 How are you enjoying this month so far? I hope you're enjoying it. Well Now I'm going to go over some ideas. I have for Anna Brim's shaker dashboard. Now if you want to see her original video, it's in the description below It's a fabulous video. If you have a fuse tool This is a great idea. This is my journal so far for the month of February We're ending February and going into March. This is a shaker dashboard I made using a fuse tool with Anna Brim's idea So if you want to again see the exact instructions for this go watch her video I put a lot of sequins tonight So we are going to go over some ideas I have alternatives I have for how to do something like this for February March, whatever month that you Want to do it for if you don't have a fuse tool now You could do this with a spring theme you could do it with anything You could also do it if you don't have a midori style journal a notebook or journal like I do If you have a regular planner or journal, of course, you could do it half leave a small margin between say the shaker part And and where the rings are going to go to give you some place to punch You would want to measure it. Where's my where's my planner? Okay, so if you were to do it for a regular journal, you would want to measure You know what size page that you wanted and then you would want to leave yourself a little margin where you're going to punch The holes for your rings because you would want a pocket a sealed pocket where the shaker part is going to be Oops, I have a hole in mine. Where is the hole? I don't know Some sequins just fell out. Let's see if I can figure that out. All right, I'll put them over here All right, so what I want to do first is I want to measure this one and So this one is about nine and a half by eight and a half Now I thought I would use some try and use maybe some product packaging This is I don't even know what this is from it's part product packaging from something like maybe a tablecloth or sheets or something I don't know how tall is this one? This one would work Yeah, so let's use this one So I'm gonna get out my paper trimmer and the nice thing about using this kind of product packaging is that you don't have to I can I can use the sides that are already sealed to my advantage So the first thing I want to do is cut it to nine and a half Slit the top off of one side trim I don't know what is that about a quarter of an inch or so like just that much So that we have a little bit of a lip I'm doing this on my glass cutting board Because I don't want to do this and then have everything stick to my table Um So then I want to figure out how big my pockets are and hopefully find that hole while I'm doing this My pockets are about four and three eight Yeah So for this I just think I want to move that cutting board because I want a little bit of a squish so four and three eighths is about there and I need another straight edge So I'm going to measure in four and three eighths from the One edge here and I'm going to line up the bottom on my ruler with the edge of the little plastic pouch that we've started to create and Hopefully this will work. I'm going to take my bone folder and just run it up and down a few times I'm hoping that leaves a nice mark on the plastic We'll find out Yep, it did. Can you see that? Can y'all see that line? So then we want to do the same thing from the other side Four and three eighths the desk is a disaster again seems to always be the way lately So again, I'm going to line it up with the ruler up with the factory edge And again, we're going to I'm pushing fairly hard into the plastic to leave a line So that I have a mark so that I have these two parallel lines in the middle. That's the spine so then I'm going to take and I'm going to take some gorilla glue. This is super gel glue. This is a gorilla glue. You could use crazy glue You could probably use double stick tape the problem with that is it might not stay and you might find it leaking after a while I Want to test this on a little piece of something See how thick it comes out to get it started. So I'm going to lift this up and I am going to maybe I'll do this It's hard going to be really hard to see but I'm gonna I'm gonna not want to do it this way So I want to put along one of those lines. I just made in the paper. I Want to put some glue in the paper in the plastic. You know what you can do Ha ha, I just thought of something. Where's my washi tape? Okay, this will make it easier So along that line that I made with the ruler on the outside Let's put some washi Aha, there we go. So along the inside seam of that washi tape. Let's put some of this gorilla glue So in this edge where the two pieces of washi meet each other Okay here and here Let's put some gorilla glue and push down a baby wipe to clean up any glue spillage Keep things as clean as we can And it takes I think just a few seconds to dry 10 to 30 seconds So while that's drying we can pull off our guide tape And then if you've done it right you've created a pocket Oops, who are you a pocket here that you can put things in Now it might not be as neat as using the flu fuse tool. You can you see yeah So it's not going to be as neat as using the fuse tool, but it's doable. You can do it And I'm doing this kind of quickly So I mean I could it could be doing this a lot neater than I am I'm gonna put some glue on this edge over here And you know if you're more careful like I said if you're more careful with the glue than I'm being You're gonna get a nicer result. Yeah, we'll just do that. I'm gonna push down So I just got the that outside edge Now this is a crazy glue You know the kind of stuff that glues your fingertips together So please use all caution if you're gonna do it this way wait 10 to 30 seconds Now you can put like washi tape around the edge to decorate the edge you could put stickers You could paint it you could doodle on it with sharpies Anything that you wanted. I'm just gonna let that dry for a minute, and I'll be right back Drying if you're using a thinner plastic then this one's pretty thick and heavy But if you have a thinner plastic like a sheet protector, you could probably do the same thing and if you didn't want to stick Hey scrapbooking paper in there to stiffen it like I did in this one because this is actually pretty thin This is the fuse tool plastic then you could take some clear product packaging and use that in between Your sheet protector layers to stiffen it without actually Adding any scrapbooking paper and to have it still still look clear and translucent You also could put this in there and put stickers on it and stick it inside the pocket And they would look like they're floating Which would be interesting and I actually might do Some of that so and I have this big piece of product packaging. I think we're going to use that So I'm going to cut their lip off of this. I don't remember what this is from Something that I said, ooh nice flat piece of clear plastic. Let's save that Probably something from the deli That would be my guess So I have some leftover stickers Valentine's Day stickers from creating my Or decorating my planner my journal So I'm going to cut this in half so I have two strips And I don't think we need the glass dash cutting mat anymore or cutting board so we'll put that aside And Let's see. I have some of these just basic stickers heart stickers, so let's Put some of these on the plastic These stickers are from Target. These are From American Greetings and they're in the greeting card department American Greetings always has interesting stickers for every holiday So that is cute and then you could stick this inside of here And you could do stickers on the other side too, which I might do but then see it looks like it's floating So then let's turn this over. I have lots of these stickers. So this pack came with three sheets of stickers and I don't do lots of holiday crafting So once I stick a few of them in my journal, I really have no use for them So let's use them up here and I'm just Trying to closely as close as possible put them over the white outline of the sticker on the other side so that it looks like It's double-sided It doesn't have to be exactly perfect Because that one's not That's all right Okay, so we're gonna stick this in one side of our pocket See that's cute Okay And then let's do another one And bonus if you have a lot of stickers like this That you kind of have no use for Or you just have too many of them. You have kind of a surplus and you want to try to use them up This might be a good way to use some of them up in a fun way Whether you're doing it for valentine's day or you know, since we're at the end of the month Maybe you're going to be doing this for march or um april easter So now we can put this over here That's cute All right, and then we can take Sequins Do I have any that's the right color though? I might have used them all up I don't know that I have any more red and pink But I bet you have glitter because I have a ton of glitter. I do have glitter Do I have anything chunky? Yes, I do Let's toss some glitter in there. Shall we let's pull or some out back the other side And let's see what other kinds of glitter I have That I can stick in there I bet I have something Oh, I have microbeads red ones You really could stick anything in here and you could And I'll show you what I'm talking about We made that little flap right this little flap here So you could leave it open on the top pull this flap down and tape it For the month and you could stick little things that you've collected over the month in here And then not seal it up until the end of the month when you're going to put this journal and its dashboard In storage and move on to the next month. So that would be an interesting idea to sort of have it be a collection pocket I like that idea All right, so let's seal this up We're going to need our board back again And our glue I just had it here we go run some glue along The top edge To seal it up Shake all the glitter down to the bottom before you do this so that when you do this You're not gluing too much glitter into Putting too much glitter into the glue Nope, I almost glued my finger Okay, and then once it's glued you can trim that little extra off once it's sealed and unless of course like I said You're going to leave it be an open pocket Now if you wanted to decorate it like I said with washi tape, I would put some clean tape That's cute It's got you know full of glitter and microbeads and how fun is that You can also use it of course to stick sticky notes in and use it for storage Sticky storage in your journal. I hope it gives you guys some ideas of what you can do and um, I missed a spot at the top There there's a hole Anyway, so make your own um shaker dashboard You want to make sure of course that you've got your holes stuck down. Well, let's see So you do want to before you stick it in your journal and I did it with the other one too Kind of go over things a couple of times and make sure that you've Sealed all the holes up and that's you know You could also run the tape all the way around the edges and that would be extra insurance that the holes are sealed up Which actually I might do because I think it would be cute to have the tape all the way around the edge You could of course bypass the cold gluing process and just keep it But like I said, I think you should glue it and tape it because I don't think if you just tape it It's gonna Stay And you don't have to go out and buy and you know don't go out and buy things to make this Use what you have in your inventory product packaging sheet protectors glue If you don't have a fuse tool don't go out and buy one you can do it without like we're doing right now I actually like the way it looks framed out with this washi tape Now I have glitter all over my table. Holy moly All right one more piece of tape that is super that's cuter. See I like that All right, there you have it. There is a shaker dashboard for your midori style notebook If that's what you're using this year and of course like I said if you're not You could do one of these for your regular planner or journal think about what you have And how you can do it get some crazy glue or some double stick tape and have some fun That's it for right now. Have a great day everybody Don't forget to like share and subscribe and if you can support my youtube channel by shopping at my Etsy shop Please do do so the most important thing have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye