Saturday Step x Step - Altering and Making a Notebook

Hey there guys, it is my turn, Terry to show you the Step x Step. This time I will show you how to alter and make your own notebook, so you can give it someone as a present. So what do you need to make this notebook? Let's see...

I used papers from Pion Design, Wendy Vecchi stamp set Art for You, stencils from Dyan Reaveley, Wendy Vecchi, Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap paper, Embossing Paste from Wendy Vecchi, Distress Inks, a spatula and a plain notebook. Usually when I start crafting I don't know what I will end up with, and in between I might change my mind too, so it's difficult for me to come up with the products before I start... lol!

First I played with the Pion Papers, this one is with butterfly. The colours in this paper is amazing, my favourite color purple, and I choose the Dyan Reavely stencil with the leaves on it... at first...

I cut the fabby papers and got the size of the front and back of the notebook. I used the paper distresser to roughen up the borders and played a bit with Distress Ink to give it an older look.

Of course the inside of the notebook has to be altered too. I found a piece of the Pion Papers with butterflies on it and cut the paper to make it fit on the inside... to finish I used the Distress Inks again.

 At first it looked like this, a sort of a pocket on the inside...

And this is what it looks like after glueing the butterfly papers on the inside. With the stencil I have shown you that there is an opening on the inside so you can put a label of small tag in there.

After I worked on the borders on the front of the notebook, with Vintage Photo Distress Ink I used the Leaf stencil from Dyan Reavely and worked with Wendy's Embossing Paste. On top of the embossing paste I played with two colours of embossing powder. First I put the pink color on top...

After the pink embossing powder was heated up I played with the rusty brown embossing powder.

I did the same procedure with the back of the notebook, but with the Flower Stencil from Dyan Reavely.

The inside needed something and then....it hit me, the Tissue Paper Wrap from Tim Holtz would do the trick!

See...

And then I thought why not stamp up the inside of the papers too with that fabby swirl from Wendy's stamp set. So I worked on the papers with the swirl, and then I decided that the front needed a swirl too. I even embossed it the same way with the leaves on the front.

 So what still was missing was a tag of course for the inside of the notebook....so I cut a tag out of a piece of white paper distressed it with the paper distresser.

I placed a piece of the Pion Design Paper on top, and...

I placed a piece of white lace and a purple bow on top, and in the corner at the bottom a Metal Corner from Tim Holtz. I worked on the borders with the Distress Ink...

And yes, I also embossed a swirl from Wendy Vecchi on the little tag....

So what I also needed was of course Wendy Vecchi's fabulous butterfly from her stamp set and worked on it with the rusty embossing powder and after, the UTEE, to give the butterfly a finishing touch.

So there you have it. This is the front of the notebook. I have to confess, perhaps you think "why did she place a piece of lace (colored and all) on the side?" Well I messed up, and when I was stamping up the words 'with love and best wishes' I spilled some distress ink. So I thought I will cover it with the purple lace, and no one will notice eh? 

So here is the inside of the notebook where I stamped a butterfly on the tag too....I hope Wendy will forgive me for stamping up only a half a butterfly, lol.....

And the back of the notebook... (I know this picture is not ALL that, so probably will make another one).

So guys, I hope you have had fun checking out this post and I hope I have given you some simple tips on how to make your own Altered Notebook. This is a fast project, perhaps with all the pictures it does not look at all like it is a fast one but I made this notebook in about an hour. So if I can do it, so can you...

Have lots of fun,

Hugs Terry

 xxxx

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Pion Design Paper - For Mother 12x12" Scrapbooking Paper	Pion Design Paper - Fairytale of Spring 12x12" Scrapbooking Paper	Pion Design Paper - Alma′s Sewing Room 12x12" Scrapbooking Paper	Pion Design 6x6" Paper - Grandma′s School Book	Pion Design Grandma′s Schoolbook 12x12"
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Friday Focus - Melissa Frances

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Hey there guys....it's Terry, and it's my turn to give you a Friday Focus on the fabulous Melissa Frances range.......and Linda has lots of Melissa Frances products in the The Funkie Junkie Boutique... you should really check it out...your really gonna love what your about to see.... Ok, here we go.....

When Linda asked me to focus on the Melissa Frances range at first I did not have a clue what to make....but it did not take me long before the ideas just popped into my head. I really like to work with the products, the lace is completely yummy and the embellishments are fabulous to work with.

I had this nice empty lace package from Melissa Frances and thought that I could re use it...so I took my pencil and drew around the package onto a piece of Pion Design Paper.....cut it out and glued the two pieces together.

I took a paper distresser and worked on the edges and then got the Vintage Photo Distress Ink and gently blended the borders with it.

Then I got the Embossing Paste from Wendy Vecchi and her fabulous diamond stencil and played with it onto the what was going to be a label of some sort.....

Next I took the Ranger Embossing Powder, this time the rust one....and heated it with my heat tool. Did you know that if you use the Embossing Paste from Wendy you get a fabulous result playing with embossing powder on top? 

So this does not look like much....but bear with me you will see the end result pretty soon....after you check out my WHOLE post, lol......well there are just a "few" more pictures, lol......

I took the Dylusions Spray and the Adirondack Colour Wash out and sprayed it onto the heart embellishment.....it comes in the off white colour but for this project I wanted a different colour. The Espresso was a bit too dark for me so I sprayed some white Ink Spray on top......

Perhaps you think it is still too dark....I thought so too so first I played with the embossing powder and after that I worked on it some more...you will see the result shortly......

I did the same with this fabulous embellishment with the white roses on it....sprayed it and played with the embossing powder.....to give it a rusty look....

So here you have it, see the difference.....I think the Rust came out pretty good don't you think....on top I used some more Vintage Photo to finish it..

I used the same routine with the off white roses from Melissa Frances and sprayed it and embossed it.....

This is the way the roses look after they have been "embossed".

The Melissa Frances range has some awesome lace too.....different kinds and you can work with it in so many different ways....I was thinking about a flower....so I took the lace and curled it up and at the end I made a sort of a rose with it......

I think this lace is really wonderful and it was used underneath the rose.....

So this picture lets you see what the end result is...On top a rusty rose for the centre and some underneath the bigger rose that I made out of two sorts of lace.....

So now it was time to place the lace with flower onto the sort of a label and underneath some more lace....it looks a little like a ballerina eh? lol.....

I had a little star in my closet and thought that would look great underneath the rose.....

Remember the heart.......well this is the finished heart with lace underneath, you can do so much with a piece of lace and an embellishment.....on top the diamond and the sentiments to finish.....

I took the "whole" label and wanted to hang it up on the wall, so the easiest way to do that is to use this gorgeous hanger from Melissa Frances...and the fabulous thing is if you want use it for another project, just unclip it and used it for something else....how clever is that eh?

So I hope you like my Friday Focus and hopefully I have given you some ideas for using and altering the products from the Melissa Frances range. And remember, if you have purchased some goodies from Linda's shop, you can re use the package to make something out of that too! Be sure to check out the Friday Focus section at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where for this week only you will find items from the Melissa Francis range are discounted by and extra 15%.

Hope you will have lots of fun. We would love to see what you make.

Hugs Terry 

xxxx

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Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink Reinker