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This is Family Notebooks with Terhi

16
Sep
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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

Filed Under: Altered Item, DIY, Inspiration, Papercraft Tagged With: DIY, notebook, notebooks, Papercraft, papercrafting, Terhi Koskinen, this is family

DIY Notebook with Tabs

06
Aug
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Hello everyone It’s Eva on the blog today sharing a tutorial on how to make a DIY Notebook with tabs to organize your school year.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

You can use this notebook for so many things: to schedule your meeting, take notes, organize your finances, etc! I decided to use mine to keep track of DT assignments and blog posts. The mini is organized by months but you can customize your tabs to fit your needs.

I decided to use the gorgeous papers from the My Bright Life collection, the patterns and colors make me happy and they are perfect for a girly notebook!

Start by cutting 12 inside dividers of 8 1/2 inch x 6 inch. I used my Trim and Score and even cut 2 or 3 pages together!

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Use your Tab Punch Board to create the tabs. I did 3 sets of 4 tabs each. (Jan-Apr, May-Aug, Sept-Dec)

To create the first and last tab put the Tab alignment tab and create a medium tab.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

To create the 2 central tabs align your paper at the 6 Small mark, punch and then flip your paper and punch on the Medium size tab. To create the other central tab simply flip your paper to back side and punch!

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

I decided to use the Word Punch Board to write my months on the tabs. First I aligned the first and last letter to the 2 and 16 mark, punched and then aligned the middle letter to the 9 mark. I did this so my letters could be closer together.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Here are all my tabs, pretty right? I tried to make each set of 4 of the same color.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

To finish the notepad I created two 8 1/2 inch x 6-inch cardstock covers and bind everything with my Cinch. On each divider, I glued a monthly calendar that I printed directly from my computer.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

See how lovely the tabs look? You can even attach a colored paper on the back if you want them to stand out a bit more.

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

The cover is really simple, I just added the “Notes” word with some gold thickers.

tip: See the gold border on my cover? Before I attached my paper I covered the sides with gold washi tape!

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

I hope like this little DIY Notepad, I know I am ready to start organizing my year! Thanks for joining me and have a great day!

Create a DIY Notebook and organize your school year with this tutorial from @evapizarrov featuring the new Bright Life collection by @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

Eva

Supplies:
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733860)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733862)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733863)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733864)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733871)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733874)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733875)
My Bright Life Patterned Paper (733877)
We R Memory Keepers Trim and Score
We R Memory Keepers Tab Punch Board
We R Memory Keepers Word Punch Board
We R Memory Keepers Cinch

Filed Under: DIY, Tutorial Tagged With: DIY, Eva Pizarro, notebook

Summer Traveler’s Notebook

19
May
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Hey Pebbles friends and fans, Becki here to share with you a Summer Traveler’s Notebook that I created with the Sunshiny Days collection. I created this bright and fun Summer Traveler’s Notebook to give as a gift. This notebook makes such an easy, personal, Summer gift perfect for a friend or family member. I began by gathering a few supplies from the Sunshiny Days collection and a basic kraft covered travelers notebook. I chose some patterned paper, ephemera, stickers, and puffy stickers from the collection to craft my sunny vision of the notebook.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.

Supplies:

Sunshiny Days Ephemera 733609

Sunshiny Days Puffy Stickers 733611

Sunshiny Days Washi Tape 733612

Pineapple Float patterned paper PBSD12-33600

Sunshiny Days stickers 733608

Filed Under: Gift, Summer Tagged With: Becki Adams, journal, notebook, Summer, Summer journal, Sunshiny Days, Travelers Notebook

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Lucile Peignon
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Michelle Gallant
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