Gratitude Cards Made into Notebooks

Simple project using boxed 4 inch square gratitude cards and turning them into mini notebooks.

Used double sided tape to adhere two cards back to back to create the covers and binding them with The Cinch. For the pages I used colored cardstock. 

Fun little pocket size notebooks to toss in your bag!

Easy, Peasy! 
 

Boho Cinch Notebooks

Bound these 4" x 5.5" notebooks using The Cinch, blank greeting cards and assorted colored cardstock & papers.

Also created boho stickers using digital images and printing them onto matte clear laser/inkjet full sheet labels.

For the covers I glued  two cards back to back on the top and bottom leaving an opening for side pockets. I also added a few of these pockets throughout the notebooks.

If interested, you can view a short video flip through of the notebooks below. 

More Mini Clipboards!

     They're so darn cute, I just had to keep making more!

 I couldn't stop!!
 

Greeting Card Cinch Notebooks

Bound these pretty little notebooks/memo pads 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.

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