 Alright welcome back to part two. So in preparation for the new year for 2018 and the new Facebook group we're going to start I was going to do this video on making this journal as just a regular YouTube video but then the more I thought about it and talking to my friend Cindy Utter who teaches with me over in the current group my year 2017 and is going to teach with me in the next year 2018 in the new group. I really thought this might be a great great way to show you guys how to make a DIY journal that you could use for 2018. I need to zoom out just a little bit that you could use for 2018 rather than going and buying something. This would work perfectly at least for the way I'm going to go forward with my journaling which we're not going to talk about yet but so what I did when I started putting the journal together first let me you know what let me take the guts out because we're not really ready to show that yet and I'm going to need to show you the journal so let me just go off camera here and take the guts out. We'll be back in part two and I'll show you what I decided to put inside of the journal for pages but for right now we're going to just talk about the cover so here we go this is what I ended up doing for the cover so to start with I knew I wanted to use a piece of driftwood on here and my thinking was that mostly this cover would be a storage cover and not an actual working cover and and I'll talk about what exactly I mean by that in in part three but because I knew that I knew it didn't matter to me how dimensional the cover was because I don't plan on you know writing on this side it doesn't matter so the first thing I did was I used my big hole punch thing from the crocodile people and I punched I marked with a pencil where I wanted the driftwood and then I punched two holes at the top and two holes at the bottom and I had wrapped my driftwood with wire and I'm going to insert some clips here of me doing exactly that and then I threaded the wire through the holes brought it back around to the front and rather than cutting them off I just took some pliers here and you'll see me just curling them curling the wire around and leaving it in there I actually like the way that looks then I'm looking through all of the gathered supplies that I get I got together and deciding placement deciding which ones I want to use you'll see a clip here of me going putting different painted feathers up against the journal and some of the other pieces and parts to decide what I want to do I've got a lot of random parts around things I think are interesting that I know at some point I'm going to use in a journal and I know you're all there with me you know we come across interesting pieces from nature or old rusty washers or interesting paper clips or you know all kinds of weird things some of them are intended for art and some of them aren't but we know they're interesting enough that we want to save them in our stash of stuff this kind of thing is the place that you want to use them so that being said what I could wire to the this covers chipboard so there's no stapling to the cover I don't want to use a regular any kind of regular white glue because I'm not so so confident that over time that that will really adhere things well to the cover so I got out my little tube of e6000 and I used that I the other reasoning behind using e6000 is that I have lots of different kinds of materials here I have porous and non porous alike metal plastic and I know the e6000 will adhere all of those to the chipboard the downside is you have to let it dry before you do anything else so I'm going ahead and arranging everything on the cover and I am using the e6000 to put them on and I really love the way it turned out as it was drying I was thinking about the spine and what the heck I was going to do I don't have any of the binder rings that were intended for putting in here although I thought about buying some I thought wait hold the phone we need to use what we have in our stash the people looking at this video I won't really want them to not have to go out and buy things I want to just show them what you can do just thinking outside the box what do you have I do have some a bunch of this elastic cord I happened by accident to have a color that matches the cover almost exactly okay that's really weird I hate you know I really like turquoise and when I you know buy a replacement elastic for my travelers notebook I generally like by turquoise or something although right now I have orange in there and I don't know I don't know why exactly I do because I'm not a big orange fan but so I was I surprised myself that I had this particular color I cut off a big hunk of that while this was drying and we will be back in part three and I'll show you what I decide to do with what's going to go inside the cover but here is the finished dried outside whoops and inside and you can see the way I did the wiring of the where is it the driftwood you have a little piece of wire but there's no sharp edges it's very neat and clean and that was what I wanted so now we have a nice sort of little binder frame box thing so what are we going to do on the inside to turn it into a journal some of you probably can guess already so we'll be back in part three for that I'll be back in a couple of days this is for the my year 2017 Facebook group in preparation for my year 2018 so at least in part I want to show you all what you can do if you're going to continue making art and following the creative process that we've set up here in the my year group in the new group coming up for 2018 there is a brand new Facebook group for that the link to the old group and the new group are both in the video description so check them out if you're not already members think about joining us it's a free program free art sharing creative community full of inspiration sometimes a little too much inspiration but you're we're not ever lacking um also my happy mail address is in the description and my tip jar if you want to support the free content here on YouTube and Facebook along with everything else all the other places you can find me including in my Etsy shop where I sell some of the embellishments I have here on the cover that's it for right now I'll see you in a couple days for part three go out and don't forget to do the most important thing do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys