 Hello my dear friends, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting. I wasn't too much active on a YouTube for the last few days, but I've been working in behind I'm putting together a few videos, and I hope you will like the coming tutorial, but those videos have to be put together Right now I'm working with cereal boxes with any kind of food boxes. I mean like boxes from your food from Toothpaste from perfume any kind of boxes I ever saved and I'm making my own embossing folders, and I have to say I'm in love with that. It's quite lots of cutting, die-cutting But it works But it works now when I realized what I did wrong. This was the first one I created and I was too hurry to use it So I didn't wait too long time to let it dry properly. I use it I think half hour after I glued all these pieces together. So I went through to my physics Die-cutting machine and it did embossed nicely. Look at that. It's my first embossing trying with my first embossing folder Made from old envelope and this is from those boxes And it's nice. It's not too bad, but this one. I hope you can see that that The difference with this one. It's much more Crispy, it's much more beautiful And it's just because I let it dry over the night properly I didn't touch it before and then I try to Embossed same card with this embossing folder, which was dry properly And it was much more better look at that that embossed effect here And you don't need any kind of thick chipboards or thick boxes because you do have those plates in your Cutting machine those acrylic plates which will make that stop. I'm gonna show you how I started here I'm gonna probably finished My layering What I found that the best Amount from my my point of view Maybe you want to make it a little bit more thick or a little bit more thin It depends, but from my point of view three layers of normal cereal box or you know That perfume box any kind of box saw three layers of die cut From some kind of these boxes glued together It gives me exactly thickness. I want I Try that where I do have or I do have Gonna show you straight away just bear with me. I'm gonna put these three together One two three, and I'm gonna let it dry and Make sure you've got a nice amount of glue and use glue which dries hard If you have any like that PVA glue, but I think PVA glue dries nicely So PVA glue, I think Mod Podge will be perfect because Mod Podge dries hard So any kind of glue which dries hard not not that totally bendable This put together was oh my that was such a terrible work because those pieces are too small. I did actually try The layers here you can see different layers. This is that pushed and Here I hope you will be able to see the number five. It's two layers Number zero are three layers and that rest are four layers of that chipboard So what I like the most the number that seven it's perfect actually that seven. It's beautiful, but in that in that In those numbers the number zero it's bolded and it still shows nicely all those and it's So number three. I mean three layers are From my point of view perfect the number seven. It's it's beautiful. It is but I think it's too thick So three layers. That's what I try here two three four four four four And I like those three the most here I put only two layers of those chipboards and it's it's nice. It's really good. I like it, but it's not that dimensional So I will probably add there more So what I did here So for cutting those pieces those die cuts. I used any kind of food boxes perfume boxes Anything I save from the items I bought for my home But for making my folders I choose a little bit something a little bit different and it's just because of my thinking I don't like to have my file for embossing folder Disturbing so any kind of that color through print Will will disturb me when I am crafting it will it will just not be the one I want to see and also If I will don't like my embossing folder anymore. I want to use it in my journals So for because of that all those thinking What I used it's this type of envelope. You can you can receive the items from amazon in this in this envelope and I'm using this one because it's nice strong and thick enough to make that reverse this one to make that reverse embossed effect and It's perfect because it's already folded. So I took my Ruler and knife And I just cut it on three pieces first. I cut it those sides because they are Overlapped together So I cut it those two sides here and on that opposite side And why I came up with this idea I do love numbers and there is not too many embossing folders with the right numbers, but I I found in my stuff Oh Die cuts with numbers with small letters. So I was thinking why do not do it and the idea came to me After I had to watch one of my very old video I think five years ago. I shared how you can embossed with stencils and how you can embossed acetate pieces I will put link for that video down below if you would like to see that I was quite funny to watch myself I always feel for you When I'm reading comments on old videos I'm thinking oh brave you that you did watch that Because I felt so badly When I watched my old video Anyway, I will put the link for that video down below so you can have a look So when I watched my video with that stenciling with that embossing with stencils I was thinking that stencil is not thick And why do not use my dies or die cuts to create Ouch my own Brushing folder everything it's falling on me So I cut that envelope on on the pieces then I Took my embossed three layer it I don't know it was two but now three layer it die cuts and I'm gonna make some some nice Layer and I'm always thinking already thinking about future use in my Journals and as you can see you already have that top cover. So it's really easy And I'm already thinking if I will want to use it Later in my journals It have to have some kind of style already now So I can actually use it later. So first I'm gonna glue that label And I forgot to cut. Oh, I forgot to cut The numbers So here I think I'm gonna put those plants here. I do have The word plants. So I'm gonna give it dry and I'm gonna glue it inside So I place my letters on that Envelope piece if you feel or if you see that you have there quite lots of glue around Try to take it off right now Because if it if is it glue which dries hard it can make Another bulks, which you don't want to see there after embossing And then let it dry over the night or what I did A few minutes ago when I tried those numbers on the other one I took my heating tool and I heat it like really hardly for a long time for 10 10 minutes. I think To dry out all that glue to make sure that it's not wet and it's holding well Here I think the end it's not straight. So I'm gonna And it's dry already. Okay Yeah So make your designs And if you are like me make the designs you will be able to use in your journals later on That's why it's good that you can use, you know scrap material or something. You already may be saved From perfume from what I said perfumes food anything you saved before anything Any of those boxes can be very useful So once you are sure it's totally dry and You can't feel the glue anywhere I made this one as well. So I give it really long time of that heat and I hope both are dry Take your cutting machine and first go with your File folder through to that machine without any card stock inside and I'm keeping all layers here on on my big shot It's like where I am using dies. So all those layers same like I'm using dies and go through with your folder So it will flatten that cardboard. It will kind of make it sit totally So as you can see, I already created my folder. I'm gonna take a card This is a 250 gsm card stock and I'm gonna put that this card I'm gonna place it right to the end Put it back. Oh not this way Put it back And make sure it's your folder. It's dry because remember you are working with paper And you don't want to get any of these to glue together oops And here are my plans And it looks like this plans and because I have created that wonderful. I'm really Wondering how this will looks like So I'm gonna go through to my machine first before without not before without any card stock I'm gonna take this parallel stand card stock. I hope you can see that and I'm gonna place it on my wonderful See I already have Embossed test. So hopefully we will see this is 200 gsm And I'm gonna give it try and we will see right You have to be careful. I think I maybe it didn't did I? Oh good. Good Now I got scared that it's still there glue that it was just look How beautiful and I do have also embossed the pattern of my of my envelope and I have to say That I really like that pattern of that envelope. It looks more vintage. So I'm pretty happy about it because the those those Those embossing effects are wonderful. They are if you want to see how to embossed with stencils I'm gonna put the link down below for that very old video It's kind of like very similar way in that video. I'm using Only toilet paper rolls because at that time I haven't had I haven't had this silicon mat This is silicon mat from scissor. I think they still have it But I think now it's different color. Maybe I I didn't actually google it, but I will have to have a look Here you can actually see one of my stencils when I use it on stenciling I can actually show you as well So for embossing with stencils. I'm gonna use as a base this pink Embossing sheet or plate then I'm gonna place there this clear one I'm gonna use this stencil with coca power out. I use that standard stencil on that Last project. I'm editing videos now. So hopefully you will like it. I'm gonna place it upside down because I want to have those letters erased embossed through To that writing in the right direction and not not this way like I it will be Um Backwards, but I want to have them in right direction. So I'm gonna place my stencil upside down on that cutting sheet Then I do have here 200 gsm cardstock. I'm gonna place it over my stencil And I'm gonna take this silicon mat And place it over it Next will be another cutting plate and it's kind of fluffy And I'm gonna give it try how thick it is Yeah, it's going too easy. So I know I need to reinforce it a little bit So I'm gonna take just old box And I'm gonna place that old box here on the top and I'm gonna give it try again To put there a little bit more pressure, but not too much And very easy. This is really easy It's I don't need to To twist it too much. So I'm not putting very high pressure if I will use This cutting plate, it will be just too much It will give to my cutting machine too much pressure and I don't want to Go there. So with this Kind of like sandwiching with another papers. I can help to that embossing process And we will see and really beautiful embossing effect So this way you can emboss even with stencils and when I watched that old video where I use those toilet paper rolls I kind of was thinking like It's not too thick. I can make it with my dies if I will stack them together, you know to make them a little bit more dimensional I don't know why it took me so long time But I'm so happy it did came to my mind And now I know I can I can emboss even designs I want to see if they are not on the market. I can create them using my dies So this is my sharing for today make your own embossing folder Use your dies go to have look what what dies you have. Oh, this is empty I totally forgot I've got these words by Tim Holtz And I'm planning to use them because I actually like how they can emboss and all these numbers. That's just my style So go to have a look what kind of dies you have go to have a look what kind of boxes and cereal boxes and You know stuff we save you have And maybe you can create your own designs and if you do have some stencils you like To have like a embossed effect go for it because it's not too hard If you don't have this silicone mat and this is from physics So have a look. I think it's called embossing mat Silicon embossing mat. I think it's called that way. So this is from physics If you don't have this one use some thicker Cardboard and place it under your stencils or you know over those papers Like I place those this silicone mat it will work too. You just need to put there some Some soft which will go through with your paper which will go through to that stencil. So something softer than a chipboard Something like cardboard boxes. They are soft enough or those those toilet paper rolls. They are perfect So this is my sharing for today. I hope you did enjoy it. I hope you found some inspiration I will put link for that out video down below for those brave brave people Thank you so so much for sharing your time with me. Have a beautiful day Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye