MAKING 10 DIFFERENT JOURNAL EMBELLISHMENTS USING JUNK MAIL | #jjtipstrickshacks23

Hey guys it's e with scrapbooking with me and today we join Rach and Bella crafts in their

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tips tricks and hacks 2023 today is the 6th and it's our day and guess what this girl almost forgot, in I actually had it. on my mind all weekend and I don't have time to make many videos in advance, so my videos usually appear when you watch them that night. I made them that morning from time to time. I may have one or two videos ahead of me, but I have so many other things to do that I usually don't post a video in advance, but I thought about it on Saturday when I was filming and I got tired and stopped on Saturday and yesterday I didn't really feel like filming everything. day so guess what today I was working on tax information stuff and all that and suddenly I said ah today sixth I have to be busy fortunately all my projects that I'm going to show you and I may not understand them to show them all in this video and yes I don't worry, we will make another video and continue with the projects that I am showing in this video, you know?

Deer and close to my heart because I love doing things with spam as you know and I've done a lot of projects with them this is only going to be 10 of them so I'll try to link videos for others you know I'll link them in a little card . up here up and you can go back and watch other videos. I will put all the information under all these ladies. I mean, I'm in the presence of some really fantastic craftsmen here. I'm not going to name them. all, but there are 28

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I think Rachel will be working maybe a couple of days here and there, but you know they are wonderful Crafters, so I want you to subscribe and watch all their channels, please, please. If you want to find all the videos, I'll have a playlist below that I'll put all the videos in, but you can also go to the hashtag jjtips tricks tricks 23 and all of our videos will appear. that are there now Molina will also do his thing on the 15th, so keep an eye out for that one too, okay, I'm going to put that aside now, what I'm going to do today is say I'm going to do 10 different tricks that you can do with

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envelopes.

I may not complete all of them, but I have some that are already done and I can show you how to do it very simply and very quickly, but let's get started. with one really very easy and this will be a simple pop up and this will be a simple pocket now I know we all love pockets in our junk

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s so the easiest way to take a pocket and do it The quick thing is to take a spam envelope or, if you only have regular envelopes, just take a regular envelope and cut it up. I usually cut mine too.

Let's see what I'm cutting. This measures approximately four inches tall. It is perfect. size so that a tag goes on a tall tag so this is cut like a four and then I cut it into fours so it's like four by four and then I go ahead and cover the front of this now that I'm going to use Several items today will be different articles from different creators, but I'm going to start with this article from Betty. I don't remember that I have red roses here, but I know it's not red. Don't know. I remember the exact collection it came from, but I'll do my best to link to it below.

I'll shout out to Betty and see if I can figure out what her name is and link to her below, and if not. I don't know who Betty I'm talking about, she's our designer, one of our designers and we have access to most of her digitals and I'm very grateful for that, but she designs a lot of these for us specifically, something that maybe Molina and I've asked or maybe we want a journal something like that so man I thought this blue is absolutely beautiful so we're going to use this one and Betty if you're watching link it below if I forget okay and I think I'm going to use this part of here I could use that part now maybe let's use that part and I'll save this for something bigger here, so all I do and this is so simple, they go so fast, so all we would do is, but you're going to put glue all over your little pocket here.

Now I'm not going to cover the back because guess what the back is going to be glued on, but I'm going to go and let's see if I can. Get this a little clear, do you think we can? If we can. Well, I should have turned it like that from the beginning. I'm leaving a little bit on this side, a little bit on the top and I'm going to leave a little bit more. here that we can fold so you don't have a chance to see that envelope anywhere, it's going to look like you just made a pocket out of this beautiful paper, okay, now I'm going to go ahead and just pre-fold them a little bit like you're covering the cover of a newspaper or a chipboard, something like that, if you were

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a newspaper cover, you would do something like this or when I cover my chipboard, I do this and then we go to whoops!

I'm dragging everything up on the screen, then we're just going to trim these corners here and I cut mine at a little angle, don't go all the way across like this, okay, so up here at the top, what What we want to do is we want, we want to stick this little piece inside. Okay, I'm going to cut these corners a little bit more so it fits in there. Sorry, I was out of breath. What we just carried in three big packages shows how out of shape this girl is. Well, I'm just going to use my bones folder.

Okay, we've got that covered, as you can see, and now we're just going to put in these little pieces. I'm going to paste them now. I may not embellish every one of these that I make because as you know, embellishing takes a little time. I mainly wanted to show you how to make them and how to use all that junk

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that comes your way. I know everyone gets it and says, look, that's not so pretty and on the side you can't see any of that envelope, now we're just going to cut a little pull at the top here, okay? and so you know I like to ink so I ink mine you don't have to do that it's not something you have to do but I like to ink mine especially when I cut things because if I cut it a little bit then That ink covers everything.

My mistakes are fine, so that's the first one and I don't think that role needs much anyway, okay? Let's put that one aside now that our second one will be. another easy one is just make a little fold in a corner and I'll show you I took this envelope right here I'll show you how I did it very simple very easy or I cut just a piece sometimes I have a piece left over if I've done something else or just I'll take this and fold it like this, you'll see. I have it folded. I just folded it even with this edge and then I'm going to cut it over here and this is actually going to I make you two side pockets, okay and then down here.

I need to cut there and when I start doing that I use my trimmer because sometimes I can't cut straight from time to time so I just put it in my trimmer and I cut it and now there are two side folds if you have one you see this one is completely closed, this one has an open spot here, all we're going to do is close it very carefully, right on the edge that you want. your glue and when you're putting the glue on and you have a little place like that where you want to put it Just A Real Fine Line put a very small amount of glue on and then when you start to press it down, pull it out instead of just doing this, pull out with your finger and that will make the glue squirt out here instead of going in and closing the pocket, okay, so we're just going to cover one, I'm not going to cover all of them.

I'll cover one. I'm going to use a piece of this beautiful paper that is also Betty's. I'm going to use a lot of her papers today just because I absolutely love them and because I have so many. of them printed and I love, love, love

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them, the next journal I make will use one of their digital ones, maybe two, I may combine two, I don't know yet, I haven't quite decided, here again. I'm going to leave a little bit of excess, let me do it this way so you can see what I'm doing. I'm going to put it here, but I'm going to leave a little bit of space around it.

I pasted that here but I'm leaving a little space around it so I can fit some things in. I'm going to do the same at the top. I'm not going to cut it even with that. Could you. Alright, do that, but I'm doing mine a little differently. Now this one is a little more complicated to get all your little pieces tucked in and hidden because it's a corner, but you can still do it down here. you just need to cut a little point and then on the sides you need to cut a little bit of something like that, okay, leave that little bit lower and now we're going to be able to do this a couple of different ways you can leave this open and have another pocket so you have a pocket behind and a pocket here or you can just glue them together.

I like to leave it open sometimes I put a couple of labels in there, so I'm going to go ahead and pre-fold this and that helps me when I start to fold everything nice and then I'm going to dry fold this and make sure everything is facing in. You may have to trim the ends a little. it's at an angle, but let's see, I don't think I have to, okay, everything goes there, so let's glue it on and you can use any top glue you want. I like my art. glitter glue or my barely arts and you know sometimes depending on the thickness of the paper I use my glue stick but on this paper I printed them on a thick paper it's 120 GSM so it's a little bit thicker than regular copy paper, but If you have regular copy paper, you may want to use your glue stick so the glue doesn't show.

Okay, I got a little bit stuck there, so let's cut it out and there's our little corner. pocket now the way we would do it let's say this is our journal page right here we could leave it like this let me get another page that sets the same color and you can't see it as well we would leave it right here and I would paste it right down here and over here above and then you have a fold in the back and a fold here, you could punch a post hole if you want. I don't normally do that, but that's a quick little crease in the corner. and easy now you can also put a piece of paper here if you are afraid it will be noticed that doesn't bother me but you know if you are afraid it will be noticed it will be noticed but I don't care about that gray there, okay, so that's our little corner, so there's two and then I always have some of these cut out that way, I can go in with them and I can make a bunch in a short amount of time now I'm going to use this to make a label and it's going to be a window label.

Now let me see if I took a look at it. Let me see if it is. I have one here. This is the envelope I use. Now if you don't have one with a big window like this don't worry just use what you have but I have some that have a big window like this and I cut them this is the cut in two and I think it's six let me show you that it's six and a half, six and a half like that and then all I do on the sides is just trim it where these two sides look pretty much the same, as you can see all I've done is just trim it. a little bit outside, okay, that's all I did on that, now your window you have a window that's going to go in front, so we want to put something in here to make it look really nice, now you can go ahead and cover this if you want, but I like to put something there here again.

I have some of Betty's butterfly library cards, you know, I like my butterflies, so I'm thinking about putting that one right there and just going to tear it up because it'll be quicker and most of this won't be seen anyway. Now you can put whatever you want inside these, just use your imagination. I'd like to make sure it's wide enough and it's just. I'm going to leave it a little wider so I have more room to glue it. Now all I'm going to do is slide it down like this and like, okay, you've got a little bit of that writing showing up there as you can see, I love it, so now we're going to open this up again and I'm going to paste it into the place right where it is, I'm not going to take it out because if I take Things come out once I place it normally, I can't put it back where I wanted it, so we're going to stick it there, I'm just going to turn it over, I'm going to paste on this side for this purpose.

Okay, let's go ahead and put some glue around the edge here, not that this is going to matter too much because on this one I'm going to close it now. You can also leave it open and have a tag and label if you want. You could leave the top open and have another little tag that slides down. I'm not going to do that on this one, but you can do it without any problem, so we'll close these sides. I'm just going to put a little drop of glue over here now Rachel didn't tell me how long these videos should be.

Oh, and you know me, when I start envelopes I can work all day, so mine may be a little longer than most, but. Hopefully now you'll stay like I said. I'm going to close mine. I'm not going to leave it open, but you could if you wanted to. Okay, so now there's that part we have to do. is to cover this with paper now I love this paper with thisNo, don't even think it's from the same collection, but we're going to use it, so I think I'm going to leave it on that side and now I do it the quick and easy way.

Don't tear my papers first, hakko, I put my glue here and don't get too close to your windowbecause you don't want the glue to leak into your window and then I take my paper and I leave it there, against that window so I take my scissors and here again I'm going to cut it a little bit bigger than the piece just because I want to fold it and you don't have than fold it. I have seen them. I've made them that weren't bent and they're fine, they're not a problem, but today it's just me, this is how it would look there now.

I'm not going to glue the back yet. I'm going to go ahead and cover the other sides and glue the back on at once. Now I don't want to take anything away from this, so I'll probably put something like that on top or maybe even that piece. Let's do that now. This one I'm going to break because it's at the top and it's hard for me to get it to where I need it, so we'll match this one up and I broke it a little bit bigger, so we'll put it in, let's see. If I want that top or bottom, I think I want that there, so I'm going to tear this off, let's see, I'm going to tear it off right there, okay, yeah, that's going to work, so again we're going to put our glue on. here on the envelope and then I just want to cover the response from that window and paste it and like, that works and now we need to put some paper on this side, okay, this is from a totally different artist and a totally different artist. paper collection, but I'm going to use it here and I think let's see if I want to go all the way up without I think I'll go up part of the way with that, yeah, that'll work fine and then Let's put a little strip at the bottom and I think we can come back with this little strip here, it's the one we ripped off, we'll come back with that at the bottom, okay, we're going to fold now at this point that you could trim, you wouldn't have to fold this if you don't want to, just my way of doing it today the next week.

Maybe I won't do this, who knows, sometimes when you have some envelopes that are very incomplete on the side. If you do this, then you can cover all those little bits that are maybe a little bit broken and it makes it look a little more uniform and then on top I don't think I'm just going to crop this out. At the top I'm not going to try to put anything inside. Wow, that's not the top, that's the heated bottom. Oh well, at the bottom I just cut it out because it will be glued and won't open.

Okay, now we close our tag, so I don't want anything on the inside other than that, so now all I'm going to do is cut it into a thumbtack shape. Now you don't have to do this, you can just round the. corners if you want, but I go ahead and cut it into a label shape and you can say, well, why use envelopes to do that when you can just make a label? Well I like to use my envelopes, yes I could just make a label but I would have to cut that window and on this envelope that window is already cut so there you have it there is a label and I think all you need is like this maybe a little tag of some kind right here and it'll be done, let's just put that little tag over there it's one of Katie's tags and she's another one of our designers, there we go, now you can put a hole in the top and you can use just a normal hole punch.

I like to use my tape punch, there you go. Put the same binding on it and you'll have a beautiful window label. Okay, that's number three. Right now stop this one. I already have one of those made, so we don't have to make one because that would take me away. Just a little bit, but let me show you, let me grab it wherever it is, buried here, now this one. I actually put a card on the front. This is just a sympathy card or something that I bought and used the card for the front, but. you can use this for the front what we're going to be is a journal cover these are the perfect size for a journal cover you can see this is an envelope on the back that I've cut out and I've left a window here in the back and covered it with paper sewn around it and that will be the cover of a newspaper.

Simply place your papers here and you're done. I have done many of these. before, then what you would do is cover the outside, cover the inside and the back and then I would leave them open and you could let there be a little place where you slide a tag, a double tag maybe and the tags have something different. on them you can do it any way you want, if you don't want a window there you can cover the whole thing, but it's very, very simple, you don't have to use one of these on the front, I just have This is like that, but as you can see, It's six inches wide and nine and a half inches tall, so it's big enough for a journal cover, so make a journal cover with your large envelopes, they are very, very simple and easy to make.

Okay, now it's four, now number five. I also have some of those made and they are bags. I use my big envelopes and I make these bags and I use them to hold everything, as you can see, I have this jam. Fill now all you have to do to make these bags, they are very easy. I'll link a video at the top where I made some, but I take a large envelope like this, you can also make them with small envelopes, you just have a smaller one. Bag, I cut the ends off and then you open it like this, go ahead and cover the inside.

You can leave the window open if you want, so let's say we would have this for the front, this for the back, cover the inside. With some paper, then you just cover the outside. Now I didn't leave the windows in mine. I covered my windows open, but you could leave the windows in yours if you wanted. Once you cover the outside, I used washi tape on this. one to go around the edges to close them as you can see there. I just have the washi tape where I covered the ends at the bottom and here I made sure it was closed tightly, but also on this sew I just ran a stitch down each side and closed it again.

You can do it any way you want and I just covered the inside of this with a book page and then left enough paper or Actually, this is a napkin. I left enough napkin that I could fold it in, but you can cover them with a napkin, you can cover them with book pages, you can cover them with scrapbook paper, you can cover them with digital whatever you want. to cover them doesn't matter, I would use napkins on these because I had an excess of napkins and I just used my glue. I used Mod Podge, I think, or Collage Podge.

I painted it with my brush. I left my napkin painted. I put it on the other side and wrapped my napkin and it's done, I mean it's done, but I'll link to the video where I made this. I show exact examples from start to finish, so I think there are five, now number six that I'm going to show. Okay, so this is number six and all it is is an envelope and I cut it out or made it into the shape of a label which basically what we did here was we went ahead and covered the open window or if this one had it had a window, I don't remember, I left one side open, I closed everything over here, but I left this side open for a pocket and then I just stuck a little newspaper card or a piece of newspaper in the side. then it is a hidden tag.

I'll link the video here where I made them very, very easy and simple, that was one of Molina's challenges. I think it's just her that I don't think she used envelopes, but that's okay, that's what I do. I don't even remember this one, we're going to make a window hang tag. Now I've cut this one again just like I cut that one before, all I did was take my envelope and just cut around the part of the window that was left about the same amount. all you have to do now, this one we're going to cover with some paper, so let me grab the paper that I want to use and I'm not sure what paper I want to use, we managed to use some. of this a little bit of this pretty rose I'll tell you let's use this I like this yeah, we'll use this I don't have to trim any edges now the first thing we're going to do I'm going to put something in here because I'm going to use this little window.

Well, I have a little piece of a page from an old book here and I know it's old because it's falling apart in my hands, so I don't think I'll be able to tear it apart without breaking the whole thing. I just need a little piece like that and I'm going to tear off a little bit of that. I don't know if it's going to be high enough or not, let's see, okay, I think it works, yeah, let's put that little bit of the book page in there again and again. I'm going to do what I did before.

I'm just going to run the glue around the back a little bit just enough to Wait because this is going to close as well, so I don't have to worry about having a lot of glue in there or something that might hang down. Now I'm going to look for a flower. Let me grab a book here, okay? I changed my mind. I'm not going to make a flower. Actually, I'm going to make some butterflies because I have flowers here, so I think we're going to make a butterfly inside the little cage. That one will work, we'll probably do two now.

These are some butterflies we had in the store last year. I haven't been able to get any for this year, but as soon as I do, let's use this more deeply. one blue one, I think two is all we're going to be able to get in there and make them look good and these are not, they're not stickers, they're little acetate butterflies, so what I'm going to do is stick them on. them down like this that one will go there and then this one down there like this oh I need a little one to go inside there just one little one I need three right?, okay, let's make this little brown one.

I don't know if it's going to be small enough, but let's see, so we push this blue one up a little bit, push the pink one down a little bit and then see if we can slide it right there and I'll put it in and fly in a different direction. Oh yeah, that works there now. All I'm going to do on the back of this is put a drop of our glitter art glue there where the butterfly will be. placed, I'm not putting it, I'm putting it under the butterfly itself so that it can't be seen from the outside if you put it under that acetate it's going to be seen, but I'm putting it under the wings and the body is fine, so There are little caged butterflies in there and now we're going to cover it with some of this foreign paper, okay, I'm going to tear off a couple of pieces and let's get this going, let's see what that is, now I'm going to go ahead and close this because It will be like a small sample window, so I don't need it open.

Close that part, we already have our butterflies glued. Now we are going to put our glue. here you're going to cover this basically the same way you covered that label, the label with the window, let's see, save it and I'm going to go ahead and do this side and you can put all kinds of decorations on this. and it's very nice, let's see, I don't know if it matters upside down or right side up, but we're going to put it that way. I like my little edges torn towards my opening. I'm going to go ahead and crop this. now we're going to trim this one right at the edge because I'm going to cover the back of this because it's going to be a hang tag, but you can fold it over, it doesn't matter, okay, so we can put a little piece here like this and then a little piece down at the bottom Let me tear it better so it doesn't have that white edge or I'll cut it, cut that white edge, put that right there, okay? we're going to crop this out, okay, so we're going to cover the back.

This will be a small hang charm or small hang tag, so I'm going to cover the back in case it flips over. It will be covered and you will not have to worry about anything, no envelope will be seen back there. Now I'm going to round the corners and I hope the glue isn't dry, but I hope this rounds them, it does. it's not as fussy as the big one when it comes to glue now i would sew around this too. I'm not going to sew around it now because we're not going to do that in the video, but I would sew it around and then I'll show you what else we're going to do to it.

Well, we're going to make a little hole here at the top and I'm going to put this little pink eyelet in there. Well, there's my little pink eyelet and then you can hang some charms from it or you can just put a little bead in there, okay, there's your little bead or you can, like I said, you can put some charms in this and put a clip on it. bubble. and then hang it from one of your pages, you can put a clip in there and hang it in many different ways to use this, but that's hanging a sample tag.

I don't have one of these here right now because I put the last one I made in the journal I sent to uh Gail, but this is one of the changes and I'm not going to cover it completely because I know my video is probably already long, but everything you do to do it. These flips are: You're just going to open the envelope at each end and then cover it with paper. This was paper. You can go out of your window.open if you want this with paper and this with paper and then you would paste it, you would paste this down, let's say this is the edge of your page, you would paste this like this and that would be a little flipped envelope and again I'll do it put a link here at the top where you can see where I made one of these and put it in a journal, but look, it would open up, you would have on this side, you would have a pocket, a little pocket or you would keep it here if you wanted. and then on this side you would have all this space to journal or you could make a pocket out of it.

You can make a small folding top pocket any way you would like. It doesn't matter, but it's just a little. Side deployment like this very very easy and simple and like I said I'll link a video where I did the other thing and I think this is thedye, if I'm not mistaken or maybe I don't know anyway, I think this is the tenth belly band, you can use your envelopes, cut them up, this was an envelope that was like this. I just cut it to the width I wanted for my belly band and I wanted you to use the window so I left the window on this. one now you can wear this and have little side pleats for the belly band a little pocket here you can slide something in put a little flower in there makes it really really pretty and then just cover this with paper and I don't even have to cover the back because It's going to be stuck on, paste it here and here on your page and you'll have a sweet little belly band.

I'm sure I've done a few of those and I'll link them above too, so there's that. nine, so we have to have one more. I'll show you another very quick and easy one. This is the simplest little thing you've ever done. Let's use. Let me grab an envelope that doesn't have a window just for a while. For this reason, in this one I closed this little part of the pocket and then you will take your envelope and you will fold it like this, this will be a pocket and then this will be a pocket, so you will have a double pocket. in your journal we'll go ahead and see, let's cover this here with some paper first.

I'm going to go ahead and do this real quick with you or not real quick. I'm trying, I'm trying not to rush. myself, but I ended up rushing it anyway, you know how that goes. I didn't want to rush this, but I didn't want the video to be so long, you know, that you wouldn't enjoy it, but we'll come back. about these ones that I just showed and told you, we'll go back and make them into videos, if I don't have a video done yet, we'll go back and make some of them, most of the ones I do, though come on Look, go ahead and start this up first, it's okay, but you know I said I was going to do something that I knew everyone had in their house and you know everyone has junk mail envelopes if you don't tell me your secret. because I don't want any either, no honestly I didn't use to want any until I found out that you can use them for all kinds of things in your journals so now I love them in this one I'm just going to fold to one side so I'm not going to fold this top part so we're going to cover that and a lot of this I can speed up P you know, parts of where I was inking or something just so that, um, you I can see the gist of the video, but I don't have to see every little detail because some of them, you know, most of you know how to ink, so let's fold it and I'll cover it. this and then make a hole there.

I'd like to cover it with something that's not as busy as that. Okay, I'm going to cover it with a little bit of this pale blue. I know it's red and this is blue, but I don't care about that, it doesn't matter, okay, let's move on, take off this foreign top, did I widen it enough? Oh, comi, did you tear it too tight? Maybe not, we'll see in a second. What I get for trying to rush isn't it barely barely barely okay, let's listen to this right here, put that aside and see if we can cover this without my envelope showing since I rushed too much and The tear just it worked, okay, let's go ahead and press that little seam really well where we marked it.

I'm going to trim this because I don't need it to wrap and trim this side a little bit, okay? that side is fine now I'm going to wrap this up. I need to paste it back right there. You don't have to wrap this either. This is just to make sure that you have a nice smooth finish here on the top, so let's move on. and I'll see if we can get a little bit out of there and I'm going to ink this before I close it. Wow, I just re-inked my ink pad and I probably need to let it sit for a while.

Do not leave him. it stayed on long enough before I started

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it okay I'm going to go ahead and do a little pull here and someone asked me under one of the videos if I could show how to re-ink the ink pads I sure would I will do. I'm glad I can do a video on how to re-ink your ink pads soon. I have a few that need re-inking anyway, so it's okay, there's your double pocket for you to have when you glue it on. to your page let's say this is your page, you paste it, you go down here here and here you have a pocket up here and a pocket here, so it's a double pocket, okay guys, I think it's 10, I'm pretty sure. is that I will put pictures of all of these and like I said any of them that I did in another video, I will link them a little bit, there will be a little card at the top that appears or I will put the links. below as well so you can go down there and click on them and go to the other videos.

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