 Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and I'm coming with another part of the 100 Days Challenge. Today we're gonna create the top cover of our journal. I hope I will show you some interesting ideas and some interesting tech techniques. This is what I have created today and these are also from newspapers and I will share with you how you can get this beautiful, beautiful effect on your newspaper piece. I'm gonna show it this way so you can see better. And what wasn't in the tutorial in the video, I just added here one of the newspaper finds this one on the back of my sign here. So I hope you will enjoy this creation and maybe you will find something interesting. Yesterday we have created this base for our, this base of cover for our journal and today I'm gonna decorate this one. I would like to have here frame around the window and to count the right measurement for the frame I'm gonna show you now. I'm already prepared with one frame and I'm gonna show you how to count how much you should cut from another cardstock, chipboard or any material you are using to get the frame which makes kind of like cascade that you will see also small amount of the window edges once you will put your frame on the book cover. To make a right measurement and to count right way you will need to get a ruler, paper and write it down. I need some pen. First what you will measure it's inside of your window. So this one it's 15 and a half centimeters, 15 and a half centimeters and in inches it is six inches ish, six inches ish. This one it's seven centimeters in inches it is two and three quarter. When I've been preparing this frame I knew I would like to see the edges of this window so I knew that I will have to count the gap between edge of my window and between frame, this little gap here. So first try to imagine if you would like to have that gap how big it should be. I counted three millimeters so first when you count how large piece you should cut from cardstock type down the side. So first I'm gonna type down this long side which is 15 and a half centimeters and I'm gonna count how big card I need. So I added those three millimeters here sorry here and three millimeters here because I will have those three millimeters on both sides which makes six millimeters. In inches it's six inches and those three millimeters is about one eighth of inch and one eighth of inch here and one eighth of inch here makes one quarter of inch. Then I knew I would like to have the frame two centimeters here or two centimeters here, two centimeters thick frame so I counted two centimeters here, two centimeters here which makes four centimeters. In inches two centimeters is about three quarter of inch so three quarter of inch here, three quarter of inch here it makes one and half inch and here please be be with me because my counting with inches is not that strong so if I do make mistake correct me in the comments I'm totally okay with that and then you just need to count it all together so here it will be 20.1 and here seven and a half seven and three quarter seven and three quarter will be the size of your cardstock here to count this other side for the right measurement you will remember these two numbers and you will just add this one so in centimeters my other counting will be I'm gonna take another card so we counted those 15 and a half side now I'm gonna count that seven centimeters side and I'm just gonna repeat these numbers plus 0.6 plus four and in inches it will be same we already counted six inches side so we need to counter that other side which is two and three uh yeah two and three quarter of mine and I'm gonna again write down these another two numbers one and half 11.6 centimeters or here three four and half I think am I right with inches yes it should be should be this way so we do have this number here four centimeters this number here so my final card which I will cut from some cardstock and I did use again old envelope will be one side will be 20.1 one by the other side will be 11.6 centimeters or in inches it will be seven and three quarter by where is that yeah here by four and a half uh inches this way you can count how large piece of chipboard cardstock folder you need to cut to create a window a frame around your window and then once you do have cut it the card I do have it here you need to draw your frame as I said I decided to have two centimeters or in inches it is three quarter of inch frame so that's what I draw here I took my ruler and for beginners this was the best spent money I have to say I cut it already a few times so I'm trying to find exactly same ruler now because I a little bit damaged the sides but this was well well spent money this ruler I think it's called quilting ruler um if I do remember that right I think Tim Halls has some something similar on his ruler this ruler has these lines and they are in the size of one quarter of inch one quarter of inch one quarter of inch one quarter of inch which makes your drawing and measuring much more easy so what I did I did use this ruler I counted those two centimeters which is three quarter of inch which is this line here and that line I used to draw my pattern this is three quarter of inch so I draw a line flip it over again place it to that side if you don't have a ruler like this you just need to make points in the size you decided to have that frame make a point draw these lines and then cut off this inside window the inside rectangle once you have your frame you can wrap it to your newspapers so I'm gonna take a glue here I'm gonna take this tacky glue because it's brilliant it's a Anitastaki glue but you can use any kind of PVA glue and place it to your background I would like to have there at least piece of that the crossword I think I'm gonna have a look on this like this get there and from here I'm gonna slide my cutting mat underneath take my knife and same like we did before with the cover cut the rectangle inside try to cut these sides smaller than is your frame that way you will don't overlap with paper the opposite side when you will glue it on your frame so try to make these these sides this paper slightly smaller than is your frame this one cut the corners and also cut the paper around and again try to keep that edge of wrapping paper smaller than is your frame so now here because it's a very light chipboard and because I will use anyway no corner punch for the corners I don't want to have their sharp corners so I will cut the corners anyway I know I don't have to keep here any kind of paper around the corner so I'm cutting the paper exactly from the corner in a small angle and again I'm gonna add the glue and fold all these and cover my frame with the newspaper so you will have beautifully covered frame I'm gonna let this dry my other frame it's so drying I can feel it so I'm gonna let this dry as well and I'm gonna move back my base I would like to have quite dark book cover before I will use my paints I'm gonna be using acrylic paint black acrylic paint for my book cover I'm gonna prepare my book cover for some effects I would like to achieve I do have here my lovely palette I do have there also acrylic paint already prepared just gonna light it up so before I will paint my book cover with black acrylic paint I'm gonna prepare it for that painting I just check my book cover and it does have few flaws like this one and the edges here and edge here I can either put there more in a more glue which I actually don't want or I can take straight away sanding tool you can use any sanding tool you will find at home and just sand the edges of the newspaper with your sanding tool I put quite a lot of layers of that newspaper on that so I'm pretty sure that there still will be a lot of newspapers underneath and if not I will cover it with black ink black acrylic paint anyway if you don't have sanding tool like this maybe you do have a nail file that's actually my favorite tool for sanding anything it does have softer you know softer this grinding paper and I'm not sure if they call it grinding paper sanding paper and it's just you know better to hold in so I'm gonna sand anything what I don't like or everything what I don't like here and because I did use quite a lot of glue when I did the glue these newspaper it go quite nicely to sand it down and maybe I will try to sand also the edges here a little bit you know when I put kind of like collages of my papers so there can be kind of like a big step between papers and if I will paint it with black black color it can make not nice coating so I'm gonna sand anything I want to sand to make it smooth and as you can see I'm quite hard on it and the print it still stays still and it's just because when I used my glue and I glued that paper on my template or that chipboard I went with that glue over my newspapers as well so print is stable now just because of that glue that's a thing what you maybe will use also when you are making small embellishments if you will put glue on the top as well it will save the print I know many people say that newspaper print it's not stable and it's true it's catching my fingers quite fast but once you will put some glue over it or some medium over it it will make it stable so I think I'm prepared with the edges of my paper and one more thing if you ever did kind of like wooden distressing or effect on wooden painting with distressing and with that aging of paint maybe you saw this idea that you will use some wax or parafine I'm using this candle and I will rub the candle on spots which I would like to kind of uncover from black paint later so anywhere where I would like to see actually those newspapers later I'm gonna rub the candle on and I never tried that to be honest so I want to see if that works I think I'm done and we will see and not sure if I will even remember where I placed the candle well hopefully yes so now I'm gonna take my acrylic paint and brush and I'm just gonna paint all this with my black acrylic paint and then I will let it dry meanwhile the book cover is drying the paint is drying I'm gonna prepare some bits and pieces to decorate that cover I found this one I really love that in our newspaper so I'm gonna put this aside here is my frame so I can kind of like you know take the frame as my measurement if the image will be big or small if I will like it these two numbers perfect for decoration just gonna flip through quickly just one more time to show you that you can have a look on your newspapers and see amazing things here hot spots awesome nice color nice shape perfect size so that probably would be my choice oh mine look at these all these banners I will say they are perfect perfect for decorating here these numbers if I will cut out only these numbers and cut them on the half you know and keep separate these numbers I can make some beautiful collage from you know put few images together here blue numbers perfect nice size for my journal so go to have a look you will find really so many so many amazing things I like that you know gray and white print so free today perfect numbers perfect so anything here this one it's super for for decorating so it's really so many images you can use in your journal and don't be afraid that it's from newspaper I've been googling I had a comment that the newspapers contain some toxins toxics so I did google that because I didn't google that before I didn't know so I did google all these informations and it did kind of surprise me yes print contains some toxic old print old newspapers and old books contain things like uh elite um arsenic chromium mercury copper iron barium so yes all the books old newspapers can have in the print something like this what I did google you have to make your research and maybe you will find even more information I didn't spend that much time to make like I don't know two hours research I just typed and what appeared the first I did read actually so what was there that new newspapers are mostly free from any kind of toxin that makes the print not that much stable what I did understand from the column I read but I'm kind of solving this issue with my newspapers when I'm applying on the top of my glue that makes the prints more stable and also I had a comment that if I will use iron and I will iron it uh over the newspapers the print will kind of like baked to the paper and will be much more stable I didn't try that yet I will try and um I forgot the name who placed that comment I know there was that uh it was from Edwardian or Victorian uh book with all kind of you know hits and tips I think if I do remember that right thank you so much for all your advices and for all these amazing comments it's brilliant to read that and it's brilliant to to to to learn from that so I'm gonna cut out my images and I'm gonna prepare them for the decorating the cover here I do have leftovers from uh my envelope which I'm gonna be using for reinforcing my embellishments I think I do have everything I need look in stock report there was when I showed you this one underneath was this strip this way and it will be perfect as washi tape use it as a washi tape and here I didn't notice even before uh right under those boundaries where teeny mean small numbers which are perfect to add to my journals and sorry if is it upside down no it's a right way I don't have my reading glasses so I do have these images a little bit blurry and look at these here so many numbers stock reports guys stock reports for numbers perfect so I'm gonna cut these images out and show you how cute labels you can do so I do have fussy cut out all these little numbers and I'm gonna show you how you can kind of like something from nothing I did fussy cut out also these dark images here and here I'm gonna save this look at that I'm gonna kind of cut it with that uh black print around this way I'm gonna make it neat later so how you can make these little ones even more interesting maybe you do have at home uh black card stock or any kind of colored card stock colored colored paper but if you don't if you really just start up and only what you have are newspapers or leaflets from shops like Tesco and Azda and Lidl and in America what is it Michaels if they are still on or dollar three you know they always have some leaflets any kind of these numbers can be found there or any kind of little banners like this can be found there with prizes with words like super offer or or something you know just just take take it from there just grab your little number place it on darker background grab your scissors and do fussy cutting around with some kind of nice distance from the edge this one I took quite wide okay I will try to make it even on all sides so just play with your with your paper until you will be satisfied with the sizes of your cuts like I'm not totally satisfied here yeah go that easy come on make it better even with those small images okay you can make it much much better than I do now it looks definitely not right because it's too small and I think somewhere here kind of ish start from bigger distance and go to smaller one and then just get up some piece of old cardstock and do exactly same okay so what do you think I think it's not too bad right at least I think so but I really like it and if you will take this as your base you can always make it even better there is so many mixed media products you can use on this one and lately I found this UV resin it's cute clear hard and I do have for that this UV lamp and it's like a magic just gonna show you quickly just apply a little bit of that clear resin to your little label try to spread it neatly well I'm not too straight with those sides then get up the lamp and let it cure this UV resin has a flume when it's dry when it's cured it smells the best way how to work with this UV resin it's to have open window and to wear a mask it's the best way how you can work with this one I'm not sure if there is something toxic but you know to protect yourself from any any wrong things just wear your mask and have open window definitely have open window which I do have open window and just put your lamp over the image I think I think I'm done and you do have oh sorry you do have sealed your little label if you will work faster you know here I was talking so I was a little bit a little bit slower but if you will work faster and you will don't actually let soak the resin to that newspaper it will be much much much much visible but I think it's really cute like this and you can create with this resin a really cute banner as if you will put that resin over these little thingies so that's just one little idea so I do believe this is dry completely you can see where I did it scratched the paper and now I'm gonna give it try I'm not sure if it will be good just wipe off the places where I added the wax or the candle or if I should sand it I know they always sanding those spots it's sanding too I'm gonna give it try just wipe it yeah I think so it is possible to just wipe it off from those places from these spots where I have used um the wax I think yeah well this is taken time so what you also can do take your sanding tool and just sand it and yes it goes much much better on spots where I kind of kind of hardly used that candle so I'm gonna wipe off any kind of dust and I do have here my frame I use that paper punch corner paper punch this one on all four corners and I do have here this one with what I found in all newspapers I would like to get this somehow on all that back cover and over the spine to make it stronger so I did glue the this millionaire street piece on this t-shirt and I'm gonna sew it all around and cut the fabric right next to the edge so I do have it sewn all together glued and sewn all together I'm gonna again kind of rip off the edges of that fabric underneath and I do have hit this beautiful frame and I think this one I would like to distress a little bit so I'm gonna take my tool dip it into distressing ink and just wipe that distressing on the edges I also prepared few images as my my embellishment and one of them are the clocks I found I think in that previous video or video before in my newspapers these ones so I'm gonna try to use them somehow if you don't have a distress ink you can always use very strong coffee or tea and with brush brush it kind of paint it over your frame and let it dry that way you will have colored frame as well so now I'm gonna try to make some layout I do have here my frame I do have here this millionaire street I think I would like to have it this way I do have these clocks I can't use pictures of people from the newspaper they are mostly brand new with people who are living and I will have to go to ask them and I'm not sure how they will feel if they I will tell them you will appear in my journal so for that I'm gonna take one picture one paper doll from Tim Holtz collection I love these dolls and I'm not using them as much as I want so I think in this journal they would be actually amazing so if I will stand this guy here and because he does have the hunt this way so I was thinking maybe these clocks can be somehow like you know under his hands and from my little collection of embellishments and look how cute these little banners looks with that with that resin it's so amazing I do have here this hot spots that can be under his leg because his feet because he's standing on something what else I do have here oh I do have these cute ones very small writing which I fussy cut out that can be maybe one of these banners maybe here why not and I do have this I found the Rudrem advertisement has also section where they are writing about what did happened a hundred years ago and they had this look at that it's so gorgeous and a few pictures from the past and there was this title a hundred years ago May 19 1923 it's awesome so this can be right here actually or I do have here this crossword or this crossing something I have no idea the right to name of that and I was thinking I can also put something on the back cover and use these adverts to make it even more interesting maybe something like this and all these numbers looks awesome backed with brown paper so they are perfect embellishment okay I think I'm gonna make layouts somehow like this so I'm gonna put these pieces here and I'm gonna get a piece of acetate and put the acetate to that window first you can find you can buy acetate sheets or you can find acetate maybe in some packaging I do have here this one this came with the mirror the mirror was inside so you can find any kind of acetate sheets in the packaging don't through it to the bin before you will decide to use it for your journals I'm gonna cut a piece which will be bigger than this one for gluing I'm gonna be using double sided tape that's very good supply for journal maker if you are a beginner and you are wondering if to buy or not to buy double sided tape I think here you can't go wrong even maybe you will don't use it every day but there will be time when double sided tape is very handy especially if you need to glue acetate sheet somewhere because it's holding best the acetate sheets I'm gonna press it in and glue there my acetate sheet and press it again make sure it will hold nicely so now to make sure I'm working with the right you know top bottom so the book cover will be this way here it will be closing so here is top here is bottom that way I would like to decorate it so here will be the frame and I think I'm gonna glue it there straight away because I don't think yeah I don't think I have to do something between so I'm gonna put the glue on the frame and glue it on my book cover and I'm gonna try to manage to keep that that little view of inside edges now about gluing this large piece I would like to have it over the spine but to make sure it will don't get crumpled here when it's folding unfolding I'm gonna make for myself kind of like template from cardstock so I do have here this piece from envelope and I'm gonna be using this to attach my sign this sign to that book cover I'm gonna cut the piece which is same size ish I think somewhere here and I definitely don't want to have that piece bigger on any side of this millionaires tree I'm gonna cut up this way and also cut these corners here so now I do have little piece which will help me to reinforce the sign and measure this I'm gonna place the sign the way I would like to see it on my book cover which is probably this one these dots here these dots oops sorry these dots here it's strange how it's sitting you know it's kind of matching picture from newspaper what I'm doing here my cover so here I can see here it's starting the spine so till there I can have the chipboard like reinforcement of my millionaire street sign so this will be underneath here then the spine I'm gonna keep clear I'm not gonna put there anything it will be free so here and again here I can see where the spine starts from this side so somewhere close and I'm gonna cut off this one and I do have two pieces which will reinforce the sign this one so I can glue it here and I can also glue it here so it will be somewhere here before I will start to glue anything here I'm gonna have that this one so I'm gonna make a position yeah position it's good I know how now so I'm gonna take a glue and glue this down for this gluing I'm gonna take a mod podge because I know it's water resistant it's holding really well and I'm gonna glue it with mod podge and I'm gonna apply the glue here and here as well kind of to make sure it's on the edges and I think I will also add the sewing effect I like sewing on my journals in the middle so this one now put this back here and I'm gonna glue this little fella and I think yeah right here and because I went with that glue on all all over over that back cover I kind of need to spread it everywhere to make color on my on my book cover same I'm gonna go here as well and when I am with that mod podging I'm gonna put a code of the mod podge on this sign as well just to protect the print so I'm gonna let all this dry so I think everything gets dry now I found in my stuff these brats and I lost one now you will need to find it these brats they do have kind of like screw heads I do have three now so I'm gonna find that fourth one and I'm gonna add these brats to the corners I would like to have them kind of in the similar spot so what I'm gonna do I do have here a piece of cardstock I'm gonna poke the hole I think somewhere here and I'm gonna use this one to poke the hole in all my four corners kind of match it all together and poke flip it over match it here poke they should be in the same spot now flip it this way match it here and flip it the right way and match it here and I'm gonna fix that these brats and they are in the silver color which I think it's not too bad but I would like to have it more in vintage style so I'm gonna fix this first I do have here glue I do have a cinnamon the spice cinnamon I do have here a little my oops this way my black acrylic paint so first I'm gonna apply a little bit of that black acrylic paint let this dry now I'm gonna put a little bit of glue here and add the small amount of cinnamon you need to make kind of like a little little mesh and with this I'm gonna go over those screw heads and once it's kind of like nearly dry I'm gonna go with soft brush with a little bit of cinnamon on the on these hairs over this one again and press it in there you think I'm I'm done need to find again those screw heads and a little bit of cinnamon oh come on and it looks like this so the spice in your kitchen can make beautiful effects on your project so I'm gonna add a little bit around each of these screw heads and I do have a little bit of rust on every corner maybe I will add a little bit more when I will kind of revisit this journal in the end so now I can put the glue either here or on the frame place it right here and I'm gonna put the glue here I'm not gonna go till the end of this piece because it's peeking out a little bit here and I don't want to mess up that end like this and now it's time for all my embellishments I added a little bit of that resin to those clocks as well the pieces which I will add here on that acetate I will use a double sided tape on them now I can take something where I plan it under his feet I think that was this one hot spots and slide it under his feet yep like this and I'm gonna hold it for a few seconds just to make sure it will get glued what is it commentary commentary and results okay I forgot those clocks so now the clocks I am still letting letting Jai hold that glue so I'm not gonna move it too much yet I'm gonna give it Jai this will be here oh I forgot to put something here I will need to figure it out so that will be the closure I do have here also the inside but I'm not gonna place it there yet so this will be book cover and I think I will like to have here some labels I'm not sure about that yet so still everything is in process this is all done for today the basic decoration using mostly newspapers just this one it's not newspaper that's Tim Holtz and of course Bratz and the inside material but the the images other images are from newspapers so I hope you did enjoy it and I hope you will come back tomorrow to the to probably maybe do a little bit more changes I'm not sure about them but to decorate inside I do have some somewhere frame oh here I do have frame for inside and I would like to kind of go around do not have there too much blue I like blue but not this way so to decorate that inside and then put the cover together probably I will see thank you so much for jumping in today and spending your time with me I hope you found some inspiration maybe some new idea maybe some new technique these videos are not for full projects they are for a short project and to make a journal it takes a time so something like this can be done in one can be done in one video but very short way and if you want to see all process what I'm doing mostly on all my journals this is it it takes a time thank you so much for spending your time with me have a wonderful day take care of yourself and I will see you soon bye