 Hello everybody and welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and Happy new year to all to you all and thank you so so much for Everybody who are coming today and who are sharing the time with me I would like to thank you so much for all support you gave me through the last year and those years before Without you, I wouldn't be here and I hope that you will all have a wonderful 2022 and it will be much much better year than that previous one and Thank you, especially for everyone who are supporting my Etsy shop and for my amazing patreon because they went Through a lot last year with me. They know a lot of what was happening in my life and their support Helped me to go through to very hard time in my life. So thank you guys very very much You can't even imagine how much love I received from all of you from this craft family and how much you helped me with Dark side of the life. So I really hope that this year I will show you how much I Appreciate everything All all your support and everything you are giving me and I'm coming today with first video with my first video in 2022 With small pattern for you if you would like to get it It will be for free and it is pattern for planner. It's a very simple planner and Very simple planner I should have it somewhere here. I just lost it in the pile of other stuff. No, I do have it so at this this pattern for weekly Blunder page. It's really simple. It's nothing complicated and I do have tutorial which will be Coming right now after my talking here If you would like to get this pattern Just click on the link down below. It is for free. If you would like to take you get it I do have that pattern on White background very clear and very yeah very clear And then there is also pattern with kind of like vintage style with that vintage paper Feeling that's what I used here and I just created this small book. I'm continuing with other things frames Like this. This is not in that tutorial, but all that rest is in the tutorial Also, how you can stitch the book which can be extendable which you can Used through the all year and you can add there the pages through to all year and I hope without any huge issues. I really hope this tutorial will be also for beginners If they want to try their first very easy way to make a journal So link will be down below for this pattern. That will be for free There will be also link for I created my Designs for covers and they are exactly for this book So if you want to get these there will be link as well and I'm continuing to kind of like, you know to decorate these things but The tutorial how I made this book is coming right now and I really hope you will enjoy that So here is the design I have created for that book You will have a chance to download it clear without any vintage shades or With that vintage feeling where is there also kind of like a teedite paper So it looks like this I print it out with that teedite paper background and I print it out on ivory cardstock 160 GSM You don't have to use that heavy paper. I just like to use it with this Grammash and all around is kind of like frame. So you will need to fussy cut out all around My printer is printing with this frame around And if you do have printer which is printing from the side to the side, you don't have to cut these long sides and And bottom if your printer is printing on full page You don't have to cut the bottom and those two long sides. You will need just cut the shape of these Pages here on the top. They have to cut all these four sides. So I'm gonna Fussy cut out. Now to make it a little bit easier. I'm gonna fold it on half because I did cut it Hopefully nicely, so I'm gonna fold it half and then I'm gonna go both sides at once I'm cutting with a small edge of my Vintage paper around that shape And it should be good for both sides if I fold it right. Yeah, good. I do have both sides Now fold it where is this line here? So fold it there and you do have the base for your journal for your 2022 plumberer. So this is the base. You will have pocket here And you do have Monday till Sunday plus a note here on the bottom Now if you want you can you just glue and put a glue here in that fold and Place it here and let it dry That way you will have pockets like this, which are open on the sides Or you can use the sewing machine or you can put a glue on these three Side and place it on the paper and let it dry and you will have pocket from the top or As I will do I'm gonna use the sewing machine and so on this side and then this side That way I'm not gonna put glue here in the middle because it will be folded and sewn To the spine of my book so it will be secured and I will have pocket here and here before I will do that I like to make my page a little bit more vintage. I'm gonna use the distress inks Distress inks from ranger and I'm gonna use ground espresso for a darker color and this one it's tea dyed This is the color which is making that distressed ink and as a tool I'm gonna use the brush and I will probably do some stamping and create my pocket pocket pages And that how it looks like My pocket pages I did use some stamping and I did use my distress inks all around of these edges To make it a little bit more vintage Here you can see that sewing This side and this side is exactly same and when you will place them together It makes so cute edges of that book So I do have prepared 14 of these Pages and it's one quarter of the year. It's still end of march I count it just right now how many weeks we have till end of march and it's 14 So I do have 14 pages and I'm gonna start to create a cover for my book plus spine For creating my book cover. I'm gonna use this old envelope which came with some goodies from amazon It's nice heavy cart stock. So I'm gonna use that you can use some serralli box some box from another food Which is clean not with some leftovers from that food. You can use some cardboard boxes chipboard anything you have The perfect is what you've got right now at home. So go to have a look or maybe some old book cover you can use The size of my pages is Is four by eight So that's what I'm gonna cut two pieces Four by eight and then I'm gonna cut two pieces four and one eight By eight and one eight a little bit bigger than those first two pieces So I do have my two four by eight inch And two pieces four and one quarter by eight and one quarter inch and they will go like this One on another one and it will make a beautiful frame I'm gonna take those Top pieces and I'm gonna choose some kind of paper I would like to have on the top and these bottom papers. I'm gonna wrap to probably to black Wrapping paper. I'm not gonna use anything Anything complicated So I decided to create some kind of front cover and back cover for my book It is in the size of those pieces four by eight Like this and I do have front cover and back cover I will put link for these two covers down below as well You can use any kind of paper you have you can use newspapers if you want if you Will want to use these I'm gonna show you how to Make it work. So I'm gonna take a ruler Around those images. It's a frame Which will help you to fold that paper the way When then you can just easily add that cardstock on the back side and wrap that paper around your cardstock So use some kind of tool which will help you to Score the line. It can be proper scoring tool or you can use scissors and with With the closed scissors Just put the ruler on that line And use Your scissors as a scoring tool Or you can use kitchen knife, but not with that sharp edge, but with that Opposite edge. Someone told me lately that knitting Knitting needle can be perfect for scoring That's actually a wonderful idea. I just don't have any knitting needle So I'm gonna use my scoring tool and I'm gonna score these lines From the top to the bottom of my paper I'm gonna fold these score lines And now I can take a glue Put a glue on my piece of cardstock And place the piece In that folded part So I'm gonna slide it to this side and slide it to the top and those others Other two sides should just follow Glue it down So I should be on the right spot If I will fold it Yes, I'm on the right spot. So now I'm gonna take scissors I'm gonna cut The papers around Sorry for that noise of my scissors And I'm gonna glue these sides Here I'm just following That chipboard or that card Under And because we scored those lines that folding around the chipboard should be very easy So I do have prepared my front and the back cover and I use those distress inks to make it Look more vintage and same way like I wrapped to the paper these front covers. I wrapped first Those large pieces to back paper And then I wanted to make the that sewing effect all around but because it's so hard to see the edge Of the black paper when you are sewing. So I had to place it on coffee dyed paper And then I just cut it with a Small left All around of that coffee paper to make sure that I will see the edge of that black paper and I actually like it It looks more vintage. So my layer of the Covers will be this way But before I will put it together I'm gonna create a spine where I will stone the pages So the spine will be very easy You can make spine as big as you want I've got here a left over if you want to sewn then later more pages and I will show you how to do it Even if you will have book full of pages and you want to add there maybe envelope or something So you can with this sewing. So I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do easy spine The spine which will make your book Expandable or pages inside expandable I've got here my One of my pages I've got here a piece of that envelope and I'm gonna place that page on the bottom In that corner and here In this corner, I'm gonna make a mark on my card stock On that envelope So it's right here And I'm gonna cut that that card stock right here So I do have This piece is Four and three quarter By Seven and I have no idea. What is this one? It's right behind one quarter So seven and something I'm sorry in centimeters. It's much more easy to say in centimeters It is 18 and half By 12 It's much more easy to say. So this will be How tall my spine will be and now I'm gonna create how wide The spine will be and I'm gonna take my ruler No, but I'm good I'm gonna take my ruler like a help. I'm gonna slide it to one edge of that card to make it straight And I'm just gonna score That will be One side folded And here I'm gonna do same. I'm gonna put my ruler to the edge And I will make very big spine. So I can I guess I can place that all 50 50 pages if I will do it this way It will be a really big spine for my book Like this. So then it will be here And here If you want to have spine exactly for your pages grab them together measure it One and one quarter. So I'm gonna score one side The way I did And then from from that score line. I'm gonna measure One and one quarter and I'm gonna make a mark But I think I'm gonna make a spine one and a half So I'm gonna make a mark One and a half A little bit bigger because I would like to show you how you can add there Also some envelopes one you've got there Your pages maybe In the time you will want to add there something more So this will be spine of my book So this will be my spine this shorter piece. I'm gonna glue between those layers between I think on back cover. This will be back cover. So between those two layers I'm gonna glue this small piece like this And this Large piece I will use as an envelope here. Oops envelope here. I'm guessing So first I'm gonna put the glue on this shorter part. I'm gonna take That large piece of paper and now the right way to place it right way It will be like this So I'm gonna Place it here Make a nice position to find out the way I would like to see those papers It will be sewn around So I'm kind of measuring If I can fit in there with those pages And I'm gonna glue it together like this This will be the back cover of my book. So I think I can glue it straight away Together So I'm gonna put a glue here And if you would like to create there some kind of closure you can add In the middle of this piece Maybe a ribbon This way Place it a place glue here and put a ribbon Which are which is coming out this way because this will be back cover and glue it down So once the one side is dry And glued properly together Hopefully it will hold Nicely, I'm gonna glue this Which will makes my pocket At the front cover to that front cover. I'm gonna fold it down I'm gonna put glue on these three sides here Here and here I'm gonna take this And place this front cover Here on that spine and here I'm gonna make sure that these sides and these Sides are matching So not like this But to make sure that they are matching together But they are sitting nicely And I'm gonna let it dry So I added that stitching all around of that pocket as well. So from here I do have nice pocket I'm gonna flip it over and I can glue My front cover I'm gonna put a glue all around Of this piece and glue it on the top And again, if you are making closure if you already added ribbon here You should make that here as well. So in the middle If you want to place it on the exact spot like you've got that ribbon here just place this Here the way where it's The right way This should be on the top. This should be on the bottom. So place it this way And where there it's coming out the ribbon from your back cover Put a glue here and put on the same spot ribbon this way and then just take it Flip it over and glue it to your Book here and your closure Will be on the exact same spot the ribbon from here Will be on exact same spot I'm gonna let this dry to make sure it's nice and steady And now how to add the pages into this journal and it's so easy. You can do it weekly You don't have to sew the book at the first you can do your pages Separately from the book cover to make there some decoration to make some sewing Put stickers anything you want and then take your book cover Take the thread Put the thread around and make a knot you can decorate that thread with beads or You can take every week different color of thread you can add there Yeah, I said those beads So you can make your choice Of the threads you're gonna use you can make pattern from the threads as well On your spine You just need to wrap it this way And then you sewn Your book page Move it to the side Cut the thread in the leg You want to see you can add here some kind of you know decoration some charms anything you want And you've got your first page sewn inside Then next week is come in make your decoration fill it up put there some stickers anything you want Then take another thread Place it here and sew it around this way you can add to your journals pages weekly So I have sewn all my signatures or my pages inside And I already also sewn after I had sewn all these I added there An envelope so Maybe you already have your book done and you want to add somewhere Some envelope or some leaflet so you can just make a space for it Create from paper easy envelope I'm gonna take ruler and again some embossing tool and I'm gonna score About one quarter of inch from one side About one quarter of inch from other side I'm gonna fold these I've got here one of these pages Left so I'm gonna place that page Here and I'm gonna Place it to the edge match it to the edge and fold this over Just kind of taking measurement How big envelope I can do and then I can fold it somewhere here And it's just by eye. I think somewhere here So this will be flap of my envelope. This will be the envelope itself So I'm gonna take scissors and cut this corner Where I do have that folded line and this corner To that folded line So here these folds I'm gonna use for gluing This part and make a pocket And these folds I'm not gonna cut it off. I'm gonna flip it over and fold them up And I'm gonna use them to reinforce the edges So I'm gonna add their glue and Fold it add to glue here and fold it If you like to use the sewing machine So before you will sew it to your paper to your booklet book You can use the sewing machine Before you will glue this pocket down Or before you will actually sew it first to your book and then glue this pocket down You can make some decorative sewing all around of your envelope Like this And then take your book Take a twine Open the book At the spot you want to add there your envelope Fold these sides inside put your envelope on that spot where you want to add it Take the twine make sure you have everything separated including These strings here on the bottom Put the string around here envelope Where it Make a knot And then add the glue on these two folds and glue it Glue it here And you just create it envelope in the middle of your book And this is when you add Few more those envelopes And when you use two different Twines or strings You can use many different colors you can make it like a rainbow And make your journal this way very colorful So I hope you did enjoy this tutorial. It is very easy way how to make extendable journal You can make the spine really huge and then up there all year So it's totally up to you how you will do it. I hope this was not too Complicated and I hope you did enjoy it Once again, thank you so so much for all your support you gave me in the past Without you I wouldn't be here. So thank you very much. I hope this year will brings us more enjoyable craft because craft it's very important for our minds It's good. Relax and it's perfect to make a gift for our loved ones and Make us happy. So thank you so much for visiting me today Thank you so much for spending your time with me Don't forget to click on the link down below for downloading this free Freebie if you are interested in this cover there will be a link as well And have a good day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye