 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to share with you my altered paper clips. I came up with a little bit different way how you can make decorative paper clips and that's what I would like to share with you today. First I'm gonna show you my paper clips, so I'm gonna move these and I will show them on the page, so I'm gonna move them on the side and show you in this journal how they can look like. You can start with very simple ones like this, they are really very easy way decorated or you can put their more embellishment and make them more decorative. You can use so many different techniques and so many different techniques and all kinds of offcuts and these paper clips are holding really well. They are very easy to make and they are wonderful for scrapping your small pieces for decorating your pages totally different way. I have to take it from this side that here I can see, so from one side we do have this, very simple with small charm and from other side we do have this one, so you can create your small artistic pieces. It can be this way or a very simple way and it can be on the top side, top edge or on the side edge of your journal like this or like this and of course you can match it with the look of your journal. There you go and you can do so many beautiful layers and that paper clip will hold really well and it's really very enjoyable to make them and I especially like the thing that I can use even teeny-meeny small offcuts for this type of paper clips and they do look so amazing. Even those simple ones they do look amazing and here I do have these very simple way. So I'm gonna show you what you need to make those paper clips. So first if you want to create same paper clips like I do, click on the link down below. There will be link for free download of this image and it will be your template from the backside how you will cut it out those pieces and I choose two different papers this one this light one I'm choosing for collage so this will be my background and here where I do have some old print I'm gonna use offcuts like this and I will make some kind of collage with these offcuts and cover all that sheet with my offcuts I've got very big amount of these strips so the smallest smaller smallest smallest the small offcuts are the best for this one because you will work with small parts like this so small papers offcuts a small strips they are the perfect for collage for these paper clips and this paper it's 200 grammage paper and this paper will be my background and on this side I'm gonna use braille and some stamping and some book pages probably and a little bit of washi tapes and I'm gonna do my background like very flat not with so many layers of papers I'm gonna fast forward this process because that will be boring to watch me so I used for that braille stamped background ground espresso distress ink and fatted jeans distress ink from Ranger and I use that prayer I will put link for that prayer I've got it from Amazon so I will put link down below for those who are interested to have a look I stamped all that sheet with Glynch stamps from Tim Holtz because I just love them I think they are amazing for backgrounds I do love do love to look of those graphic images and then I choose to fuel all the book pages strips to put there some some more decorative elements and some beautiful washi tapes these washi tapes I do have from Amazon as well the link will be down below for those who want to have a look I love these washi tapes they look so amazing so I did just few layers here and there nothing too much complicated I didn't want to overload it at this one because I'm planning to decorate it on the top once I will cut out those those shapes so these are my two sheets one with that braille and stamping and the other one with my off-cuts I'm going to cut out that template always to those triangles together with that straight side back-to-back then fold it on the half and where are those holes punch it through and you do have your piece once you have all your pieces fussy cut out from those sheets and punch those holes you can start to decorate them first what I placed on my on my paper clips was these small paper clips I do have a few bucks of these paper clips and I'm not using them and mostly I'm not using them because they are kind of hard to put on paper it's kind of tricky to put them on the paper especially these shapes like its triangle or this square paper clip it's tricky to put them on the paper so I had them in my drawer for two years they are from this creative collection and here you can see where is the the dairies yeah it's from dairies and Wesson Wesson Wesson dairies and it's creative collection of these paper clips and for me they are so beautiful but they are kind of hard to put on the page on my journal but they are brilliant for these paper clips this alternation because you will slide them just once they are holding your paper wonderful way for this type of paper clip and you don't have to take them off you just have extension I need some paper so you just have extension of this paper clip and then you can slide it over the edge and because of this paper clip that this paper it's holding so well and it's not it's not going you know anywhere it's holding so well and I'm gonna keep it there first it's beautiful decoration and it's it's oh how is the bright board it does that work you can use also those plastic paper clips and leave them forever on on that paper glue some embellishments over it we will decorate today or if you don't have any like this just use a simple paper clip slide it somewhere and now it's time to decorate it if you will keep a small gap here you can use it for hanging some charm so I do have prepared my pieces and I'm gonna make one very simple yeah this can be here I will slide it a little bit out I will have also space where I will put my charm so which way are pictures so I'm gonna start with this and I'm gonna make it very simple way so very simple way I think it's some nice lace or trim so I'm gonna place it over it and with hot glue I'm fixing also that paper clip permanently so it will don't slide out and I still have the eye here where I can hook some charm or the loop there and then I will probably take some letter and if I will have some teeny-nini small quote I will take some quote or word or mini label here I think I'm missing that quote in there so I need some word and I'm gonna take this is in my ATC collection which I have on on Etsy and I think I'm gonna take that relax that's good one so I'm gonna put that that relax and because here I print it out on light paper I'm gonna use some cardstock glue it on cardstock so first I'm gonna make it a little bit stronger glue it on my piece gonna slide it behind and then this I need to use hot glue because it's dimensional so I'm gonna place here hot glue and put the relax over it like this just very simple for the other side I'm gonna use it from same collection from those red ATCs I think this picture as some and some of these embellishments so I did reinforced with another cardstock that photo I cut out that label from here and I'm gonna make my smaller layout on this side so first I'm gonna probably put this right here yes I'm gonna use hot glue again like this and then I do have here small pieces I think this one it's from movers and shapers with that USA sign and with that arrow so I'm gonna use this movers and shapers die from C-zix Tim Holtz and the photo oh it's alive and lucky number seven yeah lucky number seven lying everywhere like this then help for for the first time you need to help to your paper clip a little bit to slide it over the edge but then you know once it's settled it's settled and you can nicely slide it over the edge and because you do have that that paper clip it's holding really well even I do have that that charm and it's so too many layers it's that hot glue it's beautifully holding and my number seven it's somehow creepy when you want to do some little bit more complicated layers where you do have so many frames so I do have here a few things I can use for that layout and first will be this frame I do have also inside that off card guess this way I will like it yes so I can put the glue here and with this top layer I'm securing those two bottom pieces here I do have double-sided tape already I'm gonna just take it off and place it on the top of my layer come on go there and now I'm gonna take my paper clip and I can try to manage it to place it on my paper clip maybe like this but I will like something underneath so I'm gonna take off this one and use some washi tape I guess something more dramatic I can this is dramatic enough I can find the end of my there you are so I'm gonna put a little bit of washi tape yes this way so you can distress it you can also stamp on it put there any kind of texture maybe some modeling paste you know to play with it to try different techniques different materials this is mini art and I think those paper clips looks really beautiful so I'm gonna have a look this way I'm gonna put lace here and for fixing this big piece I'm gonna use also hot glue make sure it will hold properly this way and I'm missing hot glue here so I'm gonna hot glue here like this now I can slide that paper clip back and I do have one side and on that other side if this will be disturbing for you just take some cardstock slide it over the cardstock so you will see how your paper clip looks like because you know that background here you can see I used some pizza box for fussy cut out that frame and I don't mind at all that it's seen from here but if you need to cover it just open it put book page all over and fussy cut out around that will make all that paper clip very neat so here you can slide it totally I'm gonna keep that small paper clip on it permanently and I can actually hung some charm from here as well because I do have that hole in there I need some decoration here I will think about it but I do have a few more layers so here I do have this beautiful film strip label just simple circle and this this is from Tim Holtz this is Sizzix as well this one I have no idea and this one I will have to have a look I don't remember all of them so I think I'm gonna take this side yeah and I'm gonna put glue here over the paper clip to make sure that paper clip will hold there forever and I'm gonna cover it with that film strip here on the bottom I'm gonna put a little bit of glue and glue this now this label so I'm gonna put glue here where I saw I do have that part and I'm gonna glue my label hot glue okay now the circle okay so I'm gonna put glue here here here and all the way my telephone I think here I'm gonna use hot glue for the inside and some words it needs some work and I found this one and I think I'm gonna place it there I'm gonna place it right here from that other side decorate it somehow make sure that the glue didn't didn't glue those sides together once it's glued place it over to your page and you have beautiful decoration and again decorated from the other side as well so these are my altered paper clips and with this paper clip around that paper it holds really well and you do have space where to start to put your layers and as you can see those layers can go like really on big space you can even do bigger ones you know many layers of frames or some big picture so this is my sharing for today pardon me with my paper clips a little bit different way I really like this one so with paper clips a little bit different way I hope you did enjoy it I hope you found some inspiration don't forget to click on that link it's free download this way of course this way it's free download so don't forget to click on that link and use the image if you like it and then enjoy your craft so this is my sharing for today thank you so much for visiting me have a wonderful day take it about yourself and I will see you soon bye