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Hey everybody, this is Pam with the Paper Outpost and today we are taking the review of how all that
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Mod Podge glob came out and I think it came out pretty good. It's been less than 24 hours I'd say
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and let's see if I can give you a closer inspection here. So what I have is a very smooth surface.
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It does have relief on it. It does have elevation because of the things that I added but
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everything, like all the laces, batten down, all the little bits and bobs are batten down and
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nobody's going anywhere. Okay. So that's a good thing. I'm feeling very good about that. Okay, so I
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like the way this spine came out and I think I want to preserve that spine. I could punch right
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through the spine but I think I'll do a hidden spine with this particular journal and the back
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feels nice and smooth. There is a glossy finish because I used Mod Podge even I think the
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matte Mod Podge has a bit of a gloss to it but so you might want to do different techniques
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if you want a non-glossy surface. You could paint over this with some matte jesso and matte
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clear jesso and that would knock down the shine things like that. But I like the shine. It actually
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looks like an amiled glass or something. I think it looks pretty cool. Now some of these little
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areas in here, I think the Mod Podge is still drying. So some of this white may go to clear once
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it fully dries but remember there's a lot of white in the background here so that might be what
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shows. So I think it still has some drying and you can kind of tell by doing the slight push
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technique, very, very complicated technique but if it moves then you could still got some wet
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glue under there. So this is still drying. The top is dry but I won't monkey round with it too much.
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Okay so let me just think up a little bit. Okay and amazingly enough, I didn't do too bad on
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the inside. I really thought I had gotten all sorts of paint and stuff. There's a little bit here,
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here, here and here because I'm a messy creature but I think I salvage these and I can probably sand
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these off or cover them with some embellishments or some inking. So I actually like the color of this
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antique vintage style paper on the inside so I might use that as the background but we shall see
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as time goes on. You never know. Things change fast around here. A couple other things I wanted to
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app. Photograph and old photograph and I wanted to use the man sitting there or the girl can't
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remember but here's the negative of that and I thought that would actually look cool as a negative
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design that could put something in here and you know see if you ever wanted to use your paper
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punches or popping things out of old pictures you can do that and then you get two pieces you get
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the positive and the negative to use and you're crafting. Okay so I know some of you are saying
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I would never punch my old pictures and that's okay but I'm not personally bonded to these people
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on these pictures because I don't know them and I've got lots of them. So these are from May 1962
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so it's it's okay for my heart it's all right now if it was you know grandma or something I
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would probably wouldn't use the original so there you go all right so I'm just going to build a hidden
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spine and basically what I do is I'm going to take a strip of chipboard or cardboard or something
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that's got some stiffness to it I'm going to measure in here what would fit. Okay I'm going to go
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down about a quarter of an inch and here and then maybe to here so let's try that this is me
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trying to minimize measuring I'm going to use my craft mat to assist move it up here maybe
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all right I'm going to put that dot on a line but keep it flush across the top that way I should
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end up with a straight piece when I cut down so this line is is here okay I can see the line
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extending here grabbing the ruler under all this stuff okay and putting it here about halfway
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across the dots and that should put you right on the line there's always on the line to the right
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of the line and to the left of line and that makes a big difference when the millimeters matter
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in life so just be wary of that and I'm taking my craft knife that looks better at the bottom
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person maybe slow and firm and then this way flush at the top
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we put the dot on okay so I'm headed for that line I really didn't need to do the bottom line
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because the line on the craft mat tells me where to go okay so I'm here and here I'm checking
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if you can see me yep okay all right so how's everybody doing are you doing dandy today I hope
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I was well in your world I hope you're having fun okay retract your craft knife don't stab yourself
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okay so here I have this nice little piece of cardboard and one of my favorite ways to decorate
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these guys is grab my little paddle brush dober thingy and maybe I just want to go over all the
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back of it let's see it's white and black and brown and black maybe I'll work with brown and black
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and maybe all around these edges sure why not you can round these you can leave them straight
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doesn't matter I like the softness of the rounding of the edges good one side might show a bit
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most of this won't show at all because it's going to be buried inside the book but okay so
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is that black it looks very dark because it's walnut stained okay um let me just go over all with
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this and just give it knock it down a little bit make it a little bit more brown to begin with
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I think I need to wake this up okay yawning it's waking up there we get a lot more color that way
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and it's okay with me if it's not completely um covered because I'm going to put some designs
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on top of it but what I would recommend is where's my little my little baby brown dober there you are
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make sure you get the edges of this because the edges will show and this is a good thickness I
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would say um you can use thicker I wouldn't go much thinner if you're going to use this because
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you're mounting your signatures onto this as opposed to the actual spine and this piece will be
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glued holding all the signatures into this spine that's basically the hidden spine technique I
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use it serve me well as long as you use a decent amount of very strong glue to hold it in you should
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be fine okay so let's we've done that that's with the walnut signature dark brown and then I'm
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going to take maybe this leaf stencil and just have some fun with it here with the black
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okay this one can handle this one is called my my uh my go to what I've used it for practically
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as all the dark colors so I was going to go ahead and use the same one if you want to keep your
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inks pure use a different one for everyone I don't mind combing the link a bit it's okay with me um
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okay well lower down here maybe
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okay so now we have something looks like that it's kind of pretty a little a little something up
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here like I said we don't really see a lot of this so I wouldn't wouldn't over fuss on this
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don't go crazy but to give it a little something if you want to do that and maybe um
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since we did use the copper colored building uh wax on the front I take a little bit of this
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and you should always wear a hazmat suit when you use dipping into anything
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that my hazmat suit is at the cleaners right now but uh why because you could grow a third eye
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that's right that's right you heard it here folks all right
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well sometimes an extra pair of hands wouldn't hurt you know what I mean
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um all right and then you can you can like make little marks on it like throughout
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spread the coppery color throughout and I think that just builds a very attractive
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piece of artwork okay so very simple in the background
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uh I'm going to grab my little baby wipes because you know I often need those
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the finger the finger okay okay all right so now we're going to do the test I should have done
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the test first I was so I was so cocky pants thinking everything fits where's my journal
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it is and um I might need to shave it down because it might not fit let's see let's see how
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well I did see the big test is not laying it down in here which it is going to fit the big test
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is folding it and it does fold easily so you want to make sure that your journal closes easily
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and it does we have scored one for Pam okay so now the question is
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how many signatures and I would say this book can do three or four signatures depending
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on how much how many pages are in each signature how thick the pages are and how much I want to
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decorate so I'm thinking this would be a three hold a three hold a three signature thingy
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and you can I like to go down about an inch let's put one in the middle
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born over here and one over here keeping it in a little from the sides because you don't want
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them jamming up against the walls too much and then um both halfway down and I have to eyeball that one
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you can make templates if you feel more comfortable I generally I I used to make templates
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initially and then I'm like I can just punch these things one inch up from the bottom can see that
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here where am I looking looking about a little less than halfway across this guy
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and there we go now I would recommend maybe um this is my top as my leaf is pointed out
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but somehow that you know your orientation it's important so that's the point of leaf up this is
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a laying down leaf instead of writing a tea or something there um you can put it on the back
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but sometimes you're working on the front and you need to the front eat more easily so make give
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yourself some type of you can put a paperclip or something like that there that will work too now
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getting out our old friend crocodile to big bite all right so now I'm just going to punch
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see if I can get you so you can see a little better all right all right okay so I'm looking from
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the side and I'm going to use the skinny uh the skinny one that's the one eighth not the three
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sixteenth with just the chubby one full puncher that and these are selected at the top so go for
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what did I what did I say I'm going for the one eighth that's the one I want not the three
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did I say three sixteenth not that what I want to go for the one eighth okay so now I'm putting this
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on the side and I'm just making sure right over the hole right over the dot and punch and punch
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and punch and then here we're going to punch and punch and punch and punch and punch okay almost a
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little off that's okay um and then we're going to turn this around punch a little off you can
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still work with a lot off you have to repunch or remake the thing or um like type of thing so I
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think that's going to be okay I might make that one just a little bit further and make the
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smidge bigger but more in the right place okay so those are my holes okay not perfect but not bad
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in the grand scheme of things okay so now we have this now we need some papers
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okay so I have 12 papers here let me orient you down a little bit okay just random some coffee
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dyed avocado dyed some old ledger style paper some old college rule paper that I've died
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things like that stenciled some very fun let me just check the orientation of my my pages are
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going to be this this is my top so to be a two is come home to Disney plus let's go get ready for a
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renews at 1299 a month terms apply I'm gonna turn this around so I can do it cut easier that's
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still good the writing is the right way while pages times four okay we'll give you how many pages
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friends and back so 12 times 448 and now we're going to fold this bone folders really handy here
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and now we're gonna do a little trimming but I'm gonna do all the trimming at the same time so all
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the pages come out the same so here's one signature there's gonna be three of these I have another
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set of papers you know orient you this way I think I'm actually gonna put you nope I'm gonna put
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you that way you look upside down and remember I put you that way okay user right this one I think
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I'm gonna flip over I have that little nub at the top so it's easier to cut off I could even leave
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it there it's kind of cute don't always have to remove nubs nope okay I think somebody gave me
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this paper it's really pretty thank you okay there we go
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initial fold final creasing with the bone folder I give such a nice crease you don't have one I
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highly recommend getting one you can buy him on ebay amazon all the kind of stuff there we go there's
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number two and here's number three okay sure my little nub is there all my orientations of my
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paper this is important to check at this moment good idea okay assembling handling tapping why is
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this one sticking out sometimes oh because it's got the roughly tap that's okay I'll put you
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I kind of like the spiral thing you know I have no aversion to it that makes this paper a little
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taller but I might end up trimming that off we shall see okay align the edges
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okay flat initial crease bone folder super crease there you go there we go okay so this one
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is a different color on the outside so I might make that middle signature and then so I've got
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it it's looking like that it's looking like that tap tap tap make sure all of these are
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aligned that's very important okay the back spine should be aligned well and when you got
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that aligned well go ahead and put some clampies on here as we're going to do some daunting
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okay we're going to do some marking okay so now we have all these aligned and here is our hidden
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spine this is the top so now I'm going to take this and I'm going to position it evenly so the same
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amount above as below because that's what's going to no I have to cut this down this is not the
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right size yet this is too big no can I cut wait wait wait hang on up first we are going to make
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sure this whole clump fits in here so they are all aligned and open up my book and I'm going to
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place this about a quarter inch from the bottom okay and I'm going to snuggle it in okay it's
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going to protrude a little bit further than this that way because I'm going to have the
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hidden spine in there and that's going to take up a little bulk room so it hangs out a smidge
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not much um but I'm taking that into account now you can tap down and then look at oh okay
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tack down and look at your bottom it's all the way to the bottom you probably want to translate
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that thing up at least a quarter of an inch so it doesn't like hang you can do the hangout style
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but this isn't the hangout style this is the regular okay so an easy thing to do
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okay um let me just okay so about a quarter of an inch up and then you can do this a couple
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ways but I'm going to look like a quarter of an inch in here make a little mark okay and
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are you a quarter inch up your quarter an inch up okay that's so get me the right size here I
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probably need to shave off some off the edge here so I'm going to maybe take it back to about
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here I think that should do me well but first I'm going to well I'm not going to know where that is
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because I'm going to have to put it below here okay maybe a little over there okay
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now we're going to cut we're going to cut the top off and that's what we're going to do
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we're going to cut all three signatures at the same time um keeping them all snuggled and straight
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this is the most important part that if they didn't they migrated go ahead and um you can
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clamp them again sometimes to well where did you go what are you doing way over there
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my my little camera thing thanks my phone it's heavy all right all right so we're going to go this
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way we're going to okay make sure they're all aligned align it up the top across you can move
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this guy down a little bit so I can get the ruler in here and my ruler is is that my ruler no
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where's the ruler now I can't have gone far I was right here there it is
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and here we go and somebody asked me if I had ADHD maybe you never know um okay so we're doing that
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we're making sure that dot is there aligning with about the same with there we're holding down
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firmly using craft knife one if you have a sharp blade the craft knife will do the cutting for you
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just kind of draw it across and you will feel the signature once you get through a signature it will
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let go it's probably one done this one this blade is not super sharp so that's why it's taken a little
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longer to get through but it goes through really fast when it's sharp yeah this is another classic
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case of do as I say not as I do go slow you don't want to lose a finger and you can cut these
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separately but I find that they come out nice and even when you do them all together retract
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okay you have all this wonderful paper to decorate with those beautiful straps
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and then we're going to shave off a little bit on the side okay let's try this
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I'm not sure we're going square um I'm about a quarter of an inch in from that line
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with a quarter of an inch in from that line a quarter of an inch there a little more
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right there okay I'm feeling good about that let's hope here we go committing
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and you got to be you want to protrude your craft blade far enough so that you can get through
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the whole stack and then just go slowly firmly after little papers pop off everything's
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going well yeah we'll see a bunch of these fall away
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there you go all right move few more of those over there already are you making a book today
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today's a great day to make a book make a book for a friend for yourself for you
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if I'm running into Mike the yellow edge just I have to extend it a little further
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so I can cut nice and flush sure this that's because this is blade is not okay
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yeah should change the blade pan okay see if I got right I feel like I'm running over something
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oh yeah that was messy there we go almost all right
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all right there's something no wait wait it took off like one little thread hanging on okay I think
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I got it all right there we go so now we have this and this very smooth very nice very smooth
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very nice very nicely aligned what a set of signatures to go into this book okay let's see
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how it did I have to move this obviously because I can't put it in there to test but let's see
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I think that's going to go really well and we're going to have the spine in there so technically
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it'll go back this far but it'll be advanced just a little bit forward because of the hidden
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spine so it should be in the perfect location it all goes well okay so now one extra little
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tip before we sew these in we're going to get our old friend standing block
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this here and this is a nice way to soften up where are you going where are you going what
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what are you doing all right hang on well I hope I don't click off accidentally I do I love
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you all have a great day I'm still here we're still here okay apparently I'm okay okay all right
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all right all right take this and I sand these slightly I don't know it gives us this nice
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sweaty weathered sort of feel if you have any little individual bumpies here this can sometimes
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smooth them all out take away any of those little issues you might have this little dust
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paper but it just feels like by that swayed butter that's what it is it's swayed butter there's such a thing
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and you might notice next time you go into a bookstore feel the edges of some old books they often
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have a soft finish different finishes in different edges but you might find some that are soft
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you might like it too yeah all right that's very nice there you go that's what we have
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so we are going to pause here get our little snuffer pants and then we will finish hopefully in
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getting that journal ready tomorrow coming with me let's where are you sitting on your white pillows
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in the sun I'm sorry are you sitting on your white pillows in the sun I'm sitting on my white
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pillows in the sun it's what I do I'm very good at everybody should sit endless okay I will hang
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on I will give the fold for it hello everybody sunshine I would like to express to one and all this
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is canine reporter cub reporter cub pup reporter yes I've demoted myself back to a pup I don't
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want to get too old too fast I want to be a pup forever um okay so there I was laying on the pillows
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having a little nap my favorite place of all and I really highly recommend that all of you get some
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nice white fluffy pillows and put them in a sun patch and snuggle up on them nothing like it it's
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bliss and um it's it's like it's like so good it's almost better than chicken
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almost better than what it's on your face what's that hey I put it there it's there for
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take no I like don't take it away mom please leave it alone leave it alone I can't I can't it's
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like a thing okay did I get it I don't know you're not camera ready what happened I escaped
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a nice snack um apparently I'm still extremely sleepy but I will pull myself together for the pup
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date so get out your white fluffy pillows and nap on them that is my message to all today I love
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you all happy crafting carry on sunshine out okay thank you sunshine all right well there you go folks
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