 oversized playing cards and let's get to it shall we? I've had to do some creative editing with the video so I apologize in advance for the camera getting blurry now and then. I really kind of debated back and forth about how what to do with all the cards when I was done. I thought briefly about binding them into a journal but I do think there are some of them that I may actually want to frame at some point. These are all of them to do a quick flip through. I may to want to frame one or all of them at some point so I'm very hesitant to frame them and I think having them loose and sort of a folder thing is one really good option. This is one that I'm really thinking of framing and that's why it's sort of got the protective piece of deli paper here. This is a funny one. It makes me smile. So that's all of them. So I have this, we'll move these out of the way for a minute. I have this giant piece of art paper. It's actually way too big to fit on the camera. It's about 20 by 24 or so I believe. Let's see. I'm sorry 23 by, boy I underestimated that. It's 23 inches by 29 inches and I have spilled some leftover inks I wanted to use up intentionally on one side so that'll be the outside and let it dry. Then we're going to turn this over and I have it horizontally and I'm going to stack my cards neatly again and I'm going to just eyeball it and put them approximately in the middle of the of the paper and then I'm going to fold the sides in hopefully okay and then give it a crease and then do the same to the other side and then I'm also going to do it to the top and the bottom okay and then I'm going to move my cards out of the way and then we're going to give that a better crease. There it is, my bone folder and also straighten it out if anything is a bit crooked. Then we're going to cut at these fold lines right here and we're going to cut this rectangle out from all four corners. I'm going to just use a pair of scissors. I could get really anal about it and use a straight edge but I'm going to just use a pair of scissors. Then we have these flaps on the side, one of which is going to have to be made shorter. I think it's going to be this one. I think I want the other one to be the outside so what I'm going to do is mark it with a pencil. I'm going to trim it just inside the line. Now I think I'm going to grab some brads because you know I've got a giant drawer full of brads. I should really probably use them up or at least try. I think I'm going to grab some purple ones. None of those were purple. I think I'm going to need four of them and I'm going to need a couple of hole punches and a couple other supplies so let me get them. I'll be right back. Okay first thing I want to do is I want to round all the corners so I've got my crocodile here. Then I'm going to take a round hole punch and some of those scraps of paper. Hopefully it's not too thick to punch and we're going to need four circles. Oh it might be too thick to punch. That's okay. Where there's a will there's a way. I have this Martha Stewart circle cutter with a blade. It's actually a pretty cool little device and it has different, all these different holes are to cut different sized circles. Let's see. So we're going to pick, well I think it's hard to read. Let's see. Except you have to hold the paper down. Once you have one I should be able to just eyeball it more. This is like a little thicker. It's about the way to poster board so using a punch on it was iffy to start and I kind of knew that to begin with. I could use the cutter to cut more of these but this is fine too. One more. One more. Alrighty. So now we have our four circles. We've got four brads. We've got our piece of cardstock that's cut. So now we need to punch some holes so I'm going to just eyeball it and like go in about the center. Wiggle the punch around. Go in about the center of one of these. Force a brad through. Force a brad through. Open it. Okay. We're going to do the same thing here and then we're going to do one here and then instead of here so the other one has to be on the back here. So right about where my finger is. Then we're going to open that. Then we're going to take some masking tape and we're going to cover up these little sharp edges of the brads so they don't scratch into the cards so I'm going to just cover them with a piece of masking tape. Push it down really well. Okay. Next we need some stringer twine. Got some purple twine. We're going to put our cards here. I'm going to whack off a big piece of string. I'm going to tie it around one of the brads in a knot. Then I'm going to fold these in just like your old you know inter-office memo envelopes right. Quick easy. Cut off another piece. Fold this side in. Fold this side over again. Tie one end in a knot and then bring this around to the other side. There you go. Quick easy and it would be cute on the bookshelf or a coffee table. Yeah plus there's room in here you could add more cards if you wanted but I love the way that looks. Okay so this has been the video created to make the pocket for our large playing cards and I had to re-edit the video for lots of different reasons which I will not get into but I hope you enjoyed it. It was filmed in the old space. I'm surprised I made anything that was the least bit coherent or understandable because I was in a very bad place with the move and yeah anyway the camera couldn't pick up on anything to focus during the filming of said video which is why when you just saw the blank white piece of paper it the focus went in and out so I apologize for that. Anyway I hope you found the process a whole at least a little bit inspiring. Forgive me for any filming and editing errors and I hope it gives you an idea of something different that you can do with your loose mixed media pages like my large playing cards. So that's it for now go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like share and subscribe and have a happy holiday and new year. Bye guys.