Use your paper scraps to make hidden paper clips to add to scrapbook pages, junk journals and more
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hi everyone Ana kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I want to show
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you how to make Hidden Clips these are
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really cute DIY paper projects that you
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can make from your scraps so I've taken
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out my
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scrapbook paper scraps these are graphic
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45's different bits and pieces that I
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have left and I want to show you how to
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make them
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into really cute DIY paper
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embellishments that you can add to your
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junk journals to your scrapbook pages
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mini albums whatever so what you're
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going to need is just a plain piece of
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paper we're going to fold it in half I'm
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using a large paper clips they're 2 in
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then we're going to insert the clip to
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the folded paper the job of the folding
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paper is basically to be an extension of
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the
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clip this is where we're going to insert
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our tag or page or whatever and we want
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it not to search for the clip so the
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paper is basically the large clip so I'm
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going to take another piece of double
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the card sto fold it in half and then
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really punch the very very edge to
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create a tiny little hole I'm using a
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half in punch and we're going to insert
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the top of the paper clip
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inside the
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paper the double-sided card
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stock and then we'll have that
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little part of the clip popping out of
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the paper now we're going to glue the
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two
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papers doesn't really matter now if
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you're not to size we're going to cut
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everything later first we need to glue
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it we're going to glue one
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side and then we're going to flip it and
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glue the other side now you can make
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them as large or as small as you want
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you can add lots and lots of
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embellishment ments on them they're
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really
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cute they're really
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fun they really make a great addition to
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any paper project that you
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make so let's glue that and that top
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piece of the clip we're going to attach
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a chain to it and create
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dangles from there so that's going to be
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really really fun so once I have
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everything glued down I can take my
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scissors and trim it down to the size
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that I want
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my paper clip to
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be the only thing that you need
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to consider or to take into account is
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the length of the paper clip so you
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don't want to make it the paper too
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short because you don't want the clip to
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pop out of the end
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and then another thing you need to do is
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pick out the front where you want your
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front to be and then trim it down a
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little bit so we'll get that difference
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between the front and the
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back that will make it a lot easier for
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us to insert
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it like
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this because you'll see where to insert
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the the clip it
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won't when the edges are are the same
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size it's really hard to know where one
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starts and the other ends and it's
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really hard to insert that tag or page
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in between
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them so I'm going to give them all sort
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of a aged vintage look so I'm going
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to ink all my edges this is a distress
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ink I'm using the photo vintage
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color and then once I have the
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base also going to to Ink that piece
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that is slightly
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longer and now it's time to embellish
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all the the front and the back remember
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the paper clip has two
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sides so you want to embellish the front
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and the back so I'm just going to make a
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little
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Tab and this is such a great way to use
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all your leftover papers and scraps
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don't know how many scraps you have I
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don't know what size of scraps you keep
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but you can really make fun things
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with very small pieces so I almost never
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throw out
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anything and the fun part is that you
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can even make pockets and interactive
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elements to add to your paper
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clip so I'm just going to cut out a
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butterfly and I'm thinking
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how I'm going to assemble that so this
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piece is going to be a pocket so I just
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apply glue to three sides you know how
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to make a pocket
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right and
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then the
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pocket is glued down with
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this pretty
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butterfly just going to add a line of
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text this is again it's all from the
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paper scraps that I have
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so I'm just going to add
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that see I'm just using that side of
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paper to create a little
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tag I'm going to make a hole in the
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tag if you have a punch you can use a
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punch to create little tags and that tag
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I'm just going
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to of course ink it I'm going to punch a
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hole in it and
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then connect it to a chain and that
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chain is going to dangle from that paper
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clip piece that is popping out so now I
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have a
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hole I'm going to put an eyelid in the
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hole it's always a good idea if you want
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to hang a chain it won't rip the paper
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and I'm using my crocodile and for such
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a little tiny punch you need
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the uh forgot the number I think it's
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number
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four for whoever has
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a
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crocodile now let's bring a chain and
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we're going to connect the
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chain to
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both the tag and
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the paper clip first just going to take
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a jump
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ring sometimes I use my finger sometimes
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I use another
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tool
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whatever you feel comfortable
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with so first I want to attach the chain
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to the paper clip so then I'll be able
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to figure out how long I want it to
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be with the tag attached to it
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it so I'll need another jump ring to
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insert to the
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tag and then I'll be able to see how
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long of a chain I
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need so I want it to dangle but I don't
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want it to be too
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long so this looks like a good size good
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length let's cut it
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out so now I can go ahead and attach it
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to the tag so that is really really fun
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isn't that fun I love those dangling
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things you can write something on it if
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you
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want so now we can go ahead and work on
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our other side and this is basically how
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I make all my tags my sorry my paper
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clip just added a little another
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butterfly to the front so this is how I
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make all my hidden paper clips
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and you can make them of course from any
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paper that you want to match it to your
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project you can have like a
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stash sit down one day make a few and
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then see
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how you can add them to whatever project
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that you want just play around with them
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so I have another
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butterfly which of course everything has
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to be
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Inked and then I'm also going to add a
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little piece of lace if you have
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leftover pieces of fabric ribbons laces
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they can also look really pretty on
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those hidden paper
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clips so I'm just going to add
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that so we're going to add all
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that to
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our other side of the paper
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clip I think it looks pretty good
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am I going to add something on the top
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yes so even a piece like
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this which is
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definitely doesn't look
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much if you cut it out it can still be
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added to something as a as a
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detail so sometimes you need to look at
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your scraps as Treasures because even
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something like this can really add to
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your
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overall
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collage creation this is sort of a
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collage what we're making here because
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we're taking pieces and combining them
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to
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one that looks really
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good and I love this dangly tag in the
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pocket so this is our first paper clip
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let's make another
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one let's go green this time
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time so we're going to fold our paper
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and then fold the double-sided card
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stock actually don't really have to use
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a double-sided card stock because the
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inside does not show so you can just
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use a plain card
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stock and punch the hole that
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will be for the paper clip
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so let's insert our paperclip and then
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attach both sides of the card
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stock just going slightly faster here
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because you already know the basic idea
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you got the technique so now it's just
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having some more ideas fun ideas to
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create those
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paper clips so I'm going to leave this
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quite big I like the size this is maybe
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just trim it down a little bit on the
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bottom this one I really like that it is
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big no just going to trim it in the
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bottom and then don't forget to make the
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front slight shorter than the back and
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I'm also going
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to round the edges on this
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one these little details give them a
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really good
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finish when the punch doesn't work use
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your
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scissors okay so I've already Inked the
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edges
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so now I want to add all my little
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scraps
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another layer to the front
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here then we're going to have another
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pocket those pockets are really
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fun so this was a
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frame from a tag that I
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removed I like the
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shape so this one will go
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here and we're going to attach those two
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pieces together to create
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the pocket
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basically I look like this
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eye kind of
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creepy so all that is going to be a
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pocket so I only add the glue on three
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sides leaving the top without any glue
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so I can
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add things under it so I this piece was
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too small so I glue two pieces together
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to create a little
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tag again no scrap is too
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small it's around the edges
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here and that will be a fun tag
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so we need to make a hole in the
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tag and attach a chain to
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it I want this bottle to be in the
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background so that will be glued I'm not
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going to use that as an insert for my
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pocket this is just going to be another
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embellishments
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here okay so now I can go ahead punch a
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hole in my tag and add my
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chain also going to
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add an eyelid for this
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hole always really good
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idea and then let's bring in the jump
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rings and the chain and we can go ahead
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attach
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that okay so now we have our tag
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attached let's see how it turned out
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sorry I'm off camera here
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okay oh I like
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it so let's make another pocket on the
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other
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side just attaching these bottles to the
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word this is all from scraps
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and let's make another pocket
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here and since it's had the the
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medicinal and the bottles have such a
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like a pharmacy Vibe let's
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create a little let's say subscription
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pad or book or something even that
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little scrap
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piece add
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something hope you get the idea about
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using scraps already
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so this one is going to be like
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a
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pad so I'm just going to Ink the edges
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and then I'm just going to use my staple
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stapler
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sorry to connect some plain white papers
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to the back to create sort of a little
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tiny notepad or notebook or whatever
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so first I want to attach them and then
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I'm just going to cut
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around so now I'm also going to add a
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little bit of
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ink to the white papers cuz they're too
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white so that's
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fun that's not straight
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just a little tiny bit of
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inking and some of the pages not
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everything okay so like this pad is now
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ready isn't that fun so we have our
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second hidden paperclip tag
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ready let's see how it looks
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looks and you insert it on something
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Isn't that
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cool I really like that so I have made
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two
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more just going to show you how they
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look you can go ahead and make as many
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as you
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want please don't forget to subscribe to
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tutorials and make all the projects
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so this is the one that we
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made with
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the paper pad this is the first one that
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we made really like how this one turns
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out these are both sides and then the
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other two I made this one has another
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side pocket to it and this one is with
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this triple insert
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and then the last one has a really cute
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belly band and flap with a pocket
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here so I really hope you like this
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tutorial thank you very much for joining
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me I'm going to find a place for
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these in my junk Journal by the way you
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have I'm going to put a link here for
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the junk Journal tutorial you have that
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too if you want to make
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it so thank you very much for joining me
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and I will see you next
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time e
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