hello welcome to Stone Magpie if you're really into Diamond painting in a big way you may
already have a log book this is something that I've not really done before and I am going to do
it slightly differently today so stay tuned even if you do currently have a log book of your own
last year I saw lots of YouTube creators reviewing their Diamond paintings that were completed during
the year and I thought I can't keep track of what I finished because I'm not logging
my diamond paintings currently so I got myself a log book however I've decided I am not using this
logbook and I'll explain why I want to do it in a different way don't want to complicate it but to
me this sort of book just doesn't work for what I've got in mind I bought this one on Amazon it
is a basic log book and it shows lots of details there are a number of reasons the first being that
um the photo for me isn't big enough on the page it will fit the diamond Art Club stickers
however if we move to the bigger sticker it doesn't fit if we use our lowers it's a bit
bit too small so that was reason number one and then I noticed there's a typo in the book
and that would just drive me insane that it's uh not got a g on diamond painting apparently they
think it's Diamond painting Diamond painting and this information in this logbook that I just I'm
not really that bothered about [Music] um some of the details on here order number tracking number
etc for me just isn't really useful information that I want to keep so I decided to simplify it
also the main main main main main reason is having a book like this with the static
Pages means we can't swap the pages around once we fill in some details
we go to the next page and fill in the next Diamond painting and so on however
for me I wanted to be able to see the diamond paintings that started Diamond painted item
boxed things like that so I've had my thinking cap on and this is what I have come up with
this is a binder I got it on Amazon everything that I'm showing you today can be found on Amazon
and the links I'll put in the description box below so you can
find them easily now I chose this one because it's got some extras with it
and I like the color
so this is a pressed wood opening so you can see that there are six ring binders in this
folder it's got some pockets on the side so we can put handy things in there and turning to
the back there's another big pocket and a pen holder the inserts that come with the folder
are notepad paper there is a plastic zip lock and they have dividers and this specifically
I really liked this file for there are also some colored tab stickers and some
tabs with the ruler down the side as well these are peel off sticker type tabs
so a really nice comprehensive file and my thought was that I would put the note paper at the back
useful for any extra notes
so I would just take a note sheet out as and when I need it
I will use the Ziploc bag for storing all of my
stickers that I haven't got round to log in yet so I would zip that open
some in so you know if you're in a rush and you haven't got time to lock your
diamond painting as soon as you get it that's a nice way to store those ready
and then the dividers I am going to keep them into separate categories so I am going to put details
for Diamond paintings that I have received Diamond paintings that I've unboxed Diamond paintings that
I have started Diamond paintings that I have finished now in the finished category I am then
going to divide it again just using some card I have got some holographic card here A4 size I'll
cut that down to an A5 because this binder is an A5 size and I will separate the different years so
I will know which year I finished which painting hooray and I'll be able to move the pages down as
I go so I'll know which ones I've unboxed I'll know which ones I've started without having to
keep flicking through a book to try and find the information do you like it I'm really pleased with
this idea I think it's going to work really well for me however you may say well you don't have any
pages in the book so how are you going to do that well there are two ways you could if you wanted
and you've got one of these books already just cut out or pull out a page in your log [Music]
trim it down and then you have the information now I think normally in these logs you would
have the information side by side so that page would relate to one Diamond painting and so on
throughout however I want to have one Diamond painting per sheet because I want to be able
to move them so for me I'm going to have this as the front page and this is the detail page
behind so as I say you would just get some scissors or a guillotine and trim it down
foreign like so to fit it in the binder ah you may say but we haven't got any holes well I have
a solution for that too you can either purchase the plastic wallets and put them in there oh that
would be very Posh or you can do as I do and get one of these hole punches this hole punch is by
rape Seco and it is a adjustable hole punch you can see there are six holes here it is a lockable
pull punch so you just slide that up and it unlocks this mechanism and on the back here is
the gubbings as we say where you set the different sizes so I have a smaller file effects that I use
for my Diaries and that is a mini so I would set the settings to mini and it would close in those
holes ready to hole punch this is an A5 now however what I have found with this file is
that it is slightly off kilter so you would need to set the guide here
to be able to place your paper in now because we're creating an extra hole it needs to be
slightly higher than what it looks so instead of doing it centrally like this it'll need to come
down a little bit give you space to create an extra hole so we click that then as you can see
we have the three lined up we've got an extra hole here and we've got two here so we need
another hole there the way to do this is to use this as a guide so we need to put the paper back
in and these last two holes need to line up with the first two holes of the hole punch
guided to your news judgment click and
there we have it so that is one way to create the pages for your file however as I mentioned earlier
I don't really want all of this information on my sheet and I would like a bigger photo
so what I have done is typed up my own sheet just on word a word document really simple form really
simplified it down did a nice big picture here I'll show you an example of two ways that you
can go about putting the inserts in here's a test sheet that I ran I did print it one-sided
then decided to try and double side copy it and it ended upside down so for this example just pretend
that there's nothing on this side of the paper if you wanted to you could just fold your A4 sheet in
half and have your page like so punch some holes in the side and you've got your piece of paper
let's do that
once you've got this guide already set up of course it's a lot easier
to then continue with the rest it's just this bit of puffiness that's a shame that
it didn't quite line up but once you get used to it as you can see it's not too big an issue
so there we have our first sheet now one other idea I did think about was
if you wanted to you could photocopy the colors on the other side of this sheet if you do it this way
you could have the photocopy of something like this sitting there so if ever you wanted to refer
to what colors were in the diamond painting you would have it all ready in your file
not sure if I'm going to do that yet because I have made some double-sided
pages and I'm going to cut mine in half and the reason really is because doing
it this way I think I'll fill up my file really quickly because it's like using two
Bits of Paper rather than just one does that make sense I'm hoping I'm making sense here
that would be using two pieces of paper in effect for one Diamond painting by doing
it this way I've got I'll have two pieces of paper but for two Diamond paintings I
have also if you noticed created the document so that there is more margin down this side if you
see the example that I did earlier because you you lose some of this
the paper in the hole punch taking it from the book so when I created
this I created it so that there's lots of space down the side I think it looks neater
because I am cutting the paper I wanted to be a bit more accurate than scissors for you know
my scissors are not that accurate so this is the guillotine that I bought on Amazon
for this job and it's useful for all sorts of paper crafts too cutting out bits and Bobs so
this is just a simple slide blade and it does have this guide that pulls out to create more of
an accurate measure and all you need to do is pop the piece of paper in between the ruler
and I know that an A4 sheet in half to make a five is around about 15 minus two millimeters
so I don't know if you can see that there I will Zoom that in so you can see there
and this guide creates much more length to be able to measure the paper and make sure it's straight
this is a double cutting blade so it cuts up and down so you just press on the blade slide it up
and back and it does A really lovely neat cut so there we are my first two pages for the file
so I will make quite a few of these with my guillotine
now as you can see I've got quite a few of the diamond Art Club stickers so what
do we do if the kit comes without these lovely sticker sheets well for example
SpongeBob Budget Buy from Amazon and well what I did I took photos of the kits that
didn't have the sticker sheets you can see SpongeBob here cut it out and what I'll do is
stick this on the front now I could have made these bigger because I've got my lovely big
photo window now however if you don't have the facility to do this you could just draw a simple
outline drawing just to give you an idea of what the kit is it doesn't have to be really exact so
for this one we've got SpongeBob use a square he's got a big smile two teeth two big eyes
laughs
there we are look at that for an artwork can't you tell what it is straight away
well it would give you an idea it doesn't have to be perfect as I say as long as you could tell
I think when we buy these Diamond paintings they tend to speak to us so I think we would know so
ideas for you here but I do think that's probably the one that I will go with taking pictures
so all I need to do now is actually complete the sheets and get them into my file
so for SpongeBob I have unboxed him so this sheet would go not at the front here because
at the front I've actually done a really harsh Diamond painting log belongs to Suzanne
because that's the header sheet as it were um so I will hole punch that and get that in
and I did just fold that over so that one is a double sheet like a nice title sheet posh
so we're going to have received yes I received it we're going to have unboxed and that is where
SpongeBob will sit because I have unboxed SpongeBob but I haven't started him you
could also make your own categories of course you could say unboxed kitted up started completed you
know so you can play with those tabs a little bit and what I'm going to do is have these
and I'm going to write on what the categories are so that they're removable if I decide to change my
mind so that's what I'm going to do here is point it in the right direction of where we're going to
go I might even use these to do that with if I can write on these tabs here I still need to have a
bit of a play with this and a bit of an experiment and I'm sure it'll evolve as I get new ideas of
how to use it but that is a really good starting point and I hope that you agree and I really hope
that you like this idea let me know if you're going to adapt it and do your logging slightly
differently whether you've never really bothered logging and now you're interested in doing so or
whether you're still quite happy to use the log books because they do of course keep everything
nice and secure all of that information in one nice tidy place thank you so much for
watching today I've really enjoyed showing you my idea of how to log our Diamond paintings and
I hope to see you again soon in the meantime enjoy your own Diamond painting take care bye