 Hello everybody, welcome to my channel, it's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to make something for those three signatures. My son Jacob, he's crafting sometimes with me and this is what he prepared actually, that's his work and I didn't give me not even one advice what to do. He just put these pages together, he did watch, I mean he went have a look on Pinterest, on Etsy, on YouTube and he put this together, amazing work. And he pinged me that and he said, mom wrap it up somehow. So I'm gonna do some wrapping for these amazing signatures, I love his layering, all these pages and how he used these book pages and pages as an extra writing spot or as an pocket. So I do have base, three signatures and I'm gonna make this as a journal. I have bring few things I'm gonna be using to wrap up these gorgeous signatures so it will be this old dictionary book because I just love to use all these old book pages. I'm gonna be used serial box, fabric, I think it's called linen fabric, large envelopes, maybe I will add also smaller envelopes I will see. And I do have here these beautiful stencils, these are for home decor but I think I can somehow mix and match it to create some decoration on my book cover as well. As a first I'm gonna prepare those large envelopes, I took two of them for this journal. One I will use as an extra pocket, that's what you can see now. I glued the flap on that envelope, then I folded that envelope on half and cut it on two pieces with my scissors. These two pockets I will be using as an extra pocket for this journal. I will add there also extra small, I mean like small envelopes to make extra flip out. The second envelope I'm gonna be using as a holder for my signatures and also as an extra pocket on the front and on the back of that book. So I'm starting same way, I'm gluing the flap on my envelope, then cut the edges of that envelope. Not to cut it on two pieces but cut just the edges to create one large sleeve from that envelope. And that's what I'm going to use as a holder for my signatures. Here you can see how it looks like, so this will be holding all three signatures. I'm gonna be using a little bit different type of binding for my signatures and for that I need three strips for each signature one strip. I'm using just chipboard from that cereali box and I'm cutting one quarter of inch strips from this cereali box. They are same long as that envelope, I mean same tall as my signatures. These strips I'm going to wrap to the fabric to make them kind of like beautiful. And on these strips I will later to sew my signatures, you will see that in the process. So all three strips I'm gonna wrap up to this blue striped fabric to add some texture and color. And also make these strips kind of like stronger and hold my signatures much much better way. Here I just cut it extra to make those strips beautiful. All of them I wrapped exactly the same way. Once I had wrapped these three strips into the blue fabric. I took another fabric, this is Utah fabric what you can see on the screen. And I did cut that Utah fabric in the leg of these strips and I cut three strips of that Utah fabric. I think it was one and a half inch wide. And each of these strips I'm gonna glued in the middle of that Utah fabric. These Utah fabric strips will also later hold those extra pockets from envelopes. It sounds complicated but this is actually very easy way how you can bind your signatures and add their extra envelopes and extra pockets and make sure they will hold really well because that fabric is nice and strong. I hope you will like this process. So in each signature I poked three holes and I used only simple stitching. I think it's called pamphlet stitching but I'm not sure. I will try to have a look and I will write down all the names, important names. Here you can see I poked same holes in that fabric slash serially box base for my signatures and I'm gonna just very simply sewn one signature to one of these strips. So I'm starting in the middle, going from the inside of my signature in the middle hole to bottom hole in my signature going up to top hole in that signature and the back to that middle hole in that signature and just making the knot. My explanation maybe is a little bit crazy but I hope you will understand from the video what I'm doing. And I did all three signatures exactly same way. Here you can see. I put all signatures to the order how I want to see them in my book and then I took the base I created from that large envelope. I took the signature which I want to have in the middle because I do have only three signatures I'm starting with the middle one and I'm going to glue this signature with that fabric base to my envelope to the middle of that envelope. So I'm using multi-purpose glue because it's holding well and it's drying so fast. I added the glue only in the middle of that fabric strip not on the sides. Those sides have to be free because they will hold later my envelopes. Here you can see how I am folding that Yuta fabric to make sure it will don't get glued to the envelope on the bottom. I'm adding glue right next to that first signature I just glued down and on this glue I will glue another signature. I will make sure that Yuta fabric will be folded up and it will don't get glued to the bottom. To the bottom is going to be glue only that solving of my signature. I hope my explanation is not too confusing. Exactly same process I'm doing with that third signature putting only one strip of glue and that brown Yuta fabric I'm holding up to make sure it will don't get glued to the base envelope and here you can press pretty nicely to that blue striped fabric to make sure those signatures will get glued nicely. Then I decided to add those beautiful book pages to my envelope base to make it a little bit more beautiful and also strong and later I will decorate it a little bit more this was just starting to decorate or to add there some kind of vintage look. I also glued those first and last Yuta fabric edges and here you can see where those envelope pockets will be glued. First I'm going to create kind of like extra flip outs on this envelope pocket so I'm taking smaller envelopes and just gluing them on my large envelope pocket and I'm creating extra flip outs. For project like this you can use any kind of envelopes if you will fit them in your journal by size they are always best to use and I like to decorate my envelopes here I will use book pages to add there a little bit more strong feeling and I will also use those stencils I prepared for this journal and I will add there a little bit more decoration using those stencils as well. For making those envelope flip outs look a little bit more vintage I will be using distress inks and here you can see how I will add my extra pockets to that journal. I'm going to be using glue stick for gluing my extra pockets into that journal so I'm editing the glue on the bottom of my large envelope pocket and I'm gluing that pocket between those two fabric ends between that Yuta fabric. I do have always two of these fabrics next to each other because I glued those signatures next to each other. I hope this what is in that video will be understandable it's really very easy to do so. Same way I glued into my book that second flip out pocket and that way because I used also in the base of these fabric holdings I used those chipboard strips it makes beautiful, beautiful spine already now. I decided to do also headbands, I think it's called headbands where you can see on vintage books where the signatures are sewn. For my headbands I'm going to make kind of like fake headbands I'm going to be using again that blue striped fabric and I'm cutting from that chipboard from that sterile box I'm cutting small strips, I'm always gluing two together and I'm making kind of reinforced two strips I will need one for the top and one for the bottom of the spine of my book these small strips I will be wrapping to that blue fabric to kind of match it with the fabric which is underneath of my signatures it's a very easy way how you can create the look of vintage headbands and it also will put a stretch to the spine of that book because of the fabric and again I'm using this multi-purpose glue because it's really good one it's holding well and it's drying very fast I will add all informations to that description box below also the name of this glue I found it in one below shop here in Rodrem it is shop in UK where you can buy cheaper products any kind of products so first I wrapped one piece on the top of my strip other one I'm gonna wrap on the bottom of my strip and I'm making sure that the strip of that fabric will be not shorter or longer than is the spine of my book block already its own book block so just easily wrap it up and then I added the glue on the spine of my book block I started on the bottom but it doesn't matter where you will start just add there a glue on the spine of your book block and add there that chipboard strip wrapped into that fabric and it will create a really beautiful headband I glued also those sides of the fabric to that book block to make sure it will be not visible once I will glue my book cover on all this then I glued that bottom part to the bottom of my spine and same I did with those sides of that fabric then I glued that fabric on all that space I mean on the spine and around to make sure it will hold nicely and if it will be a little bit wrinkle it's not affecting your book because it will be not visible so here I cutted pieces which will create the front and back cover of my book and also I cutted one wide strip to make an extra spine for my book and I'm scoring this strip on my scoring board every 1.8 inch line I'm scoring I'm making this spine kind of like soft and easy to fold so once I had scored all that middle of that chipboard piece I started to create my extra spine I had to fold it around my already sewn book block to make sure it will be not too small or not too big so that's why I made so many score lines I don't mind if I made too many but I made so many score lines to make sure I will have easy work to create extra spine so once I was satisfied with the size of that extra spine for my book I folded it nicely that spine and on those sides I glued my extra chipboard pieces which will create front and back cover so once I had put together the base for the cover of my book I took again all my fabrics and from that Utah fabric I cut the piece which is much wider then is the spine of my book because I wanted to create kind of like wrapping around that spine and then I cut from that white linen fabric two pieces one for the front cover and other one for the back cover of my book all these three pieces I decided to sewn first into one large piece so that Utah fabric will be in the middle and it will cover the spine of my book and those white pieces will be on the side for that sewing I used only simple straight stitching and I did that stitching on my sewing machine here you can see very easy just one large piece with that Utah fabric in the middle and because that white fabric is very transparent it's like semi-transparent fabric I decided to cover first my chipboard book cover with those old book pages and then on all this composition I glued that fabric here I had to make sure that the Utah fabric will be on the both sides evenly so I made it I think three times I tried to place it on the right spot it wasn't just exactly the way as you can see in that video it took me quite a while then I cut the fabric around and I started to glue that fabric to my chipboard piece first I cut strips around those corners to make sure that the corners will be covered with fabric nicely I glued these corners first and then I glued the rest of that fabric to my chipboard piece and because I do have very light cover I decided to reinforce that cover with the book pages and use those book pages also to create an extra additional decoration I do love when the book pages are peeking around from the journals and I can actually get this look by gluing book pages inside in my cover and let them to lean a little bit of the edge of that book cover to create that extra look of the book pages peeking from my book cover I'm gluing two layers of these book pages to create kind of very fluffy or very grungy ripping paper all around of my book page of my book cover once all these layers was dry I started to fold my book cover to make sure I will find the right spot where I should glue my book block before I will be gluing my book block inside that cover I decided to decorate it because it's always much more easy when I can place it flat to decorate it and I'm gonna be using my stencils to create there also some writing right now I'm using my old inkpads or walnut stain and ground espresso to add there a little bit of shade of vintage look and here you will see how I am using my stencils to create a little bit different design than is on those stencils I'm just moving that stencil the way where I will create what I want to create on my book so I move the design here and there I swap the look of these images on my stencil to create my own layer of that book cover and I used I think three different stencils to create that book cover it's very easy to do you just have to be careful do not put your ink to the spots where you don't want to I added there here and there it was a bit ink to the spots where I didn't want to see it actually so next time it will be good if I will put underneath some paper some extra paper to cover it see right next to that crown I had a small mistakes with my inking I realized that luckily so I started to use extra paper to minimize my wrong stencil ink but with this layering my stencil I'm creating my own design on my book cover using those beautiful stencils these home decor stencils are amazing to use for our journals I know they are a little bit more bigger than our journal covers but as you can see you can always make different layers using maybe just one word or using maybe just one image from that stencil and you can totally create your own design and here again I'm using underneath a piece of paper to minimize my mistakes with that stencil ink and here I'm taking third stencil because it does have beautiful bottom images and they will kind of finish that look of my stencil ink really nicely I do enjoy to use my stencils but it sometimes takes a time when I do realize that I don't have to use that stencil the way it is I can change it all the time so as my next step is gluing that book block to my book cover so I try to make a nice position it's always good I didn't add the glue on the spine of that book block that book block will be not glued to the book cover on the spine spine space but the front and the back will be glued permanently to the book cover so it's better to glue it when the book is closed like this and I decided to add a little bit more embellishment so here I'm taking my VR memory keeper Groppodyl and I'm pinching the holes always on the top and bottom corner of that Utah fabric and I will be adding their eyelets and then through to those eyelets I will add Utah string to make some more extra decoration I did exactly same on the front and on the back cover just when you are punching through the covers make sure that all pages are moved that they are not on your way with that punching the holes here you can see how I'm editing that Utah string through to those eyelets I wrapped that Utah string like twice around and then I made a knot and finished my decoration I'm very slow in that video I did exactly same decor on the back cover with twice wrapping that Utah string through to those eyelets and making a knot and for the decor first I was thinking maybe I can do something new but I do have so many beautiful embellishments I have created in the past so I was just digging in my drawer and I did pull out key ring I think it's called key ring paper circle which my son Stumped for me I love these circles very much they do look amazing so I hung that circle using ball chain I think it's called ball chain so I hung that circle through to one of these eyelets and then I used charm which I created long time ago the star kind of like rusty star and that was all my creation and here is the journal where I used in which I used my son's signatures it needs just few more steps maybe at book page here or decorated somehow inside at there some embellishments also some tags and things into the pockets and I think that's pretty good do you know I do love these signatures they are awesome really awesome and I think I did not no I didn't look good so we do have openings I will also need to decorate these windows somehow but for now I think I'm done my signatures are holding well I do have the finishing here those headbands here and here in the color which I used for sewing my papers I do have reinforced these sides I also glued those pockets between fabrics so it should be strong enough to hold so much stuff and I really love these pages they are awesome really awesome so that's our journal done and I will need to add few more decorations and tags but that is done I hope you did enjoy this tutorial or process sharing I hope you found some inspiration thank you so so much for stopping by today thank you so much for spending your time with me have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye