Greeting Card Cinch Notebooks

Bound these pretty little notebooks using The Cinch.

Used a box of blank greeting cards for covers and pastel and white lined index cards for pages.

Covers were cut to size from the cards and glued front and backs together to create sturdier covers.

 Lucky that the backs of the cards were also colorful!

 Notebook dimensions: 2"x3", 2"x4", 2"x5", 3"x5" and several at 3"x 4". 

Lovely garden of notebooks!

Mini Clipboards

I had all the materials in my stash that I needed to make these mini clipboards.

Used mini bulldog clips (.75"), chipboard, Echo Park Scrapbook Paper off-cuts & Gorilla Super Glue. Pads used were 3.5" x 5" lined notepads, mini sticker pads (1.5" x 2") and 3" sq. Post-it Note pads. Used the Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper to round the corners of the boards covered with scrapbook paper front & back. 

I used a tiny bit of super glue on the backs of the clips to attach them to the chipboard which was cut slightly larger than the pads. 

The pads can be removed and new ones added when empty. Added colorful mini pens and some charms I had. 

Fun & simple project! Who doesn't love a mini?!

  

Mountain Laurel Blooming

           The Mountain Laurel 

         has been admired for its 

           beauty, resilience, and 

        its symbolic connection to 

         love, purity, and strength.
 

Coffee with Emily Carr

Emily Carr 1871 - 1945

"It was not handling of paint but handling of thoughts which overwhelmed me. Trying to get around this problem, I took always in my sketch-sack a little note book. When I had discovered my subject, I sat before it, asking myself these questions, What attracted you to this particular subject? Why do you want to paint it? What is its core, the thing you are trying to express?

Clearly, and in as few words as possible, I had answered these questions from myself to myself, wording them in my little note book, presenting essentials only, discarding everything of minor importance....This saying in words as well as in colour and form gave me double approach."

Hundreds and Thousands is the record of the life, work and thoughts of a great individualist, an extraordinary woman.

Read her bio here 

Chunky DIY Spiral Planner

Another DIY skinny planner, but CHUNKY! Got carried away adding loads of inserts!

Measures 5" x 8.5" with a laminated cover. Spiral bound using The Cinch. A cheerful, undated/perpetual planner:)

Created weekly and monthly templates printed onto colored cardstock and added folders to store papers.

Each month is separated with a colorful, plastic tabbed blank index card.  Lots pockets and sticker elements.

Additional papers and cut-a-parts used are from Echo Park Scrapbook Pad Collections.

View a short video flip through below 

Skinny DIY Spiral Planner

Fun DIY project! Spiral bound planner using The Cinch and measures 5" x 8.5". A happy, undated/perpetual planner with a laminated cover:)

Created weekly and monthly templates and printed onto colored cardstock with additional folders for notes.

Included tabs for each month along with lots of flips, flaps, pockets and sticker elements.

For added interest, colorful paper clips were used to include cut-a-parts from Echo Park Scrapbook Pad Collections.

View a short video flip through below 

Forest Gnome...Tree Stump Dweller

More Whimsy!