⁠S8Ep11  Your Crafty Questions ⁠😊

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1:01Hi everybody, this is Pam with Paper Outpost and this is the Paper Outpost podcast, the joy of junk journaling, right sunshine. My little cohort here, Sunny here and I are snuggling in to read your thoughts and questions from my YouTube channel, the Paper Outpost. So here we do paper crafting, junk journaling, life of a crafter and answering your crafty questions. So this will be a big blend of it all. Let's jump on in and see what you guys are thinking and talking about. Terry Goh said, okay, she watched a video titled, New Industrial Strength, GluStick, Magnets and Finale, fun junk journal ideas. Ever seen a musical so good you didn't want it to end? Like you could live inside it forever. Then you're going to love Schmigadun. Get your one-way ticket to Broadway musical paradise. Have you ever felt trapped at a musical like you literally couldn't escape? Then you'll hate to miss Schmigadun because you'll never want to leave and you can't.

2:05But the important thing is you'll never want to get tickets at SchmigadunBroadway.com. She said they turned out awesome. I have made magnets using my printer in the past. I'm loving it. Thank you very much. Yeah, that is a fun idea. You can get these eight and a half by 11 sheet of thin magnet material and then you can glue any paper to the top of it and then you can do a master board on a magnet, something like that. Then you could just cut them all. We should do one of those. I've been doing one of those in a while. Maybe I'll do that. I've got to find my magnet sheets. But that is really fun if you've never done it because you can collage and then you can seal it on top with Mod Podge or acrylic sealer or something like that and then you can cut them in any different shapes or sizes. I don't. I think I did try and punch it with a paper punch, but I was not very successful. There are some stronger paper punches that will handle thicker material and I don't really

3:08remember which one to use, probably just a regular one. I do have some thicker material punchy ones. Not sure if I actually got through it, but you can definitely cut it with a craft knife. So there you go. That's your way out. And you could do different shapes. I mean, circle might be a little tricky unless you have some kind of fancy circle cutter. But I have a craft knife and scissors and I have a guillotine paper cutter, which if it really, if I had to fight with it, I would put it in the guillotine cutter and just cut it. Yeah. Because that guillotine cutter sharpens itself every time you cut with it, which is great. And somebody just told me about a knife set that they have. It's not a crafting knife set. It's like a kitchen knife set. Every time they pull, it's a butcher block of knives. Every time they pull out the knife, it sharpens and ah, that sounds interesting, doesn't it? I don't know about you, but my kitchen blades get so dull so fast and I am not the Gensu

4:09wizard with that stick thing where you go. And they all come out sharp. Now, I always feel like I'm going to cut my arm off or something doing it. So I'm going to do it very slowly. And I know you can take it to the guy or the girl, the knife sharpener person, but that just seems like an extraneous amount of work. But I know people do it. I know there's somebody down at my flea market that sharpens knives. And I know you can have a knife sharpener person. I think they have mobile vans that go around and they will sharpen your kitchen knives. Yes, I, you know, anything I can do to remove a step, I'll do it. So if I had a knife, yeah, that's, I'm maybe I'm going to get that for like a little present for myself one day. Well, you know, it's up there in the lofty ideas of many presents. So let me see what else you guys are thinking about today. That was a good one, Terry. You gave us a good reminder. Let me write that down so I remember to do something with the magnipages because I have

5:12those. And I have managed to forget I have those, okay, magnet master board, that might be fun. Okay. And those would be great things to talk into pockets or talks or little additions to jump journals. That would be fun. Oh, and here's some, ooh, that's pretty, that's really pretty. So I'm looking at an old video where I did embossed fabric cards. Now I wonder if I could glue those to the magnet that would be really pretty. Let me consider that embossed fabric card, okay, because those, those really did come out pretty. I should do more of those. Yep, I think that would be a good idea, okay. So let's try some questions that you guys might have. Let's see what you guys are thinking about. Another request. Can you please fix the chair? You're so right. You're so right. Okay.

6:13Writing it down, number 10 in my list of things to do, fix, chair. I have a funny feeling I should get a new chair. And I think I'm reluctant and I think this is what holding me back, this is what's holding me back. It's really comfy and it's really easy to sit in. It doesn't have arms and it swivels, so it's easy to get in and out of. It's easy to craft in, but it just makes the worst darn cow moves ever and something tells me I tried WD40ing at once and it didn't make a difference, but I'm going to make it, maybe it was just in my mind and I was imagining it. I don't know, but maybe I'm going to make that didn't sound very convincing, didn't it? No. I won't make a concerted effort, Emily, for you. That's right. It's coming your way. Okay. I'm going to be Blaeloxes on the video titled, When a Journal Cover Needs More. Try these fun embellishments. Absolutely beautiful college band.

7:13Can you make this cover into a hidden spine? I've never seen one being made and I'm wondering how. Sure. Hidden spines are not tough. Basically, what you do is you sew your signatures to a piece of cardboard, like a chipboard or something like that that will fit inside your spine. And then you just glue that into the permanent spine. And I've got some videos on that I'll read if you want to check them out. I have a playlist titled Journal Constructions, Cover Spines and Signatures. And if you look in there, you're going to find some hidden spine examples, but I won't put that on there. It's a video I do. We haven't done a hidden spine in a while. Maybe we can do some fun things with it and we haven't done yet. Okay. Thelma Hall says, have you ever painted something like a journal cover and started fresh or sanded it off or sanded off it off big piece?

8:17Hmm. Well, I would say that maybe she's thinking, have you ever cut down a bigger cover into a smaller size? They're not easy to cut. A lot of hard cover book covers are thick. And unless you've got something very sharp to cut it with, like you could take a craft knife and just a ruler and sit there and cut through the layers over and over and over. And I don't know how long it would take, but it would take a little bit. And a guillotine, I don't think would go through it. I don't think it's strong enough at least mine. I have a heavier duty paper cutter that can cut big books at a time. And I think even it might choke on a book cover itself. Probably a bandsaw. Not everybody has a bandsaw or maybe you're afraid of cutting your fingers off, which could happen with a bandsaw. So my easy out of that for that is to pick a book that's already the size that you want

9:20and life is so much easier instantly. Yes. Now, it certainly can be done. I don't know if you could do it with a regular hacksaw. I wouldn't try that. Now that sounds like bloody fingers all over the place. Don't do it. But yes, I think she's asking, have I ever painted something like a journal cover and started fresh? Yes. I did actually take a bunch of journals cover book covers. I think that's maybe what she means. And completely painted them white on the outside with. I think first I hand painted them with some white acrylic paint. But then I found you can easily spray paint them as well. You might have to do several passes to get it to go whitey white white. And the other thing you can do if it has a lot of writing and a lot of color and a lot of busyness and you're thinking, I'm going to be here painting this white for the cows come home.

10:20I would say take a piece of copy paper that's white and maybe a quarter inch smaller than your entire journal cover and glue stick that to the front and the back and the spine if you want to change the spine. And that will mask a lot of the noise and then you can just spray paint on top of that or color on top of that or paint on top of that however you want to do it. That might save a lot of time. I think that might be a good idea. Okay, so let's see whatever. Where does one get all of the pictures, et cetera, hint, hint? This is a Jill Lloyd Jones and she is looking at a video titled Juncturnal Ideas, the paper I post easy techniques for beginners. A great place is, well initially, I mean a lot of us have decided we want themed pictures

11:26and a lot of people make printables that you can print and download and print from Etsy that's one source. Another way is books. If you like pictorial books, botanical flower books, great sources are the like flower guides, bird guides, gemstone guides, dinosaur butterfly guides, you name it, anything that has a lot of pictures and descriptions can be very cool. A bunch of us fell in love with Eden Holden's work. She does beautiful or did beautiful watercolor art of nature items. So any nature book might be good. Children's books are great because they have beautiful illustrations. That's another great source for pictures. You can also use your own doodles and things like that and I think that's a fun thing to do. There's no shortage of pictures and let's see, okay, I hope that helps, I think I answered

12:37this other question. Sandy Rua says, what is this, no one really knows, there's a lot of that out there. And you call and says, can this be used as an ATC trading card, absolutely. She was watching a video titled How to Make a Fabric Masterboard for junk journals. Yes, absolutely. Yes my sweet pup is Peggy Lyndon Thaller, my sweet pup is still in the videos with me. If you didn't show up on that one video, I forgot, sorry. He forgave me eventually, yes, there must have been chicken bribery. Re-involved in that forgiveness request, right? Yes, he said there was chicken in all as well. Yeah, what is Vicki Bees says, what is your system of gathering pages for your signatures? And okay, so I have in my craft room piles of like pages, like, so for example, I have

13:42all my scrapbook paper here, I have my coffee dyed pages there, I have a bunch of maybe like if I got a book, I may put all those pages together, I don't separate all the pages until I actually use them from a book, but sometimes, you know, I'll pull out a signature from a book that I've already removed from the cover. And I'll take that to my guillotine, I'll just cut the edge where they're all bound together and then they're free, that makes life a little bit easier to free those pages. Gosh, it's so hard to say where, you know, for the actual signature pages, I will use plain white copy paper or I will have dyed the paper or I will use book pages and it can be anything from dictionary pages, music paper pages, pretty botanical pages.

14:43I like instructional books, if there's a lot of graphics, schematics, blueprints, things like that. I like math books that have formulas and things like that. A lot of students, you know, math books, math textbooks, I love that stuff, physics, books, nursing books, I've used, medical books, medical dictionaries, foreign language books, gosh, there's so many different books. Just go, trust me, go on this one, go into a used bookstore or thrift store and go where the books are and just start leafing through and just ask yourself, would this be an interesting page to use in a signature or maybe there are little items in the page that could be fussy cut out and added to a page or to a cluster or to something that might be fun to play with in your junk journals and you're going to get a lot of yeses. And next thing, you know, you're going to be going out, you're going to have, okay, the grocery cart, you're going to have like a grocery cart full and you're going to, and they're going to have like a book special, you know, because that's what they do.

15:47They do these blow out like every book with a yellow sticker on it is two for one today or 25 cents today or whatever it is. And next thing, you know, you're going to be going home with your own library and you're not going to be short of a book page ever. That's how it happens, everyone. That's how it happens. And it's really kind of funny if I'm checking out at the cash register and people in line, of course, are looking at me, oh, you must read a lot and I kind of look at them and I've had fun with this answer, you know, sometimes I'll say, well, you know, I really do enjoy a good book or no, actually, I don't read them all. I sent them in and I get home, I tear them all apart and I just look at them. It's kind of fun. But hey, a little book humor. There's really no wrong way to gather your books. I mean, the easiest thing is go in your own home and just look for all those fiction books,

16:47those books that you've already read. And for some reason, you think you must maintain ownership of them to prove to the world that you yes, you have read this book and that book and this book and that book. And maybe you have this giant collection and suddenly dawning on you that they're taking up a lot of space in your home. And maybe just maybe, there may be another use. And when you start to craft, you start to think, hmm, I can make handmade paper, I can make paper mache, I can make junk journals and I can use pages from other books, I can sew pages together, I can make extended pages, I can, I can make pouches, I can make storage things, I can, you know, there's no stopping a crafter once the crafter gets going. So, but the whole thing is, make sure, you know, what comes in goes out or else you're just transforming it into something else and then that also occupies space in your home. And there's nothing wrong with that.

17:47You can be surrounded by your beautiful oddities that you have created. But you will eventually, at some point, run out of space, ask me how I know. And then you too will probably be setting up an Etsy shop in a YouTube channel. Ask me how I know. And it actually is not a bad idea because it puts things back into the universe for somebody else to enjoy and maybe spark an interest in them to create something. And that's always a good thing. That's always a good day. I think so. P.B says, are you okay? I'm never sure. I'm never sure. She watched a video titled, my foolproof junk journal assembly method. Old better junk journals. Okay. That's funny. Let's see. Somebody, Jerry Sonique, design says, hello, where are you located? The bird in your video sounds beautiful. I enjoy your videos.

18:48You're probably hearing Holly, my parrot, in that video. This was a video a little while ago called, got envelopes quick, easy, no, so pocket booklet. I'm in Florida. I'm in Florida. And right now, I have one love bird and sunshine. Yep. And so that's where we're at in the pettage of it all. Pam, Christine Crowe says, Pam, are you sure they weren't using water colors? Well, you know anything's possible, Christine. So to be it to us, come home to Disney Plaza. Let's go. Get ready for a new case. We're the greatest partners of all time. New friends. Do it this night. And your last name? Stream team. New habitats. Who told you has a secret reptile population? You can watch the record breaking phenomenon at home. Zotopia 2, now available on Disney Plus rated PG. Here right now, you can get Disney Plus and Hulu for just $4.99 a month for three months with a special limited time offer, ends March 24th. After three months playing auto renews at $12.99 a month, terms apply.

19:50Two kinds of fishing out here. One for fish, one for your daughter. Hackers try to hook you. But Cisco Duo keeps every user and device protected. Cisco Duo. Fishing season is over. Learn more at duo.com. Hmm. That was a big, that was a, yeah, it was a fun video. It was cool. This looks, it's part of my friend. This looks like crap. I want to tear it up and stomp on it. But wait. What if I, and that was the tag also, if you want to check that one, I'll go for it. Janice K said, this video was suggested to me on YouTube and it was a video titled, How to Make a Junk Journal with full size pages, no folding, so and no so ways. She said, I don't understand the point of the tunnels with the fabric, especially when you just glue that piece over all of it and folded those tunnels over underneath that why not just make them more flush with the edge of the journal.

20:51I'm thinking the reason why I did that was so that the journal pages would, when you open your journal, it can lay flat. And that's why when you see a hardcover book that has that gap in between your signatures and the spine itself, that whole space is in there, that's because they want the pages to open and rest flat. That's really handy, for example, with a recipe book, a cooking book, when you can open it and lay flat as opposed to closing on you, because you're trying to do follow the recipe and you've got a flowery and buttery hands and the book keeps closing or turning pages. Nightmare of nightmares, right? Okay, we've probably all experienced that at some point, at least of those of us who are over 50, if you're under 50, you probably just use your phone and ask Google or whatever it is today, chat GPT to find a recipe for you. But back in the day, back in the day when we used books, that's how we did it.

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