pockets made with coffee filters

 Hello everyone, a few days after the post about the embossing folders, I wanted find a way to store them at the best, and I finally succeeded 😁 Here I am back with a post,about  a video, which I  should have to edit and  to upload  two months ago. I had recorded the video in English, but I must say that my English is very uncertain so I stop several times, because you have to remember how to say that word in English...

  While editing the video I saw that the entire final part of the decoration was missing, oh my God, having changed the shot so as not to let the viewer see upside down, I realized that in many places I was out of the frame. I really don't know if everyone who makes videos uses the phone, I use a video camera and I can't find a tripod that allows me to place the camera at my head level to allow the viewer to see as if he were in my place . 😕😔 I have to show you the makeshift easel that I use in some videos and which is uncomfortable.

The process is actually very simple but I did several tests. On video I had to cut a lot, and I avoided recording the creation of all the other pockets, consider that for this reason I had files for around 1 hour and 35 minutes, then between parts removed and parts sped up I reached around 43minutes.

At the beginning I had slightly overlapped the pockets and with the subsequent layers of paper they became too many layers and it wouldn't fold, so I overlapped the book paper but it was still too thick, the third attempt is the one I show you in video. It is not the third pocket, because then you will see the photos afterwards, the single ones you see are the first attempt, and then at the end you will see the ones that are already in the journal but the third attempt was the one that decided how to do all the others. Let's say so.

I had taken these coffee filters a long time ago, I had done some attempt including a sort of mini album, no it's an insult to albums, they were 5 filters put together covered with scrap paper and tags inside the filter, made with the plastic spiral of the Lidl binding machine, which is excellent for binding photocopies for notes etc. but not really for this type of work... However, I didn't even finish it, it remained in the "we'll see" box (where I leave aside the creations that I don't like waiting for an idea that can "save" it from the garbage) I threw it away when I renovated the room creative.

Some time later I found a video from Treasure Books that used coffee filters to make pockets and made some, this was in 2021.

Lately I've been working on a fairy themed Journal, even though I stopped because of what I call "expectation vs result" it doesn't convince me very much, I should add interesting elements, I should have added a few pages put in a particular way, add other types of paper and other elements, in the video I show a bit of the journal, the bark on the cover is probably unusual and particular, I added the lights, and I don't think that a madness like this has occurred to many...  the bark is fragile and therefore tends to break, to overcome this problem I applied a coat of vinyl glue and I think I will also apply a coat of velvet varnish to make it opaque again... Let's say that the reasons that stopped me give different, but let's go back to the pockets.

 I found the pack of filters and I said "those from Treasure books are horizontal, but I would need vertical ones in the journal, yes but how do I add them? What if I made in a way to be bind in the journals? Here's how I thought to create these pages/pockets for Journals.

In the video I also show a version with a magnet that can be added on the page before the central one or add the magnet on the page after or not include it in the binding but use it as a double pocket that "hugs" the page,

What do we need:

two coffee filters

stamps or stencils

ink pad (I use StaZon or Archival)

distress ink

book paper or pattern paper, or digital paper

paper doilies

glue stick and vinyl glue

sewing machine (optional)

images, stickers, labels, phrases, lace, ribbons, pastes etc. Whatever your imagination suggests to embellish the pocket based on the journal where the pocket will go.

magnets or even a different closure such as a ribbon...

In the first attempt I made (the one with many layers which I then divided into two separate pockets), I used a stencil on both sides to decorate the pocket a little, in the video I stamp a little here and there.

In my first attempt, as I told before, I glued too much layers and it was too thick, so I cut them as single pocket again and I embellished in this way.

In video I stamped with clear stamps for these and others I used some stancils and distress inks

here I added some clusters I previous made, I glued a pink doily and I will glue in journal as side double pocket or as a side and top pocket.

here we go, let's start:

In the video I stamped with clear stamps and Stazon (or other ink pads), here with a stancil and distress ink (walnut stain)

These coffee filters have a sort of sewing on 2 sides, I saw that they are not exact so you have to put these sewing sides in the same direction. 

In next photo you can see what I mean. 

I do in this way, but if this pocket goes in a binding, can be optional, ad example I made a double pocket like this to add at the page of the journal not in the binding, adding a magnete, and there you see if they don't go in the same direction.

Then I add book page or digital paper, I used paper from a pad purchased from Shein.

The process is a little complex to explain, but really simple to do , I hope that with the next photos it can be clearer, even if you haven't seen the video you can understand how I did it.

I rip edge of paper to have an irregular one, I mark shape of the filter, on a filter I cut right at the battom of the filter, and a centimeter larger on two oblique sides, on other filter almost the same but we need a couple of centimeter at the bottom of the filter, and we will use them to connect two filters together, you can see better in next photoes

you see, I glue two oblique tabs, streight one will be the one to connect at the other filter.

before to glue on filter, I ink edge, other sides I will ink after sewing them on longer sides.

This is the situation we have right now, and on the other side (see next photo)

Ok now we have to cover other side too, and for next step we no need to cut paper leaving 1 cm from the mark of pencil, because we will cut on the mark, we wrapped filter in previous step. See in next photo.

now we have to connect to the other filter, I glue tabs leaving a couple of millimeter between filters.

Let's glue doilies on them and all we have to do is to embellish them with images, labels, stickers, and all we like. I make a sewing stitch as decoration and because glue stick is not a permanent glue.

I saw them before to embellish pockets.

edge of the filter are soft so I added inside a strip of paper shaped on the filter, to make they sturdy. I add here all photoes, I also added magnete. I will use some of these pocket as double pocket that hugs page, to add a journaling card or a tag underneath. 

While I was waiting for the editing program to save the video I finished this other double pocket, also with a magnet. on the "smooth" side, on the opposite side (see last photo) I sewed pieces of paper as I showed you few videos and posts ago .On other side of the pockets I glued inside as I did in previous ones

 I wanted to share with you this idea too. kisses. Betty