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Learn an easy journal binding technique. This no sew binding technique is perfect for art journals, junk journals and any boo you want to make a cover for.
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hi everyone an kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to make a really easy
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Journal binding so this binding will
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work for a journal which the pages are
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bound back to back that means that each
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page is folded in half and the pages are
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glued together back to to back and it
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will work with any size
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Journal so the thing we're going to do
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is make a cover the cover is called
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Breakaway
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spine and it will only work on books
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that are already bound this is bound
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with a backtack system meaning the pages
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are glued together back to back they're
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folded in half and glued back to back
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and and once they're attached we can go
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ahead and make the Breakaway spine so
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first I want to reinforce The Binding
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and the spine with a piece of bandage I
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get my bandages from just a local
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pharmacy you can also use a cheese cloth
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to do this so I apply
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glue to the
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spine this is basically where all the
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folded edges are are aligned and glued
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together and I'm using white glue liquid
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tacky glue of course liquid white
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glue I'm just
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applying the glue you can do this with a
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brush if you
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want just make sure there is a nice
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amount of glue there and slightly
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going on the first and last pages just
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ever so slightly
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now I'm going to take a piece of bandage
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and attach
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it to my spine this will really
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reinforce the attachment between the
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pages that like I said are backto back
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glued we have already used this um
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binding system and all kinds of mini
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albums and mini books and so on
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just going to trim the edge because it's
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not straight enough and then I'm just
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going to attach
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it along the spine like
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this and then cut off the edge and if
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there is an excess of little threads or
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something like that then you should cut
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that off too because we don't want all
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those threads to show obviously
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this will really reinforce the
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spine it works like a
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fabric if you have
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a paper that is lined with fabric that
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will also work like a book binding
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paper just going to
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trim the edges on the sides I don't need
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those
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the bandid should be glued slightly over
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the pages but not more than maybe
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quarter of an inch that will be enough
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so the rest can be cut
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off so we're going to sit let the sit
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and
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dry set that aside for a minute
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and then I'm going to show you how to
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create your Breakaway
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spine so first we need to
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measure the thickness of the book or the
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spine the spine is is going to be in
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this binding method the spine is going
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to be higher than the front of the pages
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so always when you measure the height of
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the book or the thickness measure the
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spine so this is almost 1 and A2 in each
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book is going to be obviously
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different so what we're going to do is
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cut a piece
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of thin cardboard
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or heavy card stock or even thin
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chipboard we're going to cut it at the
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width of our book which was 1 and 1/2
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in and the length of the book which in
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my case is 8
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in so you have to measure the
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width the length and the
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thickness so the height is 8
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in so that should be the thickness of
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the book which is 1 and 1/2
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in and the height of the book which is 8
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in so your book might be different sizes
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obviously then we're going to bring a
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piece of card stock or pattern paper or
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if you have a book binding uh lined
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paper like I said
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before any type will work you can even
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use just regular fabric for this just if
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you have a nice fabric piece of fabric
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scrap or something like that then it
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will work as well
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I'm just going to use black card stock
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now we are going to
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add about 1 and 1/2 in to the
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width so if it was 1 and 1/2 in in wide
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we're going to make it around 3
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in and then half an inch on each side of
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the length excuse me that means if it
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was 8 in we're going to cut it 9 in
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then we are going to
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attach our first spine piece in the
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center of our paper or
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fabric you should use liquid glue for
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that why glue will be the best of
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course so that should be aligned with
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both the sides and the top and the
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bottom and now we are going to fold the
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top and the bottom I'm just going to
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crease a fold
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line
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to with my bone folder want to make sure
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it's straight so I'm using a ruler we're
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going to fold it like this and glue it
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down again fabric will work really well
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here as well so apply
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glue and then fold
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and make sure it is completely
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attached like this I'm always
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reinforcing with my bone folder can use
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your fingers for
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that
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okay so now we need to create fold lines
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along the center where our p piece or
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card stock piece or chipboard piece is
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that is going to be folded as
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well and I always like to fold it
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towards the inside and the outside this
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is going to be a
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joint so should go both
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ways like this on each side
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and then you
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measure from the edge of the white
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chipboard or card stock whatever you
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used you measure about half an
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inch and then you
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draw a line or Mark a line with your
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bone folder because we're going to apply
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glue only to the edge so the half inch
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from that Center piece to the line is
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going to be glue
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free and that is the Breakaway spine
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because it's not attached to the
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spine so that's going to make sense in a
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minute so I'm only going to apply glue
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from The Edge to the line to that line
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that I made with my bone folder or the
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you marked with a pencil the/ in line
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that is the only place I'm going to
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apply glue from The Edge to the line on
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both
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sides and then the entire Center is
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going to have no glue at all and it's
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going to move
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freely and break away from the
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spine that is why it's called break a
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away
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spine just making sure that all the
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corners have glue on
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them so I'm going to place my book on
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that white piece of card
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stock and then
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fold the paper on both sides and make
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sure it is completely
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attached of course it's also also should
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be aligned with the top and the
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bottom and then after it's dry I can
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show you the effect of the Breakaway
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spine it's not dry yet so it's
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moving but you get the idea that's where
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a few more seconds until it's dry in the
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meantime you can go ahead and cut two
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pieces to attach to your front and back
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covers to cover
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that uh end of the black card stock you
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can use fabric here you can use pattern
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papers you can use white card stock that
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you add paint to it sprays whatever you
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want it will reinforce the
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cover and make it look prettier and much
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more professional so I'm just going to
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cut two pieces again depending on the
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size of your book they should be the
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exact length of the book which in my
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case is 8
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in and then since my width of the book
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is 5 in I would make it
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around 4 or 4 and 1/2
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in
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so again depending on the size of your
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book I'm just going to use white
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paper that maybe later I'm going
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to add something to
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it so this is you see this is 5 in it's
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obviously two wide so I'm just going to
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make it 4 in you can make it 4 and
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1/2 whatever you
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want in the meantime the Breakaway spine
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is
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drying make sure it's 8 in
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long then I can go ahead and attach
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it again you can use fabric you can use
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pattern paper you can use whatever paper
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that you
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want and I'm just going to glue it
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down I haven't thought of what I wanted
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my how I want my front and back to look
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so that is why I'm using white paper
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I'll have to think about it and then add
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something but we'll
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see excuse me the most important thing
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here is to to make the cover like we
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did so I'm attaching it aligning it with
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the front and back
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covers and then my art Journal book will
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be completely
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bound I really like how this turned out
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and the Breakaway spine allows me to
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really have a flexible
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cover and almost flat
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it will lie almost flat when I open the
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book and go through the pages I'm going
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to show you in a
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minute so let's attach this
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piece and then I will show you how that
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works this Pine is supposed to be dry
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now so I hope
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okay looks really
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pretty so now when I open it you can
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see how it
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works the spine breaks away and allows
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you complete flexibility when you go
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through the
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pages so they can be flat when you open
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them Isn't that cool so I really hope
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you like this tutorial and this binding
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method
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and now we can go ahead and start a
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completely new art Journal thank you
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very much for joining me and I will see
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