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Just Glue It! • Glue Book Collage
Added:Hey everyone. It's Nicole. Welcome back to my channel Relax Cut Glue.
If you're new here, welcome. I am so happy to have you all here with me today. Happy Monday. I hope you guys had a great weekend. So today, I know I've been playing in this a lot, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. So I'm just going to play with what makes me happy.
I have piles all around my desk here of different things that I want to do because I did get some fussy cutting done over the weekend. I love this page.
This one is a lot easier to see in person. It kind of blends on camera, but in person you can really see it. Okay, so the first page I want to do um Okay.
I don't know if I want to use this page.
So I might need to do a different background. Do I have any other blank pages that I might want to do this one on? Let's see.
All right, maybe I'll go with this one.
Okay, so I have these apples.
And I think I'll put them more like this and then cut off right here.
And I have these two, which are a little big for this book, but it doesn't matter. I can cut them off.
And I was thinking I would set them behind here like so, but cut off their heads.
And then they're going to get new heads.
So we need to do this. So first, let's cut off their heads. Off with their heads.
All right, so I'm just going to follow this up. I'm going to follow her neck.
And then cut away her face because I can use her head in another glue book page if I want.
Like that, and then we'll bring this over like so. Okay, her head has been decapitated. Let's go with Emerald. Emerald will be a little harder cuz he doesn't have much of a neck.
>> [laughter] >> Sorry, Emerald.
Sorry to do you dirty, man.
All right, here we go. Just cutting around his chin.
There.
His head has been removed.
I need to trim that. Okay, you know what? I can trim that later, Nicole. You don't need his head right now, so it doesn't matter. All right, I'll put these in my fussy cut box cuz they they need a little love.
Okay, now we need to add Um if I want to go Do I want to go this way or do I want to go I don't think it matters. I really don't. So, let's glue the apples to them and make this one big sheet so that I can cut it off where I need to cut it. So, I'm just going to add a little bit of glue along the edge right here. You guys, I am wearing the cutest outfit ever today, just so you know.
I have on a little black overalls and a white shirt, and it's the cutest thing ever. I love it. I walked out this morning and Jackson, my 19-year-old goes, "Aw, look how cute my mommy is."
>> [laughter] >> It was adorable. Okay.
So, obviously I will have to get rid of part of this.
So, we'll go like that and I will cut that part off.
I'm going to use my X-Acto knife for that because I need to put Shoot, [clears throat] I have paper everywhere. I need to put a new blade in my trimmer.
So, I'm just going to use this cuz I don't want to mess this up.
So, I can see my line. There we go. I'll just cut this off right here.
Now, I could have let it go onto the other page and just covered it with another sheet, but that just bulks up the spine a little bit. So, doing it this way helps.
All right, let's glue them on there.
Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.
There we go.
All right, here we go. Do I want to use this page?
I guess I don't really have anything else on this side that I could use.
Purple? No, I'll go with the green. Why not?
We'll just put this right here on the edge.
The edge.
Get them over there. Uh-oh, Emerald, why you always have to be such a pain in the butt?
There we go.
All right, now we have to give them a little chop.
Chop, chop, chop, chop.
I love this glue book.
I've just been having so much fun with it, and I can't wait to make another one.
Oh, I didn't even get it all the way to the bottom. What the heck, Nicole?
I didn't even notice that. Oh, okay.
Well, you know what?
It is what it is. I'm going to let it go cuz there's nothing I can do about it now. So, it does nothing for me to stress and worry about it.
Life's too short.
And so am I. All right, are you ready for their heads? I am.
So, I have two apple heads. I have this one and THIS ONE.
OH MY GOSH, I'M SUCH A LUNATIC. I DON'T KNOW why I like it. I do, okay? I just I've been wanting to use them for a long time. I had these apples. I found those apples. They fit perfect.
This one's big and round, so it helps, you know, complement the body.
Maybe I should have this one going this way, or should I have them going I think I should probably have them go like that.
There. Still has a neck. We're good.
We're able to save some of Emerald's neck there.
Roll that on there.
And then we'll use hers. Should I have her go like this, or I mean, technically, hers kind of Yeah, it has to go like that. All right, here we go.
Bring it down.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, that's so awesome.
So awesome. I was going through Um, you know in my happy mail videos, my friend Linda, who sends me the packages of images. I was going through some of hers last night. Or, was it last night?
It doesn't matter. It was over the weekend. And I was cutting stuff out, and I just love sitting down with her packets and doing that. It was fun.
Okay, so, do I want a word, or do I just want to leave it? Do I have a good word for that? I don't know.
Let me move my images.
Let's see. What do we have that would be good? Dead or alive?
>> [laughter] >> Wear your art on your sleeve?
Um, great at any age.
Smarten up. So real. Escape.
I had the best the other day, you know, it was my husband's birthday last week, and so I was at the store, and they had just put out a bunch of nectarines, and I'm like, I just I just want one. I I couldn't carry much more cuz I was carrying stuff. They didn't have any baskets for me.
And So anyways, I grabbed a nectarine, and oh, it was so good. I like my nectarines, you guys, some of you will not understand this, but actually more than I think, because I asked one time in my with my glue crew, I was asking them, I like mine not super ripe. Like, I love the flavor when a nectarine is super ripe. I don't like the juicy messiness of it. And I think nectarines are great when they're kind of rock hard. Giggedy. Um Oh, look. Congrats, you're a famous influencer. Find out why your followers love you. Someday, Nicole. Someday.
All right. I don't I'm not really finding anything like rugged good looks.
I was hoping there was like something like an apple a day.
Go from zero to fun in two shakes of a rabbit's tail. Okay, that's cute, cuz I have a cute rabbit.
Rag and bone.
Mask on, Botox up, stronger hair.
This is big. Yeah, I'm just not seeing anything. So, if I come across something, I'll put it there, but for now You know what? Let me just go one Let me grab a pile from the bottom. Let's bring that to the top, and let's just see.
Heart. No.
It's going to be great.
Foods that help.
Help with what?
>> [laughter] >> Uh okay. Well, fine. Fine. Fine. fine.
So, we will leave this as is, and when I come across some awesome verbage, oops, I left that on there.
I will do it. Wait, I found a word right sitting right here. What's it say?
Looking glass. Yeah, no, that doesn't work. Okay, well, that's a cute one. I'm glad I finally used them. This was fun.
I love it. You guys know I like to do a lot of silly art.
Should I just do one on the other page while I'm just sitting here? I might as well, right?
So, I don't know if this will look good, but I have this beautiful art piece here, which is clearly Oh, it goes this way.
Like a city, but I just like that it's blue.
And then I had this beautiful blue unicorn with butterflies.
And then I have these blueberries, which I don't know. I just kind of like there's a lot of blue and green going on here, so I just thought this might be cute. And then I had some blue and green candy, but now that I'm seeing that all together, not a fan.
Um the the unicorn doesn't look bad on there, though.
And then maybe some blue flowers or something with it, or do I just leave it? I don't know.
I don't know.
I know, it kind of looks like it's the star of the show. Let's just do it. Why not? Let's just go for it.
Let's see if this glue stick will last enough to get me covered on this page.
Oops, and we're goopy.
This is my extra large glue stick.
It is by Darice. I really like it, but you really got to make sure you're looking at your paper to see if you covered all the spots because it's so big, um sometimes you got to really make sure that you're seeing if you have all your spots cleared. All right, so there we go. Let's go in and add this one.
Just push it right up to the crack.
And then I press out to get any air out of there.
Then I come in with my scraper tool.
I don't know what these are called. I have just always called it a scraper tool. So technically this is for baking, but they're multi-purpose, you know? Can use them for all the things. Aw, my butterfly page. Anybody remember this from two days ago?
>> Um Nicole, those are bees, not butterflies.
>> Here we go.
And we're trimming. I'm going to keep this extra.
Oh, wait. Is she that TikToker? She is.
I just realized that.
I saw a video once of her home that she built cuz you know, she has millions of followers and got super rich. And she has like a slide going into like another room. Like you go down the slide like um secret rooms and stuff in her house.
That's so cool.
I would love to have a secret room for like my craft room or something. I just think that would be so cool.
All right.
Like the Clue house. That's probably where I first was like, yep, I need that in my life.
I need a Clue mansion.
That house is gorgeous in the movie Clue, isn't it? Love it.
All right, we have that on. Now I'm going to go in with my brayer.
And I'm going to give this a good roll.
Okie dokie. Do we want to add I do. I should probably cut that out, huh? I don't really want to.
But I feel like it would look better.
So, here we go.
I have the dogs in here with me, so you'll be hearing Sherman snoring.
It's crazy to me so many people still have not heard Sherman snoring in the background. I don't know.
Maybe if people with headphones hear it more, but gosh, he seems so loud to me.
Obviously, cuz I'm in the room with him, but he's pretty loud. Oh, yeah, that that totally looks better. I should Definitely glad I did that. Okay, here we go.
I wonder if I Okay, so if you're new here, I'm counting all my glue stick lids for the year uh just so I can see how many I use. And so, that's why I'm always saving all my lids. Uh and then at the end of the year, I will count them. I'll have you guys guess how many I have. That'll be fun.
And but I now I'm wondering cuz now we're halfway through the year, right?
Do I count how many I have just to see like how many I used the first half versus the second half? I kind of feel like I should.
Tell me what you think, cuz that sounds fun to me. I think I should.
Do I add the blueberries? I don't know. I just thought they were kind of complimentary.
I did think the candy was kind of cute, but it just doesn't really go now, does it? No. It's the candy that's the problem. Get out.
Um I just kind of like the blueberries. If you like them, Nicole, put them down.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm having a conversation with myself cuz I have an anxiety and I need some confident person in the background cheer me on.
>> [laughter] >> I don't know who that person is, but she's there. She's cheering me on. Just glue it.
In the words of Sheryl Crow, if it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.
Is that Sheryl Crow? Okay, I asked A L E X A and she said I was correct.
Woohoo! It was Sheryl Crow.
Does it make sense? No, not at all. But to me, it's the colors and then I definitely want to put some blue butterflies on here. I don't know. Let's look.
I might have some.
I mentioned last week that I really needed to do some fussy cutting and that is very true. So, I didn't do all that much. I probably don't have a blue butterfly with me right now. Oh, I don't. I do have some blue flowers. Do we want to And then like a couple blue butterflies or no?
Um No.
Okay, not seeing any butterflies that are blue cuz I need to cut some out.
Um Okay, we'll wait on this one cuz I want some blue butterflies for it. So, not a problem. We'll move on to another page.
Um if you're new here, I used to always finish a page right away, but now I'm having fun kind of just going with the flow and if I can't find something I like on here, I don't force myself to put an image down. I just wait and I come back and I'll find like the perfect thing another time. Like here, I need like the perfect quote or something or I don't know what I need here, but something funny maybe.
And so, I will. I'll come back for some blue butterflies on here. Oh, yeah, I love her.
Um Oh, my petunias. Is there anything I want to add with her?
I don't think so.
All right, so let's find another page. I do need to add some backgrounds. I have some here. I just I don't know why I'm being lazy.
Oh, maybe this kind of greenish page.
Okay, so then I have for all my cow lovers, Crystal, Rebecca, and my girl Mindy. So I have this cow, this little dairy cow, and I can barely get it on. I'm going to have to cut off one of its ears. I know.
Actually, maybe I'll just cut off its butt.
Okay. And then I have this that says cute cow.
Duh, I know, right? And then I have a glass of milk, chocolate and vanilla.
And then I have this that says twist.
Wait.
Twist. I can't read what that says.
Twist, stick, dunk.
Twist.
I see an I seek. Oh, twist, lick, dunk.
Okay. Twist, lick, dunk.
So maybe I put I mean, I am cutting off her udders, but I mean, we know they're there, right?
Maybe something like that.
Twist, lick, dunk.
Cute cow.
Or not. I don't have to put that.
Okay. I think I like that.
I don't know. All right, here we go.
Man, why did it get so dark all of a sudden?
Weird. It is very dark outside. It's supposed to be like 80 today. I don't It just got super dark.
Milk first. I talked about this before in a video, but did you guys know there are are a very large population of people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
Dead serious. Google it. It's a fact.
It's a fact, Jack.
All right, so let's put um old Bessie like that. I mean, might be able to get one other in.
Um oh, I need to glue these first. So, let's glue this milk first.
I do not like milk at all. I am not a milk drinker, never have, never will.
Yeah.
I I like milk like in cereal, but I would never ever drink it.
One of my good friends in high school, she always drank milk and I could always see like on her glass like the residual milk like kind of like slowly trickling down the glass after she took a drink and it just made me gag every time. I'm like, I can't watch you drink this.
I just can't.
I don't know. I'm just it's weird. None of Well, Jackson's a milk drinker. He's the only one in the house that drinks milk.
Um but yeah.
My best friend and her husband are huge milk drinkers. They're They go through like tons of milk and I'm like, no thank you.
I could never.
Just don't like it.
My mom's not a milk drinker either, so maybe that's why I'm not a milk drinker.
I never like saw my parents drinking it.
I also just don't like the flavor.
Okay.
Let's just put it like that.
Lick, twist, dunk.
I didn't glue this leg, cuz I didn't think it would go on there. So, actually, I don't think I will. Well, is it worth putting this little teeny part No, it's not.
I'm just going to cut off the leg.
Off with the leg.
Here we go. [clears throat] They got some long legs, don't they?
Um where else should I add here?
Obviously, I need to write or add a word or something cute, cuz this is kind of plain.
Do I put cute cow?
I don't like that. I don't know. I don't want it.
Again, I need something. Do I want to add some candy?
>> [laughter] >> I mean, I could. Who knows? Okay.
That one, again, not done. I just had to get it down on a page.
And then, I have another one I want to do.
I have I don't know how this is going to work. So, we'll just have to see. So, I have I don't know if I'll use these, but I have this egg here.
And then, I have these Actually, maybe if I put this over here, I'll put it like that. And then, here I have Oh, yeah, that works. An egg salad sandwich.
And then, I also have like just an egg.
And then, I have these little eggs I could put up there or something if I wanted. And then, I have this chicken that's like, "Are you freaking kidding me right now?"
>> [laughter] >> Or I have this one that's like, "What? What are you making out of my babies?" And then, I had this cute little snail, cuz I I know. I don't think that works. I don't want to use that one. Okay, I like this. Maybe on a different page.
Maybe on a different page.
I mean, honestly, the colors kind of do look good with this page. You know what?
I'm just going to glue on here.
I keep not using these shell pages for some reason cuz I I guess I just don't really care for them, but I'm going to use it today.
Oopsy, camera turned off. My bad. All I did was glue this down. I really like the way this looks because the colors are very complimentary.
And then we'll add the old egg salad.
Actually, maybe I should bring this up just a little. More.
More.
Keep going. Uh.
Uh.
Uh, you know, that'll do.
Oh, that'll do.
Rolling.
Trimming.
Boop.
All right.
Now. Um, then I have the big egg.
So I could just put like that. And then I have this guy.
Okay, I dig it. Let's add the egg.
Egglands Best.
And then this guy will go here.
There we go. Yes, I love it.
>> [laughter] >> I don't know. Let's bring them over.
There we go.
And let's give that a roll.
Spread that glue. Roll it again. Smoosh it.
Tell it who's Tell it who's boss.
And then I do have these little eggs I could put right here.
But I was kind of thinking that might be a good That That seems too much.
The snails like, "Get me the heck out of here. This is nasty."
>> [laughter] >> Do I put them here or what? I don't know. Do I have a good quote?
I need a good quote.
Um Wait. Question carriers.
Fragile. Handle with care.
No, that's just too bright. Too much.
It's going to be great.
You know what? I'm just going to add it.
Wait, what's this say?
This is big.
This is big. I kind of like the color.
It brings out the green.
All right.
Let's add them.
I found another glue book I haven't worked in in a long time and I'm pretty sure one of my glue crew members just asked me about it. So, I might play in that this week, too.
I was going to play in it today, but I didn't want to.
So, there's that.
I didn't want to.
Okay, that's cute. That is cute.
Um okay. So, I do want to do another one. I have Let's see here.
Where was that black page again? Maybe I want to use that. Usually don't. Here, maybe this.
So, I have Wednesday Addams here. I'm going to have to cut her down just a little bit cuz I don't want this red part.
I'm thinking about adding that there.
And then maybe putting like a new eyeball on her.
Looking glass cuz it's like a glass eye.
Ooh, I might want to do that. Okay, so I need to glue this first. Let's glue this. Oh shoot, I forgot I was going to make a spider web. That's okay. This looks cool, too.
Um I need to put her like right like this cuz I don't want that red.
Okay, so I need to bring this down quite a bit.
Okay, that works for me. So we'll put that there and then we'll glue Wednesday. I love the Addams Family.
It is one of my favorite movies.
The first one more than the second one.
Addams Family Values.
Okay, and then we'll bring her down.
Okay, perfect. Here we go.
Here we go, Miss Wednesday.
Perfect.
>> [snorts] >> All right, let's trim it. Trimming, we are trimming. Oh, it's on the other side of the cow. The Addams Family house has a bunch of trapdoors, too. That place would be fun to live in. All kinds of hidden places and trapdoors.
You know how they open up a book and it's like like they had Gone with the Wind and so it was like a hurricane blowing around in there. What if they had a book you could open up and just go straight to a craft store?
>> [laughter] >> That'd be so cool. Okay, so there we have that and then I wanted to add like an eyeball over this one cuz that one's I was thinking maybe like this one.
Cuz I didn't like the other one. There we go.
Ooh, that looks good. I like it. Okay, what else do I Do I do looking glass? I kind of feel like I need to.
All right.
Looking glass.
Looking glass.
Hmm, I don't really like it as much now.
I need like um 1965.
1965.
Okay, I found a few more. We have scratched the surface.
Chanel.
No.
Classic.
Cuz she is a classic.
Fatal crush.
No.
Um I also have force of nature, which I think I might do.
And then what was this one? Oh yeah, rag and bone. No. I did like the 1965, but I think I'm going to go ultimately with force of nature.
Force of nature. Here we go.
Looking glass and solidarity will have to go. I guess I should have looked before Well, I guess I could I had to cut that anyway, cuz I wouldn't have known.
Um force of nature. We'll do that.
That works. That works.
Let me know in the comments which Addams Family is your favorite or if if you even like it.
I also never watched Wednesday, the show. I wanted to, but I don't know. I just didn't.
Force of nature.
There we go.
Whoop.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Not bad at all.
Boop.
That's kind of cute.
I also just >> [laughter] >> really like this little zebra. I don't know why, but I just think it's really cute.
Like a little added black and white to it. I don't know. I think it's kind of pretty.
Mhm.
Mhm.
I don't know. All right, well, I can feel my brain. I'm having a hard time making a decision. So, I think it's time to wrap this up. Let's do some cleaning, and then we can look at everything we did today.
Okay, everyone. Let's check out everything that we did today. I had such a relaxing time hanging out with you guys today. Thank you so much for being here. If you wouldn't mind, give that like button a little a little push.
Show your girl some support. I appreciate you. Okay, the first page we're going to look at today was the chicken page. I really like it. I know the shows don't go with what's going on here, but the colors do and so that's why it works for me. I really like this.
This was kind of cut weird so I had to use it in a different way which was quite fun for me. So and then the green basically was just to get like the little chives that were in here and bring that in and then this cuz it matched everything else. I don't know.
It's cute. I like it.
And then we have the cow page which I know looks extremely bare right now, but I will add some flowers. I will add some butterflies. In fact, maybe I should just put like a couple blue flowers like here. You know what? Should we do that real quick? Hold on, let me look.
Cuz I do have this one right here.
I could add a couple flowers, you know, and then like a sunflower. I could cut that in half and put half of it here and half of it there.
Let's do that real quick. Sorry, I normally don't do this, but look, here we are.
There we go.
So I will put one here and then I can put one like that.
Okay, let's do it real quick, real quick. This right here.
There we go.
There we go. Okay, so now >> [laughter] >> we have the cow page which looks really cute. It will look better as we continue to play with it and then we have Miss Wednesday Addams.
Nothing real exciting here. I just had fun gluing it down. And then last but not least, we have Uh-oh.
These two pages.
And again, these are not done. I do want to add Oops.
Wrinkles? What? No.
Nope, not on my watch.
Not on my Oh, I missed a spot of glue.
Okay, the error's on me. That's fine.
Things happen. Okay, so with this page, I'm going to find a bunch of blue and green butterflies in some of my cut and collage books, and I'll add those on here next time we play in here. And then with this one, I really I know it's funny and it's weird, but so am I. And I really love this, and I will definitely add some kind of funny quote down here that has to do with apples, like I don't know. An apple a day.
Um I also have a word that says fiber, so I need to find that in my word box, but yeah, I could add that, too. So, let me know in the comments which one is your favorite, even if it's not done yet, if you can see the potential. Let me know in the comments which one your favorite is. I really like this one cuz it's not done I mean, I know it's not done yet, but I love the colors of this one. This one's really funny, so I like that one. And then the cow one's coming along. Not my favorite, but I like it. Did I miss one?
Oh, yeah. Wednesday. What was this one up here? Oh, the chickens. Yeah, the chick one chicken one's pretty good, too. I don't know. I think that, you know, these two are some of my favorites.
All right, everyone. That is going to conclude today's video. [music] Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to watch my video. I hope you have the most amazing day. Don't forget to drink your water, and I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Bye, friends.
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