 Γεια σας! Είμαι Βίκη, και μετά τη δημιουσιασμότητα, αποφασίσαμε να κάνουμε ένα φλίπο στους δυνατές μου, και θα σας δείξω πώς μπορείς να εξεχθεί το σπιν της δυνατής σας, και να τις αφήνω. Αυτή είναι η πρώτη δυνατή μου. Έχω πολλοί δυνατές για περίπου χρόνια, επειδή δεν είχαμε κάνει πολλοί δυνατές στο πρώτο, και μπορείτε να δείξετε πόσο βαλκό έχει γίνει. Είμαι δημιουσιασμός σε ένα σχέδιο μόλκο, και αυτό είναι έναν άλλο μόλκο σχέδιο, και αυτό που έχω φύγει, και μπορείτε να δείξετε πώς βαλκό είναι το πρώτο, αντιμετωπιστικό. Στην εμένα είμαι δημιουσιασμός σε ένας αργένειας αργένω, αλλά θα δείξω αυτές για τώρα, και θα σας δείξω πρώτο. Μπορείτε να δείξετε πώς έχω εξεχθεί το σπιν, και επειδή το αργένω μου ήταν πολύ βαλκό, έτσι θα να δείξω από το καλύτερο, γιατί ήταν σχέδια, προσφεύεται να δείξετε πώς ήταν το σπιν και πώς πολύ βαλκό είναι τώρα. Θα δείξω να δείξω το τρόπο στην τέτοια εμπορία, γιατί μπορείτε να δείξετε πώς κάνω αυτή. Ο πρώτος αργένω μου ήταν πολύ βαλκό, γιατί είχα δείξει τα δημιουσιασμότητα και εξεχθεί σπιν στον βόρκο. Θα δείξω να δείξω τα παίζα, αλλά πρώτα πέρα πρωτα, Εντάξει για να το δώσουμε σύμφωνα. Έτσι έχω σκέψει κάποια πλήματα με ένα μεταλτάκο, έχω κόβει το τάμπι με φάμπρο και έχω κάνει λίγο στένσλην για κάποιες δεξιότητες στο τεφρόνταο και στο τάμπι. Εντάξει για να το δώσουμε σύμφωνα, μετά από πολλές ελληνικές σκέψεις, γιατί θα το δώσω με μου στήρα. Έτσι αυτό είναι το πρώτο παίδιο που έχω ever made. Και most of the pages that you will be seeing today are already on YouTube. And this is another one that I really love. I used gelatos on this and you can see how this cracked. It's broken, the spine is broken there. But I don't really mind. I think that having all those defects actually make it very loved art journal. So this is a layout I made for 2013. I sometimes get inspired by the season as you can see. And I always stamp the date somewhere. So I know when each layout was done. This is a pink layout that I made just to stretch myself because I never used pink. And I am really happy with the outcome. And this is one of my favorites and your favorites, as far as I can tell, because I get so many reviews about this and such a lovely feedback. I just love the dimensional books. And it was one of those layouts that I had really so much fun making it. This is another layout that I really love. It's so colorful and fun. And I loved that I used glossy accents on her boots as well as on the umbrella. And you can see how dimensionally it is with all those chipboard letters and the dimensional umbrella. Here's another colorful one with buttons and foam squares and also chipboard letters. And you can see why it was so bulky, this art journal. This is one of my favorites as well. I just love the full colors and how the pumpkins turned out. And you can see that I have stamped the date as well. Oh, and this is everyone's favorite. Wherever I go to workshops or whoever sees this art journal is in love with this page. But I think it's because it's so clean and simple somehow, while it's so colorful. Also the technique that I used for the background. It looks like a mosaic and I really, really love it. It's one of my favorites for backgrounds. And here is another one for Christmas. As you can see, I have gone through one year's projects. And now we are in 2014. And as I flip through them, I cannot really tell which one is my favorite. But I should have a top 10 list. So this one is one that goes in my top 10 list of favorites. And that's because I just love how striking the combination of orange and blue is. And here is another one for spring. Now, as you can see, I have used chipboard letters here again. And I believe I used gelatos for this layout. And if you pay attention to the elements that I stick on each page, you can really tell for yourself why this arginal became so thick. And here is my layout with the balloons. I just love the background. Also notice how thick those pages are. Because that's because I stick two pages together. So here is another favorite. I just love that I had the idea to use photographs of my previous arginal layouts. So those polaroids are actually like this one. It's actually a snapshot of the page with the caps. And here is another one in a totally different style. Where I used a black background and all those colorful ribbons. I like how those look. Notice how that red color transferred on the other page. But this really doesn't bother me. I believe that happened because I used crackle paint there. Here is another favorite. I love how the watering can turned out. And I have drawn this water can myself. And this was an example of how you can make an arginal just by using papers on the background. Another page loaded with dimensional elements. The clothespins, the stars, everything was wood veneer. And on this page I also have brads as well as wood veneer airplanes. I just love that luggage, how it turned out. And here is one I made with those steam holes bottles. Where I added glossy accents on top. And you can see how lovely they shine. And here is another example on how you can make an arginal layout by using only scrapbook paper. I had this beautiful line by October afternoon. And I made this layout about books. And here is another layout about Christmas. And this wasn't published on YouTube I believe. And this layout is my daughter's favorite. And I just love how colorful and fun that page turned out. So that was the first arginal that I have ever made. Instead of having an elastic to close down my arginal, I have added ribbons and I never pressed too hard when I tied that bow. And that's because I don't want to press, to add some pressure on the pages. And you can see how this was at the beginning with the elastic, which I never used by the way, even on this arginal, because then the pages are stuck together and they get sticky. So I am going to tie this out. And here is a ginger who came out for a visit to check out what I'm doing. So now I am going to walk you through the second arginal that I have made. And all those layouts are also, most of them at least, are also published on YouTube. I have finished this arginal that I am going to show you way faster than the first one, just because the more you make arginals, the more it becomes addictive. So I made quite a few this year. So here is the one that I am talking about. And you can see that it's not as bulky as the first one, but on this one I haven't used the last four or five pages, just to avoid to make it too thick. And I have also avoided on those pages to add a lot of dimensional elements. So you can see that's about three inches, while the spine is about half an inch. After making the flip-through, I am going to show you how I am going to expand the spine as well as dress up the cove. And this is the first layout of this arginal. This was inspired by my little cat. And I just love how this sits on the roof. This is a great example of how you can make an arginal without having any stamps at all. It's a great example of how you can use computer printouts as well as magazine cutouts. This is a Christmas layout that I made for one of my workshops. This was not published on YouTube, but I had so much fun teaching this on the workshop and meeting the girls in Italy. And here is another layout that I have been teaching on a couple of workshops, and this is not published on YouTube as well. The tree, the tree branches, the birds, the birdhouse are all paper-piste, and the birdhouse is actually dimensional. One of the things that I love doing is travelling, so here is another one about travel, and I have used some metal embellishments there. This is a layout that I made mainly to try out some of my new inks. I believe these are eyes inks, and they are very shimmery, so I just wanted to try out how they blend and everything. And this is another layout that I have gone crazy with color. I made this rainbow background, and then I just had to add white butterflies as a focal point because the background was so busy. And you can see the metal elements as well on this page. Here is another example of what you can do for Christmas and the New Year's Eve. And this is actually an interactive page because you can pick up all those tickets, which are actually wishes for the New Year. Here is a layout that goes up to the top 10 lists of my favorites. I just love this typewriter and another one that I really love with this guitar and the piano. I just love the border at the top and at the bottom. I think that really made the difference in this layout. And here's a fun one. This page really makes me smile whenever I see it with those crazy birds by Tim Holtz. And another one that is more of my style. I just love stacking things one on top of the other at one age of the book, like the cupcakes or the cups, the coffee cups. So here are the books now. This is another one about traveling. I just love the gold stencil details there, as well as the photos that are actually real photos from my travels in Paris. This is a page I made that was published on the Simon Says Tampa YouTube channel. I just love the puffy window and it actually has a fabric at the background, as a curtain. And if you love movies, this is a lovely layout. I love the popcorns and how they fell off the popcorn box. And here is another page that I made and actually is totally out of my comfort zone just because I used purple. And purple is one of those colors that I never use. And this is the end of this art journal, so I am going to walk you through the process of expanding the spine. I will list all the supplies that I am using to expand the spine just below in the details area. So let's get started. First of all, I am going to use my scissors and cut out the spine at the middle. I am using my Tim Holtz scissors and I will go all the way to the other side. So I have cut out the spine in half and the spine in my case isn't very badly damaged. The other one that I had on my first art journal was way more cracked than this one. And now I am using my craft knife on the inside and what I am doing is separating the actual book from the cover. And you can see how the spine and all those signatures are exposed there. So I am separating both the front and the back. Don't throw the cover. I will be using the same front and back to cover up the art journal. I am just going to add a bigger spine. So I am going to separate those two covers. And with my scissors I am going to clean up the edges. Now at this point that I am doing that I have to say that in no way I am a book binding expert but this is what works for me. I have been doing it in many of my art journals and even to those that I have never published the more personal ones or the ones that I try out things and it works fine so I keep doing this and that's what I am going to share with you today. Now that all the edges are nicely cleaned you can use your fingers or your scissors or anything it doesn't have to be perfect this is not going to show at the end. I am also going to cut out the elastic which I won't be using for the reasons that I have explained for the first one. I will be using ribbons to tie out the book. And now I am using a book binding tape you can find this on Amazon you can use any tape that you have on hand at home this is nice and strengthens the bonding of the signatures and I am going to add two layers of this tape this is not going to show again so it doesn't have to be perfect and I am adding this book binding tape because this is going to make sure that even though there are a few cracks inside the book the pages are not going to be separated. The first general that I had this spine was way worse than that it was cracked and opened in many places but this book binding tape actually saved the day so this is how it is going to look at the end and at this stage you have to measure how much wider you want your spine to be so after measuring out I have decided that I will go with one and a half inch instead of half an inch that it was at the beginning this is a heavy chipboard and I have used my paper trimmer this is not going to cut it out all the way but it has made a nice line so I can follow it with my craft knife I am not adding any pressure where I am doing that I am using a metal ruler and I just go again and again all over without adding any pressure so you don't get the risk of moving the metal ruler while you add pressure to your craft knife and now I am measuring how high I want this to be and I will be using the same technique with my craft knife and the ruler to cut out the heavy chipboard and make it to size Of course you wouldn't have to do any of these if you are using a spiral art journal or a ring bind art journal or if you don't use any embellishments at all on your layouts but I do like to add dimension so I don't mind doing that at the end when my art journal is finished so I am using this fabric which is actually a piece of curtain from an IKEA curtain that I got and I love this because it's like canvas it's very neutral, coloured and it's a great idea to use up your favourite fabric scraps to cover up your journals I like to keep my covers a clean and simple without too many elements sticking out just because I take my art journals with me on my workshops if they had lots of things going on on the front it would be very difficult for me to pack them and take them with me but you can always go as wild as you like on the front of your art journals I am just going to show you how I do it so you can probably get inspired I have used my scissors to cut out the fabric about 2 inches wider than I need to and now I will be using my mat gel medium to stick everything together I decided to use gel mat medium just because I have been using this again and again and I know that I get a perfect result what I love about using this to stick fabric on top of my covers is that the gel medium doesn't go through the fabric it doesn't make it hard like other glues does and it doesn't leave any residue on the fabric so you can see how the perfect finish that I get I will be doing the same technique on the spine as well as on the front cover at this stage it's very important not to stick one piece next to each other but leave a small gap in between so you can fold the pages the front and the covers like I do here actually the gap is the same width as the thickness of your covers so I will be doing the same thing for the front cover and then you can use a gel medium at the edges of this cover and wrap around all the excess fabric now you also need to make sure that you do a nice job on the corners and make the mass neat as possible and here is the final result you can see that the inside is not perfect but it really doesn't matter since I am going to stick the journal on top so now I am using two sides tape and you need some strong adhesive at this point so I am going to cover up the whole inside of the cover with my sticky tape for my ribbon I am going to use this seam binding and at this stage you can use any ribbon that you like or thread or anything and I have made sure that I have a nice and long piece of ribbon so now that I have built off the backing of this sticky tape I am going to stick it about the center of the book covers so now it's time to stick the inside of the art journal and my book journal is pretty much ready all that's left to do is to decorate the front now I am going to make a nice bow and I will cut out with my scissors the excess of the ribbon it's always a good idea in this stage to have a longer ribbon because there is no way to go back and do the same process again so it's better to be safe than sorry and this is the first and the second art journal that I have shown you today you can see how the same book can be so thick and thin at the same time so now I am going to use one of those brushes which is made by Faber-Castell and it's for using it on stenciling and I am going to do some stenciling with Gesso all over the front, the back and the spine of this art journal I am not going to add too much but I want to add definitely a few details here and there and here is the finished result now that my Gesso is nicely dry I am going to stick on top some of the flowers these flowers are by Prima and I have used the same flowers for the first art journal but in different colors I like to keep my art journals pretty much the same because the way I store them when they look alike they actually complement one another I am using my hot glue gun to stick the flowers down and as an extra embellishment I will be using one of those tags by Tim Holtz these are metal tags and I am going to use tacky glue to stick it down I could have used my hot glue gun to stick it down as well now for one of those holes at the end of the tag I will be using one of those brads this is a brad that has a light green gem on top but I am using my scissors to cut out those legs from the brad I don't know how you call those thingies that stick out they were sticking out and I couldn't hide them somehow so I decided to cut them out with the scissors and instead stick the gem on top of the hole with my glue gun so I am making sure that everything is nicely secured on the front cover and my art journal cover is pretty much finished so that was the video for today I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel and here are some close up photos of the art journal covers for more inspiration you can click any of the two videos on the screen now or if you 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