 Welcome to my new craft space. I changed through to last two weeks all my room and today I would like to show you a little sneak peek how it looks like here now. So this is how my room looks now. I have painted my room to the white color. I need to cheer up all this room because lately I felt like it's everything falling down on me and it was just too dark and too complicated to be here and to craft here. And I still have few things to do so today I'm gonna share with you very small craft and I'm gonna show you just this sneak peek. It's nothing too much. I still have everything sort out the way I had before. I just added these new shelves and they need to get my touch as well because the color it's not what I want. So there will be changes and also here will be changes. It's just too white and not vintage. So through the time I will share with you how I am updating my room. Here is my birthday cake. I just celebrated my birthday and my sons gave me a cake and also this new chair which is awesome because I can I can swing on it as well. So for today I'm gonna eat my cake and I hope you will enjoy this video. So today I'm coming to share with you how you can create from old envelope cover for your mini journal can be like travel journal as here it's map so I'm gonna do travel book cover. I'm gonna be using this old envelope from nice craft paper. It's very strong so for the cover it's the best choice and for the cover I'm gonna be using this beautiful fabric. First what I'm gonna do I'm gonna open that envelope for one large piece. I do have my envelope open now I'm gonna measure how tall is my journal and how wide it is. I'm gonna take my inches for that because I'm gonna be then scoring so inches will be better. My scoring board is in inches so this is five and three-quarter by four inches so I'm gonna count six inches and I'm gonna cut the piece six inches wide. I do have cut the piece from that envelope and the size of it is 13 just bear with me 13 and three-quarter by six. I'm gonna take my scoring board and I'm gonna score this piece to hold my mini journal and also to make there a space for some openings. So first I'm gonna score one inch one and one eight. Now I'm gonna score this width of my journal so it's four inches here so next score line will be five and one eighth. The spine of my journal is one and one eighth of inch. I would like to have the have the spine of my book cover wider so I think one and one-quarter of inch will be will be enough so that's mean till six and seven eighths and I would like to have that spine a little bit flexible so every one eighth of inch between these two lines from five and one eighth till six and seven eighths I'm gonna score every one eighth of inch if that will be possible here is a little bit harder to score because there is the fault of my scoring board so I'm gonna just take it easily in there so this will be spine of my book now here I need to score again four inches which is width of my journal so it will be 10 and seven eighths and I'm gonna move this score line on some number maybe here and again I'm gonna score here one and one quarter of inch same width like I did here on the spine I'm gonna do here so it will be so this one it's one and one quarter this is one and one quarter and again I'm gonna score every one eighth of inch in that spot so I do have all my score lines done and I'm gonna fold all these score lines I'm gonna make I'm gonna take home folder and burnish every single one of these so I have folded all of my folds I'm gonna keep the side where the folds these score lines are close to edge I'm gonna keep them here on the left side that will be closure of my book so I know which way I should add decorative paper on my fabric so right here first I'm gonna apply this fabric so I'm gonna use this glue stick and to put put on this piece of cardstock nice thick layer of the glue and then I will use the fabric on it and on the fabric I'm gonna be using one of the tissue papers I've got in my on my Etsy it's this beautiful travel tissue paper so that's what I'm gonna be using on the fabric to give the fabric some kind of design and to give the tissue paper texture so in the end it will looks like the fabric with this design so first I'm gonna apply the glue on all this space and I'm gonna be very generous pardon me very generous with the glue now I'm gonna take the fabric and place the fabric over the piece of my paper and place it nicely to the edges and press it all together for pressing the fabric evenly I'm gonna be using braille or I can use some cloth and press with that cloth the fabric to the glue with this braille I'm also spreading the glue on all that paper under the fabric so I did fast cut out the fabric all around of that paper piece and I'm gonna apply again a nice thick layer of the glue on the fabric now I can add the tissue paper on the top and again with the braille and cloth I'm gonna press it all together so the tissue paper will take the texture of the fabric so first I'm gonna wipe it using this cloth to kind of press it all together and now very carefully because it is tissue paper it's fragile I'm gonna be pressing the tissue through the glue to the fabric and if somewhere it needs softer touch I'm gonna take the cloth and use the cloth but always very softly because I don't want to ruin the tissue and I can fast cut out around so once you do have all glued and fast cut out around you need to let it dry so I'm gonna put it aside early today I made another one exactly same with same scoring so I'm gonna be using this one for now because it's already dry so here I do have that first fold which will hold the journal later it will be slide right here and then will be book cover around so now I can decorate it inside and add there some openings for that I'm gonna be using papers from Amsterdam collection I do have it on my Etsy link will be down below there is so many beautiful pictures these background papers and lots of photos and ephemeras from Amsterdam so if you like Amsterdam and you would like to create some journal with this theme I hope you will like this collection so for inside I'm gonna be using one of these papers and I think that this one will be actually the one I would like to use my printer is not printing from the side to side it's printing with this white strip around this time I'm gonna keep it in there and I'm gonna decorate it with something so I'm gonna cut the piece which will fit right here I do have prepared the piece which I will add inside and now I'm gonna take another background paper and I will start to fold it and I will create some kind of openings and extra extra pieces as you can see my printer went crazy I'm not sure why but I'm gonna decorate the rest of which I don't have printed out so I'm gonna I'm using 200 GSM A4 size papers it's beautiful and strong and it will be perfect for what I would like to do so I'm gonna grab my paper place the paper right here and in the size of my cover I'm gonna fold the paper and which here seems to be slightly under the edge just very slightly under the edge just about three eighths of inch or half centimeter so I'm gonna fold it in there I'm gonna open my paper and fold it half the long side or landscape and I'm gonna take my envelope punch board and with this envelope punch board I'm gonna punch the tap on this back piece which is which is slightly longer and I think I'm gonna punch quiet long tap so here now I'm gonna flip it over and this and I'm gonna place on three two and three quarter like this I'm gonna cut this rest of paper off so for that I'm gonna take my yellow team put this edge to the edge of my yellow team here to that knife and this to that knife as well and just cut the strip to make it kind of nice and straight so I do have tap on that back piece now I'm gonna take a scissors or rather I'm gonna rather take a ruler and knife so I'm gonna take a ruler and knife and I'm gonna cut the paper here where is the fold to that middle cross okay there and cut the paper to that middle cross which is right here yes exactly now I'm gonna lift this up when I do have folded the paper this way so I can punch both of these sides the edge of them exactly same way so I'm gonna put this corner on this number three here just to match it in there and punch and I'm gonna do same with this corner here place it on that number three and punch and here between those two valleys I'm gonna cut with the knife and ruler so what I do have here it's this paper here and the paper underneath and little tap here on the top and it can be open down there and this way so I do have my two pieces prepared first I'm gonna distress and decorate this for decorating this white edge I'm gonna be using these strips they are from perforated paper office perforated papers so I'm gonna just glue them on the edge and then glue the paper to my cover I do have that inside decorated this when this will be folded down it will be invisible so I'm okay with that I'm gonna take my sewing machine and do sewing all around of this piece I do have that sewing all around I'm gonna fold the spine and fold where there will be flap of my walk and even this one I need to let it dry properly to make sure everything will hold on the right spot so I'm not gonna fold it more right now before it's totally dry I'm gonna move to my extra piece I'm gonna be using ink from spectrum noir this harmonic line seal brown and I'm gonna distress all this piece from both sides everything all these folds I'm gonna distress with this ink and for distressing I'm gonna be using this brush so just very easily add the ink on the brush and apply on the edges more circles I will do more darker it will get so I do have my distressing with that seal brown and now I do have distress ink from ranger designed by Tim Holtz and this is vintage photo and I'm gonna add with this vintage photo few shades same distress inks I'm gonna be using in the cover so with same distress inks I'm gonna add colors to my cover I'm gonna be also using Tim Holtz stencils and I will add kind of like coffee stains and spots with these stencils and using same distress inks same I'm gonna be using for making coffee spots and stains on this extra paper which I will later add to my book cover if you don't have stencil like this you can always use your coffee mug made a coffee very strong coffee then dip the mug to that coffee and then place it on your paper it makes beautiful beautiful stand beautiful these marks so I've I have added all these spots and stains on my paper now I'm gonna fold it up and this way this side these two I'm gonna sew together using my sewing machine so now I do have pocket here I do have a folder here and I can open it this way from the off cut paper which I had left over from this sheet I'm gonna cut two pieces in this leg so I'm gonna cut the piece right here fold it on half and cut it again and fold these two pieces on half and on both I'm gonna cut the corners from the open side to the corner to that folded side and again from the open side to that folded side these two pieces here I do have that sewn pocket here it's my piece with tap and then is this fold underneath so I'm gonna flip it this way and on this last fold last piece of paper I'm gonna glue here one piece and here another piece with the open side inside that paper this I will use to glue my pocket on the back cover so that way I will have their bigger space so once again flip it this way apply the glue and with that open side inside that paper and make a position on the end of this page I'm gonna apply the glue here and again with the open side to inside the paper and this is ready to be glued right here but before I will do so I'm gonna decorate it so as I said I'm gonna be using this uh that bunch of images from Amazon Amstrand collection I distress them all sorry for my hands I still have a little bit of distress ink on my hands I do have here my decorative tray with all kind of stamped images and printed quotes and these wooden pieces and these slot cards and washi tapes stickers and brats and with that I will try to decorate the piece so I think here I'm gonna start with washi tapes in the background I'm gonna do just some very quick and easy layout so I'm gonna choose some image which I would like to have here on the front so I put also this label and I'm thinking I will place it somewhere here and I'm thinking to use decorative stamp this is La Blanche stamp you can manage to put the decoration around so I'm gonna glue the label first and I'm gonna place here also small brats as a decoration this will be right here and I'm gonna glue all this on piece of book page as I cut out around and also add the small strip of brown tape and piece of same brown tape I'm gonna place here and a little bit of that black tape and now I can glue it down but I'm not gonna glue it on all that spot that's why I place their book page because now I can create another kind of like a pocket so I'm gonna put a glue here and on the bottom that will be only spots where I will place a glue so I will have pocket here and pocket behind then when I will open it this way I can continue with decorating I do have here this off-cut from the image before so here I'm gonna add these stamped images and I'm gonna add the glue on one side here and place my image right next to edge of this paper then I'm gonna put the glue here in that corner and here on the bottom and I'm gonna slide it there and place the image right here now this beautiful city image here on the edge of this page of this image this bottom one and here and I'm gonna place this one right there and here I do have handle with care so that's I can glue on all the way and number five I'm gonna glue right here so here this bottom one gonna be there this one this one and a little bit more so with this gluing I just created pocket from here so I can slide something behind I can take stamps and stamp right here something so I'm gonna take something from Tim Holtz what I can stamp there oh yeah and I think here I would like to see this don't forget and maybe here I'm gonna put that captured on the top of my pocket so I'm gonna put the glue just on the bottom of that captured and place it right here and here on the bottom I'm gonna place this image and I'm gonna make it like another pocket so I will place the glue on three sides and glue it right here and this can be opened this way I think I'm gonna keep there the white space here for now maybe I will change my mind later but right now I'm gonna keep it as it is I'm gonna take a glue put the glue on these folds I glued there earlier and of course I'm gonna put the glue here as well otherwise it will be not pocket it will be just like belly bent and it will be sliding somewhere where I don't want to see it and I'm gonna glue my pocket right here I do have this leftover here and I'm gonna cut two strips which are white same like this fold so two small papers and I'm gonna fold them and use them again for making the pocket I'm gonna glue them right here so two small strips of paper fold them I'm gonna cut from the folded corner to the open edge in angle and again from the folded corner to open edge in angle again I'm making those folds for gluing pocket like before on this one and I'm gonna take a glue put the glue on my fold and now with that folded side to the edge of this one right here and I'm gonna take second one and again with that folded side to this edge here I'm gonna put the glue on these folds here and fold this over and here I'm gonna save it and clip it with paper clips and let it dry so I have added some kind of layout on the back cover of my journal as well to make this opening beautiful and I added a small layout on the front cover as well of this little journal I do have inside some some epimeras and here in this pocket I added in the size of my passport little passport for traveling I'm gonna flip it over I do have prepared for the cover also corners enclosure I've got here these beautiful bronze book cover book corners not covers book corners and this beautiful closure and I would like to try to fit it in so first I will add there these corners so here it should be quite easy I will have to add there only glue and then keep them as they are I will don't have to hammer them so for gluing these book corners I'm gonna be using a super glue and I will add a super glue over the corner of my book cover and slide there the corner and I will try to not glue myself same I'm gonna do on that opposite side so just add super glue here on that corner pick the corner and slide it over slightly knock on these opposite corners I'm gonna add the super glue at that corner and from this side I'm gonna smash it down same on that other one at the corner flip it over and fix it so that's this one I do have those decorative corners same corners I'm gonna add to the book and now this closure I'm gonna find the middle of my book cover so here is a middle of my book cover I'm gonna take this closure and I will add it right here so I'm gonna fix the top closure I'm gonna be using a little bit of hot glue and I'm gonna add the hot glue here in this spot and then slide it right here to the edge of my book cover and fix the brats I will poke the holes again slide one and the second one and fix them from the opposite side we do have fixed the top closure I'm gonna open it put the book inside and I'm gonna close the book place my uh cover over I'm gonna slide I'm gonna put the glue here the closure my cover so I'm gonna hold it here for a few seconds I'm gonna take off the journal and again same like before poke the holes and add their brats I'm gonna press it with my scissors to make sure it's flat flat so from here and here I'm gonna secure and cover this with medical tape it's strong enough and it's invisible kind of ish so it will cover the ends of these brats and this is my a little creation so you can open it you do have your little journal and you do have space for passport maybe for some tickets for another ticket for some notes and for more notes and for another passport or flight ticket or some more important uh important notes so this is my sharing for today I hope you did enjoy it I hope you found some inspiration even a little journals can be a lot of fun lots of fun and lots of creation creativity thank you so much for spending your time with me thank you so much for visiting me today have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye