 A few weeks ago I did steampunk junk journal with steampunk cover and I've been asked to do a tutorial on how I did this cover of that book. So I decided to do that tutorial but because now I'm working on a box. I'm working on this box and you just try to imagine that this is a book. This is your cover of book and then do same what I will do here on your book cover. I hope you will understand what I'm doing. I already prepared that top with my double side tape everywhere when I need to stick something. This is box from Pralines which has a window. So under this window I made a small mix media. And now I'm going to cover this with piece of paper with my scraps of dice. I'm gonna show you what I have to prepare here. This is what I have prepared. Those are the rest of my dice. Those pieces are from this die and here you can see it's those pieces. Here is large one and that small. Those pieces are from I think it's spellbinders. Spellbinders is this die cut and those small pieces are somewhere here that birds and I think it's somewhere here is that small one piece. It's like scrap from your dice and here on that small die I'm sorry helps. It's somewhere there somewhere somewhere oops I can't find it now. It's somewhere here yeah here it's that bigger piece so it's this one. Here are some clocks some gears sorry some gears and this one are piece of chipboard from I purchased in a sacroster shop like chipboard brick wall so I need that frame around and this is rest of that chipboard and here those papers are some some scraps maybe you will see that texture on it here this one most of them are scraps from my other projects or I did some texture on them this is oops we didn't start yet stop this is from my trimmer paper trimmer maybe you see the texture I just played with paper and most of them are just plain papers just plain cardboard it's different shape different size you can use any I'm here from my how you call it that you know office they are using for those holes I don't remember the name of that machine so this one and now I will try to show you how I did that cover it's it's not hard work it's nothing so much hard to do it it's just you have to use your your imagination I'm going to took out those last pieces so all the thrust around this frame are covered with double-sided tape just try imagine that this is your cover book hopefully we will do it so you can start with any paper you want any you want just try to lay them down I'm gonna start here okay here I'm gonna out of some just lay down your papers anyway you want okay here a little bit maybe like this I'm gonna try it's like this because after you will glue all those pieces which you have on your cover you will cover all this with napkin I'm not sure how I will do it here I still didn't didn't find how I will do it here I've got a piece of double-sided tape so I just move it from that frame come on it can be here because on the top I'm gonna glue that napkin so you will make layers and layers of your papers how you want just glued them down how you want it's totally up to you like this here I'm gonna do this one and when you will cover all those pieces with napkin it will show up those edges and if you want some oops some better better effect you just glue you need just glue more paper over those papers you've got already glued down so if I will want to have some better result some more dimensional diesel I will just just glue some other paper over it and it make like steps I hope you understand what I'm saying I'm horrible with the language I know sorry for that okay I'm going to glue something hmm maybe here anyhow you want anywhere you want it's totally up to you because that final final result you will see you will see when you will no not this one this one looks better when you will see when you will cover this with with colors and with the napkin sorry most of the time I'm out of zoom oops here I've got some rest I've got bigger scissors don't worry I've got bigger scissors but I just grab those I think I couldn't choose better one so you will just glue down your papers anyway you want you can use as much as you want you can put as much some dots everywhere you want you can stick as much those die cuts anywhere you want I think I'm finished right now because probably I will put on the top few gold gears when I will finished those coloring and the napkin so I'm finished now as you see it's just layering papers some plain some dimension some weight some pattern oh my god some embossed papers oh my god sorry for my English so for now we are we are finished we will continue when the glue will dry so see you in a bit bye so we finished that cover with sticking stick lay down those papers and make layers I already used brown acrylic color this one and also this crimson crimson crimson acrylic acrylic color this one I mixed them together I think it was three two one you know I mean three pieces of this paint mixed together with one piece of this paint I hope you understand what I mean and make mix and it's made this beautiful colors this one and here on those edges and under that cover I use distress distress ink this black suit from Tim Holtz and also I used let me to find it this brushed brushed corduroy oh I can't say brushed corduroy this one those two inks I used to just make those colors a little bit better to me so here you can see that and here I used my fix marker gold marker it's metallic marker this one I purchased those I think in little last year and I covered all those edges as well I didn't make that bottom yet and I think I'm gonna use just some strong cardboard because it's weak so I covered all those edges as well first I painted with gesso with this gesso with this acrylic white acrylic gesso and then I paint I'm painted with those colors and when it was dry I just use those two distress inks and here you can see my first layer of napkin I just wanted to try it those napkins I purchased in Poundland they are beautiful you know I wish to help them so I used one of those here you can see that and now I will try to show you on finishing and I'm doing cover of that book so just still try to try to oh my gosh imagine try to imagine that this is book sorry for my English huh I'm still horrible you know as much as I'm trying to read books and I'm listening oh I got last year no this year but in the first half of this year I got beautiful gift from my beautiful friend from K she knows that I love Harry Potter and she sent me DVDs with audiobooks so I'm listening it a lot because I've got books but I didn't hear that in English language I've got English books but you know when you are self-student most the time you're making making mistakes because you are trying to pronounce words totally different way than they supposed to be sometimes it's funny so now we're gonna make layers of those napkins I'm gonna use this napkin I put cheese them pack of those napkins I put cheese on eBay this pack they are luncheon napkins you see that in gold color see gold in gold color color was 50 in the pack and I think it was for two pounds I remember right so I'm going I'm gonna show you hopefully this window it's confusing me okay I'm gonna try it I'm not sure if I will be successful so if it will fail to just please forgive me excuse my mistakes out I've got mess around me okay here I make make mix in my empty doors from coffee this is brilliant coffee it's amazing coffee so I made mix water with just proper PVA glue half and half you know it's I found it the best way for is napkins glued napkins hopefully you understand I'm sorry for my English so we just put your glue on your mm-hmm on on that surface you want to glue napkins just put the glue and I'm always using some soft brush because I need that napkin tap into that into that surface and someone some people try to make it nice and clear and I don't care if it will be there some something like this you see that if it will bound it together and make some oh my god next time I have to take vocabulary book some translator book because I'm losing words I don't remember all words you know if your napkin will make some nonsense how you don't expect it just ignore it it's proper vintage it's proper steampunk just just pretend oh it's supposed to be like this tap it inside all edges to all holes try to tap it inside ignore those edges because we will put them down later when it will be glue I'm not sure how I will do it around that window so I'm not sure I will see when that napkin will dry then now you can see how I am how I am working how I am crafting most the time it's just what what what what situations comes up what situations with with will comes up with I've been wake up two o'clock morning and now is now is quarter to 11 still morning I'm feeling tired I know it's just excuse me look everything nope here is something okay okay if you will like I did now here see I rolled I made a hole in my napkin so take it off be okay with that pretend oh it's supposed to be like this because when it will dry you can still do something with that we can glue on that space some gears or we can color it again with acrylic paint or we can put their stamp and emboss it you know always you can do something with that this crafting it's amazing I promise I love this crafting because even you make mistakes you always have a chance to repair it somehow just don't be afraid see here another space where that napkin was moved just move it tap it back if you want if not just leave it there and we will glue something on the top okay now I will let it dry then I will see then I will see and you will see as well so see you later I come back so all napkins was totally dry as you can see I did that those edges as well I already colored them so I want to show you that top I'm going to use for the stress inks this brushed cord you can see that here brush cord right wild honey this right bottle up this one and again like suit I have to say this wild honey it's working amazing on background which has those colors you can see that in in purple color this is a little bit shiny but proper colors are like gray and green and black and a little bit that gold my camera is taken wrong color but this proper this wild honey it's working perfectly well if you want to do kind of leather leather looks so just use that wild honey you can be everywhere you want here you can see piece of my napkin was just get down but I will use few decorations on this box on the top so I think I'm going to cover it something like this this I will see later but now we are doing this this cover so with colors it's all done and that finish touch I'm going for that finish touch I'm going to use ooh la la oh I couldn't find it on normal place because I move it too close to me already this one I'm going to use this glossy varnish it's going to give you that glossy glossy looks and after that when you will use this glossy varnish or some glue with this effect you will see that this cover will start to looks like leather so I'm going to use it and cover with this all all spaces all those places and also those colors under this pop coat really like pop up you will see them better I think I'm gonna speed up again so we covered all this box glossy varnish it's still wet I think you can see that already now how beautiful leather looks it was it has stayed I don't know what to say that but I believe you know what I want to say oh my god that English language is killing me I'm sorry I'm learning so slow yeah see this leather look oh my god this is how I how I am making those steampunks covers on my notebooks on my journals and I have to still finish that inside of this box and that bottom and definitely here I have to use some strong cardboard or chipboard I believe I'm gonna use some chipboard because I still don't know that right word it's weak probably weak not weak like like working quick but I mean weak you know it's worst for foreigners or for people who doesn't speak English that many words many English words have a similar sound for us for foreigners and then we are lost what what we have to say so this is how I'm doing those steampunks steampunks oh sorry for my hands steampunks covers I hope you enjoy it and I hope that it was inspirational for you thank you so much for watching I hope you have a beautiful day and see you next time bye