How to Make a Beautiful Book Cover for Your Junk Journal! Beginner's Tutorial! The Paper Outpost

and I push down everything sticks to the

paper

and then I'm running around trying to peel the

paper

off, so there you go, that's all I have, that's my big answer, okay, turn it over and maybe just put this here below. Things are a little stiff, so I have to train them to go where everything is going to be okay. Here we go. I don't seem to know a spider web or something. Let me show you a little bit closer what it looks like, um. mossy lichen how about lykan? Oh, this looks great. I do not know what it is.

Does anyone know what it is? Can I see some glue going through there? I'm actually going to use my hand to help remove the glue that's peeking out. Yeah, what if it was a fancy maneuver? Yes, I didn't have to buy an additional tool. Okay, so just give it a good smusharoo and then we're going to train, so we're going to train by giving it the shape of the spine and just encouraging it to stretch the wrap a little bit and move back a little bit around the spine. where the folds are naturally and become one with the spine yes yes yes oh this is cool I don't know I just like it can you tell?

I need more glue so you can find that you have little areas that you have to go back and re-glue, okay, okay, so I always have a little extra glue on hand because sometimes we use up the glue quickly, yeah, okay, put that down there and you can, you can put clamps and pinch these things. and all that kind of stuff, but I think good finger training works very well, there's nothing wrong with gripping, although I'm not against gripping, I've gripped with the best, oh lord, it's okay, oh, That's great, okay? Well, now I just want to

make

sure that this actually happens, so I think I'm going to go ahead and since we're all doing this together, I'm going to compromise and put something up front at this point just so we can get it to the point of completion and I'm going to take out my contenders again and I can hear you in the background.

I have a big one in front. I could put this guy here or those colors not. They don't really go together very well there and not here, it's not the right size, okay, go back to

your

little portfolio. I made this with a magazine and some material and made it like a giant envelope so I could poke around and look quickly. Just pretty, I like you, okay, let me see the back, okay, owl, and we have a pretty bird that likes a pretty bird, okay, a little bigger, that's good, I like this one too, it's very big and it's a little yellow so I like the contrast. the colors maybe let's go with that what else do we have here this guy is cute he could

make

more than one you never never know I can't stop they are like potato chips you know what I mean keep going let's make a sugar itself you had it have that no more?

Yes, it's happened to me all the time. It is also a pretty little bird, but too yellow. I want more contrast. Okay, oh yeah. These guys are cute. And you? No, no, no, I think, I think. That little guy is going to be the guy you know, sometimes I watch the video and I think he should go with the other one, that has to uh, you know, if he feels good and he feels good, so let him. I rip it a little bit, okay, a little bit closer because I want, you can cut these or whatever you want, maybe I'll sew a little bit, I don't know, let's see, let's see where we're going. this one um and I'm thinking I could put some um um blanket under it too why do you ask? because uh, okay, I should have turned it the other way so I could have a little bit of white peeking out because I'm missing white there, but maybe I could take a little bit of that and put it under there.

What if that would give me some white? Well, let's see first of all, let's ink if we ink the white pops first, but if I go in the dark, the darkness will also appear what to do what to do get more sheets that's what you don't know what to do get more sheets okay, I'm just going let's get some sheets here try to tear this up Okay let's see if you're still here that would look good okay maybe let's do that and maybe ink this now because it contrasts with the white so I can make the edges of it stand out a little bit . look good and then maybe I'm going to come here and make a little tear, okay, there we go, it looks a little big, yeah, I'm going to shrink them a little bit, okay, make it smaller, make it smaller, okay , shrink, okay. and a little bit tighter, okay, and we're tearing, okay, I have to show that sheet who's boss, that's right, and then if I put it here I might want to sew it up a little bit, you just know I'm here and I like to sew .

I don't have to sew, sewing is optional, but I'm going to use a glue stick to place it in the general premise of its final location, okay, and then I'm just going to run with the sewing machine, right? Back, well I'm back, here's my basic sewing. I did it twice around the first one. Let me show you like a straight stitch all the way around, the best I can make a straight stitch and then I made a wavy one. like I just used the straight stitch but I moved my uh my piece and that way I got a wavy one so there we go now I could use this as the entire

cover

or I could put a

book

page on top thinking I don't know I might have to use a little more glue on this, make sure you keep it down there, oop, you can't see sorry there or in the center, the center is, I think maybe yes, because there are a lot of words in here, so I don't I will do.

I'm going to add things with too much extra wording, but I think I'm going to put this bullseye right in the center, yeah, yeah, let's go to the center, okay, I'm going to use fabrifix, I'm going to go over the edges very well and stick it well and I'm going to use a little bit of my finger to smooth it out so it doesn't run too much. Well, now in the middle it doesn't matter too much, but on the edges, yes, I definitely want to touch. those glue beads down a little bit to minimize bleeding, okay, we'll put you in there and we're just wrapping this little puppy, we'll have this really cute little

cover

, I like this cover, I like this cover real good, it goes down the center , he opens it, center, center, center down and we're down, there we go, oh yeah, it's stuck together, the pepper arrangement is already working its magic it's like, I've got this, I've got this, don't worry, I've got this over there. we go back up so you can see everything good, showing you the back, everything is good, very good and I would probably come to finish it off a little bit doing the edges, so I'll use my walnut stain if I want to just hang out while I finish the edges , going around the edges here and, of course, am I going to cover it?

That's the question and it's a big question sometimes to cover, sometimes not to cover, when you don't cover it, you get the good stuff. smooth papery feel of the actual pages which is really nice but if it's a very large

book

or it's going to be handled a lot you might want to cover it with a mod podge or a spray and I think if anything I'm going to spray it. this one because I don't want a heavy mod podge layer here that always comes out a little shiny even if you use matte material, but you can use matte sprays that are a little less matte or less shiny and that's a good option. for you I'm going to come and do like the edges here I also do this edge here too okay here let's look at that okay just a little bit of cutting a little bit of cutting maybe just bringing the edges just a little bit yeah, yeah there we go and right around the edges where it might have been grabbed a lot in the old days and in the old days and I would come and spray it with something like this krylon uv archival varnish is an option and you can also use acrylic sealer.

I also think I have a spray one. Can i show you. Wait here. What's happening? This matte finish will give you a matte finish. I recommend spraying them outside and letting them air dry outside because they are very volatile. they smell, they stink and you don't want to inhale that stuff so it's a good thing to do so there you have it friends I hope you enjoyed this and make sure you have a lot of fun today because you deserve it and if you haven't subscribed to my monthly newsletter by email, which is free, you get a free digital image, a supply checklist, a bookie note and a

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