 Hey guys how are you today? So if you're watching this I'm already in Las Vegas with some art friends on sort of a mini art retreat and I want to bring them all a little gift so I thought I'd make some little sort of junk journals, one for everybody, I made one for myself too. Add some stuff I have laying around the studio and you break out my zutter bind at all because you know I've got it, I should probably use it. Let me bind this last one. Whoops. Those of you who don't know what a zutter is it's a binding machine. It does a spiral metal ring bound type of binding so you thread everything through like that and put it in this end. I always fiddle with the rings a little bit make sure it bent them good and closed. There we go so we've got four journals and I want to let's see. All right so I used bits and pieces of cardboard, some mini file folders I found on clearance, some different things I had that I kind of was hoarding. They each have a little bit different stuff in them, envelopes and different things. I want to put some of these tags in here and I've got these cute little playing cards. They're from a kid's game so I think I want to put some of those in one of them. This one's going to be mine so let's put that one aside for a minute. So in theirs I put some of my scrap watercolor paper stamping kind of experiment cards. I didn't put that in mine because you know I could just paint something. I don't need that in mine. I want to put, there's a pocket in the back here. Is it big enough for a tag? It is big enough for a tag. Okay I want to put a tag in there. They each have one of those. Someone has one too. Oh see I missed two pieces of paper. I'm going to have to fix that. There's a way around that so that's the only problem with doing it this way is sometimes you miss paper when you're in a hurry. All right it's not the first time I've done that. It won't be the last time I've done that. So I'm going to put a little slit up to the binding hole on both of these with the plastic one in first. There we go. All fixed haha. All right I'm going to put that one in here. All right what else do we have in here? I've got some paper clips. I've got like a million paper clips. I've got some of these that are turquoise. Of course they are. So let's go back to the beginning and like right here let's paper clip in something else. Maybe a couple of somethings. I like that. All right let's do that to the other ones. Where did I do that? I did that on here. All right. I forget what I'm doing people. I made these the other day when my stamps came in. I need one more. And I think the birthday girl is going to get a set of stamps for free. I know there's a particular one that she wants so I think that she's going to get them for her birthday. I'll put the birds. I have mine and I think I'm going to put this tag in my pocket. I have extra pockets in mine because I was given library pockets and stuff in Happy Mail. So I wanted to use some of them to put some things in. Is there any more pockets in mine? I don't think so. Nope just a couple of envelopes. Okay so that'll work. I have these three things I want to stick in here. I might want to staple them in. Let's see where they should go. Shall we? We're going to just kind of flip through until I get like I think one of them needs to go here and I do want to staple them. I use my Tim Holtz tiny attacher. That's just like leftover packaging. Each one of these is different. They're not exactly the same. They're similar. Let's put these paper clips back in their tube. Do I want to put anything else in here? I don't know. I don't think so. I think I'm going to make some little packets of ephemera bits for them and of course like I said the birthday girl is going to get us at a stamp for her birthday and I think that's it. I got a few extra tags which is good because I need to make some happy mail so I could use these and I think that's good. So we've got cardboard on the outside and chipboard on the back. They have this pretty corrugated cardboard in there. I didn't have enough to do mine but I had this chipboard that had the scalloped edge and then I put a piece of the watercolor paper some kind of tag or packaging a piece of paper. I put a few of these transparencies in two of them in each journal. They all say something different. There's a couple of envelopes in each journal. Some of this like card stock that's got lines and some of it's got like graph paper on it. Postcards. Some of those are from Happy Mail. Playing cards. I don't know what this is. I picked it up at art salvage place but it's an interesting little piece of paper. Some craft card stock. More packaging. This is another game card from an art game. An art trivia game. There's the graph paper. And another envelope. Different kind. There's a few of these mini file folders in each one. There's a regular envelope and another mini file folder. They're all very similar. Very quick and easy to put together. Plus bonus, you use up some of those scraps and things you have laying around your studio space and all of your mixed media friends are going to love a good junk journal. And you can give them a little pack of ephemera bits and pieces to go along with it and I think they would love that. So it's just one idea for something you can do. I will see you all later. Don't forget the most important thing. Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye.