How to Make a Hard Cover Junk Journal with Full Size Pages! Step by Step Tutorial! The Paper Outpost

of things, okay, you see it fall apart, you just go in there and put it back together,

make

them both equally spaced, turn it around. check the other side,

make

sure they're all down where they should be and then let it sit for a bit, oh maybe 10 to 15 minutes or so, the glue sticks pretty quickly, I'll be right back, okay, I'm done back. about a minute I'm very impatient, okay, but I want to show you that last bit so that if you come across this and this happens all the time, eight and a half at 11, book

cover

eight and a half.11

pages

, but they end sticking out and that's just because of the buildup on the spine and things translate that way when you glue everything together so first of all what we want to do is make sure we line up the front and the back.

cover

well, so the little tips are really important.

You definitely want to make sure that the front cover is not behind the back cover because we're going to cut here and I don't want you to cut the back cover so make sure they're at least equal or maybe even a little bit forward because that's going to be now. , let's make it at least equal, okay, and we can hold that, shouts, where are you going, where are you going, okay, okay, we have that, so that's going to Stay there, let me guide you. You see, this black on black doesn't work for me. I may have to get a different matte color.

I'm feeling it. I feel a different matte color. Maybe something where things stand out a little more right now. This is not recommended in any area and it's crazy that we're doing this, but this is what I did because I want to show you exactly what I did, so first of all I lined this up with the edge and, well, then I drew a line okay. , that's what I did, that's what I did and I opened this, I lean you back a little bit, it will be easier to see if I do this, okay, I open it, I'm grabbing my insides, okay, now I tried to do both at.

I came back but my book wasn't cooperating before, what would be the safest way to do it, but if you can't do it, grab everything, hold it, don't let the weight of the cover pull everything separately, try to keep them all. together flush like they're on the edge, okay, maybe come with some of these and put them there, okay, keep them in the same place, that's what I did. My cover is still there, okay, I know it's there, you might want to put something under it. In case you pass, you don't want to pass to your cover, it's probably a good idea, yeah, okay, lining up everyone and now we're just going to line you up if you have something to hold your cover. that helps, okay, Matt is running, okay, here we go, now we're going to magically remove the extra and I'm going to go a little bit inside my line because my line was placed on the outside of the book because that's how I could, the only way I could draw it, so if I go a little bit inside, everything should magically fit together really well, so let's try now, you can break these, which is one way, okay, there might be some left. finished so I'm going to cut these for a flush cut uh now you should have a new sheet here so we have a new sheet it shouldn't take that long to go through the 40

pages

okay and always pull some out and see where is. acts, you don't want to go too far, the whole point is not to go too far, okay, okay, I'm almost there and I can taste it.

I'm not going to blow my cover, well we'll find out, oh if I do. I'll cover it up, that's what we'll do, okay, it's almost there, I think I can tear these last ones off and I'll lightly do the last one, okay, we're done, we're done, there's a little bit of weirdness down here. will take care of it, okay, now we've done it, let's see how we did it, oh, I think we're in, let me get rid of this damn closure, okay, let's see, well, we're definitely here, oh, let me back you up. up so you can see better, my goodness, you're all over the place, okay, yeah, okay, maybe it's not exactly aligned, but it's not bad, I think we're in the land of not bad, okay, probably you could do more if you did if you measured before. you cut, it would probably be better than before you put it all together it would probably be better, it would be a little bit smarter, but since I did it after putting it together, I want to see, I want to show you how to get out of in case that happens, but let's take a look at our book, since we're pretty much done, other than decorating the cover, so now technically the book can go in any direction because I haven't designated a front or back, but let's see what we do. we have here, okay, there's our cover, our butter, uh, purple butterfly wing, our initial signature, all the pages are beautiful and very well attached and the second signature, the third signature, so these pages work like this , okay, and our third signature works well and you can have a lot of fun with the different types of materials and colors that you use here and success now.

One last thing. Okay, let me, I'm totally busy getting back here. Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming. Um, you could put some. Can you believe I'm trying to get my hand on any scrapbook

paper

right now? Okay, now, if you wanted, you could cover these back flaps so you can go in here and cut to

size

. of your cover or even a little bit shorter, you could show maybe a band of this and then a little bit of this to where the cream ends and cover that and that will cover this edge right there, so that's one way you can cover easily the We also have the inner covers, so there you have it.

I hope you had fun. I hope you enjoyed this little process. Now we have a giant book the

size

of a scrapbook very easily and it holds almost eight and a half pages by 12, but we certainly have got 10 a signature is going to have 10 times 4 is 40 times 4 is 160 pages, so that this is a

full

160 page diary almost a

junk

diary that only needs the cover, so there you can choose between different ways of doing these things. so I hope you enjoyed that process so is there this way to make them or is there a way to make them in

hard

cover.

This is a manila folder that I used, like I said, I'll link it below so you can see that process as well and um. What else could I tell you more? I can't think about it, but until it appears in the brain. Thank you so much for hanging out and playing with me on the

paper

s and I certainly hope you enjoyed it. funny and we're always trying to reinvent the mouse trap, right, which is, yeah, reinvent, better, invent a better mouse trap, yeah, um, so maybe this has probably already been done many times in other places very famous people somewhere, so hats off to you guys, um, but anyway, this is just the idea I came up with how to put something like this and actually have it in a

hard

cover, um, so there you have it and um, if you find value or had fun here, please subscribe and share, click the notification bell to be notified about new and future videos.

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