I'm gonna fold this over the edge of my ruler and that will give me the spine of my book cover. Here on one side and here where I do have those other marks lift it up and I'm using here bone folder to make it a nice and crispy. You can use ruler or the other side of your of your scissors a little bit fold it up then fold your cover this way where is here is it this way where you can see and make sure you can see the spine you just created and burnish here that line is the middle so on that opposite side make sure these sides are matching this one and this one and burnish or with your scissors burnish So here I will have new spine of my book that rest. I don't mind because I will wrap it to the papers and it kind of get invisible. So from this side I'm gonna measure five inches from this side I'm gonna measure five inches and I'm gonna cut that rest off. Five inches from here and five inches from that. I think I'm gonna use my pencil a little bit make visible my fault and as I said it will be covered with paper so I don't mind that there is now some jaw ink and I'm gonna cut this one off and this one off. I do have base for my book cover. I'm gonna take some old paper this paper came with some Amazon order I received and I'm always saving those papers because they are brilliant to use for creating book covers. So what I'm gonna do I'm gonna use a glue and glue from both sides this brown paper from this side and from that opposite side as well So I do have my brown paper from one side. I'm gonna fold it over the edges I'm gonna fold it over the edges and glue this down and I'm making this one a very easy way because I would like to get vintage look so here I don't have to be exactly because I will cut the corners anyway make them look more worn. I'm gonna cut a little bit those top corners now just a small amount really very small amount from those corners I want to have kind of vintage look and I'm gonna use my bone folder because this is serrally box and I don't trust the long time long time keep the shape or keep the you know keep keep all together So I'm gonna reinforce my serrally box with a fabric that fabric will also make vintage look of my junk journal or not junk journal junk journal cover So this is the spine I will have here I'm gonna use the cheesecloth could hear this beautiful 90 grade a cheesecloth Link will be down below where from I've got it. It's I found it on Amazon and it's brilliant. So I'm using this I'm gonna put a glue here on all over of this side and glue the cheesecloth on my cover from here So I do have that cheesecloth here. I left a little bit all around of my Waste for that cover. I'm gonna use my glue stick again put a lot of glue here nice coat of glue here on this side and Put there that brown paper again, and then I will cut it. I'll show you how this is not professional nothing Too hard to do There is lots of beautiful videos how you can make a vintage looking book cover I Will link for you One channel which is from professional book binders. They are amazing. I learn from them a lot So I will put link down below. This is cover which I hope anyone can do Something like a ratatouille Anyone can cook if you want so this it's cover that anyone can do if you want And I'm gonna place you the paper Press it I do have Paper from the opposite side as well. I think I didn't press it properly Look at me make sure you will make your paper nice and Smooth and flat I'm gonna leave it on this side as you can see I left a little bit of paper all around and I'm gonna Color it this side with the black kind of like black ish Coloring I'm gonna use this is shoe wax liquid shoe wax For a leather shoes, you can buy different types of So you've got these two and to both of them I added not to this one This is color which you get if you do have just shoe wax and this is color I'm gonna show you which you get if you will add inside a little bit of black acrylic paint and mix It well So what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna just color My piece here So I do have my painting done and dry already. I'm gonna take my scissors and with the scissors. I'm gonna cut Around that base. I'm gonna keep about Not even my one millimeter. It's just very very slight Gap and as you can see on a few places I kind of forgot to paint it, but I don't mind at all. I'm gonna take this nail See my painting Take gloves You need to clean up my nails so with this nail file. I'm gonna sand the edges This you can do once everything is totally dry If you will use the nail file on the wet paper, it will just roll it. It will doesn't have perfect effect But once you have dry your paper and you will go very lightly Over your painting On those edges It will automatically create beautiful Vintage look If you want to do that vintage look Over the edges here as well. Just very lightly. Don't be harsh on your on your wood Don't be too much hard on it. Just very carefully Make one effect like this. So you do have that vintage base I'm gonna add here on those edges also kind of like reinforcing pieces So from that leftover from serali pieces I think I want to have it in a brown color So I can either use again that Wax shoe wax or here I'm gonna use mix of distress inks. This is tea dyed color distress ink from ranger And this is a ground espresso distress ink from ranger and I'm gonna mix them on this card Just like this and cut two strips How long is this one? This is two and a half nearly That will be perfect by one inch two strips You got my two strips. I'm gonna fold it half both of them and both of them These edges I'm gonna cut just that corner just a very slightly Cut of the corners that will make it a little bit more vintage I'm gonna do this one on both of them and To make sure I will don't see this white edge on my book cover. I'm gonna use again One of these inks and just ink the edges So here I'm using my amazing distress tool. This is by the way again on the nails. This is that buffering sponge or Cube I'm using it for seven years. I guess it's still same And I love it for my inking So I do have my pieces on the edges of the spine So now I'm gonna glue it I'm gonna use to glue because it's holding much much better I used one inch size here because the spine of my book is one inch That's why I used the one inch measurement for this strip I'm gonna add over glue on my strip and glue it on the edges from here and from here So I do have glued those edges. I'm gonna punch the holes and fix the eyelets So I do have fixed those eyelets. I've got here elastic Court and I'm gonna fit that the elastic court. I'm gonna go from outside inside through the opposite side and all around and Make a knot that way my book cover is done And it's just small jump in because I forgot to say if you don't have The tool for fixing eyelets and you don't have eyelets you can always Grab some elastic band or if you don't have elastic band you can grab just some ribbon some Maybe yarn knitting yarn and just wrap it around and make a knot on your string or the yarn or Ribbon anything or lace anything you will use just wrap it around the spine and then you can slide the papers behind So that way you can add the holders for your papers to your journal without a tool That's what I wanted to say and here I do have a few book plates Which is coming now So now we're finally going to move to make our book plate. I've got here that sheet. I've got my coffee done and Hopefully we will create some few types of book plates. So first It's super easy. I'm gonna cut these pieces on the pieces So I do have my words here and I'm gonna start probably with those field notes. So just super easy Because I'm making good in a vintage style I'm gonna cut a little bit of those corners again to make it look worn. I don't like those sharp corners Then I will use distress ink and the same I used for these sides, which is teedide and Ground espresso and I will distress it but just slightly. I don't want to make Make it too dark Just give it a little bit of shade on the edges so first a little bit with that teedide and Then ground espresso. It's too dark It's good to have on the hunt Wipes with wipes because distress inks can be kind of wiped off. They are reacting with water with, you know With a liquid so this way and then I will glue it on my Cover and that will be done. That's the most easy book plate you can create but we're gonna create a few more So for the next ones, I'm gonna take this leftover from my packing paper I prepared a few of these labels and I'm gonna glue them down. I distress them a little bit So this one I'm gonna glue it in this rectangle shape on my paper This one I think I'm gonna use the corner punch and I'm gonna punch those corners To make them a little bit softer and just distress the edges. It looks more more finished On this one, I'm gonna cut the corners across and Create kind of like a label style and this I'm gonna cut in the Kind of like a Circle way I'm gonna cut them off and I'm gonna leave small part of that brown paper around my labels So your labels or book plates will looks like this simple and easy And if you will place it on the journal It will looks really cute And you can continue with this you can take Your pencil and I think I'm gonna go here Yeah, you can take your pencil and with the pencil you can create fake stitching all around and create Label or your book plate like this or you can take your sewing machine So if you do like sewing you can sewn all around some Nice stitching if you want to go a little bit more Take your sewing machine take leftover of your cheesecloth And saw that cheesecloth using your sewing machine under your label on under your book plate And you can also add both those stitching fake stitching and proper stitching from your machine and make it even more interesting more artistic Just play with supplies you've got if you do have some supplies If you don't this will be enough. It will looks amazing if you do have some another, you know craft supplies like those brats You can add them to the side I hope I'm gonna be even I'm gonna do it quite easy way I'm gonna fold my label If you don't want to see the fold I will need to do it this way to see where is my label gonna fold those Sides and to make it even I'm gonna just poke the hole through the both There is a risk you will have fold in the middle So if you don't want to do it this way just take your ruler and measure I don't mind that there will be some small fold And I'm gonna put those brats Here and here and fix them and I do have this book plate Uh another way how to do how to create cute Book plates is to use your dies if you do have die cutting machine and you do have some dies Maybe you can find that some shape like is this one. This is from collection from Kanban Toppers nesting label dots die set it was called here I don't have a link for this one because I've got these dies for a very long time and those link doesn't work anymore But I will put names underneath if you want to check it out if these dies are Somewhere in your area, but as I said, I do have them for a very long time So maybe only on eBay when somebody it's clearing out craft room maybe This is from C6 and I will put a number as well. It was from one collection and there was also tabs, I think And I will need my other glasses my reading glasses, but I think it's 659108 I will have a look one more time with my reading glasses and write down the name down below This unfortunately doesn't have any name and I don't remember where from I've got it I've got it for more for more than five years And I really don't remember where from I've got it, but it's many companies who are making these dies lately So you can definitely find some on internet And then just choose what you want to put there And I think here I will really like this one So glue your names of the journal on those labels at their eyelets here I punched two holes and I added their eyelets and this way you can fix it to your journal I haven't fixed them yet. I just slide it to to those holes if I want to fix it to my cover I will open the cover Make a position Of the label I want to use So maybe somewhere here I will take a pencil make a mark Where the holes I Will be then then I will punch the holes through to that cover and then I will fix those eyelets Through the label and the book cover as well. So I haven't fixed them yet, but I just wanted to show you How beautiful these book plates will looks like looks like with those metal eyelets Or you can do kind of like Collage or building up I glued the names on those inside cuts from these two labels from physics I distressed all of it using ground espresso distress ink this one On these labels. I use it just Lightly and on these frames. I was quite heavy. I did use that ink really well And now I can use Oh this gold pigment ink Pigment ink marker. I forgot the name of that and I can add a little bit of gold on that frame using this marker if I will want so And make it looks like a vintage Gold label or I can use This is wonderful thing. I love these waxes. Uh, this is from a prima marketing opal magic Wax and this one is vintage silk And when you are editing these On your dies or on your art It makes different types of shades on the top that metallic shade And this one it's kind of like a goldish that vintage gold and it's really beautiful. I love that that wax You just wipe it all over You can take a cloth And wipe it off where you don't need it So to play with it a little bit And you can create your gold Gold frame for your die And if you don't have this maybe you want to have a rusty effect Then I do have here Solution for you. I've got a mix of dry colors You can buy powdered colors in bottles. They are mostly for making those small models like airplanes Trains, so there is a mix of colors weathering powders it's called and plus Oh Cinnamon cinnamon is the right english word cinnamon spice It smells beautiful and it makes amazing Rusty effect. So I'm just gonna add the glue on my label Yeah And on my table Then I can Just dip it to my mix here The best way how you can do it. It's to have gloves On your hands and maybe some brush But I like to kind of smush Smush it on my On the pieces I'm creating And using a glue To make that rusty effect even more visible even more real And let it dry once it's dry Just glue it around your Name of the Of the journal You can do shaped labels even if you don't have dyes You just need to take a pencil some kind of paper. I'm gonna take this cardstock and I'm gonna cut a piece I think that big I'm gonna fold it half Draw half of my future label So I'm gonna draw this one And maybe I want to have there some kind of That half circle on the end Hopefully It's even if not that will be more whimsical So this will be half of my shape. I'm gonna cut it off and of course more Work you will put into it more beautiful. It will be So that will be shape of my future label. I'm gonna place it on my Cardstock and I'm gonna draw all all around So draw your shape then cut it with your scissors and you do have your label Your unique label because You will draw your unique pattern Then continue same way like I did before you can distress it you can color it with any kind of colors You have around you can use markers You can use only cinnamon for that rusty effect that works as well. I did use it many times before And it works beautifully So with your unique shape Just create your label if you want to make it like a frame inside Then I will suggest to use your template Cut some window inside Then draw it To your shape and with a knife cut it off Draw the shape of your Of your window and with a knife cut it off like this. Then just use some color Color it. I'm gonna make heavy coat And take your label Put the glue on your frame And place this one inside And then let it dry Once it's dry and holding well Take your scissors and cut it around and you will have your beautiful Your beautiful label you can punch the holes in those Half circles put their eyelets or you can just poke the hole and put there those brats to put there to give A small amount of metal In your book plate and you can continue so on you can add there The cheesecloth underneath And make it even more interesting So from this you can go and also maybe you want to have Have it the name of your journal a little bit more shiny You can use Gel pen and I've got here this gold one. I will put link down below. I found it on amazon and they are really beautiful They are very rich with the color So you can draw on your print and decorate it with this gel pen And create the beautifully golden Written name, I hope you can see or if you are not Strong with a pen There is so many techniques how you can add the gold you've got here one for you Which I leaned from jenny from mega choir. She is amazing card maker and I love her channel I leaned so many so many techniques from her and this is one of them It is using Your laser print and you don't have to have colorful laser printer. You can have monochrome laser printer and it will works well If you do have laser print like I do have here You just need one of these foils. These are Foils which are reacting reacting with heat and then you will need laminator. I've got here my laminator I have cut a piece of that gold foil and I do have here The journal sign so I'm gonna place that foil with the gold on on the top because that gold I want to see And because it's small piece And it can get lost in my laminator I'm gonna place it to this parchment paper or baking paper And I'm gonna slide it to my laminator So with this laminating technique You will get really beautiful effect if you do have Or if you do have laser printer You don't have to have a laminator. You can have iron and it works exactly same on laser printer You just need iron or put on higher heat highest heat you will need Baking paper or parchment paper And it works with those foils as well It does works with hair straightener with this But because it's hard to put same pressure on all that piece It maybe will be not exactly on all spots Maybe there will be some pieces not foiled properly. So normal iron. It's the better for this this Technique and here is my small collection of what I Created now and I'm gonna continue probably with all those other other letters Here I want to show you I just glue the card with the foiled Name of the journal on that die cut then I used black ink This one so I glue it on that die cut. I use black ink and with black ink I went all over of that space and then I glued around I glue it on the Paper and I glued around this frame. So it makes this type of book plate Here to make it. It's exactly same. I just glue it on this die Then then I went with black ink all over you can see that There is one card underneath and that other card here. So I went with black ink all over It's good this foiling. It's perfect for When you are using distress inks because it's not taking distress inks So it's much more easy to color it all around and not that that writing And then I just use my nail A file to distress a little bit those edges to make it more more vintage and what I just try On this frame. It's golden I try to put this tacky glue on on my frame And then I just place it on this foil And went it through my laminator And it did make it a foiling effect. So you don't have to use a print I mean laser print you can use glue or some you know glue pen or something like that. You can also use You don't need to have their print if you have nice writing And if you do have that It does have name. It's using for burning Images into the wood the pen It does have a name and unfortunately I forgot right now the name of that Hot tip pen I will google it and I will put link down below what I mean So you can use that hot pen To draw your writing. So these are my journal Journal book plates here. I use just red color on that frame around so you can play with those words I'm gonna put the link down below This is my sharing for today. I hope you did enjoy it. I hope you found some inspiration Go to have a look what you've got all all around and you can create your amazing journal cover With some amazing journal book plate Do not think just because you don't have proper tools or the tools like I do have that you can't do Amazing things you can create amazing journals and beautiful books So this is my sharing for today. Thank you so so much for sharing your time with me Thank you so much for visiting me. Have a beautiful day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye