Hey, who loves notebooks? I do!
It’s Terhi here today, and I want to share you how easy it is to turn patterned papers to your favourite notebooks. All the papers and embellishments I used to create these notebooks are from This is Family line.
I’m the kind of person who love lists and notes. My purse is always filled with notes, notebooks etc. It doesn’t matter if I ever read them or not, I just love writing things down and seeing pretty things while I’m on the go. That’s why I wanted to learn how to use patterned papers for this habit of mine. I found lots of ideas and after trying couple different techniques myself, I decided that the easier the process is the better the notebooks are.
The process for these notebooks couldn’t be easier! Just take couple sheets of “office paper” or any other paper you want to have inside as pages. Cut them to the size you wish to have each spread, then fold them half.
Choose a patterned paper for the cover, cut it slightly bigger or same size as the pages inside and fold it half, too.
My notebooks are sized about 3,5″ x 6,5″.
Then, choose a sewing machine or hand stitching.
With a sewing machine, go ahead and sew the notebook tightly together using the folding as your guide. Sew the line couple of times to make a firm notebook and pretty details!
If you choose hand stitching as I did, pierce small holes (for example with Pink Paislee Book Binding tool) to the pages and to the cover, then simply stitch the book together tightly.
Decorate the cover as you want or leave it as it is.
When you feel ready, add the notebook to your purse with a pencil and you’re ready to rock!
Have a crafty day!
Terhi xx
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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White
734182 This is Family Patterned Paper Fringe Art
734162 This is Family Patterned Paper Fresh Picked
734174 This is Family Patterned Paper Flower Batch
734175 This is Family Patterned Paper Growing Together
734184 This is Family Patterned Paper Bits & Pieces
734192 This is Family Paperclips
734190 This is Family Ephemera
310850 Pink Paislee Truly Grateful Book Binding Tool Kit
Assembling this notebook was simple. After measuring the front of the notebook, I cut a piece of patterned paper slightly smaller and adhered the patterned paper to the kraft notebook. Next, I created a fun Summery scene on the front cover of the notebook. What says summer better than sunshine and palm trees?!
Each die cut is adhered with a strong adhesive so the book can be used throughout the Summer. Some of the die cuts are adhered with dimensional adhesive to give the cover of the Summer traveler’s notebook a little bit of interest.
Wanting to add a bit more to this gift, I decorated the first page inside the notebook by adding a couple of die cuts and some washi tape. I think this is the perfect first page to a Summer traveler’s notebook. 
I can’t wait to give this Summer Traveler’s notebook as a gift! Can you imagine the summer adventures just waiting to be documented?!
Thank you for stopping by the Pebbles blog today. I hope this will inspire you to create your own Summer Traveler’s Notebook either for yourself or for an easy gift.