I wanted to do a fast and easy tutorial using these kraft notebooks from Paper Tales.......
I love these things. The kraft cover begs to be embellished while the inside has lined brown pages that are just perfect for writing on. So, as with any project I start, what I intend to do and what I actually do are two completely different entities. It never fails. It's as if my brain takes on a life of its own and refuses to comply with the plan. Here is what I was going to show you.......
Here is what I ended up with as soon as I sat down and grabbed a paintbrush.....
Totally different. Although, I do have somewhat of a plausible excuse involving not being able to find the same flowers in my craft room and not having the wider ribbon....and, then, I got distracted by painting on some vintage book paper and finding my white signo pen......frankly, it's all a blur.....
So, anyway, here is what I started with: a perfectly blank kraft notebook.....
I started to throw some paint down on it in random directions.......
resulting in this.....
After looking for those flowers that I kew where somewhere and not finding them, I decided to paint on some book paper and then cut out a heart......
I glued it down and then added some white paint arount the edges.....
I thought it was all looking a little too pale, so I added some brighter pink......
Oh look! I found some flowers. I toyed briefly with doing the flower thing but then spied some tissue paper..........
I cut out a heart from the tissue paper and then applied some glitter glam to adhere it to the heart......
After it dried, I stamped on my sentiment and outlined the heart with a white and black pen.....
Here's another one I did......
They are so much fun to make and are perfent little notebooks to carry around. Talk to you later! Karin
