 work to be done. I found a file folder full of Halloween themed things that I forgot I put together to do sort of a Halloween day of the dead sort of journal. And I remembered that I also wanted to try bleaching some black paper. So we're gonna try that. Now I wish I hear that you can do it with hydrogen peroxide and not actually with bleach. I don't have any hydrogen peroxide. So I have a small bottle spray bottle and fill with water. I'm not quite full. This has a bleach in it and I'm just gonna put a few drops. I want to use diluted bleach even if it takes a while to bleach the paper. So I'm gonna put I don't know I'm gonna try like 10 drops. Oh heck I'm just gonna put a dropper full. And then we'll put the lid on because the bleach smells and for those that don't know I'm asthmatic. Alright I'm gonna start with a piece of card stock aka a black file folder and this has some plastic bits in it. I need to throw away. On the last project I use this cookie sheet for. Okay some of these cookie sheets have paint and ink and whatever on them from the last time I put something in here to dry that I was dying or whatever. That's okay if it transfers I don't care. So I'm going to just hold on. I'm gonna just spray and this is a piece of card this file folder so I'm gonna spray like all the sides. I'm gonna set it aside to dry. I'm gonna do all these pieces of paper this way really quick before my meeting. And it's gonna work I can tell you already because this one's already starting to lift. So we'll let it dry and we'll see what we get at the end. I'll be back. Now I may also drip some straight bleach on the paper too which I think I'm gonna do really quick. It's working. I might want to do this two or three times before I get the distressed color that I want but cool. How much time do I have left? Three minutes. I'm gonna wash my hands really quick and clean up and then get to my meeting. Okay guys the bleached paper came out great. I took some of it. I have extra which I'm not mad about and I took some of it and I cut them to size and I folded them in half already a piece of the black file folder cardstock paper for the cover and then the black drawing paper for the inside and before somebody asks me in the comments below. Okay these are a little bit smaller than the cover so these should be about six and three-quarter inches tall and I think 11 inches. The paper was 11 inches and I trimmed it so now it's about ten and three quarters inches long and then fold it in half. Okay and then the cover is like seven and seven-eight. I'm sorry six and seven-eight since it's just tall and a full 11 inches long. Again fold it in half so I folded these in half put them down flat and then I evened up all the edges with a exacto knife and a straight ruler. Now I'm going to just center them along the fold in the cover. I'm just gonna eyeball it. Anybody who knows how I make journals knows I can't be bothered to measure anything out. Alright and if you're watching this part you already saw me bleaching the paper and if you missed that part like I'll put it go back to the beginning of the video because I'm gonna put that first. Anyway once it was bleached and dried I ironed it flat and it came out great. Alright I have some black thread I couldn't find it I could only find these two and then I found the black so we're gonna use black. I need my pokey tool. I'm just again I'm gonna eyeball it on the fold I'm gonna eyeball the center and I'm gonna poke one hole keeping my fingers well apart from where the pokey tool should come out so I don't stab myself because blood on the journal is a bad idea. About an inch or so from one end and about an inch or so from the other end and now we've got our three holes we're gonna just do simple pamphlet stitch. I can't be bothered learning any fancy stitches. I know I know I'm lazy I'm aware you don't have to tell me. Now I just have to find the end of the thread. There we go. This is a waxed linen cord made for bookbinding. Are there scissors in this kit? Yes. So this is a little kit of tools I keep that has all my bookbinding tools in it and usually one or two spools of thread. This is from the people at Zutter and I have had it a long time when I got my fairy first to bind it all at least a decade ago but I think it's been longer than that and I still own a Zutter but the tool bag is great. Anyway all right got a needle. We'll thread it. It's a large-eyed bookbinding needle. We'll go in the middle hole someday. Okay there we go. Pull the string but leave a couple inches on the inside then pick one of the outer holes and go in from the outside. Pull. Okay then go all the way down to the other end. One last hole you haven't gone in yet. Okay and then back up the center hole and then I'm going to have the string on one side of this main center cord. I'm going to lift this up and push it over the needle so that when I pull the needle up I have the two ends on either side of this cord. I could have probably gone with less string but that's fine. You usually want to do about two times to two and a half times the length of this part. I always guess I never bother measuring obviously if you can't tell. Okay pull it tight and then don't trim it too close. Leave about an inch or so. There you go. Oops one bound journal ready for some skull stuff. All right that's the next part. Let's get to it. The journal started out as something I wanted to do because when I was sorting my collage images I found all these things that are black and white or shades of gray. So we are going to primarily focus on using these in the journal. I have some ideas and thoughts already and doing some journaling. I didn't think maybe these might fit in here somewhere and then this big image. The journal is much smaller than the image but we could make it work. So I'm going to do this in a few episodes and we're going to fast forward through the process. I'm going to decorate something on the cover now and then the next pages will be in the next videos. Let's get to it.