VP S6 Ep 312: HIDDEN SPINE TIPS!

Hey, everybody, it's Pam at the Paper Outpost.

Today, we are carrying on with the creation of this junk journal.

It's going to be a hidden spine junk journal with a relief cover.

And I will put the links to the previous videos in this video.

Either at the end or down below in the description box.

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But these are going to be stored in my playlist

called junk journal construction, covers, signatures,

and finds, something like that.

OK, so what we're going to do today,

we're going to take the signatures that we made last time

and attach them to the spine and place the spine inside.

So things are going to move relatively quickly here.

So hold on.

You can totally see my cow pajamas.

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OK, I have no secrets from the world, apparently.

It's all out.

Yes, it's early, and I'm crafting.

Welcome to the craft room.

OK, so what we're going to do, I have some wax thread here.

You can use embroidery floss if it's vintage.

Make pull it and make sure it stays strong,

because sometimes those fibers break down after time,

and it will break on you.

And you can use thin twines or other types of threading.

But I like the wax thread.

It gives a nice grip, nice feel.

And I think this color is kind of a brown coppery color.

This little roll will last me forever.

But basically, the magic number is three.

You want to go three times the height of your journal.

One, two, three.

And you do that for the number of signatures that you have.

And I have three signatures in here.

I'm going to do two, two, three.

And then three, two, three.

And that's going to give you enough extra.

So if you want to do little dangles or something cute off

that, you've got room.

And this, oh, OK.

So giving you an update on the cover, look at this.

It's like, we do blow it back here.

Come, come, come.

So they look a little light, come to me.

OK, can you see that?

OK, let's maybe better, huh?

Oh, not that much.

Yeah, where's the perfect spot?

There, OK.

So I feel like it's fully dry.

It's hard.

There's no more mush feel.

The mod podge that I laid on top has sealed everything.

It's a great seal.

And it gives it that almost enamel glass look.

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OK, so let's get these out here.

And I've moved everybody around.

How you doing?

How you doing today?

How's your day going?

Are you having fun with your papers?

I hope so.

I've not just hang out, kick back, grab some snacks,

and let's get to it.

OK, so, OK, I'm not done yet.

This is called jumping the gun.

OK, Pa, I'm just jumped again,

because she doesn't have any holes in her signatures yet.

So we need to back up Sally and get your holes

in your signatures or there's nothing to sew.

All right, silly goose.

All right, so this is my spine.

This is the top of my spine as I have denoted by the leaf

that is pointing up.

That's how I remember.

But you can also write a T and erase it with, you know,

write it in pencil and just erase it

or just make a little dot or something

so you know that that's your top.

And then you want to know the correct top of your signatures.

OK, so that's important as well.

And I may, you can go by like a little mark or a sign

or something like that, or you can just

put a little pencil mark or something

that you could always erase.

I'm just going to a little mark there.

So I can remember that's the top.

OK, so now these little clamps are in my way.

You want to keep the spines all aligned very close together.

OK, so I'm just going to put these on the sides,

keeping my spines aligned.

That will keep my signatures aligned in the junk journal.

That's the probably the biggest question is,

how do we keep my signatures aligned in the junk journal?

And this is how I do it.

There's probably a million in one ways,

but this is how I do it.

OK, this is the top of my journal, bottom of my journal.

I'm going to put this down on the table.

It doesn't really matter where.

But where I want to put this is in the direct center of that.

Yes.

So I'm going to put this here.

And I'm going to maybe lay it on the where

I can see the middle row.

It doesn't matter whether you use the first row, second row,

or third row.

But what you want to do is have it so that you can get something

you can see better.

And we use a sharpie marker.

Now you're going to look at it from this side, that out of there.

And you're going to line up, make sure this is in the center.

This signature block is in the center of this.

If there's some hangover, let's say this is a little bit longer,

you still want this to be in the bit dead center.

That's very important.

OK, now we're going to come back here.

And wherever that dot is, I'm going to make marks on the three

signature backs.

OK.

So we have that.

Now we can put this away.

OK, let me readjust you without popping everything out of place here.

OK.

All right, there.

OK, well, we had all that light in the way down.

OK.

OK, so now we have that.

We're adjusting chair.

OK, so this is our top.

And now it's OK, we can let this, they don't have to be all clamped

together because the dots are going to candle all of that now.

And we're going to bring out crocodile to a big bite.

And we're going to be going again for the 1-8th, 1-8th skinny puncher.

Let's take, turn this, but it doesn't really matter which one you do first.

I'll do the back one first.

I'll take it, I'm going to find the center.

It's always a good idea.

And it never hurts, where is my ruler?

I hung it up.

Oh, where is it?

OK, what is this one?

Because it's close to tap them so that approximates everybody together,

brings them together, aligns them.

And it's also a good idea to maybe clip them.

You don't have to do this part, but if you do,

everything's going to be a little bit more secure and not right around on you, OK?

OK, so now what I do is I fold it back on itself.

Why?

Why do you fold it back on itself, Pam?

I do that so that when I'm nestling this in here, I'm going to try and do this.

OK, so that it helps guide the puncher onto the dot.

Go on like punch the dot, OK?

All right, and then punch the dot.

Now realize at this moment, I have changed up and down and I do not have this marked.

And I'm realizing that right now, and I realized which one is the side up.

This is critical.

This is where major mayhem happens.

Make yourself a little dot on the front top.

Just do it.

Trust me.

OK?

All right, and you got that.

And now you can let this go.

It's not, it's not as urgent.

All right, number two, front top, front top dot.

OK, that's all you need.

No more than that.

Very, very, very, it's just simple.

We like simple around here.

We're all about simple.

We want to have amazing things done simply.

I want this to be easy and fun for you.

So anybody can do it.

And I want you all to have the experience of making books.

Because it really is a fun thing in life to make your own books.

So OK, I'm rotating this all around.

I do note that there's my dot.

That's the top.

I'm going to fold it back on itself because I just like to do that.

And then I just need to get it in.

It doesn't really matter at this moment, which end is top or bottom.

It only matters when I'm sewing it in.

Same thing.

Punching right over the dot.

And we're in.

And it's pretty easy punch with this thing that gives you

the strength of 1,000 crafters.

It really, it's a big bite, a big bite.

Just gives you that.

You can shove the paper in deeper, OK?

And I could almost do this one all the way in.

But sometimes if my papers are bigger, I have to turn them

around and rotate them to get that center punch.

My strings or my holes are very rarely evenly spaced.

It's OK, often just out of habit.

I do the first two closer and the last one farther.

It just happens that way.

I don't know why, but you can measure them all out if you wish.

But it's not that important.

OK, so we're going to put that there.

Unless you like absolute symmetry.

And I understand.

I do.

I understand.

OK, so there's my mark.

I have my mark.

The original mark.

Let's do the same thing.

And there's only three, so we'll just do these together

so you can see.

Maybe we're even doing them together.

That would be fine.

OK, here we go.

Tapping it all together.

Making sure everybody is aligned.

OK.

Holding back upon self.

OK.

Punching.

Punching.

I don't know if I can reach this one.

Can I?

Oh, I can.

OK, that really happens.

But we're doing it.

Three Zs.

We got the three Zs in.

OK, so now we can take these off.

You can leave those on if you wish,

but it's not absolutely necessary.

Let me go down the angle 10 tilt.

And let's get our little spine.

And now we're going to sew the signatures into the spine.

This is where I was before.

I got all excited and jumped.

The gun.

OK.

Get yourself a fat little darting or yarn needle

or something like that with a big eye.

You want a big eye.

That's right.

And blunt is better because then you don't poke yourself.

OK, you don't really need the sharp.

You can have the sharp if you want it.

You don't need it.

I'd say by yourself a little pack.

It's helmet, Walmart, and everywhere.

You can get them anywhere at any sewing place.

Online e-bams, I know that pun stuff.

There you go.

It's just going to make your life so much easier

than trying to thread the regular kind

of needle.

OK, so let's look at our signatures

and decide which one we want in the back.

I think this one.

OK.

And reason being I'm not changing the order

because that's why I cut them.

And any time you start shuffling things,

even though you cut them all uniformly,

there's always a little slight bit of difference.

And if you stick with the way you cut them,

they'll nest better.

OK, yeah.

OK.

Now we're going to do the three-hole pamphlet stitch.

Yes, it's my favorite stitch.

It's very simple.

Anybody can do it.

And it's very sturdy.

OK, in through the middle, in through the right middle hole.

Pull till small tail stays.

Upper, hole, upper right hole through the middle,

or not middle, through the top hole,

down through the bottom hole, through, pick it up, bottom

right hole.

And then checking, see if tail is still present.

Tail is still present.

Middle hole, middle right hole, middle hole.

OK, coming through.

All right, we are through.

Now, we want to make sure that these threadies are even

in length, OK, number one.

And number two, threadies, who am I talking to?

You guys are adults.

I know, I know.

The thread-like structures must be equanimous.

This is, I call the bridge.

These are called the angel wings.

You need one angel wing under the bridge on the left,

one angel wing under the bridge on the right, OK?

Because the angel wings pull snug, not tearing.

Snug, not tearing.

Tie it hot, right over the left.

That's where you do it.

And then you want to embrace the bridge with your angel wings.

And then do left over right.

And that's going to give you a locking knot.

That'll keep it tight.

So right over left, and then left over right.

And then if you can't remember, because that always happens to me,

I do one more, and that seems to cover it in case you goofed, OK?

Pull it, nice, down, you have a nice little tail here.

You can attach fun things.

You can make little things a dangle outside of the book,

or you can put something in dangle inside of the book,

or you can just snip it right there.

But that's a nice good knot.

If you're unsure, you can't sleep at night.

You're terrified.

It's going to come on down.

Just take a little dab of fabric and just put it right there,

or any type of glue right there, and that will help.

OK, so now the important thing is here's

another great use of the old folder of bone, the bone folder.

You want to train your paper.

That's right, this is going to help your boat.

Well, OK, once you get in your boat and you brought your books,

it's going to train your paper to lay flat.

So when you open your book, it'll lay flat.

So it's easy to write anywhere in the book.

That's what you want, OK?

So that's nice too.

And you can go this way too.

I often do this way, but this is also advantageous.

Let's go.

That's we go.

I can't talk today.

It's very early on when I've only had one cup of coffee

away till I have two.

That's right.

OK, so now we're going to go for the middle one.

And this part is fun.

We're just having fun at this part.

Checking for our front corner dot.

Now, when you have a black mat and you can't find your needle,

you have to sort of feel for it and I found it.

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Getting the next thread, doing the same process.

We'll just go through it together.

So you get a good feel for it.

You haven't seen this yet.

Middle, middle, top, middle, middle, middle hole.

And sometimes they migrate a little bit,

but you can kind of use the needle to realign them.

And then you'll find you'll find your way.

Leaving small tail, bottom, bottom hole, bottom,

bottom, middle hole.

Checking see nobody got stuck.

Middle tail is still present.

Middle hole.

Try not to thread through the previous string.

And if you did, then try and back it out and release it.

You don't want that.

It will just cause mayhem.

OK, now get your angel wings even.

Pull, snug, but not tearing.

Right over left first knot.

Left over right second knot.

And one more for good measure, just in case you goofed.

OK.

OK, I should say just in case Pam goofed,

because sometimes it happens.

Training the paper.

Training the paper.

Oh, piece of metal.

OK.

And do to do, do to do.

Very good, very good.

Do to do.

One left.

And this actually, the book comes together quite quickly

at this point.

It's kind of exciting how you're doing all this stuff

and whirlwind and paper-sliding and threads and scissors

and all this stuff, and all of a sudden there's a book.

And the more you do this, the faster the books will happen.

You don't have to become a machine.

You can go slow and enjoy the process.

And is this the right way?

I feel like this might be upside down.

Oh, that's OK.

Oh, this is just the way it is.

We have upside down flowers, and I'm

going to learn to live with them.

OK, here we go.

Is my dot in the right place?

Wait.

Wait.

Yes.

My mark is there.

Front double check.

That's the biggest thing.

Putting the signatures in upside down

will give you wonky alignment of signatures.

And don't worry if it happens.

It happens to all of us.

You're making up books.

It's going to happen.

But what you want to do is learn your way through it.

Put your little preventatives in place

like double checking with the dot.

Or learning how to take it apart and do it again.

And realize it's not that bad to take it apart and do it.

Watch out for this.

This happens a lot.

See how this catches?

See how this string caught around here?

And sometimes I don't know.

And I finish it off.

And all of a sudden, my spine string is loose.

So up, look, let me have a slice of the tail.

Don't lose your tail.

Keep an eye on your tail, always.

You heard it here, folks.

There we go.

Through the middle.

Be mindful not to sew the threads together.

OK.

Making my angel wings of equal lengths.

Make sure there's no weirdness going on back here.

Double check to see everything is nice back here.

And that looks very nice.

Right?

It's OK.

It's OK.

No, there's no crossing.

You're not in the wrong holes or anything like that.

We are under the bridge.

Snut pulling snug, but not tearing.

Left over right.

Initial knot.

Right over left.

Secondary knot.

And then the big finale, one more, just in case.

So we can sleep nights.

I've never found that knot cumbersome or too big.

If you do, you can do two knots.

It's not truly necessary.

But I can pull it.

And pull, we're training the paper.

Training the paper.

Training the paper.

OK.

OK.

And now we have basically the inside of the book.

Let's get the back here just a little bit.

OK.

And now we have the cover, the cover,

and what we're going to do.

Now you can, if you're not happy with your innards,

you can decorate or do something or put something down

before you put this in.

Or you can, if you like it, the way it is, which I do.

I'm not going to decorate these right now,

but I'm just constructing my base here.

I'm going to glue this in.

If anything is showing, maybe some raw edging

or something, you can put little pieces of,

oh, let's maybe put something in there just so you can see.

This is always fun to do.

I think Nick, the book's me, is used to do this.

I used to like the way she did it.

She does it super fancy ways.

And we do more casual things here.

But she's really good master book maker.

And she's cool.

So there you go.

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All right.

So you could do anything you want here.

There's a million ways to do this.

But you can just like mush that in there and glue it.

And I think that's what we're going to do.

I have to make sure my glue is flowing.

And happy this morning, this is my Faberfix glue.

I will show you the bottle in case you've never seen it.

Faberfix glue by Beacon, clear silicone glue,

fabric fabric fabric paper, paper to paper.

Not sponsored, just like this.

You should the hole is open.

OK, so I'm going to put some glue down here.

And these are like little upgrades.

You know, they're just kind of fun, little things.

You can put it just at the top.

You can put it up in the bottom.

Totally up to you.

The whole thing here is we need to use significant glue edge.

I think I'm going to trim it a little.

I don't want so much pegs.

No, I think I'm going to mush it.

That's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to mush not that much.

That's too much.

Back away pan.

I've got too much here.

OK.

Where you can see, OK, I'm just going to squish it in there.

Just where you're like a little bit is.

You can pull it down a little bit.

Just want like a little bit showing.

Just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

And you can check to see how much is showing.

And massage it.

You have a few seconds with the Faberfix.

That's good, because we're going to gobb that with more glue.

And then we're going to put the spine in which

is going to be so exciting.

And then you're going to see a book pop out of nowhere,

which is kind of cool.

OK.

All right.

Let's get in here.

And do this out here to my end thing.

Just a little bit at the bottom.

Look at the little corners.

Hooked under and we'll just pull it out while we can

before it all seals up on us.

There we go.

All right.

I'll assess the bottom.

And I just want like a little bit.

Just a little bit showing.

And there we go.

A little bit.

I'm going to take that little Lucy, Lucy.

And there's no more.

All right.

OK.

So now we're going to come and we're

going to glue the bejeevers.

And this is the glue the bejeevers menu here.

So I do like to use a lot of glue here.

I do not want this spine coming out.

And I find that I'm normally very,

I don't use a lot of glue normally, but here I do.

And it's a good day when we're doing the gluing.

That's right.

A decent amount here.

And this way we're making a hidden spine so that we can see

the exposed, no, we can see the back of the original spine

as we decorated it.

And I like that.

So I want to put the tops and the bottoms nicely glued as well,

going right over all this stuff I put down.

This is going to be plenty of glue.

OK.

Making sure I have my top oriented.

Make sure my tails are not going to get all rolled up in there.

And then I'm basically just going to put this random piece

of fluff in here.

And I'm going to orient it.

So it's approximately in the middle and a quarter

from the end from the top and bottom.

It will grab pretty quickly, but you do have a minute or so.

OK.

So you're checking, pushing.

I want you to push in that way.

OK.

And for extra security purposes, do this in between the signatures.

OK.

And then come in here.

Do that again.

That's good.

That's helps that glue grab.

OK.

And then you look and you see, is it all flush against the spine?

Not flush against the spine, it is.

Give it a good shove in there.

Check height, check bottom.

Check everything is aligned where we want it to be.

Push, push, push.

And then squeeze, align.

Because where this glues is where this glues.

OK.

Push.

OK, that looks good.

That looks good.

That looks good.

And then I like to clamp it.

So it will dry like this.

There we go.

And then we're just going to let that dry for a while.

I might stand it on the back.

So it gets a good grab a runny.

And we have now made a book.

So I hope you enjoyed that.

Where's a little Mr. Snowford?

Let me see if he has a word to say.

Do you have a word to say?

Are you ready?

Not sure.

I'm ready.

Wait, I'm always ready.

That's my new thing.

I'm so prepared.

I'm over-prepared.

I've been researching and documenting.

And OK, maybe that's not true.

Oh, really?

Well, you can have to explain it to everybody

than what you've been doing with all of you

or extra time.

OK, mom, can you move the book?

I can't quite get in here.

OK, hang on, we'll move the book.

So I mean, that book will probably

be so secure very soon within an hour.

But I like to leave it sometimes for a day

before I actually go and decorate it just so.

Everything is really good and grabbed.

And you've heard this speech so many times.

I'm just going to have a little napkin here

while mom drones on.

Why does your nose look like light pink?

What are you saying?

I have a light pink.

I know what it is.

I have a very bright light in my eyes.

And this is why I'm OK, mom, can you slide the light back?

It's a goose neck, mom.

OK, better?

Much better, thank you.

OK, sunshine.

Cup, pop, reporter here.

Although I am three years old, and I'm a boy.

Just saying I'm a boy.

I know you all think I'm a girl, but I'm a boy.

You are very manly.

I am very manly.

I am so manly.

I have a wolf, excuse me, a little sleepy.

I have the bark in the wolf wolf of a wolf.

Yes, yes I do.

Sometimes they get us confused.

Not unlike coyotes, but deeper and more baritone.

Yes, it's very deep when I really let it out of the house.

I just whip it out there and squirrels go running.

Neighbors dogs flee to the hills like in the sound of music.

Sunshine, are we being accurate?

OK, maybe there's not much fleeing.

And nobody's running.

But in my mind, it happens, OK?

Can I just have that?

I don't ask for much.

No, maybe chicken.

Can I have some chicken?

I will stop this nonsense.

If you give me chicken, mom, I know, son.

I know, maybe for lunch.

OK, I'm about to leave.

I'm getting my wiggle on.

And I just want you to all to know.

I love you.

OK.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Out.

OK.

You know, I can't, I don't know what to tell you.

When he ends it like that, I just, I melt.

OK.

All right, those of you who don't know, welcome.

If you are new.

And thank you for being here, if you've been here before.

We're just having fun with the paper,

making junk journals, paper crafts, embellishments,

and decorations for our junk journals,

doing the papers for our junk journals.

We should do some more papers for our junk journals.

We haven't done that in a while.

And I'm really running low on papers.

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