 Hello everybody, if you've ever bring it home with your shopping some large paperbacks and If you do have some paintings Maybe some specialty tools like it's Breira Today is the day where we can together create some amazing journal This is Eva from Bohemian Crafting and I'm so happy to see you here. I hope you will enjoy this video It will be process video of how I created Journal using those large paperbacks, and I do hope you will find some inspiration and you will enjoy it And maybe you will try to do your own We are on the week number 27 in 2022 and here I'm coming to To share something what I didn't thought I will have to share because It got me by surprise in the last video. I had quite a few Comments that I'm not sharing my tutorials here anymore, and it confused me it confused me so much So I went to my YouTube channel to check out Why why people are not receiving? Notifications that that's what I think because as I said we are on week number 27 now and In those 27 weeks I shared 20 Process videos tutorials, and I think that's that's quite good number There are videos on Journal covers there are videos on amazing gifts from 12 by 12 sheets. There are videos so weight Folders or weight pockets for journals. There is video with Trans Fearing or altering shoebox to amazing storage Storage box or yes storage box So there is quite a lot of videos where I do share process of the creating or tutorial how I create that and Those comments kind of surprised me I think then I realized that I I am subscribed to many channels and From few of them where I click that bell to make sure I will receive the notifications I'm not receiving them or I receiving them quite late after they posted to their video. So maybe that will be The issue that I've got these comments like I'm not sharing here tutorials anymore Because I do and you can check it out. So please if you haven't seen these videos Click on the name Bohemian crafting under this video It will transfer you to my channel and then you can see all these videos I'm sharing with my viewers here on YouTube and I'm always thinking when I do shared those process videos It's always that I hope you will like them and I hope you will you will be inspired to create something Because I do love create any kind of stuff like that Altering shoebox that was so amazing to do so to see simple shoebox and Alter it to some amazing vintage looking box So there is really lots of videos and I do believe also those videos where I am using one sheet 12 by 12 inch and I Am creating from that sheet something Awesome, I do believe those videos are Good to watch as well I put a very hard work into these videos to make sure it will be easy to follow and In the end we will have something really beautiful and maybe surprising from one sheet So please if you haven't seen these videos go to have a look I hope you will like them and I really hope you will take some some inspiration and it will inspire you to create something So I think this is the problem that you are not receiving that Notification it doesn't work every single time. I I know that With my own experiences So for those who left me those comments and it was really quite a lot that was surprised me So please go to have a look. I hope you will like these videos and We are here in creating from those paperbacks as you saw in that video. I used The Breyer tool which I bought after seeing Marley's videos. She's awesome with creating backgrounds with this tool and I felt in love with this tool It's it's amazing tool and I use it here to create kind of like abstract background And I just Followed, I don't know. I didn't have any plan what to do with this paper I just imagine what shape of journal I would like to have for this journal. I have choose the size Kind of similar Like is traveler's notebook So I cut the tipboard four by seven and that chipboard I used for folding my papers many times I'm getting question how I do start or how I plan my journals and For me to make a journal. It's very long process really very long process to finish journals I shared in the last video. I started last year or even year before So for me to finish journal is very very long process this journal I started Around Easter of this year and we are on summer holidays now So you can imagine and this one is from those most easy I am thinking because here. I'm just editing my scraps into those large sheet of papers and I do believe this is although I I'm trying to pay attention how my papers will lay or on lay down on each other and how it will looks like but This one it's quite easy to do You just need to stick your scraps on some Empty spot. That's all and If you need so like I do need so to make a sense in my papers Then it's a little bit more difficult. But if you have that free soul this To having a large sheet folded large sheet of paper into some kind of pages and then to open it and Have one big space where you can create your Pages ish. I do believe that it's most easy thing to do and I really hope you will try this one So for me to plan my journals, it's very very long process I'm thinking about every single journal a long time before I will actually Put first steps to create. I don't know maybe Digitals for that journal or maybe cover for that journals and I don't start every single journal the same way it depends What kind of journal I want to have maybe some journal has more pockets and At that time probably I'm starting with those pockets because I want to see How deep they will be how thick they will be and then I'm planning how Large cover I will need for that journal. So for me to finish journal. It's really very long process That's why I don't have through the year many Videos with the full journal in the tutorial because for me, it's really very long process But if you will go to my channel, you will see I do have that At least two this year Maybe smaller bands, but there are they are there so go to have a look and I hope you will enjoy it. I Do love to craft so very much and I do love this craft family because I leaned so much from you really very very amazing tips and tricks and awesome tools which I never thought Those tools are exist. So I do love my craft very much It brings me happiness and that calm feeling and I can Use new tools. I never thought I will used for papercraft like is sewing machine That's never was in my head that it it's possible to use and I do love stitching on my papers It's just amazing touch and it looks amazing. Even your stitching are not perfect Maybe you add on purpose some Weird stitching like I do many times because it's just put something a little bit more on pages and I really never thought About using my sewing machine on papers when I told to my mommy that I'm using my sewing machine on papers She nearly fade because she knows that the sewing machine is very expensive thing to have and papers are Not for sewing. That's that's what I thought Before I saw many many amazing creators here, you know through to those years when I'm still learning All kind of techniques. So I was exactly same Sewing machine it's not for papers, but now sewing machine is definitely for papers so I do love craft very very much and I'm so happy to share with you my my my new Explore explorations what I found and Where I was inspired by by who I was inspired So I'm always happy to share and I hope you see that in my videos that I'm happy to share with you new techniques or new ideas You know, I do believe I was always kind of like artistic in my mind from From my beginning in in this world But I've been grew up in kind of like army family ish my mom was working for army for many years and we've been Rising in that style everything had a special place everything had to be Sorted out we had a timetable for each day and we had to follow it and we had a rules or Chores to to to do every single day and it was like strictly rules. So my artistic mind was kind of like tied up In my childhood and when I found this amazing craft family and when I start to explore all these things we are using for creating junk junk journals or for me even creating things for my home like home decor or My shelving stuff for me. It's still Like dream come through because I never could imagine Just the simplest Stumping platform. It's still for me. It's still like magic or my Envelope punch board. I love that tool so very much Big shot cutting machine. Oh My I can't tell you how much I love all these tools so we can buy now and all these Designers and companies who are making it for us They are so amazing really so to find this craft family for me. It was gift gift from universe and I'm so happy that I found you seven years. I think 78 years from from now. I found nearly eight years from now I found this craft family just because of Michelle Mooney. She is owner of amazing YouTube channel The paper addiction if you never saw her channel before please go to have a look I do love her journals so very much I always wish to do journals like she does but I can't get there She does have amazing styles so vintage style and so gorgeous and she was the one of who Who kind of showed me how amazing things can be done with simple paper So if you haven't seen her channel yet, I will put link down below and please go to have a look Her videos was first I saw and at that time I didn't understand English that much and I didn't understand that she made that Until I watched all her videos that was for me it was like It was like fairy tale when I watched her videos and I Kind of get that understanding that she actually made that those books So for me it was like wow, I felt like a child and I was adult at the time already So for me it was like magic to see what she did with simple paper and that was The thing which turned me into this craft family and which I will be always blessed to be here And I hope I will share with you all my explorations and all things I learned through the time with good way and now for Probably beginners and maybe even for a skilled junior makers in the background In the video you are seeing me to sew my papers inside of that large sheet This is very simple stitching If you would like to learn Different types of book binding. I do have channel for you Which I visited many times in the past and I learned a huge amount of techniques and great tips from this channel It's called sea lemon and you can find a really Big amount of different type of stitching the pages together. So I highly recommend the videos Sea lemon book binding You will learn a lot. So for all beginners If you would like to learn from great tutorials, this is the channel you you should go to have a look I will put a link down below as well So I think that's the good channel to go to to see to have a look and In the video you you saw me to add the pages into my or to sew the book page into my large sheet And of course I have to have there's some kind of flip and flaps and pockets everywhere So I found in my stuff some old Simple pockets. I made I I don't even remember where I'm when or not Yeah, when I made them not where I probably made them in my craft room. I'm guessing But I don't remember when I made them. So it's a long time ago when I made these simple pockets And before I will glue down those pockets I wanted to add there also framing around the windows. I cut into my Large sheet and for that I'm using old envelope And I'm cutting with the same paper punch. I cut the windows on that large sheet. I'm cutting the window and That scrap envelope and then around that window I cut that I'm cutting kind of like frame and that what I will use On my large sheet to frame those windows. I cut that all my explanation is terrible, but I hope From the view on the video you will understand what I'm doing here And that is kind of like process. I'm doing with every single my journals I'm kind of following what I think it will be Good-looking thing or on pages not every time it works Don't don't get that thing that every time what I do At the first it will be end up in the in the journal. I do change my designs many many times Before I show them to the world really many times If I'm not happy with the design I sleep on it Every time or I put the journal on the side and then it's sitting Maybe four months. It's like like now. I do have three journals. I started in 2019 and I still didn't didn't finish them because there is something where I can't I'm not happy with them and I still can't find what's wrong with them So until I will be sure that what I want to change what is not the quiet Quite good from my view I'm not touching them because You know, it will be maybe wrong to change to make a changes now And I'm not sure what's wrong with them because I can't see it yet But I hope maybe in 2030 I will find a way how to finish those journals So That's how long time it sometimes takes for me to finish my journals and It's sometimes so hard to be in my head. I I oh, I love your your amazing comments When you wrote me and many times I I read that that you would like to be in my head. No Just me. No It's too complicated. Sometimes even I am confused by my thinking sometimes But anyway, I do love craft. I really do. I do love even those changes When I'm making those changes in my journals. I'm sometimes surprising myself. Oh, oh, this is so cute So that's why I do love that craft, you know, we can do so many things with paper Paper is so forgiving and we always have a glue and we always have those amazing modeling paste and stickers and you know, all kind of stuff we can cover all mistakes, so Please don't get stress if you do mistakes in your journals because I do too I think everyone does some kind of mistake what they don't want to have in the journal So then just think how you can change it And it can be done many ways and I did it many times that I ripped off the page And then I did kind of like collage on that ripped off the page to cover my ripped off the page and The height might mistake. So just enjoy your craft Try to feel free I'm always trying that to free my mind to to be calm and to just enjoy this this amazing opportunity We've been given That we can play with paper and we can Relax Craft supposed to be always about relaxing and I hope you do enjoy that people who are creating something They are mostly very good heart and They are calm and they are don't do stupid things At least I do believe so so that's why I do love to create And that's why I do love to to share with you what I am creating because I'm always hoping that it will inspire you To grab your stuff and to do something as well I think I'm gonna stop chit chatting and I'm just gonna Kind of comment what I'm doing in in that video I did share I'm not sure how long time it was maybe 2017 17 18 I did share The closure made from a can pull opener That's what you can see in the background right now. I'm using those can pull Openers for making the closures for my pages and I do love them very much. There is a video How I made these I will try to find it and put link down below So maybe you can be inspired by that as well There is so many things you can use in the junk journals Those paperbacks can pull openers envelopes Those acetate sheets, which I used to cover those windows that they are actually from packaging They are from packaging from my Dice from From dim holds those those large big six dies. These are amazing You know those packaging they are amazing to use in junk journals. They are really perfect for our craft So when you are Making your junk journal Make sure you will go through to your home And you I believe you will find so many amazing things to use in junk journals That's the reality boxes old envelopes That a white tape you saw me to use to reinforce the envelope fault That is medical tape that micro porous paper tape And it's amazing. It's not thick It's semi transparent and it's perfect for reinforcing faults to make them a little bit more stable So that you can find the supplies For your junk journal in your home or in your home very easily. I do believe just have a Open mind and open eyes and you will find loads of stuff So here I'm creating the closures for that kind of like accordion pocket and I did used At the front I did used one old card from the game From travia game and I do love to use these. They are beautiful decoration. You can stamp on them. You can distress these So don't even throw away Some old games. Maybe you are missing some pieces in old games, but don't throw them away They are amazing additional to your junk journals as well And I am using that tape also to cover The back of these brats to make sure when I will slide something into those pockets I will create from this large sheet of paper So the tacks or something where I will slide into those pockets will don't get stuck over Those ends of my brats and that tape is it's perfect for that so Really you can find the stuff for junk journals everywhere So you saw me to create kind of I'm gonna call that signature even if it is only One long strip of paper folded on Kind of like pages And you can what is good on it that you can Decorate it straight away and then once you have there Those openings and maybe windows if you want to create their windows Then you're gonna put these signatures together and I hope it will be easy So I'm gonna start with this. This will be like my last signature And if you will notice if I will just laying down This back, uh, it's kind of like open So, uh, I know because of pages inside it will be good if I will don't press these Together properly if I will put there something between to Make the spine this will be spine of my book Well where this paper will be glued together so it will create the spine here So it will be good if the spine will kind of Be same White or depth Like those pages here and for that i'm gonna take a court. I do have here this Black court and I bought it a long time ago and I thought I'm gonna use it in my journals, but I never did Actually, so I'm gonna Use this court. It's strong It keeps the shape and it's perfect for this project And I'm gonna open My paper on the last kind of like last opening or the last page This will be glued to the cover To the back cover here And this will be my my last pocket page So in that last pocket page I'm gonna add there this court I would like to have their pocket from the top The top of my pages is here. This is bottom of my pages So the spine side and the bottom of my pages. I'm gonna Add that this court. So first I'm gonna add here glue. I'm gonna Glue Here the court I chose for this type of kind of like Filling the gap court, I think this way Here I'm gonna cut and make sure that it's on the end that it will fill the gap and it will make The spine side A little bit more wider and also those pockets A little bit more wider. I'm gonna let it dry then I will add the glue On the top of that court and because I'm using This is brilliant glue, which I am using but it's a drying kind of slow So I will have to wait A little bit before I will Continue To the next page. So I added the glue also on the top of that court now. I'm gonna flip this over it And press So I just kind of like Reinforced not reinforced I just put the space into that pocket here and also made The spine Spine side a little bit more dimensional So that the difference between the pages itself and between the spine will be not that huge And I'm gonna take again my glue put a glue on the bottom of my pockets And on the side And I will add here the court And let it dry and here I'm going to take the The signature which will be before this last one And this first page will be glued over that fold here Right here. So I'm gonna put the glue on that fold You can glue these Pages or your signatures together first and then to start put That court inside Or you can do it this way that Step by step Signature by signature. So right now I am gluing that previous signature to the New one And glue it properly So I do have glued that Pocket with that cord here. I do have another cord And because I glued that previous signature I do have again that extension. So I'm gonna continue Or I can glue that Next one as well. It will be exactly same I'm gonna put A glue on this fold Place it here Under my first page here Hold it over and also check oops Yeah, check from this side if you are on the right spot So here I already put that cord So I'm gonna go again with my glue on that cord and place this over it And again here. I'm gonna put a cord put a glue then a cord And this way till That totally last Fold that part. So I do have my journal journal block Here and I do have two pieces which I will use for front And from for back of my journal And I do have some leftovers from these Bugs, which I didn't cover of it the painting And I'm gonna use them for to make the covers for my journal And I think because this I tried to rip off that label, but it started Ripping off the paper as well. So I glue it back And because of this I'm thinking to do some collage on these pieces They supposed to be big enough to cover my cheap board pieces for front and for back So I'm gonna bring some stickers actually. I'm gonna use the stickers and do some Something with those papers So I do have here my sheets. These are Sheets with Stick Sticker sticky paper Or self-adhesive paper. These are Sheets which are used for printing shipping labels and I just print on it Decorative papers. I like to use them when I'm making some collages So I do have all kinds of you know background papers background Beautiful images and here's some kind of ledger papers and stuff from my From my designs. So I think I'm gonna use that mixed and match And do something with those covers. So I do have inside green here and there So I'm thinking to choose also These decorative papers in that in that mold or in that That color Although I like this one I think it can go together Yeah this And some ledger ones maybe this one I will see and some ledger papers and I will just take my Stickers and start to layer them on my sheet and do some collage I like to use these sticky papers just because they are not too heavy And I can stick them straight away So they are perfect for collaging So just very easy make and if somewhere happened that I do rip off the sticky sticky edge or a sticky background just Add there a glue and all it's good in the second one So I do have my color sheets. I just added on those empty spots here and there these labels So now I can Place my paper and wrap that paper to that collage paper those chipboards I mean I can place my chipboards on my collage paper Wrap those chipboards to that collage paper So I tried to make position on my paper with this chipboard. I cut the corners and I'm just gonna very easily Wrapped up the paper around the chipboard Press it nicely Also corners make sure that they go stick So I do have two pieces wrapped up in those kind of like collage papers I'm not gonna use my sewing machine because I use that double-sided tape and it will just mess up with the needle But to create something on this one I'm gonna use Hole punch and I will add there eyelets to give there some kind of decoration. I will also use my distress inks And distress the edges I'm gonna be using ground espresso and my brush And with that ground espresso I will distress all the edges and go here and there also in the middle Of that paper So I do have front and back cover here and I'm gonna do I think I'm gonna place here this label I shared with With my patreons. I do have this one also on buy me a coffee. You can find it there link will be down below the sheet with These labels and I was thinking they can be used on either on Jung journals as a title maybe or envelopes, you know Something or just like the correction in journals and I think I'm gonna use this one I'm just gonna glue it on a piece of chipboard to make it a little bit more thick and visible And I've got here this beautiful. I think I've got it from hobby craft or from teka max In sheffield from sheffield. I think from hobby craft I found these beautiful brats. Not sure if my camera will zoom properly Those smalls are are normal brats And there those large ones they do have like screw heads on it. They're perfect and it's from artemio And somewhere there Hopefully you can see the number one one zero zero six six two two its reference number of this product Beautiful brats. So that's what I would like to use somehow Not sure if that will work or if if it will look good So I'm gonna glue my label on the chipboard cut it around And distress it with same ink with ground espresso So I'm gonna place it right here poke the holes fix their Brats and I think I'm gonna use these Come on come on come on press it So I do have those brats And here where those stars are I think I'm gonna put their eyelets And because this will be back cover. So it will be that way on my book This will be outside So I'm gonna hold these covers the way they will be on the book together Make sure they will don't move. I'm gonna clip them and I'm gonna be using my Cropodile and punch the holes so I do have Punched holes in both covers on exact same spot. I'm gonna fix their eyelets So I will have a space where I will put some closure and as a closure. I would like to use this beautiful Lie stream or lace But first I need to somehow figure it out how I will fix it all together with my with my book block So this will be here and that inside will be hidden totally So I can just glue it there straight away and then just probably poke the hole I should glue it there first and then Poke the hole for my brats, but I did mistake. So I'm gonna work with that I'm gonna add the glue on all this space And glue there my front cover. So that will be here I'm gonna make it stand and Put it all together Glue it all together I'm gonna have a look If I am on the right Position And make sure that everything gets glued nicely I'm gonna press it with my bone folder Okay, I'm gonna let it dry before I will poke the you know the hole through or maybe I can try It's right here And right here. So I do have the leg which will go one and two Three times Around my book and I'm gonna create my cover a cover closure closure So I'm gonna push the lace through Oh from outside this way. Sorry This way and go the other other way outside And I'm gonna make a knot here and on one end I do have that knot in there. I do have here this Beat with kind of like large hole inside So I'm gonna try to slide That beat around both Ends first around this one and then I will try to push inside that other one as well hopefully Maybe Am I able to do so? What do you think? You will see go go go go go go Come on. Come on. Okay. So I do have it here All right, just like this. So this will be here and on this shorter end I'm gonna sewn This my resin piece So just with a very simple sewing around Few times to fix it to make sure it will hold nicely And hopefully it will look nice So a few times So not with my tool like that, then I'm gonna do A knot on the back side and cut that shorter piece And I'm gonna go on that opposite end And sew it also few times And because I like when it's something, you know, hanging I do have here small composition of beads on One pin. I think it's called pin So I just slide a few beads on it and now I can hang it here Hopefully my lace will hold Okay, I'm gonna Place it a little bit more to that pattern And we do have decoration here And I'm gonna take my black cover and do exactly same With the lace And beads I will just don't don't add there any sentiment on that chipboard the urgent piece I will add there just the beads on the end So I do have fixed the lace with those beads here as well And because here I do have that acetate piece. I would like to have that the pocket as well. So I'm gonna add the glue Here on this flap and also like before I'm gonna add The piece of that cord This is bottom of my book and this is that spine side. So here and here I'm gonna add there the cord again So I do have cord glued around the bottom and the spine side I do have glue here and on the cord again And now I'm gonna just place my back cover On that fold and over that cord. I'm gonna stand it up to make sure it will be straight And press everything And I'm gonna let it dry So before I will continue. I'm gonna let this dry So as a last thing what I will do I'm gonna you don't have to actually cover the spine because it does look cute It's interesting and if you will use Colored cord maybe red one or you know some kind of color On that cord. It will be also kind of like, you know, you know, very colorful and beautiful But I'm gonna cover the spine for the covering the spine. I'm gonna use this fabric medical tape Because I really like to use it. It's holding well It can be distressed So it can look vintage It's just perfect Perfect for my journals If I don't get glued into it and I'm gonna Cover with this medical tape All spine And if if it will be too small, I can always, you know, extend it with another piece And place it over this first one, but I think this Will be good enough I'm gonna use leftover on my brush from Ground espresso distressed ink And for now I'm done. I will want so I can always add this lace also to the spine You know to create some Beautiful layering of that lace but for now, I think I'm gonna keep it this way until I will find some beautiful pictures, which I will add inside This is just very simple decoration Very simple journal. I mean on the top on the cover Because I didn't have any idea what to do on the cover right now That's what I said that for me to plan all my journals. It takes time I need to plan what I will have on the top. I have to have some idea And it always takes a time. It's I don't know how to do journals in a month or In a week a week. I never did a journal in a week even in videos It does look that way that it was finished in the week. It's never It never was so It's just because I'm editing those videos. So for you it can looks like I'm freakishly fast, but Definitely not So for now, uh, this is my journal I do hope you will try this binding or this putting together journal because as you can see you can open it fully flat It's just because you don't have anything You know on the spine. It's very flexible. You can open it flat, which is perfect And the pockets are amazing They are nice size and they are very dimensional just because in the spine side is that cord So they are very dimensional. So, uh, you can add to those pockets quite a lot actually I'm gonna slide these So this is my sharing for today. I will work on this journal through, you know here and there again I will see what I will do with this journal I hope you did enjoy it. Even I didn't do any decorative too much decorative, uh, cover It's a very simple one But I hope you will try to craft with those shopping bags because they are amazing Uh, amazing item to use, you know in our junk journals. I love to use those shopping bags They are very versatile And I do have this one So maybe here No, here So I hope you did enjoy it. You did enjoy my Short Or maybe not too short short tutorial for Junk journal using shopping bags. Thank you so so much for visiting me 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