 Hey guys, how are you today? I have this packet of stuff that was sent to me my canvas corp They matched up a number of us designers I should say matches paired us up one with another sent us both the same or very similar Packets of stuff to see what we would make with them. So this is my packet. I literally haven't opened it yet But let's do that. I Only took it out of the outer wrapper. That's all I Let's see what they sent me and then we'll get to making. All right So here is some of their craft card stock Lined craft card. So I actually like this a lot There's four big sheet 12 by 12 sheets nice There is some scrapbooking paper. I like this one nice All right three bottles of stuff in here So we've got some tattered angels high-impact paint in Light pink we've got tattered angels chalkboard spray glimmer miss chalkboard spray in color Black orchid. That's a really pretty color and this is tattered angels glimmer glam glitter paint in Bon Bon That's sure pretty The idea behind this was to use canvas court products in Conjunction with some relics and artifacts products, which are also in here. We haven't obviously gotten to those yet I'll show you them when I get to them there's some burlap in a Off-white sort of natural color and then a pink Amodex non-toxic ink and stain remover. I Think we had this at the creativity show or it seems to be a remember seeing it an envelope Another envelope different shape some tickets or tags Not tickets tags There are some snap-on papercrafting fasteners scrapbook nails Those are interesting in two different colors. I don't know that I've ever seen those are interesting This is the relics and artifacts set they sent This set particular set is called spirit treasures This piece is really pretty I see my directions and there is a seven gypsies architectures a set of the wings and a book cover set and my creative partner is Heather Thompson, so We've gotten the same or similar Selection of stuff so we'll have to see what we can what we each come up with I'm gonna speed forward through my process I have absolutely no idea like what I'm gonna do with it. I'm gonna try to mostly use canvas court products I Have a drawer of more colors of their paints and things I'm gonna try to limit it to this and only bring something in if I really need it to make it work I have a few handmade embellishments that I might use to but I honestly have no idea. We'll find out I'll be right back Okay, I start by unwrapping the Journal cover boards the chipboard that they sent me and taking a good hard look at some of the other pieces They sent me then of course as I'm doing that I take out the relics and artifacts Resin images. I do have a few frames here where my head's in the way So I will apologize in advance for that As I am looking off to the side to the relics and artifacts and trying to think about which ones I want to use Today I Decide right away to go ahead with the paints they and sprays they sent me and distress a piece of the burlap So that I can take the two covers and actually make it into a little junk journal I decide pretty quickly that that's what I want to do But I want this burlap to Have some grunge to it and some color to it that that light beige color isn't just working for me at all And the pink one wasn't either so but this is great It has sort of a purpley sheen from the spray and some metallic from the paint and I just Distress it cut off a piece use some Turbo tacky a aliens turbo tacky glue and get it glued to the two sides of the chipboard and Then set it under some weight and set it aside to dry while it's drying I am Going to work on some other pieces of this project These are the ends from a pair of old barbells and I use the weights to weight down things in my craft room Just FYI so I knew I wanted to use a heart I really liked the heart piece with the flay sort of flaming heart shape and I was deciding Kind of trying to decide what thing to put in the middle of it I really wanted to stick something in the middle I decided on one of the crosses I take the little eyelets out because I think I'm going to glue the whole thing to the front of the journal and I use a leans turbo tacky to glue the cross to the heart and then I give it a good spray a healthy spray of the Spray that they sent me and then I start Layering on the metallic paint and the pink paint Onto the heart shape and this is a continuous process that you'll see during the time that I'm making this journal Where I'm adding the sprays and the inks and the pink High-impact paint and blotting some off and adding some more and I do like not wait for anything to dry I don't have any patience. So I keep accidentally knocking the cross around and Things like that so you know, but I'm having fun doing it And I'm really just layering the colors on top of each other until I get the effect that I'm looking for That I really want I do at the very end take a little bit of gold metallic Rub or wax and I just lightly touch it over the top of the highlights of the heart and the cross and The wax that I use is a Viva decor Wax I also use I use two colors a gold from Viva decor and a rose gold from treasure gold and other than the glue and some tape and a few stickers everything else is from canvas corp if you would like to Buy anything that you see me using here in the video You can go to canvas corp's website or the relics and artifacts website I will include the links for both in the description and you can go over there and shop around They have some really fun things and I love working with these resin pieces. They're a lot of fun They're they're very different. You can do a lot of different things with them And they're yeah, they're really nice addition to my mixed media stash There's a close-up of what it looks like at this point I take a plain old piece of muslin and I take some tattered angel sprays that they didn't include in my packet the other ones that I had in my tattered in my canvas corp drawer and I distressed the piece of muslin and Then I also have this piece of pink fabric that a friend sent me and some glitter trim I decided I want to use all of those and layer them on the cover and I Wasn't sure actually as I was doing it how I was going to layer them. I end up just stapling them that works for me I also know I want to use some of the tags on the front. So I Distress them a little bit around the edges with some Ink that I had and I used the little nail head things. They sent me to attach the two tags together and I cut out the top of the relics and artifacts packaging to use on one of the tags where it said spirit treasures and It would fit it fit really well. I Also am going to put the architectures wings on the front of the journal underneath the heart. I'm gonna layer them all together There's a close-up shot And I'm trying to decide do I want to wrap the sparkly trim around don't want to just leave it hanging and cut It off. I decided I'm gonna leave it hanging. I like the frayed edges I like the little bits of string hanging off and I don't mind if a few of the sequins fall off here and there I do take the little piece and a glue to the back because if you're gonna decorate the front one at the back And that was my head. Sorry. I Was having a lot of fun creating this project and I kept forgetting. Oh wait. There's a camera on I Also couldn't wait for the heart on the front to dry in place and I kept moving it I do think I cut some of that out. I kept moving it and the heart kept falling off I kept having to glue it back on again So I think I cut some of that out of this video because you didn't need to see me Knock it off a whole bunch of times So I'm giving everything a nice layer of the aliens turbo tacky and pushing it down And I am waiting them down and yeah, I don't really I don't really let it dry too long I'm gonna take some of the extra papers. They sent me the scrapbooking papers The craft lined craft card the little envelopes the tags I haven't used yet and you know what I'm gonna take all of them And I'm gonna use them to make a junk journal type signature To go in the inside of my journal just one signature with a few pages in it And I'm I actually end up using the piece of pink burlap in there, too Which I don't really realize that I'm going to do at first But I do end up doing I'm not really measuring anything very carefully. I'm just making sure The covers are five by seven So I'm making sure that the pieces of paper I'm tearing and cutting are less than that So they fit inside the covers the exception being the burlap It does stick out a little bit and I was going to trim it some more as I was making the journal and I decided You know what I like that it's sticking out. So I left it So I'm just layering one inside the other And I am Not measuring I'm not being perfect I end up using some of the seven gypsies packaging Don't be afraid to use your packaging the nice thing about some of these products From canvas corp is a lot of the packaging can be reused Like the whole with the exception of the plastic the whole product can be used The packaging has some really interesting designs on it And you see me using the packaging from the architectures wings in the journal also and I do a simple pan three hole pamphlet stitch There's a lot of videos here on youtube on how to do this one hole in the middle One hole an inch or two above the middle hole one hole an inch or two below the middle hole Start in the middle hole and go out start from the inside And then go up to the upper hole and then go back in go down to the bottom hole go out go back in the inner hole Tie it off in a knot It's easy you can staple it you could do anything attach it however it works for you I'll try to remember to include a very good link on how to do pamphlet stitch, but you Start in the inner hole you go back out Go out through the center on the inside of the journal Then take the needle and thread to go to the hole to your right go in from the outside through all the layers of paper Bring the needle and thread across to the other hole has no thread in it push it out Pull it all tight and taut take the needle and thread push it back up through the center hole where you started And pull it tight and taut and then tighten a couple of knots That's really how you do it. So I took some metal corner pieces here I had my hardware drawer and I distressed them with the inks and sprays They sent me and dried it and then I decided to glue that on the corners of the journal on the front and the back I had I happened to have four of them. So I thought that would work really well And as I'm doing this I'm realizing, you know, I've got all these little bits of paper product packaging Some little envelopes and things like that. Let's use them on the inside of the journal and let's Add these extra pieces to the inside of the journal and make it really interesting And I end up purposefully trying to use the whole entire Set of the off-white nail head Trimmed the little rad things. I don't know what they're called nailhead things that they sent me and those are Really interesting pieces They're a little bit fiddly, but they do work well and they do snap together nicely So after I get these on I very carefully turned the whole thing over I decided to get some ink out and distress everything a little bit more I did kind of get ink everywhere, but I liked the way it looked so I was good with that I decided to put this one piece of cardstock Inside the front cover of the journal With an envelope on it. It did two things. It decorated the inside of the journal But it also covered up the staples from where I attached the fabric pieces to the front cover So it did double duty I did have to put some clips on the corners Of this piece of packaging until it dried to hold it down until it dried and like I said, I love these little nail heads, but um pushing them through some of this paper was A little bit fiddly. I do use those weights that are off to my right and kind of hammer the backs on A couple of them. You'll see me do you see me do that a couple of times I was probably putting too much paper and that's uh one of the reasons I was having an issue So here I just am putting a bunch of glue on there spreading it out with my finger a bit And then attaching it to the cover of the journal So here are some close-up shots of the journal And I really think you would enjoy using these products in your mixed media Think about looking around on the canvas corp website and uh the relics and artifacts website If you want to join one of my facebook groups or Shop in my etsy shop or send me happy mail or anything like that Or see the canvas corp links or anything. It's all in the description. So check it out Don't forget to give me a thumbs up like share and subscribe And the most important thing go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later