 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemia and crafting and I'm coming back with my newspaper journal cover No cover And just small Kind of like jump in the past or to the past Maybe you notice that I do have crack here and it starts to get Crackles here and a little bit here This one it will be stable because I think this happened this crack here happened when I Glued it down. So I had a little bit of glue on my finger and I probably Lift up the newspaper. It did happen because I didn't have there enough glue So this part here wasn't glued properly and that's why it did crack, but luckily I'm working on Vintage vintage look journal. So I'm glad Actually, this is kind of like Bob Ross happy accident. I love Bob Ross I've been watching his videos for years And it always chews me up and I'm always smiling. So what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna add there a little bit of darkness And I'm gonna actually enjoy this crackle. I add over it today at morning, I kind of wiped over it a little bit of my PVA glue just to make sure it will don't get Open totally so it's sealed now and I'm just gonna add there a little bit of shades And exactly same I'm gonna do here You know many times we spend hours and hours to create these crackles and ripped papers so I'm not Stressed about this one at all It will just bring a little bit more aging to my project and today We're gonna create Kind of like hinges or holdings For anything we I will create for this journal. I have to say it right Here right now that I'm not gonna put inside Proper writing pages. I'm not gonna do this one as a proper writing journal Just because I want to try a few different things and this will be more like visual journal or Sense original you can touch it and you know, you can feel different things like here that painting I got questions about what I did use here. I used just normal white acrylic paint that that's all normal white acrylic paint and this is Let me have a look if I will see Uniball a signal White pigment ink. This is the pen I used for doodling and white acrylic paint I used for my stenciling that was all what I did use If you don't have and also there was I I think that was very important that the fabric which I used Was very friendly for any kind of coloring fabrics like jeans, you know denim They are perfect for coloring because they soaked the color So this fabric was perfect for that because it did soak the color. So it's it's kind of inside and I'm not gonna wash it So it will stay Color it for some time What I'm gonna do now I'm gonna get up my bottle of bottle of What is inside glue and I'm gonna use this bottle to Fold the spines. I don't want to have the spine Straight, that's why I didn't made the gaps Big enough if you want to have these spines straight, you don't want to fold it this way You need to keep gaps between those parts. I forgot to say that in that video with the book cover But I knew I want to fold them this way. I want to kind of make them Um No, make them this way So I didn't put their big gaps and also this material. It's very thin. So That was another part So I'm gonna use that bottle and I'm gonna fold my spines of this book over that bottle to make them slightly curved So that way the paper will don't get crushed or you know It will don't get too many cracks cracks and here as well so I can Close it easily just slide it better in this one And that box cover So it will have and I'm gonna you know Even press it a little bit more You can use Roller pin. I think it's called a roller pin what you used on pastry in the kitchen, you know that thingy So you can use that for curving these sides the spines So that's what I wanted to say and today I'm gonna create those hinges for holding whatever I will create for this journal And it will be Holding from here kind of like another Something like this flap I have cut that piece of newspapers just the bottom of newspapers here I do have seven and five eights That is the size With which I can go Right here you can slide it there with no issue at all So this is seven and five eight And I'm gonna be working For now on all this sheet and then from this sheet I'm gonna be cutting pieces which I will glue and sewn probably to gather later I'm gonna create create those hinge hinges and I would like to have these hinges not Kind of like hard or heavy like are in photo albums because these hinges will be like the basic photo albums hinges something like this You know when you are creating big Smaller smaller and even smaller pieces then you glued them together. So then you do have these Hinges which will hold your pages. So something like this Just not with these small hinges and not With this totally straight or hard I want to have that that feeling of newspapers newspapers are flimsy and they are moving all the time something like this So for making this more stable, I'm gonna be using cheesecloth And I'm gonna glue cheesecloth on all this space And on that I'm gonna glue another pieces of newspaper. I think I'm gonna choose this side because there is nice print Here is nice print as well. So Both sides are good I'm gonna take cheesecloth I'm working with 90 grades of cheesecloth. I'm gonna put link down below Of the cheesecloth. I'm buying all the time from amazon Just To have a look, you know, what great I do have if you will don't understand what I'm saying sometimes my pronunciation It's not so clear. I know So I'm working with this and If you don't have a cheesecloth, maybe you do have old pillow duet We made from that light fabric. That will be good. That will be just enough Nothing too hard just some light fabric that will hold great. So I'm gonna Glue this cheesecloth on my newspapers So I do have cheesecloth glued to that piece of newspaper And from now from this side where I can see the cheesecloth I'm gonna glue just, you know pieces of newspaper. I do have all around And I'm gonna cover all this side with newspapers kind of Hide the cheesecloth between the cheesecloth is there just to reinforce those newspapers And I don't want to make this too bulky So it will be really just one layer of of newspapers glued on this side So I do have my both side Layer of newspaper around that cheesecloth. It's all dry. So now I'm gonna take My guillotine And I'm gonna cut the pieces First I'm gonna cut this edge I'll try to cut it straight And I'm gonna cut the pieces I need so as I said This is seven and five eights With those straps, it will be seven and three quarter, but seven and five eights is The newspaper base and first Piece I'm gonna cut five and three quarter Second piece I'm gonna cut five and one quarter Next piece I'm gonna cut four and three quarter And last piece Last piece I'm gonna cut four and one quarter So I do have all my pieces cut it And I'm gonna take a ruler And measure two inches from each side And draw a line in there two inches from each side on every single one of these pieces Two inches from this side two inches from this side These are seven and five eights. So on these seven and five eights. I'm gonna Draw two inches here In centimeters it should be around five centimeters Yeah, five centimeters Or two inches depends on what you want to count So from this side And I can fold straight away around the ruler And two inches from that opposite side So that's first one. I'm gonna take Second piece and again here it's seven and five eights here So these sides I'm gonna take like my Sides where I will draw those two inches inside two inches here Two inches here And then on that opposite side And with this I'm gonna do all of these pieces And I do have my four pieces now I can start to glue them together. So always in this this is the biggest one And on the the smallest one always on this middle section, I'm gonna put the glue And I will try to place it Kind of in the middle here I will try If you want to sew their General ink papers you totally can do so in these gaps gaps between there will be always one quarter of inch gap Which is nice space for Signature So you can always do so Right here So manage side here side on the bottom and here you can see how big gaps you have So you can manage with this one also if you are in the middle now This one try to take them In the right order much the bottom much the top and try to put these sides kind of in like that pyramid or cascade And you are on the right spot and I'm gonna take the last one And this one it's very old Kind of like basic style of binding for photo albums And it works for any kind of folios as well And it's really old Kind of like basic basic style of binding If I will lift up You will see that I do have their gaps and if I will Kind of curl this one Because I don't like those straight straight edges straight So I'm gonna curl this one And I first I think I need to let the giant so I'm gonna let this dry Then I will play with that do not make it too straight I like it more when it's you know in that shape of old books And we will have our hinges For anything For any kind of creation So now I can bring back my book cover open it open this And I'm gonna get up this one I'm thinking that I will probably I would like to have there some sewing I guess I like stitching through Or make this even more decorative You know when you will sew on your signatures if you want to sew on your signatures you can sew them to do these gaps And put some beads here for decorating So then you can just glue it right here and now I'm not sure if I want to glue it there right now Or if I will wait So I will have full Kind of like book block I'm just gonna slide it there for now. I will don't put the glue yet because maybe I will have some brilliant idea Which will need to have this one, you know kind of like Take out from book. So for now, I'm gonna keep it as a part of my book So this will be hinges for our book and Let's create something right. I'm missing Some decorative parts or something for my pockets here As you know, this is that four pocket pocket Where you are so one pocket here One pocket here one pocket here in that window And one pocket behind And I think it needs some Tuning it needs something And I just got one idea and I think it's Maybe the right decision You know when I was thinking if I will glue it in there, I'm not gonna glue it actually in there because then it will be On You know up to new owner if the new owner will decide to change it for some writing journal and keep this one aside So I'm gonna keep it this way and I'm gonna probably create front cover back cover and these things Which I would like to put inside as kind of like visual book And then I will just slide it here. So you don't have to actually glue this one in there You can use this as a spine of your new book journal And create a journal which you will just slide behind this And then change it. You know once it will be full of information. There will be not empty space to write on So then you will just take off this This journal of yours and put the new one I'm gonna do it this way. So this is spine of my book And this is cover Yeah, and that's happened to me many many many times that in the process I'm changing The first thinking so We created spine for new journal today And now I do have here these two This and these many These are toilet paper rolls I already sprayed them with alcohol. Then I let it dry cut them on On the you know in that roll. So cut them and flat it down with the iron And I do have few of them here prepared for you know Take them to the craft and I do have here this one And I was thinking maybe these chipboards You know home waste thingies Could be amazing as a base for our tax So today we will create a few basic tax and do not underestimate basic Not over decorated tax because they can be that balance between art your artistically decorative tax and Uh Debugs background they can balance the view they can make the artistic tag pop up if these will be Nicely and easily done with not too many embellishments They will be just exactly what your book will need Sometimes to have plain or nearly empty tax. It's the great Great thing to have if you want to pop up something else You will put it go to have a look to museum. You will see that All these beautiful paintings they don't they are not stored next to each other Every single of these pictures. They do have nice amount of What is that solid color? Wall around them just to make sure that they they will pop up So today we will create some easy Easy tax and for some I'm I'm gonna use this toilet toilet Chipboards and this one this has nice size here. So I'm gonna cut off these sides and I'm gonna create three tags by cutting this background and these I think it can fit into that pocket. Let me have a look Oh Like exactly wonderful. So these I'm gonna keep in the size as they are So I do have here my cutouts from newspapers Here is text and here all these all kind of these wonderful images from Puzzles and crossfords and stuff like that And I'm gonna start to do my little collages I will also prepare um These medical tapes so before I will start to put some collages on the on my tags on these chipboard pieces. I'm gonna prepare this medical tape And I'm gonna be using alcohol inks because they are Making always beautiful vintage look Of this medical tape. I do have this non sticky Paper it's from labels. So I save that And I'm using it as my background paper And I do have here this alcohol ink that's perfect to use for coloring this medical tape This is called brownie. It's from octopus company. And it's really wonderful and it's a large bottle And it's really wonderful alcohol ink this one. I like to use it a lot. Now. I'm gonna just Wipe on my tape a little bit of this brownie You can see it's a really nice color Okay, I think I'm done just this light Look not too too dark And I'm gonna start to put my newspapers on my tags So any of these texts will be amazing to have on my tags because they will look great Kimber war close to our home I can put either this color or this This color. I think I'm gonna go for this one And I'm gonna start to put there my little collages. So first I'm gonna make A collage here and I'm placing that paper a little bit over the edge. So then I can cut it around the edge of that chipboard here on the side I think I'm gonna be using this one and just Rip a little bit of this And place it here on that corner and something on the bottom I can take a piece of my medical tape and place it there like decoration So I'm gonna rip it here But it is quite wide so I'm gonna take my scissors Get it on half. I think that will be enough. If I place it right here Like this I'm gonna cut The newspaper all around And to give it kind of like tag shape I'm gonna be using This corner punch. You can use just scissors and just simply cut the corner As I do have here this corner punch. I'm gonna use that and just quickly cut the corner corners here on the top and also I will mark the middle and punch the hole in there And I'm gonna be using crocodile and just simply poke to punch the hole And I think The tape can be actually nice decoration here as well like this So with this basic I'm gonna cover All of my pieces also this I do have my little collaging on the top done and I have to say I really love this I also punch the corners on these toilet paper roll pieces and punch the hole in them And you can keep it this way on the opposite side It's totally possible to write on it or This way as it was inside in that box or if you want you can cover all of these From this side with some writing paper. It's totally up to you And now These could be beautiful as a background tag when you do have some Some art tag or something more decorative Like are these small Rolodex card so you can place this tag in the pocket Behind this Rolodex decorative Rolodex card and it will be beautiful or maybe behind this one So it can just you know pop up a little bit more what you have created as your art And if you are not satisfied with The plane design you can always use some stickers maybe stamping and do some stamping on it And decorate it even more, but I think these simple Tags are very useful And they can be really beautiful Additional tag in your journal. So that's all for today I'm gonna place this one here Yes, I'm gonna place for now into this side pocket and the next time I'm gonna create actually something for this pocket For that inside And these can be here And this one as well And I can actually place a few of them go there a few of them Here as well and this one So I can have fully loaded Fully loaded back pocket. I'm gonna slide it there for now as it is quite long So that's my sharing for today. We did hinges Which we will use in the future and these cute little tags. I know sometimes these Projects look so simple But the beauty is in the simplicity. I hope I gave you some idea what to do with your scraps with Boxes you have at home. They are perfect background for making tags Thank you so much for visiting me today Thank you so much for spending your time with me. Have a beautiful day. Take care of yourself And I will see you soon. Bye You