 That's huge mess, isn't it? That's definitely not my style, what you can see here on my table. And that's what I would like to show you today. When you need to create something that is totally behind, far away from your comfort zone, but maybe you do have custom order and you are creating a journal for someone and that someone will ask you to create a journal with the special papers they like. And it's something what you actually don't like, you are not comfortable with it. That's what you can see here. Long time ago I bought a magazine and the magazine came with this little pack and inside were these papers, these beautiful cutouts and some stamps. And it's sitting on my drawer in my shelf for such a long time and I was thinking how I will use them, I don't like them at all. Not even one of these papers speak to me. So what I will do with them, and if someone will ask me, use exactly these papers and create a journal for me with this. Long time ago I would have a very hard time to work through to this and I think I will say no, but not because I will feel uncomfortable, but because I know I want to make the person very happy with the journal. I want to create something what they will treasure, what will not end up in the bin and I will be happy that they are happy. And a long time ago I will say no just because I will don't know how to go through. But I leaned through to that time what I can do and how I can adapt it, how I can change it, but still keep the papers they want. What I will do if someone will ask me to create with this paper, with exactly these papers I will keep them for decorative elements. I will have a look on these papers and try to find what these papers have kind of together, what is making them to work together. And if you will notice on each of these papers there is a little bit of green. Each of them they do have green color. So I will go to have a look in my stuff if I do have some solid background papers with the green color which can speak to each of these patterns. And I'm talking about solid color just because here is so many patterns, so many different patterns and if I will try to find some patterned design it will make even bigger mess in my head and it will make me so uncomfortable. So solid color, green color which can speak to all of them. If I will don't find any green color which can speak to all of them. I will go to have a look to my stuff if I do have some ink pad which can possibly work with all of these. And I will create my own papers with this ink pad and distress the papers maybe very heavily to make this color on full paper or just the edges that I will work through when I will be creating. And then I will definitely combine these papers with loads of vintage papers. I do have put together some basics for my signatures. There are envelopes with kind of like flip out like small envelopes glued to large envelopes. I'm gonna quickly show you what I just very easy very easy way. Okay some book page, little ephemera. This is C5 envelope. Here was bottom and here is that loaded side. I think it's called C like Charlie 5 envelope. So that was base. I cut it, I fussy cut out this end here. And then I folded this side on that envelope. This I'm keeping as it was. And on the flap I glued this envelope which has flap here. So I used bottom of that envelope to reinforce this flap. That was all I did here. And I do have one T-dyed ephemera with that stenciling and splatters on it. So that's in this and it's repeating. I choose for this one kind of like repeating pattern. If you are working with some papers you are not feeling comfortable with it. The good is to choose some pattern so you will have a little bit easier work on the journal. And then also choose the pattern from those papers I will show you what I mean. So here in those smaller ones I do have again part of some printed ephemera with splatters. Then I do have DL envelope which is this one. This is DL envelope. So I just open it, the flap and fold it to the envelope half. I don't have it decorated yet. I just you know place it the way I want. Then I do have little small strip like ephemera ticket and linen paper. And this is actually repeating all the way exactly same. Again this C5 envelope with some ephemera with extra you know extra envelope as a flap. So it's repeating. Now it's time to create my own background papers. So I will take the color I choose. And for these papers I said there is lots of green. I don't mean that they are not all green but the green color is in every single one of them. So I'm gonna be choosing the green color. And because I'm working in vintage style so the next color will be this one. So sandstorm for vintage look. And this is green topas for the greenery. And the way how I will do it. I will take full ink pot and one paper I can do just with green. And I can make it this way. Or I can take also that sandstorm and add the sandstorm here and there. And because these papers these inks are that spectrum noir. And I already saw few times how well they do work with the water. I will definitely try it here as well. So I will spray the paper and I will watch what these inks can do. Then I will take another paper and do another you know another pattern. This is actually so cool look at that. Or I can do like water spa. Colorful spa. Dip my papers. Okay I think I'm gonna do it this way. I really like this. Okay this is winner winner. Winner winner chicken dinner. I think I hit that many times. Oh look. That looks like spine. And the backside you know backside of the body and spine here. Good. So I'm gonna do it probably this way. I like it most. This is a lightweight beautifully greenery paper. So I'm gonna do all of them this way. So as I said I do have kind of sorted this. I also created my background papers. Look how beautiful they are once they are dried. So all kind of kind of light green color which is great. So I added this sheets into these pockets. Into that DL envelope just reinforced backside. I do have everything distressed now with the seal brown ink which I'm gonna be using through to all that journal. And I placed on this magnetic sheet these dice. Specimen window for small frame. One tap, another tap. This is that slot pocket kind of ish. This, this, this and this and this one. Are from Elizabeth Kraft's design dice from Planner's Essentials. This one it's Marianne design die. I think I will try to find the names with the numbers. But these are Elizabeth Kraft's designs. This is Marianne design. I will have a look. And this one this topper for tacks. And I did cut out all those sheets exactly same. I do have just these sheets so I did cut them out exactly same way. And I will try to use every single bit and piece of these sheets. So I'm gonna show you what I do have from one sheet. I do have one tuck. I do have inside from frame. I do have this strip, another strip. This one is from here. I do have this slot die. This one is topper for tuck. So it's up. It should be folded here. And I can slide there some card and create beautiful topper for tuck. This is another strip from this slot. Then I do have that specimen window. This one. Then I do have this tuck. I do have this big window. With this beautifully cut card. And I do have this off-cut. This one I can still use some cutouts. You know some maybe circle punches and create circle punches. Or I can use these cutouts somehow. I will definitely try to use as much as I can. So every these single pieces I'm gonna distress with same inks. Which means sandstorm kind of everywhere. And then edges with that seal brown. And then I will try to incorporate these little pieces. Including this one. This I will probably, this I will keep as it is. And somewhere like bigger strip. So I'm not done totally. But I will show you what I made, what I created. So somehow messed up with the first page. Usually I don't do just this simple pocket here. But you know this was concentrating how to spread these uncomfortable colors or papers. So here what I have done in the background is a book page. So I use this strip of that crazy paper as a pocket. Then I used one of these die cuts I created from same paper. As a tack tap. So I use it to create one tap. And I decorated pretty much lots of that crazy paper with vintage image. That way I broke down the paper. I kinda cover it. But it's still visible. For me it's a little bit more comfortable to work with it. It doesn't take full page and it's much more easy to make it visible. But not too much. I used kinda similar color decoration here. And I'm thinking to add here a little bit more maybe some sequins. Or maybe some number, some little die cut, something like that. So very next spread. I try to put same color which I used, same paper which I used for this die cut. I try to use it here as a decoration. Also from those hexagon decorative elements I used one with similar colors. And in the background I put that green color to kinda you know to again to make it softer. So that crazy paper which I would probably never used. Usually. So it's now making a beautiful decoration. It's visible but it's not too much. It's not screaming on me and it doesn't make me uncomfortable. And here on this book page what I did from the start. I did that layering stamping. So first I stamped the calligraphy stamp. Then I placed my template of that calligraphy stamped over it and I stamped these clocks. Both are La Blanche stamps. Then I made stenciling over it and I let that dry. I had these prepared for a long time so now I just used them. But this I did when I decorate that book page. And now what I did I used these three strips. They are from that slot thingy. Where is that slot thingy? I can't see it right now. From this slot thingy. So I had these little strips so I placed them in that stenciling kind of ish. Then I used this lace which goes through to that old journal same lace. So I used strip of that lace to cover two of them a little bit. And I used this decorative hexagon. And here on that frame to make the pattern of that paper a little bit more softer and not that crazy. I don't know. So I used again same strip just with the green color because here I made background frame from that green paper. I made like watercolor paper I made. So just one strip of that green color here. This one it's off-cut from these envelopes when I created the tabs somewhere. So one off-cut from these envelopes again the lace and on the top again one hexagon. And it's holding with this extension I did fussy cut out. I did cut out with the die that frame. And then I glued between this die and between this die I glued extension of this paper and just glue it down. So it's holding that frame. And all together it makes really beautiful spread and when I do have that patterned paper here and I do have that patterned paper here it makes really beautiful spread on the page. And it doesn't make me crazy or make my feelings upset that I had to use or I did use these papers. And here again a little bit of that pink paper here so I decided to put that pink paper here again. And again I did mix that with that green paper and again I try to use as much less as I can. That's still keeping that paper here and lots of brown paper around. A lot of brown I mean you know coffee died, sea died paper. And also I didn't do these splatters everywhere. I want you to notice that these splatters makes everything looks much much better. In the backside you will see like here. It's not bad but it looks kind of plain instead of here where I do have those splatters and it's kind of similar. If you will notice it's kind of similar. I do have here this frame. I do have that frame here. I do have few strips and I do have few strips here and I do have this hexagon and I do have a hexagon here. So the spread it's quite similar but here it looks like very plain and I'm gonna add those splatters so you will see that you know another decoration will make it even better. Here I'm still thinking I want to use something here it's just that white paper. White striped paper. I distress it with sandstorm. So that's in the background again one of these strips from slots. And again end from the envelope where I have created these steps. So these offcuts I saved and I use them here as a decoration. And again lace but still it is like it's missing something. So I'm still deciding which of these I want to use here. Maybe we'll go for these blue ones I will see. And again I added in the background some vintage decorative ephemera. It makes everything much more I don't know how to say that much more better. This shouldn't be here because here I do have. And again here on this spread I kind of concentrated to have you know colors which are matching together. And again as many those t-died papers, book pages as many as I can in that spread to make those papers not less visible but less destructive I guess if I may say that this way. And here again you know one of these papers and in the background I do have ephemera. So for me that ephemera it's helping me to feel a little bit better about these crazy colors which I will usually don't use. And here yeah here I did just a little spread. I didn't have too many of these papers so you will don't see too many in use but you know just to show you how you can spread it in your journal if you have to work with papers which doesn't speak to you and you have to choose somehow to add them to your journal. Just try to separate them to the small decorations like clusters like this, clusters like this on the end of your paper. So try to think what will be possible for you to kind of have it there. And here you can see that it's kind of plain even it does have all these layers. Those strips lace and this hexagon but it's still kind of plain. So what I would use I would use my first I would use the marker and I will definitely do that doodling because I found it a very enjoyable first of all and it does make beautiful effect. Of course if I will have here stitching, sewing so I will don't have to make these doodling parts because that sewing it's very you know very decorative so I will don't have to make doodling parts but if I don't have them don't have the sewing here I would definitely go for that doodling and then just splatters. And it doesn't have to be on all the paper. I would probably choose just spots and put a little bit here and there and let it dry. Here again I know I didn't use too many of these papers but as I said I didn't have too many so to make at least something. And here again beautiful spread. There is everything like before lace, layers of little papers but still it looks kind of plain. So here I'm gonna keep it as it is I'm not gonna doodling I do have doodling here around so I'm gonna just add the splatters. Here and I'm gonna let it dry as it is. I'm gonna flip it over. Here I try to concentrate on the yellow underneath. Here we have that kind of yellowish background paper so I have created strip as a pocket. Same I did on that this is next signature so I had this signature done and I was thinking what I can put here and make it kind of work so I found this and it does have nice beautiful color and I found this one it does have beautiful and kind of yellowish color so that's why I put here that yellowish paper and I mixed this pattern here with these layouts to kind of make it work all together and again all these layouts all these little strips little clusters to make sure that paper will be there but it's kind of you know it's just small partitions which are helping me to add here paper but do not make that paper be destructive yeah and this one is another one and again these little spread little clusters I need to add here something same here and here you can see I do have little splatters and it looks immediately a little bit more busy but not too much so that's why I like it and here we are without doodling around and without splatters so I would totally go for both of them do some doodling and very easy you know something just to draw around the edges of that paper like this and of this one oh I do have to doodling here okay and little splatters yeah and I'm gonna keep it this way just little splatters and that's done here I do have this kind of like pinkish color so I used pink color here as well I'm still thinking if I could add here this color but I don't have it anymore so I'm gonna keep it somehow this way here again you know the little slot die with this and I do have that crazy color in the background so it will be visible I do have here that hexagon it will be visible but not too much and I think this one it's last spread yes so here I do have that slot with similar same pattern I do have underneath but again just like frame so the pattern it's visible but it doesn't take over the page and here you can see another spread that I do have there that crazy colored paper I'm not saying that they are ugly not at all they are really beautiful papers actually really beautiful but for me all these colors it's just something if I will have to work with these papers I will take these papers separately every single one for one journal just one of these papers for one journal another paper for another journal and I will mix them just with solid colors probably you know if it will be the choice of me but if you do have maybe you know custom order and you need to work with like very colorful papers or with patterns you don't like I think this way where you will add them on the page but then you will break them oh now I'm not sure but I hope you know what I mean you will cover them with some ephemeris or just t-died paper will do great job just hide them a little bit behind behind vintage looking paper and they will look amazing and softer and nicer so that's all what I wanted to share how you can work with papers which doesn't speak to you and how to kind of get through to the papers when they give you a little bit harder time I hope this was helpful I know this wasn't kind of like proper tutorial for journal but it wasn't about making the journal it was more about you know making the spread of those crazy papers thank you so much for jumping in today thank you so much for spending your time with me have a wonderful day have a wonderful day, have a wonderful time and I will come back soon bye