 Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting. I had few requests to create or to do tutorial how I made a corn journal, which I shared with you a month ago about that. I don't have tutorial for that book and I actually can't recreate that book because I don't remember how exactly I was folding all pages, but I can show you what I did. And you will figure it out what you can do and how you will fold your pages. It's quite simple, it's just you will create a base and around the base you will fold your pages. For my journal, I used very large paper. I started with, this one is H2 size paper. Alpha 2. It's very large paper, that's kind of similar paper what I had before. So what I did, I folded the paper in the size, which was kind of like base for my pages. This one I'm gonna just cut on two pieces. So if you do have at home A3, Alpha 3 size paper, that's what you will need for today's journal. Last time I had a little bit bigger paper, I believe, but A3 size paper will do. So this is A3 size of paper. That's the size when normal printer paper, A4 size you can fit twice here. So this is A3 I had before a little bit bigger. So what I did, I took this my piece of a ruler. This is a half inch. I think just better with me, I'm gonna just check. Yeah, half inch. This is half inch and I used that to create a spine. What I did, I placed the ruler on the side of my paper. I grabbed that opposite side, slide it to my ruler and fold it. Then I took this side, flip it this way, took my ruler, place that ruler again on the side of that paper, grab that opposite side, slide it to my ruler and fold it. With that, I have created in the middle spine like this. Then I grabbed these edges and I folded them to these folds to that spine. Not totally to the spine because I didn't want to get my pages stuck in the middle of my book. So close to that spine but not exactly on that spine. Gonna show you here. I hope you can see where the fold of the spine is. It's here and I do have that little small gap. And I'm gonna do same on that opposite side, like this. And then I needed to decide how tall my journal will be. I had already printed out papers at that time. So I took my papers, placed them here on the top and just folded the bottom around those papers to make sure that my papers will fit into that template or that base. Today I'm gonna be using this eight by eight paper. So I'm gonna place my paper here on the side and here on the top, match those sides. And I'm just gonna fold the bottom and continue with folding here. I'm gonna fold all folds one more time and burnish with bone folder to make sure I will see them. I'm gonna use distress ink and distress all these folds to make sure you will see what I do have here. So these are my folds. Then I grabbed scissors and I decided where I wanna have pockets. I created first pockets from these bottom shorter pieces. So here I would like to have pocket probably here, the bottom pocket and maybe here. So these two I'm gonna keep together with the paper. These two I will cut off to make sure that I can have pocket on this all page. I would like to have that kind of like hinge for the pocket. So I didn't cut all that piece off. I took a part of that piece and kept it together with this and created from that half of the hinge. So here that will be one side of my hinge. The other side I have created from this, like this. So when all this will be decorated, I can just put the glue here, fold it over and I do have pocket on all the side here. Then I created this pocket. I do have here this part, which is for spine. So that will be another my hinge like here. And again, I'm gonna keep here a part of this piece. That's another, that opposite hinge. And I do have another pocket. That can be on the opposite side. So I had one of my basics done for, you know, this is just base and it's base with a spine. Then I have created one, which I added inside and that other one was without this spine. I'm gonna grab that other half. I'm gonna just fold it on half and here I'm gonna place this on the table, place this one on the top. And to make sure that my pages will be similar, I can either took this bottom part as my navigator to watch how far I should fold this. So I would go here and here I do have left over. That's what creates here my spine. So I can either cut it off or fold it again and that will be hinge for next page, which I can glue on that. Or I can simply fold the paper on half here and that will make a little bit bigger page, which I actually did. I didn't mind that some of my pages will be a little bit wider just because that makes interest in my journals. So I did fold it this way, just very simple way. Then again, this size, how tall my journal will be, I took always same. So I'm gonna follow the first page and again I'm gonna burnish all my faults, make sure I will see them. I'm gonna distress all my faults and I will come back. So again, you can see my folding and I did exactly same steps like before. I choose where I wanna have pockets, those parts I kept. So maybe here, this side one and from my off-cuts before, I can create those side flaps. That's right. I'm gonna do here side pockets on both of these and this I can use as an extra page. I can glue it on the side and make it as an extra page or I can create little booklet from this one. So I do have prepared another pocket and when I will place these two together, it did make base for one of my signatures. I think I have prepared six or eight signatures. Now I'm not sure, I don't really remember. It was just because I didn't need to remember. You know, it was just, I was enjoying that creation. So once I had prepared my base for the signature, here I'm gonna grab this off-cut from here and I'm gonna actually create another flap from that. And I think I'm gonna take just my brown tape and tape it together. So I do have my brown tape on that extra paper. Now I can place them together and you don't have to be exactly, but it have to match the sides, not at all. It can be placed just in the middle and create this beautiful extra page. So I do have that extra page here. And once I had these basics, I was thinking maybe I can prepare it straight away. It's some kind of windows for my journal. So I choose the parts where I didn't prepare pockets, which means here on this part, it's this side and this side. Sometimes I choose both to create a frame straight away. Sometimes I choose only one from all that sheet that only one will have window. So that's what I prepared before I started to do anything else. And then it was just embellishing. So I'm gonna prepare a few of these pages, show you what I have. I do have prepared here kind of like three signatures. So I'm gonna show you what I do have prepared. My first signature, that outside piece with the spine. When I do open it, it's this way. I do have window, oh sorry. Window, full page pocket on that full page that will be folded this way. Then I do have spine, full page and window. And here I made mistake, but it will work either way. You can always put the pocket where you will create the window because then you will have see through what is in your pocket. So don't be afraid if you will make kind of like mistake because it's not mistake actually, how you will create it the way it will be. So this is my first one that insert inside which doesn't have a spine here. It's just folded on half that large paper. It does have this spread, full page with the pocket on the bottom, window, full page with the pocket on the bottom, window. That's my first, the second, it will be quite similar. I just didn't make that pocket on the bottom. I made two pockets here in the middle. Then this, it's also quite similar. I can place it either way, window, full page with the pocket on the bottom. Again, window and next full page with the pocket. And as you can see, I already placed my acetate sheets inside, but I left on that third one, I left one window empty without acetate sheet. I do have it here prepared, but here, I wanna just show you how you can decorate the window. You can use the washi tapes and do framing with using washi tapes, or if you would like to use your decorative paper to create a frame around your window. And if you cut it, all windows exactly same as I did, keep one without plastic, without that acetate sheet and cut your paper in the size you need. So here, I'm just gonna measure how big piece it's this one. And I see that it's four inches. So from my sheet, because I know it's exactly same size tall. So from my sheet of designed paper, I'm gonna cut piece four inches. I do have here my decorative paper. I'm gonna place it on my page, clip it with paper clips together. Then flip it over and here, I'm gonna draw the window. And that decorative piece, I'm gonna keep like my template for cutting frames, for decorating. So now here, I'm gonna, oops. Here, I'm gonna cut off that window like this. And this decorative paper, I'm gonna keep like template for creating all frames for my book. So now I can add that acetate and this is how I do have that last piece with the spine. So only one window and two pockets. And inside, I do have this one. I have created windows here in the middle so I can either place it this way, sew it between and create pocket here, pocket here. Or I can glue these together, keep it as a top-loaded pocket. And sew it with this fold here into my spine. So then I will have flap here actually. And flap here. So this can be changeable. If I will sew it here in this fold and create one pocket here, one pocket here, to adding another paper or another frame on this one, I can have, you know, more flaps using these. So it depends how I will decide it to sew it into my signature. So I'm gonna add a window here, or I mean acetate here. And I'm gonna decorate my pieces and I will show you what you can do with this basic, with this base in the final journal. I do have prepared just the basics and I wanna show you what I do have till now. So I used washi tapes to decorate the frames from one side, from other side. I do have created these frames, which I will include in there. I added here and there on these flaps, decorative paper. And I did sewing all around of all piece, including the pockets. I did sewing here as well. So all pieces are sewn all around and all frames are decorated with some washi tapes on one side. The other side is plain. There will be fitted this one. So I try to kind of like make it the way where it will match with some pocket I do have. So it's this one, this one I do have frame covered with washi tape from this side. Here will be one of these decorative frames. The pocket here I do have this way. Now this has, here I already sewn the pocket in or on. So I do have decorative washi tape just here on this edge, just to make beautiful decorative background here. Then I do have this decorative washi tape around this window and again decorative paper on the pockets. And here I do have this. And now it will be about editing things, editing extra pockets, extra pages. This is that cutout from the bottom. So that's what I do have prepared till now and those frames. And I am back with my signatures. Before I will create a cover for this journal. I would like to show you how I made each of these openings. I thought I'm gonna have this video tonight, this Friday, but it took a little bit longer time than I expected. So it will be probably tomorrow. Hopefully it will be tomorrow. So I'm gonna take this. This will be probably my first signature. This is the part with the spine here. So it's open like this. I think I do have here. This is just extra. So it's open like this. It does have that spine, these two sides. Here you can see that frame. I used just washi tape on this side. This I have glued here to that frame. So it's extra page. And here on the top I have glued this frame. Here I do have this washi tape around and here I do have that pocket where I told you, who I made mistake, but in the end it's not mistake. Before I glued that pocket down, I added decorative paper in the inside of that pocket to make it kinda like cute. Do not make it too plain. So from other side, I do have this. You have that frame where I can go from the side. I do have this pocket and on the top another pocket. I should take something. So I will show you where are pockets. So here we have a pocket and pocket. And here we have a pocket and pocket. As you can see, I do have another pocket here. This is from my kind of like brand new little collection of Christmas trees. I do have three sheets with kind of like postcards or larger postmarks, I would say, which can be added to your journal. And I do have a third page, which I actually used plus these little pockets. There is six pockets on the page. So that's my brand new collection, just a small one. And I created that collection just because of this journal. That's why it took longer time. So that's first part of this signature. That second part is this one. I'm gonna open it. Yeah. So this was full sheet. It was just that folded and folded without the gap between. So in the middle, I have created those two frames that I showed you on this side. I used washi tape, same on both sides to kind of make it, to make it together, go together. Here on this side, I added that off cut from the bottom. That's what I did show you. Here, I do have pocket here and pocket here. And then on this off cut, I added one more page. I used that print here to create kind of like little file folder as an extra. Here, I do have these two. I actually glued them here on this, on this side. So they are just like flapping over. And this one, it's glued here. Again, like flapping over. And it's just like, you know, cute little decoration and also extra space for journaling. That's extra pages. And here, this is actually from that Christmas tree collection. This is one of these designs. I place it in the background. I do have pocket here and little pocket here. That's on this side. And when we flip it over, I added just these two frames here. It will be folded this way. It will be folded in my journal this way. This will be spine of my journal. So when it's open, I do have frame here and we go inside to that frame from this side. And when it's open here, I do have this frame here and we go to that pocket from here. So that's this signature. I'm gonna place them together. Then the second one, I do have this. And again, I'm gonna take that inside off and first show you the part where I do have that kind of like gap between pages. So this was the base where I created frames on the sides. So now I'm gonna show you this was an extra, which I have created from my prints. Here I used decorative paper from the collection I showed you from that eight by eight sheet and the signature will be like this. Here is that spine. So I glued that frame here. Before I glued that frame on my page, I added this extra page to that frame here. I glue it on this side here and then I glued that down. All is sewn around and decorated. And I used a little bit of washi tapes here and there. Here I have created just small pockets. Here I have created also just small pockets. This is like an extra. And the last page here, it's that another frame. And again, I have created that frame from that eight by eight sheet. Then I added these stickers and washi tapes from that other side. I do have washi tapes around those frames. I cut it on that base, just like decoration. And here I do have triple pocket. This is from my Christmas file folder design. I will put links for all the details I used here down below if you would like to have a look. This is also from one of my file folders designs. And it can be open like this. Videos for these, they will come at Wednesday. That will be the day where I will share bits and pieces from my Etsy Share or from my Etsy Digitals for my customers to know what they can do with those collections. It's just like kind of like navigation because I do have those collections. And I think it's always good to see what we can do with all our Digitals. So I glued, this is one of my file folders I do have on my Etsy Now. I created that base, then I glued that base down. So I do have pocket behind and then one pocket which supposed to be in that file folder here. So I can stack there a lot and it's closing behind this bellyband. Kind of like slide in. That's what I do have on this side and it will be this way. And this way. That inside signature, that's just that folded folder, you know, without that gap. So from one side, I do have just these frames and plain places for writing. I used only those washi tapes to decorate it. And from other side, I do have this. I create it again from those eight by eight papers, extra frames which way I'm gonna go up this way. So here we have entry to that pocket. And here we have entry to that pocket. So it will be, yeah, it will be this way in my signature. Now I confused myself. Then I do have again that Christmas trees collection here, only here. So I do have one pocket and another pocket and one, two, three, four pockets here. This is from file folder collection and this is from that Christmas trees collection. So it will be in my signature this way. We have writing spot, just decorative frame. Here is that pocket to that frame. Pocket, pocket, another pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket. There is not enough pockets in the journals. So that's kind of like a second signature. And the third one is this one, gonna take this one off. So, and this one off, I'm gonna take off that inside and I'm gonna show you the base. So this was the base with that spine here with that gap between pages. So from the base, when I cut the window here, I just decorated again with the washi tape. That was on all my frames that I used the washi tape and I decorated one side. And then on other side, I created extra, from this side, extra frame from eight by eight. So from this side, we do have pocket here and this is from those Christmas trees collection. This is from file folder collection. And here you can see, I just put together all these of cuts from inside and created little writing journal by sewing all these of cuts with my sewing machine. And then just, I just put few decorations on that. So it's in this pocket and we do have pocket here and pocket behind the gift. And when I flip it over, this is from file folder collection I do have on my Etsy. This is slot pocket and then another pocket behind. I let this one empty here from eight by eight paper pad. I created a large pocket and this one, it's from file folder collection. And I do have this side pocket and one more side pocket and another, this way another large window pocket here. And it will goes to my signature this way. So pocket, pocket, pocket, open. We do have that entry to that frame page and pocket. Then we do have pocket here, pocket, pocket, open and pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket. And that last one that inside for this, again made just with, you know, that fold and fold. And I think I placed it inside the wrong way. Did I? I think I did. So in this, on this paper, I added actually one sheet kind of like flap from the top. And I do believe, yeah, I glue it to this frame. Before I glued that frame on my already cut that, you know, window, this is again made from eight by eight, that frame. So before I glued that frame down, I created one extra page. This is from classical Christmas collection. I created extra kind of like top and I glued it first to that frame and then all I glued down to this frame. And it makes beautiful kind of like flap. Here I do have just simple pockets. Here, here, here. I left this one for writing. This is a cut window in that base, which I decorated with washi tape. And this I have created from eight by eight sheets. I'm gonna flip it over from eight by eight decorative paper, just extra pocket on the top. And this one, it's from my file folder collection. And this is the mold die, of course. And I have created kind of like large pocket behind. Here I do have pocket, pocket. And this one, it's original cut in this base. And I did decorate it just with that washi tape. And I left this one for writing. And it will goes to my signature. This way, I believe. Yeah, this way. So in my signature, it will be pocket, pocket, pocket. We're gonna flip this way. It's see through writing spot. Here is flip up that window. Entry to this pocket is from this side, writing spot. Here we have that pocket here. And entry, it's from this side. There we have pocket here, pocket, pocket. That's all what I did. It took me a longer time. I have to say then I want it. So now I am ready to create cover for my journal. I'm gonna create cover for this little journal. I'm gonna measure this here, where my signatures are the most thick here in this spot. So I'm gonna place them together, hold them together, get up my ruler and measure. How much? Oh, this way, I guess. It looks like two inches spine will be okay. And of course I need to measure this. The pages are four inches and I don't wanna have bigger journal cover. So I'm gonna actually cut four inches the width of my chipboard. I do have chipboard which is exact same size, same tall as are my signatures. So this gonna stay same. And here I'm gonna cut two pieces, four inches to cover it with. And I'm thinking to use a towel roll. By the way, I had a question on my video, many questions on my video with toilet paper rolls. Why I did use alcohol to spray those toilet paper rolls. That's what I learned through the time to do every single time when I'm using toilet paper rolls. And it doesn't have any other reason just to kill bacteria. Just in case, I'm not sure. It's in my head, you know, it was sitting in the toilet area, not on the toilet, like the seat, but in that room. So it's in my head that amusing alcohol to spray them. It's just because it doesn't have any other reason. So just to create that, I hope that will help. And here, this kitchen roll, it does have actually nearly exact same size. So I will need to cut it just a little bit. I'm thinking to use it to create spine. Although, yeah, maybe I can. So I'm gonna cut it on two pieces. Now I know where to cut it. And I still have nice curved shape. So I'm gonna cut it on two pieces here and here. And also I need to cut it in the right size. I'm gonna place it here. I'm gonna check with this and check the sides. Yeah, so now I can cut the second one. And I do have pieces for the spine. I'm gonna cut also two pieces for front and back cover. I do have cut my basic pieces for cover. I'm gonna move them aside for now. As I said, I'm gonna create two inches spine for my book. And as you can see my papers, maybe this I will be able to glue on the back cover. But the front cover doesn't have end paper. I can't glue this one to the cover to keep all together. So I need to create end papers. And to those end papers, I will also sew my signatures. I'm gonna create just, you know, I'm gonna use this print. This is from classical collection. Four, four, two inches. So I need 10 inches long paper, tall. I forgot to measure. But tall, same as my book, eight inches. I'm gonna cut this to 10 by eight. Now on the opposite side, I'm gonna draw lines because I need to reinforce the spine. I know front cover and back cover has four inches. And I would like to place here fabric or fabric tape to reinforce the spine. And I would like to reinforce the spine a little bit more than the spine width. My spine width will be two inches. So to be a little bit more than two inches, I'm gonna make a mark, three and a half here and draw a line and three and a half from the opposite side. And here in this space, I'm gonna place fabric tape. I'm gonna be using this medical or sport fabric tape and place it in my area I just marked that will reinforce those, the spine. And I will be able to sew my signatures in it without tearing the paper. Now I'm gonna grab my pencil again and do marks four inches from each side, which will be, you know, marking the area where the actual spine will be. I will have three signatures sewn in. I'm gonna divide this on three. I'm gonna make a mark 1.8 and 1.8 from opposite side and 1.8. So I do have three similar spots and here I can make marks where I will place my signatures. Now I need to poke the holes into my signatures. So I'm gonna always take one signature and poke the hole in it. I do have here from before my templates and they are actually, this is long enough to place it, you know, into my signature. I just need to remember which way I'm placing it. So this is the bottom, this is top of my book and I need to place it always the same way. So here to make sure it's kind of half place it here and slide it to the end, poke the holes and same template I'm gonna be using in my end papers. And I will mark same holes like I am poking here into these holes. I'm gonna be sewing my signatures. Slide it to side, open in the middle, take my template. Now I'm gonna use same template. I'm gonna grab pencil and in these three spots I'm gonna mark, yeah, this way. I'm gonna mark in the middle of these spots. I'm gonna mark same marks I used for poking my signatures and I will also poke the holes at these spots. I do have poked all holes. Now I can take signature, open it in the middle and I forgot to say I added to my signatures just few papers with the colors just to add there a little bit more colors but it's kind of like nearly solid color, solid, not solid, solid pattern. And I can start the song. So my first signature and I'm gonna go to first the row of the holes and I will go up and then a following same holes I will go down with the sewing. Now I'm gonna go around. I'm gonna go around here on the top of my signature around the paper and go back through the same holes just in the opposite direction. And here on the bottom I can make a knot and maybe put there some decoration. If I will want some, maybe some beads. I'm not gonna make it too tight. I don't wanna rip the edges of my papers and I can take second signature and sew it next to it. And just to make sure I'm not placing it upside down which can happen. It did happen to me few times actually. So just to make sure it's in the right position and sewn in the next row of holes and then follow same steps until you do have sewn in the last signature. I do have it here. So I do have my little book block done and now I can create my journal cover. I do have here my pieces for cover. I do have those two pieces of the kitchen roll which I'm gonna glue together to make spine more thick and strong. Before I will glue those two pieces together I'm gonna glue between them piece of fabric which I will use to glue these chipboards on it. I do have here just some leftover from, I have no idea from what. And I'm gonna glue it between my pieces. It's piece of cotton fabric. It's nice and strong but it's not thick so I know it will be not too much visible or it will don't make bulks. I'm gonna apply the glue on one piece of this kitchen roll out there the fabric. And then on it I'm gonna glue that second piece of kitchen roll and let it dry. I'm gonna glue fabric the way it's nice and big piece of this fabric. So I'm gonna glue these two kitchen rolls kind of like in the middle to make sure I will have on the sides some fabric which I can glue to those chipboards. It doesn't have to be big piece but I have to have there something. Now I can cut and now on the top I'm gonna glue this second piece of chipboard. Match the sides. I'm gonna apply the glue on the side of my chipboard and place it here. Next to that kitchen roll. I'm gonna keep there small gap about one eighth of inch I would say just to make sure when I will wanna close it, I will don't get stuck. If I will put it too close, I'm gonna show you. If I will put it just exactly to the edge when I will wanna close it, these edges of the kitchen roll and chipboard can get stuck. So I'm gonna try to keep small gap between the kitchen roll and the chipboard about one eighth of inch or two millimeters. That's gonna be enough. Then same I'm gonna do on that opposite side. I'm gonna try to keep this straight in one line. I'm gonna flip it over and here from inside I'm gonna place paper tape but I'm gonna secure it also with the tacky glue. Just to make sure everything will hold nicely together. Not tacky, PVA glue, not tacky glue. And place that paper tape. Same I'm gonna do on that opposite side. You do have glued that paste together. I do have glued inside those brown tapes. And now I can start to put some paper on the top. I'm gonna be making kind of like a base from book pages. And I'm gonna be using PVA glue to glue my book pages on this book cover. And to make sure that everything is glued properly and nicely I'm gonna apply quite a lot of glue. If I do have a first layer of paper applied I'm gonna let this dry. I'm gonna place it on my table this way actually. Just to let it stand and let it dry. To make sure all papers will get glued and these gaps will don't get crumpled. The book pages on my cover are dried and everything looks glued. I cutted the book page around about one centimeter or I don't know half inch. I'm gonna glue it to my book cover on the sides. And now on this I'm gonna use my ripped off edges from the papers I used inside of my signatures. They do have here and there some nice prints. I'm gonna try to make something like collage here. I'm not sure how bad I will try to make some nice collage and I'm not gonna go over the spine I guess. I'm gonna do just front and back. I think I'm not gonna do any like too much crazy collage because I would like to add here a little bit more. So I decided to go just with these two colors and place those strips on my book cover. Just very easy way. I do have glued my flaps on the spots where I want them. And before I will make a closure, I'm gonna glue it inside the book block. For gluing the book block, I'm gonna be using my homemade paste. It's kind of like homemade book binding glue. And I found the video on YouTube how to make it. I'm gonna open up the right side. I believe it's this one, yeah. And I'm gonna place the paper the way it should be and let this dry. I'm not gonna glue yet the backside. I'm gonna first let this dry. I believe the front cover holds nicely now. I'm gonna put the glue on the back cover. I mean, inside. And now this back paper, I'm gonna match with the cover. Yeah, well, hello. It's already Sunday, so I do believe I didn't upload the video at Friday. I do apologize for the lie, but for some reason I couldn't figure it out. What kind of closure I would like to get on my journal. As you can see, I added so many things into my journal. I will make flip through in the end. I also added eyelets here on the top and added some pictures here and picture here just to make it decorative and two eyelets here to hang there some decoration. So it looks like this now. And I was thinking what kind of closure this journal doesn't have to have closure, but I would like to have here something, something where I can actually use this beautiful elastic band because it's red, it's festive. And I would love to have it here somehow. So we're gonna create a cover or additional cover. First, I thought I'm gonna use one of the kitchen rolls I do have here and create some kind of folder here, little window here, but it will be not the dimension I want. Well, I changed a little bit mind. I found in my stuff this old die. It's beautiful, very old physics. It's called frame jelly frame. This is how it looks like. This beautiful physics die. I cut it two pieces from an old card stock on an old box. And here I do have piece of old envelope, which I would like to use as well somehow to fix it here on my front cover. Because here is that red tape, it's that sticky tape. I'm planning to use that sticky tape actually. So if I will glue it there and I will fold it this way, this is probably too long. I will cut it down a little bit. I will have here kind of like a tag spot. And this can hold my frame. And on that, I can actually somehow fix the elastic band and wrap it around somehow. So I will need acetate to create a window in this. And I think I don't wanna put anything over this picture. So I'm gonna make this one just like a shaker card actually. I'm gonna create shaker card. I do have my two frames. I do have piece of acetate folded on half. And it's in the size here. In the size which I can fit into that frame. And it's a little bit longer here on one side. First, I'm gonna fix my acetate in on one frame. I'm gonna be using right now double-sided tape. But then I will also sewn all around, just to make sure my shaker card will hold nicely. And I also would like to have this window looks frosty. For frosty look, I'm gonna take my nail file and I'm just gonna sand my acetate. And that will give to that sheet a little bit frosty look. And I'm gonna sand just one side. I think it's enough. So now I can glue it inside. I do have my folded acetate piece glued on one of these frames. I'm gonna take my sewing machine and sewn here, here and here. The part where I do have the acetate sheet longer, I'm gonna keep open like this. I do have sewn these three sides. Here it's still open. I do have here little stars and this iridescent dust. And I'm gonna add from both of these a little bit into my window. And then sewn this fourth side. If that's enough, that's gonna be enough. So now I can sew this fourth side and I will try to connect all my sewing. So maybe I will sew one more time around. I do have it sewn on this side. I'm gonna grab my second piece and glue that frame from this opposite side. And the second sewing, I'm gonna do through to all these layers. And I will do one more sewing all around the window. And now I can do sewing all around, around the frame one more time. All sewing done. And when I place it over that picture, it looks really cute, look at that. Like behind the first window. I can kind of smash that sand down. It's so cute. This is by the way from Spindler of Mline. It's the place where my sister is living and also working and this is address where she's working on the planes. It's beautiful, very high mountains and there is a little kind of like restaurant and that is my sister working. So this is address where is my sister working. So, and look at that. They do have already lots of snow, like a huge amount of snow. So here I'm gonna create a closure. And this, I think I will need to work on that first before I will glue it down. I don't like these sharp corners here and here. For these, I'm gonna use just corner punch and I'm gonna keep it this long, I guess. Okay, that's these corners. And that will be glued here. I need these corners, but these corners are too thick to add them to my corner punch. So I'm just gonna get up my scissors and cut. It's kind of plain. So I'm gonna do embossing. I can cut it here and then emboss that piece. I do have my piece cut it in the size I need. It is still that red tape. Hopefully I will be able to take it off. Otherwise, I will use, you know, double-sided tape, I guess I will see. So it will be fixed here, like this. Here, I need to fix my frame. Have a look on this spot. So first, I'm gonna add there a little bit of glue and glue it down. I should distress it. So first, I'm gonna distress my frame. I'm gonna be working on this. Once I do have all measurement done and all sides done, I'm gonna work on that leftover from acetate. But first, I need to have everything else kind of measured and placed. So I'm gonna glue my frame in today. And also distress this one a little bit. So now I can glue it here. I'm gonna poke the holes or punch the holes here and here and add there the eyelets. And I'm gonna add eyelets here and here as well. Here it will be for holding all together really, really well. Here it will be just decorative element. Well, it looks like this. Now I can fit this here. I'm gonna try to take off that red tape. And we will see. And I think with that embossing, I just press it there too harshly. Okay, I'm gonna take my glue and glue it with the glue. And press, press, press. I think it's holding now. So now I'm gonna create that closure. I do have here prepared circles, one inch circle with the hole in the middle. And I do have here piece of old card stock. I put that double-sided tape. And I'm gonna create kind of like reinforcement for my circles. Hope this will be okay. Cause I too close, too close. But it doesn't have to be exactly circle because it will be hidden anyway. I just need to lift it up a little bit, those one inch circles and one more. First I'm gonna put together these small ones. That's why I do have that double-sided tape because I'm gonna be gluing it on acetate to fix it, you know, first. So the double-sided tape is the best. Yeah, this will be enough. I'm gonna take one of these circles and place it probably here. I'm gonna punch the hole. Now I can glue over it, this, there you go. And now on the top, which one is nice one, this one. On the top I'm gonna fix with eyelet this circle. I'm gonna place it here and fix an eyelet in that hole. Now I'm gonna cut that acetate along the edges and here along the circle. So I do have fixed that circle on that piece of acetate. I cut it all around. You have here these two eyelets and I'm gonna be using them to add there my elastic band. It goes somehow in the middle. So if it will go around, I need to measure how far I should make a knot to keep the book close. And I do have my clothes on, I believe. So that's my clothes, I'm gonna keep this one here. Just in case I will feel that I need to, you know, make it a little bit loose, but I don't think so. I think it's actually exactly what that needs. So that's my closure for my book and that's the book I created with you today. I'm gonna make a flip through, kinda quick flip through. We do have that shaker with the snowy effect and with the stars. I really love that, it looks amazing. So there is opening here and pocket here, sliding up or flipping up, flipping down and pocket here. And here I do have that kind of like a little tax spot right here. And I forgot to add here some charm, I need to add there some charm. So we do have opening, window, opening and pocket and pocket. I add here and there some decorations, some of my stumpings. Here we have that pocket and in the pocket I added also some images. I didn't add to every single pocket something or maybe I did, but I don't think so. So here I added this little sign, it's beginning to look like a lot like Christmas. I don't know those, I don't remember those words. That's the horrible, I love that song, but I don't remember words, I need to learn those English words because I love that song. And here I do have envelope, that's this one here. Ooh, did I forgot, I did forgot, look at me. No, I didn't, I just showed you. No, I didn't, it doesn't show you, I forgot I do have weird pocket, look at me. So we do have pocket there with some epimeras, writing pages, flip window and pocket, pocket opening. And there is the booklet. If you do remember those toilet paper rolls creations, pocket here, pocket there. This one we created with my Patreons. It's kind of like a funny opening where you can write some secret message. It does have pocket here, it does have pocket here and it does have pocket here. I think I maybe will keep it there, oh, it's too big. That's my stamping actually, look at that. I'm learning stamping a lot. And we do have, this I tried to, you know, the dye, this beautiful dye, Keira Kiera, it's Celtic dye and I really love that I use that dye when I create it from that old envelope, that Santa box back, so I use that dye and I really love that dye, it looks so cute. So I do have pocket, pocket, pocket and we do have that frame and I added that just this one, maybe for some profile picture, you know, it can be cute here in that window. And we do have pocket here, this cute picture in behind. Here I do have this nutcracker and little envelope and it does have opening. This window see through to that pocket here. And I do have that, oh yeah, this is that flip up. Here I do have again that toilet paper roll pocket and pages for writing. And as you can see, if I will wanna write down, I can press it down and very easily to write in this book. Even though it's fully loaded, it's kind of thick, but it's possible to lay down. And we do have pocket here. I do have this epimera and this epimera here. I do have a little tag here. This, this is also from toilet paper roll craft. I will link that video down below if you haven't seen that yet. Here I do have that little note pad and picture of Santa tag. And here I added only, oh, look at that, how badly I did cut it. Shoot, they're different one. Here I added just these steam holds labels and I need to add something in there probably, or I'm gonna keep it empty for, you know, for future owner. And here we have that little folder with the pocket. And pocket, so many pockets. And pocket here, here goes that pocket from this side and pocket here. And again, writing pages and that frame pocket here with a little folder for writing and Santa image. Come here, come here Santa. And then we do have pocket here. Again, frame here with this tag and pocket, pocket, pocket, and pocket. Again, writing pages and pocket, pocket, pocket with all kind of stuff. And again, pocket here. So there is so many pockets. And I do believe, especially through the Christmas time and holiday time, you know, when we are creating or taking lots of pictures. I believe a journal like this with so many pockets, so many windows can be very useful because it's great to place your pictures in some nice book. And I'm gonna try to close it. Or maybe I should make it a little bit loose. No, it's good, it's good. So that's my journal for Christmas. I hope you did enjoy it. I hope you found some inspiration. Thank you so much for spending your time with me and sharing your time with me. I hope you will have amazing second Advent Sunday. Enjoy this peaceful time and hell I hope it's peace. And it will be peace. Let's wish for everyone in the world to have peaceful and beautiful Christmas time. Thank you so much for visiting me today. Take care of yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.