Hey guys welcome back to my channel and if you're new to my channel go ahead and hit that subscribe button to see more home holiday event wedding and DIY decor Today, I'm going to show you how to make the very magical Once Upon a Time storybook backdrop for your upcoming wedding or any celebration. Here we go. Here we go. So it's finally here, my once upon a time storybook backdrop tutorial that you guys have been asking since forever. I'm very excited to show you guys how I put it together. But first, please let me apologize for taking so, so long to get this done. The truth is that I sent my print it back some time ago and I didn't have a way to make the writing for it. So I had to outsource to another company. So I went on Etsy and for some reason this girl. right here thought that all XC stores were based here in the US I just wasn't paying attention because I've been very busy with the venue and I didn't realize that the shipment was coming from China and China Oh and shipment for China takes seven to ten days and they actually took more than ten days so I was like emailing them where's my stuff I was bugging them so I finally got it and I'm so excited to show you guys how I put this together for your next event so let's get started with the video alright guys I'm going to start this project by making the cover of the book which is going to consist of 18 black foam boards from Dollar Tree. As you can see right here, there's only nine. So this is only half of it. So this backdrop is going to be humongous, humongous, humongous. Love it. Each foam board is two and a half by one feet and 20 inches. And as you see it right here, the entire thing together is seven feet, five inches, which is way too tall for the writing that I have for it. The writing that I have for it is only four feet tall, so I decided that I'm going to make each cover six feet tall so it can be better proportion. So each cover is going to be five by six and all together ten by twelve. So in order for you to make it six feet tall for each cover, you are going to have to cut one foot and a half from the bottom row. At this point, it's basically from three foam boards, okay? So you are going to need a total of six. three for each side and you are going to cut one and a half feet from each so basically you're going to have one foot left okay so two boards are going to be five feet all together plus one six feet And here are all six of them together. I'm going to go ahead and move them to this side. And I'm going to start gluing the other boards together. It's going to be a total of six of those. There is no one in the world to win. There is no one in the world to win. I want to turn around. I want to turn around. So this is going to be the side I'm going to use for the front part. And I'm going to add transparent tape to the back of it to give it a little more support. And here it is my friends, one side of the cover. I'm going to go ahead and make the other one and I'll be right back. And it should look something like this. So here's the left cover and the right cover and eventually they're going to become one. Now I'm going to use black acrylic paint to paint the borders. of my foam board on both sides so it can look a little bit more polished. All right, so now I'm going to move on to the pages of the book. And to accomplish that, I'm going to be using a seamless paper photography backdrop. And this is 53 inches by 16 feet, okay? So there's plenty of paper here. And I'm going to focus or concentrate on the main page, okay? The other pages on the side are only going to be strips of the same paper. So it's going to look... as if it's you know more pages behind it but it's not so step by step let's start with the main page since the covers are going to be six feet tall i'm going to make the papers two inches shorter all around well not on this side because you know in a book you don't see anything in the middle but for the top the bottom and the left and right side i'm going to have two inches of exposure of the cover as you will see on any book so i'm going to make the papers uh five feet 8 inches. And here's how my first page looks like. It is 5.8 in height and 4.5 in width. So here are all the pages that I need, the two main pages. And here what I have left over actually ended up being the same size. So I ended up using the entire roll. Okay? So for the third page, what I'm going to do is cut it in the middle. And I'm going to cut it into little strips that are going to go behind the main pages to look as if I have more pages. Okay? So I'm going to show you how to do that now. Now here you have two. So one is going to be for the left side and one for the right side. So I'm going to start with one. This is going to make straight lines and cut them into strips, okay? All right, so here it is. And I place the other one right under it. I didn't make lines on this one. I'm just going to go ahead and place it on top and then cut it into strips. Next, I'm going to be aging my pages and I'm going to accomplish that by using tea. I boiled four bags of six ounce tea bags. I just got it from my local grocery store and it was very inexpensive, two dollars and some cents. And you can choose to leave it white, that's what you like, but if you're going for the more antique, vintage look, I think this is a great method, okay? So all I'm going to do is dab. With a sock, you can use a rag, but I don't want to stain my rag, so I'm going to use this old sock. And I'm just going to dab until I get it into the shade that I want. all right guys so here it is and i'm loving this shade um but I'm going to have to make it a little darker because I have made my other page prior to this one just to test out, you know, how darker I wanted it to be. And yeah, it doesn't match. This one is a bit lighter. This is more like 1800s and the other one is more like 1500s. So they're in different centuries. So I have to make it match. But yeah, I wish I would have, you know, have both of them in this tone because I really like this one better. But anyway. take your time, do a little by little, let it dry because it's going to look different dry than it looks when it is wet. It doesn't take 24 hours to dry, but you might want to let it, you know, sit 24 hours so you can see the color that it will be. All right. So with that said, I'm going to make it a little darker and I'll be right back. All right. So there it is. And as you can see, I also aged my strips of paper and I'm going to be using later on the side of the pages. And I also place some books or anything heavy on the edges of the page so it can get flat. Because once it's wet, it starts getting wavy from the moisture and the middle as well, as you can see. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to iron it. I'm going to turn it upside down and I'm going to place a sheet over it. And I'm going to iron it without steam. Alright, and there it is. Next I'm going to be cutting the Once Upon a Time decal. It's going to look something like this. So I'm going to just cut the letters that I need to be placed on this page. And then I'll let you know how you place it on there. I'm really hoping that it takes because it's supposed to go on walls. I'm not sure how it will take on paper, but I don't see why not, right? Alright, let's try. What you see up here is the container's tape. and I'm using this because it's not going to damage the paper when I pull it off and I'm totally just following the directions that he came with and basically what it says is place a paint painters tape right on top flip the paper over pull the backing and then just flatten the clear part with the letters on the wall aka the paper and then I'm going to grab probably one of my spatulas and just you know flatten it out and then I'm going to pull the clear paper off and then the letters should be intact on the paper crossing my fingers all right let's do it Hello, my name is Jessica. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. I'm a member of the Youth Council of the Pacific Coast. This is beautiful. This is so beautiful. I am so excited right now. You have no idea. No idea. Next, I'm going to be arranging and gluing my strips to give the appearance of multiple pages. Next I'm going to be gluing my pages with hot glue. I'm going to be placing them in this corner or gluing them from this area where they meet. And then I'm going to make sure that they are 2 inches from the top and bottom. And this corner right here is going to be a little wider, but I'm going to be placing the other pages or the strips that look like pages right on there. not sure if you noticed but I place a little glue right about there probably about four inches in and then right here in the middle. I did the same on this side. Make sure that you don't place the glue right in the corner because that's where you're going to place your other pages, and that's what I'm going to do right now. Now what I'm going to do is wet a bit of the outer edges of the top pages. You should only flatten the inner ones, okay? The outer ones you should just leave as is. I ended up flattening both of them. So, don't do that. Just flatten the one right here that's going to connect together. The others at the end or at the outer sides, just leave them as is so they can look just like the other ones on here. Okay? So, all right, let's do that. perfect okay guys this is it this is my once upon a time storybook backdrop and it is absolutely dreamy and wonderful very fairytale-ish love it perfect for weddings or any celebration i hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you did please make sure to give me a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet you can do so right here right now also leave me a comment let me know what you thought of my Once upon a time storybook, backtrack and leave me a comment anyway because you know I love to chit-chat with you guys all the time. And then you can tell me what you think of my clip-ins. I found them the other day in the basement and I put them on today. I'm not convinced. I think I like my bun better. Anyway, make sure to share, share, share. Sharing is caring if you know of a friend or a family member that's getting married soon or is having a party and will love this thing. Make sure to share with them at the end of this video to save them a buck or two. All right, guys. Until next time. Bye. What do you need? What do you need? Let her go for a second. Yes, no, it's not. Well, this part. Who shall resist? All right. Right here. Better. I must go. Look around. This one. I have.