 Hello everybody welcome to 2024 first craft video with me, welcome back to Bohemian Crafting channel it's Eva here and today I would like to share with you something what I have created in the past few days I do have lots of stuff to sort out and I love to create some kind of organizers and this year my first organizer and I do lots of organizers through the year for myself because I'm always messy with my craft so this year I started to create kind of like pocket organizers those expandable organizers and I do have different sizes and also a little bit different opening so I made it like a simple book and I made it like a wrap around organizer and it's very easy the start is same for both types just then continuing for these wrap around pieces it's a little bit different and it's very easy you can use six by six papers you will end up with this size you can use eight by eight papers so you will end up with this size you can use any kind of book pages and you will end up with any kind of size depends on the book page you will use depends on paper you will use and I hope the tutorial I'm gonna share with you today will be easy to follow because I've been practicing a lot and I have to say that I love it I love the you know the expandable pockets and I love that once it's closed either this wrap around or the one which is just like a book it's cover the entry to my pockets so when I do open it I know it will don't fall out immediately if I will have you know pocket somewhere else so choose any size of paper choose any type of paper I do have here book pages and I do have here eight by eight papers to show you that the process is similar or I mean process is same for any size of paper you will need five papers for pockets for these pockets and you will need one sheet to cover your pockets so I do have six pages here one I'm gonna put aside for that cover and I do have six sheets of eight by eight one I'm gonna put aside to create a cover first what you're gonna do you're gonna fold your paper on half no matter what size or which way if you would like to end up with slim long organizer you will end up maybe book pages this way you will fold you will fold not end up you will fold your book pages this way if you want to have you know smaller size you will fold your book pages this way I'm gonna create one more of these slim and one more of this size which is from exactly same papers eight by eight so fold your papers on half I do have my papers folded I'll grab your papers and score not that folded side but these kind of like top and bottom score half inch half inch here flip it over half inch here same if you are using book pages and you've folded them so this side and this side score them half inch if you are working with centimeters make a score line or fold one centimeter I believe that will be enough and make it on all five of them once you have scored the edges grab your scissors and cut the corners in the angle a little bit on both sides from that score line to the edge of the paper and again do it on all five papers same if you are using designer paper from that score line to the edge of the paper in the angle I have all those corners cut that a little bit fold it so you know where it starts and then glue the paper together do not make any pockets here you just want to reinforce this paper to make it stronger and more stable so put the glue inside and fold it back just between those folds not on those folds just between them on this space and same if you are working with book pages or any you know any other paper and if you like to use sewing machine you can also sewn these pieces and make it more more decorative so I'm gonna glue all my papers and I'm gonna also fold these each on one side come on here and here like this I do have prepared my pocket pieces if you like to distress your papers you you like to make it a little bit more vintage now it's time distress the edges and you can also prepare the covering paper the one which will go on the top and that you will do this way you will grab your centimeter fold the edges inside so you will know how big piece is this one and you're gonna measure it it's important for creating that covering paper and also for creating your book cover or pocket cover or the cover for this so measure your piece and write it down somewhere it will help you to remember that so this piece is eight by three look at that I'm gonna write it down where I don't have any paper so here I do have eight by three for the covering paper I would like to have eight inches here and here the leg so it will be three inches plus half inch here that's what we have created in these edges so half inch here plus something what will be glued on the cover here in this spot or here you know what will be glued on the cover so it depends how big piece you need I'm gonna count again half inch so it will be three half half so for this piece I need eight by four I'm gonna write it down for this so I need eight by four covering paper for these these are from eight by eight so I didn't even have to measure that this is seven by four half of eight you know so for this piece I will need four inches sorry for that I will need four inches half inch and again half inch which makes five inches so it will be seven by five covering piece of paper and I'm gonna cut them right now and prepare them right now and again you can create a decorative way you can emboss it you can make it like a window if you will you can sew on it anything you wish stamp there make there any kind of decorative things you can make it from fabric if you want just enjoy your craft created the way you would like to see it here on the top that's why I choose this book page because for me it's kind of like cute when I do open it I can see this one I do have prepared my papers which I'm gonna be using as a covering papers and I'm gonna also score them straight away so for this measure the side where you do have these folds this is four inches so I'm gonna get up my paper this is same leg of my papers and I'm gonna place it to my scoring board this way so here I'm gonna be scoring now I would like to see this way so I need to play that way and I'm gonna score four which is this measurement so four and then that half inch which is these folds which we have created here if you have been working with those centimeters and you used one centimeter these folds create here one centimeter or a little bit bigger if you will if you want but one centimeter will be I think just enough and here again I would like to have it this way so on this spot I want to have this measurement I'm gonna place it to my scoring board with this side on the zero if you do have that different scoring board you know how to place it there just in case I forgot I think it was three yeah so I'm gonna place it here and score three inches and again half inch three and three and half so I do have prepared my top papers now we're gonna create these accordion hinges for that you need one sheet of paper if you are working with design papers which are in the same size like you used here or book page if you are working with book pages same size of book page and now depends on the thickness of your book page some book pages are very fragile and thin that is the case where you will need to reinforce it so again fold the book page on the half and glue it together or what I did here I used only one layer of book page but I have used tape to tape it a little bit to make it a little bit stronger I should tape it here on the end but I kind of like I swap it when I glue it down so depends of what you want to use make sure that these accordion hinges will be strong enough and will hold for longer time than for a few minutes from the start I'm gonna be using designed paper for those and book pages folded on half and glued together on this one here I will need two book pages one book page on one side another book page on other side and here because it's thicker paper and it's good quality paper I know I can just cut it on half because this is those four inches that folded paper so I'm gonna just cut it on half that way I will have one piece for one side and another piece for another side I do have cut it on half and now I'm gonna cut these two pieces to make them six inches long and same six inches long will be for this same six inches long will be for any size you are using right now because we use that half inch fold here you will need six inches long paper and this measurement will be measurement of your pages but six inches it's for everyone who used here half inch if you are working with centimeters what is that opposite thing of divided like counted by 12 you know if you used one centimeter you will need you will need 12 centimeters long sheet of paper I hope that makes sense I forgot the word for opposite thing of divided I will need to have a look so the right word is multiply one centimeter by 12 that's what I meant so you will need to cut 12 centimeters strip by this measurement in inches it is six inches strip by this measurement so I do have six inches by three which I do have here I'm gonna place it on my scoring board and I'm gonna score every half inch so every half inch make score line on both of these pieces your little paper to an accordion to an accordion bunch like this and do it on both pieces and here again I do have six inches by four four is this one and I'm gonna score it again half inch if you are using a centimeter and you scored here one centimeter you're gonna make score lines one centimeter apart on all that 12 centimeters piece basic cover like is this one where you open it just like a book you can create by cutting the piece for full cover at once like this one so what I did I did measure this side and this side doubly twice and added here that half inch for spine so this is four by seven so I cut that piece seven inches long four inches half and four inches so eight and a half inches long and I scored four and four and half so I do have cover for my pages here or you can cut the pieces in the size of your strips which I do have here they are in the same size I do have two pieces plus one piece which is same long it's half inch and that's gonna be the spine for my book and I'm gonna just glue it together using tape and that will be my book cover so once you do have prepared your pieces either one piece at once in the one piece of cardstock or three pieces like this these you need to glue together and create kind of like a book cover I'm gonna be using here only tape just because I do have all those pieces covered already with some decorative paper they are from some my old papercraft and I just cut it down on the pieces I need and I actually like the look of this so I'm gonna be using just this brown tape and glue glue it together as a book cover very easy way I'm gonna take a brown tape glue the spine on it how long piece I need I'm gonna glue the spine kind of like in the middle now I'm gonna take these other two pieces and I'm gonna place them next to my spine with the small gap between like this I'm gonna try to keep it straight and I'm gonna use brown tape here inside as well to seal it together and I'm gonna also use my sewing machine and sew it all around so I do have glued and sewn all around this cover and that will be all what I'm gonna do on this here I do have glued and decorated with book pages from inside and this decorative paper from outside this cover but this one I'm gonna extend and do that wrap around cover so I'm not finished with this one yet this is pretty much easy I'm gonna grab my pieces and we're gonna assemble it together so as I do have inside this decorative wallpaper I'm gonna be using double sided tape so I hope it will go stick better way I'm actually not sure about that so we will see I'm gonna put double sided tape here on the end this will be front of my cover so I'm gonna glue it here I do have here that half inch spine and it will be this way I'm gonna open it get up these accordion sides and I do have them folded this way so on these ends I mean on one end I'm gonna add double sided tape again and glue it on this side and I'm gonna take this next piece and this I'm gonna put double sided tape here and glue it on that opposite side now before I will glue inside my pockets I'm gonna attach a closure elastic band I'm gonna be using crocodile for punching the holes so somewhere here where the edges are kind of crossing I'm gonna punch the hole on the top and on the bottom and here as a closure I'm gonna be using this two millimeters thick elastic cord and I'm gonna cut the piece which is longer than it's my cover something like this and I'm gonna be using two eyelets so I'm gonna flip it over I'm gonna slide in the cord and fold it here this way and hold it with my hand now I'm gonna take eyelet and I'm gonna push in it inside for that I'm gonna take my scissors slide my scissors inside and just pushing it to that hole like this now I can fix it with the grapple here I'm gonna slide the elastic band from this side again I'm gonna hold it here I'm gonna kind of try to make it a little bit tight not too much just a little bit tight get up that second eyelet again with my scissors pushing it inside and I can fix it like this now I can slide that elastic band on the back of my cover and cut the ends if they are too long I'm gonna keep there a little bit but not too much and now it's time to assemble all these five pieces so I'm gonna fold those edges in I'm gonna put the glue here lift this up and place my paper to that fold you know to match it with that fold here I can go over the spine and here I need to be sure that I'm not over the edge so make it nice position and I think I cut it my covers a little bit bigger than I supposed to but it's okay it will be slightly bigger so I do have this now I'm gonna put the glue on this second fold here on this one and I'm gonna fold this down and I'm gonna do same on that opposite side fold this down down this one down add the glue and place it down here kind of try to be in the straight line and I'm gonna put the glue on this fold and fold this over I'm gonna grab second piece and do exactly same again I'm gonna put the glue here now keep this down with that first piece glued so keep this down put your second piece here match the sides here and try to push it to that fold put the glue on this and fold this over and again repeat on that opposite side put the glue here keep this down with that first piece glued and glue this one and try to push it to that fold try to push it to that score line and press put the glue on this fold and place this down and again next piece repeat till last of these strips so once you do have last piece glued in you will end up with these folds so fold it down up there a glue here as well now grab this top piece and maybe you will need a help to those papers here a little bit so be aware you will be a little bit smushed with glue match the edges here and match the edges here and glue it together probably wait till it's dry and you do have your accordion pockets including closure you can add there some decorations you can add there a label you do have nice and very useful piece for storing your ephemera maybe if you are not proper journal maker or a jung journaling person who will write down every single thing what is happening in your life and you are like me and you're writing just small notes on pieces of papers you will find in your home which I do have like tons of them maybe you can store it in these little cute little organizers and have it you know one month in this organizer maybe do a label but it's I don't know January 2024 and store there your recipes or receipts now I'm a little bit confused which one is which one you store there anything you want so this is that kind of like book book cover opening the simple one and this we're gonna extend a little bit before we will add there all these pieces exactly same way we're gonna extend the cover for making it wrap it around and I forgot to say I forgot to show you that all these wrap around pieces they do have also a little pocket here on the back like this one it does have cute little pocket here so it can store quite a lot and this is actually a ruler I found it on a cardboard sale and I really like it it looks cute so for creating that second cover I do have here piece of cardstock seven inches which is same long or tall as is this cover by six inches and that will cover that rest I have counted two inches here which is half of my back cover so two inches here half inch spine here and that rest will be front of my cover so I'm gonna score two and two and half and if I will fold it and place it here I do have nice cover at the front I do have that pocket in the back so count a half of back cover spine and about two thirds or three quarters of the front cover about that measurement and cut the card in that measurement so this size will be the same as your first cover and this size will be about three quarters of the previous measurement so I do have this piece now I'm gonna cover it with the decorative papers again I do have decorative paper from outside now I'm gonna get up this one I'm gonna take a glue put a glue here on that smaller piece on that shorter side on the half size of this back cover and I'm gonna put my back cover here make sure that I can still fold the spine you know I can still build a spine here like this and now I can put the decorative paper here over this gluing that will also reinforce that it will hold together nicely like this I'm gonna flip it over and where there are corners of that half cover this one and this one I'm gonna punch the holes and fix that the closure again elastic band so here I do have that end of my back cover of that half and I poke the hole here and here now I can get up elastic band and two eyelets and same like before I'm gonna slide again I do have longer elastic band I will probably cut off a little bit but you know to have enough to fix the elastic band to that cover so I'm gonna slide one side in and I'm gonna help myself with the scissors to punch or push the eyelet inside and I fixed it now I'm gonna kind of band that elastic band of around the inside of my cover now I couldn't find the word so around the inside and slide it from this side again kind of like fold it this way make it tight but not too tight and again I'm gonna push the eyelet inside using my scissors and fix this side like this any kind of long pieces I'm gonna cut off I'm gonna keep it there a little bit but not too much like this so I do have fixed the elastic band now I can band it to back and the rest it's same like before first I'm gonna glue the covering paper so on the last fold of my covering paper I'm gonna add the glue and glue it here then I'm gonna grab those accordion pieces and again I do have them folded this way so on the ends I do have those kind of like valleys I'm gonna add the glue on one side and go here I'm gonna take that second piece again with that valley here I'm gonna put glue here on this side and that rest is same like on that book before one by one glue it inside always when you are gluing your pieces in those accordion sides push to that fold the end and then when you are gluing the opposite side again try to push to that fold it will move a little bit this side you know together but that way we'll make sure that these accordion sides will don't go outside will be not a folded outside will be nice and even you know nice and straight so always try to push your paper in those folds and continue till the end and like before once you are on that last part fold those sides add there the glue fold this over and like before maybe here you will need a help to that paper a little bit sit down like me here see kind of like push it push it push it together and push it on the opposite side and hold it for a few seconds just let it dry let it grow and I think we are done we do have all amazing accordion pockets you can close it close it and where is my close it like this you can add there or any kind of charms if you want at their labels make it decorative at their tags and of course at inside some goodies something for you need to sort out or maybe daily quotes if you would like to make it like your monthly monthly keepsake maybe so use it the way you actually want or need i'm gonna try to sort out all those scraps and cutouts and died cuts yeah all that stuff i'm gonna try to sort out because i do have like a really huge mess right behind me on the floor piles and piles of scraps from last year which i pull out from all kinds of boxes and bags and stuff like that so this is my sharing for today i hope it wasn't confusing and i hope you will try these accordion keepsake books i really love them they are quite easy to make you can use book pages and you will always end up with interesting keepsake these papers i use these kind of like wintery papers they are from my new collection actually for winter it's called winter wonderland of course because it's about winter wonderland and i do have also papers for valentine they are very romantic they are with flowers and hearts i'm gonna just quickly show you a few pages what i do have for the valentine so here just very quick preview for valentine so very soft and romantic and it's on my Etsy right now and my patreons they will get it at Wednesday and that a wintery collection for those who are preparing yourself for maybe for winter holiday so i will have a winter collection with snow and a lot of wintery images and a lot of beautiful like winter forest images so i hope that you will you will find something interesting on my Etsy and i really hope that maybe this collection will be something for you for your winter season and there is a lot kind of increase with this one because i actually love i love to spend a winter on the mountains to skiing i love to unfortunately i wasn't being able to do so here in uk because yeah yeah i don't know where to go for first and i don't have here my ski and i do have my own ski which i really love so i was very lazy here but back in czechia i do love to spend that time with skiing in ski center where my sister is is living and working what i said at that christmas christmas journal so that's amazing place to go so this is my sharing for today thank you so much for visiting me in my first video in 2024 i wish you all a wonderful year full of strong health because that it's the most important thing happiness and love and craft ideas and imagination and awesome crafty mood so we will always keep our mind positive and calm thank you so much have a wonderful day take care of yourself and i will see you soon bye