 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is my travel journal. I've been asked by a lot of people to do this after I done the backpack tutorial. And I said in that video that it would be really nice to keep a travel journal in. And so here you go. I love this and I've worked really hard with this one. It's already filled up and this is something that I've wanted to have for myself to put all of the bits and pieces in that me and my husband have kind of, well, I've really kind of collected since we've been traveling and moved to Asia. So basically it's all made from craft card. So it's very, very strong. It's double layered as well, which I'll talk through. I've distressed it all with some brown ink. I finished off here with some little travel inspired dies, which I've die cut each one three times, stuck them on top of each other and then again, just distress them and you can probably just pick up there. They're kind of like lifted off. It's got the elastic band that goes around it here and then I finished it off with maps, which again, I've distressed with the brown ink just to give it a bit of an aged and worn look. And all of the die, the distressing has been done on all like the edges and stuff. So it just looks like it's been battered a bit, which is what I wanted. So you just open it up like so and the elastic just hangs off the side. And then in here, you have a pocket on the side, which I've just got a couple of bits in there. And then I've got two pages with pockets. So these have got all the little stubs that you get when you visit like tourist attractions. So in China, we've been to the Great Wall, the terracotta warriors. I've got other ones from other cities we've been to in China. So that's kind of my China one here. This is when we went to Tokyo. So again, I've got little stubs and stuff when we've visited really lovely places. And I've just carried on this map theme. This is just from an old tatty book that I picked up in a charity shop or a thrift store as they're known as well, back in the UK. And it was, the bind was falling off and it was an inexpensive book. It wasn't like it, you know, it was rare or anything. And like I said, these were really bright images but I just toned them down by putting the brown over the top. I've got a couple of bits here. This is from our honeymoon when we went to Malaysia. So that's just our hotel receipt. I've got others that I need to find and put them in there. Here, these are, what's this one, Cambodia. I think there's a mix of other bits as well. And then I've done a clear pocket here which is attached in between. It's sandwiched in between two bits of card here. And this has got all my maps. I'm a bit of a, I love to do my research before I go and the maps that you get in the lonely planet books I cover in tape after I've gone through and literally highlighted. I list everything. And it's just nice to keep. If we ever go back again, I can kind of look at this and go, oh, should we go back to that place that we loved? So they're full there. So again, that's optional. You may not want to put as much as I have. And then at the back here, I've just got a notepad that I've covered with some flags, which were from a book. And again, it's just the plain notepad there to be able to just write little memories and stuff which I will do as well. And that's just literally stuck directly onto the back there. So it's very easy to do. It doesn't take too long at all. And I'm just going to go through now and show you how to put that all together. All the bits you're going to need here, I've got my tacky glue. This is what I've used. I used a stamping up soft suede with the craft card, but you can use any brown really, or even grays. Grays could look quite good as well, distressed. So I've got some elastic here. I just buy it by the meter. It's very inexpensive from a Chinese online company called Taobao, which isn't available to anybody outside of China. However, I will find links on Amazon and eBay and those kind of sites for you, because it works out much cheaper if you buy it like this. But you will need, so what was that? So 10, 12 inches, because you need to obviously allow for the knot there. So 12-inch elastic, just knotted like I've done there, and then that will be the piece to wrap around. So I've got that one there. The dies I've used are these ones here. So you also get the plane and the boat and the campervan. I use these four here. So again, I'll share links to those in my blog. So what you will need, so this bit here, this first bit's optional. The size is exact. You need two pieces of, sorry, hold on. So these measure eight and a quarter by eight and three quarters. Now, if you've got a really workable chipboard, something that will curve nicely, then you will just need two pieces of that size. However, this craft card that I use is 300 GSM. It is strong, but I wanted it even stronger. So what I've done is these are actually four pieces, and then I've stuck them. So these are two pieces stuck together, which I done last night. I've allowed it to dry and it's just become even stronger, but it's still manageable. So you want something that's still gonna be able to curve around and kind of manipulate. I can start working this now and you can see already it's starting to bend. So four pieces, if you're using what I'm using, craft card or a very, very heavy weight colored card, I would recommend four pieces, like I said, of the eight and a quarter by eight and three quarters. Okay. Along the eight and a quarter inch parts side, on the left hand of one of them, I've just corner punched, just to stop it kind of getting really tatty, and then obviously the opposite one, I've corner punched there, because we're gonna be sticking these on top of each other and this is gonna form our actual case. So that's those two pieces there. This is for the, if I open this up so I can talk through each piece. So this is for this little pocket here. So this one measures eight and three quarters by three. Okay. Then this is the plastic envelope I've got. Now I pick these up, you get a pack of 15, 10 or 15 from a shop called Muji. And now it is an international shop. I know there is, I think there's one in London and I'm not sure if they do allow you to buy online, but I will find out. Basically these pockets measure six by eight and a half. So if you've got something similar to that, if you don't want to do this or can't do this because you don't have these, then you can do three of the actual pages rather than the two and then that plastic one. So I'll talk you through that bit in a minute. If you are doing this and you have something similar here, then you would need these two pieces which are eight and a half. So both are eight and a half. And then one of them is one and a quarter and the other one is one. Okay. And they're what we're gonna use to sandwich between like so the former page. Then you need four pieces. These are our pockets for this bit here. Okay. And you need four of these and these measure six and a half by four and a half. Okay. And then like I said, you will either need two of these or three if you don't have the plastic like I just mentioned. And these are our main two pages. So these are five and three quarters by eight and a quarter. Okay. So that's everything you need. So obviously I've done this last night. So no, we'll go to that in a minute. Let's get the scoring done actually. So with your two or three pages depending on what you're doing along the five and three quarter inch side you just wanna score at a quarter of an inch just all the way down. I've already scored it. So I'm not gonna go over again. Just quarter of an inch. Okay. And you wanna do that on the other one or the other two that you may have. Then with the four pockets that you've got along the six and a half inch side you want to score at a quarter of an inch, half an inch, three quarters of an inch. Then five and three quarters, six and six and a quarter. Okay. So you should have three quarter inch tabs like columns either side. Then rotate the card and along the four and a half inch side you wanna score at half an inch all the way down. Okay. So do that on the other, depending on how many pages if you add the third page then you'd actually need six of these but in the one that I'm doing I only had four. So I'm just gonna burnish and do this as I go. So craft card you really have to work. I get this from Do Crafts. I'll share the links. It's the only one I use because it's my favorite one. I did purchase a pack here in China and they call it wood pulp. And that one's very nice as well but it's slightly lighter but I like this. This is a lot more fibrous with the other one that I've shown in previous tutorials it's got a bit more of a shine to it whereas this I absolutely love the craft card. So I've just burnedish the main inner score line there and then that bottom one. You just do them first. It doesn't matter if you've gone ahead and burnished them as well but it's just a bit easier if you cut this bit out first. So at the bottom you'll have that little rectangle. Just remove that piece there. Okay, like so. And then you just want to concertina fold these. So if I turn it upside down, and the other way, so this is my front, fold one of them completely down and then bring it back and then over. Okay, so what you should have is like an M. I turn it up that way, the letter M. Okay, just there. So again, squash it all down together and then just run your bone folder over the top there and just really ingrain those score lines nice and tight. And then again, fold that one over, bring it back on that score line and then over on that last little score line there. And again, just really squash that one down. Okay, then what you want to do is get some tacky glue and on the very ends, just put a little bit of glue enough to cover that quarter inch tab, like so. Okay, squash those down towards the end and then fold that one up and over. Okay, like so. Just hold that there in place while that all sets. You can see now that pocket coming together and because you've got that little bit of that concertina on the side, it just allows it to expand a little bit so you can get as much in there as possible. And then just go along and just burnish that all again in place. And this is such a tough card. You can be quite rough with it, which I love as well. So there you go, so that's what you have. So you need to do that on the next three or the next five pieces, depending on again on your pages. Then grab one of the pages that we've done and we'd already scored along there. You want to burnish your score line just like so. So I'm just pinching that down like that. Okay, so you've got a little tab there now on the side. Then with this pocket, it's going to sit down at the bottom here and just making sure that you've got a nice equal border on all of those three sides. I already corner punched these as well. So again, that's optional, you don't have to, but I just think it helps. You know, it means your corners won't get so tatty and roll and potentially kind of rip and stuff. So if you just do that, I tend to always do it on most things like this that I make. So I'm just running some tachy glue now just along the tabs. Okay, like so, and then hold it like so and you can bring it down, eyeball it, kind of hover it over until you're happy. Again, because I'm using the wet glue, I've got a little bit of wiggle room so I can move it around if I want. Another reason I love using the craft car because again, I say it's quite fibrous, it takes to the glue really well and it absorbs really quickly and sticks really quickly as well. So I'm just going along now and just making sure that's nicely secure like so. Okay, and then also, while I've got that here, I'm just gonna grab some of my red tape and just run it along the top of this quarter inch. She has this quarter inch red tape so it fits perfectly in this little tab. And just gonna run that all the way down like so. And then again, just, if you see any kind of white air bubbles, go over it with your bone tool and then you know you've stuck it all down. Okay, and then flip it over and you wanna add your next pocket. So I'd already done this one so you can see now I've got my two pockets on that first page, which is gonna be like so. And again, on your second page, stick them all down like I've done and you will have another one like this. So again, you can see my two pockets there ready. And then if you've got a third page, you will have three of these already like so. So you can see they're fold nice and flat when there's nothing in them or not much in them. And then you've got that room to expand. Okay, so that's those done. And then we've got this one here, which is our big pocket. So along the nine and three quarter inch side, you want to score at a quarter of an inch and eight and a half, okay? And then rotate it onto the three inch side and you want to score half an inch all the way down. Now this is the same as the others but I haven't done those three quarter, the three of the quarter inch tabs. I just found that the one on the front, I didn't need it to be a concertina style but if you do want it to be then you know what you need to do now so you can just add in the extras if need be. So again, I'm just cutting the bottom little squares out there, like so. Burnish all of those score lines, like so. And then again, the two here first, you want to put a little bit of glue on the bottom so it's just again about a quarter of an inch coming in from the outside there so you're not putting too much glue on there. And then fold that again up so it squashes on top of the bottoms of those quarter inch tabs. So you can see there that little pocket that's come together. So just hold that in place for a minute. And again, open the bone tool and just go along and just work that all in space. Okay, so that's that one done. And then with this one here that I've got, if this is what you want to do, you will have one that was one inch by eight and a half and then the other one that was one and a quarter by eight and a half. With that one and a quarter one, just score at a quarter of an inch all the way down. And then again, just burnish that score line, like so. Okay, so you should just have that. I'm gonna get rid of my scoreboard now so I don't need that anymore. Give me a bit more room. Okay, then what we want to do is, this is the top bit. So I'm gonna run some of my red tape down along this one here just like we did on those pages. And again, just go over it with your bone tool just to make sure you've got all the air bubbles out. Like so, okay. So what's gonna happen now is on this envelope, so that's the top. And then I've got like this perforated kind of join there. That's gonna go inside here. So I'm gonna flip that over, flip that over. That will stick within here just up to the score line. And then this piece is basically just to cover up the glue from the red tape and that's gonna sit there. And then that basically becomes a page. So inside this one here, I'm just gonna run two bits of red tape, take them off. And then just sit this plastic, like I said, nice and neatly inside up to that score line. And just make sure that's nicely stuck down, okay. So like I said, that bit is just to cover the score lines that I've done there, the score lines, sorry, the tape. I've just watched, called the Midwife Christmas Special because I'm catching up and it always makes me cry. So I'm just trying to get organized, but I keep thinking about that. And I think I'm coming down with a cold because I'm getting all bundled up again as well. So yeah, I think I need to have a nice hot cup of tea after this one. Okay, so there again, I just put the glue on that one. Glue the tape there again. I'm not really thinking about what I'm doing. Okay, and then just stick that one again nicely, focus on the top, and then make sure it meets that score line. I'll bring that all the way down, there we go. Okay, and then I've got the tape there, which is gonna sit inside and that will form a page. So that is all of the inside now done. So we'll go back to our two big pieces here. So like I said, this will be, so I've already rounded off the edges. And you wanna basically, you're joining up the eight and three quarter inch length here. So grab one of them on the, I've got the left-hand side one here, which I've already rounded off the edges. And you basically just wanna get a little, get a little ruler and just mark a little marker. Mark a little marker, I mean, I'm not even making any sense to myself. You wanna mark one and a quarter inch coming in there from that outer side, just like I've done there. And then again, do the same at the bottom, one and a quarter inch, like so. And then just join that up and just do a pencil mark like that, okay? Basically, we're now gonna fill that with glue and we're gonna stick this piece in there like so, okay? So again, I'm gonna grab my glue, splodge. That all over there. That's all covered in my glue and then just spend some time making sure you get a really nice join and it's nice and flush with the top and the bottom, like so. And again, get your bone tool, just really work that in so all that glue is spread out. So that's all ready now. So again, I've just worked it a little bit so it's nice and kind of curved. So this piece here where we've dubbed up that one and a quarter inch bit here, that's on the back. The bind will actually be just off to the left of this. So as I bring this around, like so, that's gonna be the front, okay? So just like here. And then that will be our lid bit that comes over it. So once I've got this kind of where I need it to be I will talk through the measurements. So obviously it's gonna be nice and fat. So you wanna make sure it's got the room for all the bits to go in it. Okay, so you want your piece here because I'm not using any score lines. So your kind of bind and the main kind of front is measuring up at five inches, okay? So you want to have five inches here and then start to curve it around so that it meets this bit here at the back, okay? Like so and then whatever's here is just gonna obviously come around and be the side bit there that forms the closure. So just looking at what I've done here on this one. So if you see here from the inside, I've stuck my first page at, let's see here, at five and five eighths of an inch in. So that's the easiest way to do this. So here I'm gonna come in five, and five eighths of an inch. I'm up a bit there. So five and five eighths of an inch. Just put in a pencil mark. You can rub all of this out and then again go up to the top to five and five eighths of an inch. And then again, I'm just getting a pencil mark to be fair, this is actually gonna be covered with that page. So I've just done a pencil mark. It's about another one and a quarter. It's about the same here and that's gonna be the bind now. That will be where we stick everything. So I'm gonna grab my first page. Okay, take off this tape and fold it over and you want to line up the scoring with that pencil mark. And you wanna give yourself an equal border from the top and the bottom there because obviously it won't join to the very top. It's not meant to. It's about a quarter of an inch. So I'm gonna do the first one first and get that squashed down. There we go. And then I can just bring that down like so. Okay, and then just grab your bone tool and go over the top there, flip it over, and then just go over the inside there like so. Okay, then grab your next page and that one's gonna be folded so that the edge here, when this is folded over, this edge will meet with this page, the end of the page that we stuck down before. So let me do this one here just to show you. So again, I can now just line up with that page. I don't need to worry about the four. So get that all nicely like so and then just work the rest of it down. Okay, so again, get that all stuck down and flip it over and that's that one. Okay, now if you've got your third one, you'll just add that in, just as I'm gonna do this one. So this is now this one, this plastic one and take the tape off there, fold it over and start from the top there. I know if this one's longer actually. So this one won't line up, so it's gotta be. Again, you need to kind of make sure you've got an even border top and bottom because that one just comes down a bit longer like so and then fold it over the other side and just make sure it's all nicely stuck down. Okay, and then the bottom now, there is room to put more pages in. Again, if you don't want to add a notebook in, you've got room here for two more pages. You could just have pages in this and not have a notebook. So this is the notebook I've got here and this measures, this was just picked up at Walmart and this is five and a half by eight and a half, okay? And I'm basically just gonna stick that right down so it lines up with this piece here. Remember when we stuck that over the top of the other piece? So this is that overlapped bit. I'm gonna line it right up to there. So there's still room to put another page in if you wanted to, but you need to bear in mind that this is gonna get filled up. So that room there, obviously once this comes around, it will sit within that bind. So there's probably room for one more page, I would say there. So this is a really nice design. I don't know what I'm gonna use this file for yet, so I'm not actually gonna be decorating it today. I will measure the mats that I used and tell you those in a moment, but I'm not sure. I think I'm gonna make this more of a, just a little memory kind of journal. So I'm just gonna now add glue all onto the back of this and I'm gonna theme this one around the patterns of this notebook, so I really like this. I don't want to cover this one. So again, I'm just putting my glue all over. That's all nicely glued and then just sit that down. Now also, you might want to have this so that you can remove the notebook. I've set it at the back here, so it's very easy to write in. So I just open it up and I can write. I've got nothing obstructing me, but you might want it to have it so that you remove it. And what you would do is you have another piece of elastic and you'd have the elastic running through the inside here so you could just take it on and off. But I wanted to just make sure that this always stays in here. I've had those kind of before and I end up taking them out and using them as notebooks and then they don't ever go back into where they were from in the first place. So at least this one here, I know whatever I write in it will be relevant to this journal, which is what I want. So I'm just going on the back page there and just sticking that all down like so. So that is everything in place. Now we need to add in our string and also this would be a good time to distress it before you obviously you put everything in and you might want to distress the mat separately. It's entirely up to you. But the mat I've put on the front, so this mat one here is measuring up at four and five eights. You could do four and a half and that is by eight and a quarter. So that's that one. The mat for the top of this, oh, we need to add that one. That one is eight by two and a quarter. And then the mats for all of those little pockets are four and three quarters by three and three quarters. Okay, so that's all of the mat you will need. Obviously it depends on what you want to do. Now I've put my knot after the first of those pages. So hold on a minute, before I do that, let's get this one stuck down here. I think I needed to put a bit more glue on that one. Seems to have come and stuck. Okay, so again, just pop glue all along the tabs there. You're gonna just sit that on the far left of that front page. Again, just give yourself a nice border. So again, those pencil marks, I can see I've got on the top and the bottom there. I'll rub them out in a minute. But again, go along and distress it. Like I said, I don't know if I'm gonna be distressing this one or not. I'm gonna do more of a floral kind of flowers and stuff so I may not need to, so I won't be doing that today. But like I said, you just literally get your blending tool and just ink it up, dab off any excess and then just rub it and it will catch on all of the raised parts. And then I kept this folded closed and just ran it up and down the bind just again to give a more darker part there. And I went round and just done that on all of the edges. And again, on every page, just open it up and I just went around, just dabbed it all on there, okay? Right, so let's do, I actually think I'm gonna do the, yeah, I can get the bind. I'm gonna do it after my third page here. So not the bind, sorry, the elastic. So I've got my last page before the book here and you basically just wanna make sure you get this in the middle. So if you don't have this tool that I've got, which I've shared and used before, then you can use a pokey tool with just put a little foam mat underneath so that you don't ruin any tables or anything. So it's eight and a quarter, eight and three quarters, sorry, so this will be four and three eighths of an inch. It will be the middle there. So I'm gonna pop that one in place. So, and then you just push it down. I've got this self-healing mat underneath and I'll pump it a couple of times just because that's thick and you can see now that's just cut straight through like so. And then all I need to do is thread my elastic through, okay? So I've got that like so. You could hang a little key ring or something off there if you want to cover that up and then that will come round and there you have it. That is the basics of this travel journal. So just kind of play with it and work it all. But once you fill it, you know, you fill it up, I've used this a lot. So it's gone really, really soft and you can see everything inside there. So again, once this one, you know, has been used a lot and just keep working the bind, the edge there just to make sure. But once I said, you start putting more and more and more in these pages, it will just, the whole thing will kind of really kind of expand out like so. And yeah, they are my two travel journals. Or, well, this one might be, this is just going to be a nice journal. I'm looking forward to decorating this and I will share it on my social media as and when I do this one. Just, you know, when you just find some paper, I'm just waiting to find that kind of thing that I want to use this for. So it's just going to sit there for a minute. But this one I love and I'm super pleased with it. So I hope you are too. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please give it a thumbs up if you did like it and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more. I've got some really exciting projects in the pipeline and I'll catch you again soon. Thanks for watching. Bye.