Felt Initial Notebook. Hi, my name is Kim and I’m addicted to felt!
Yes, I’ll add a little felt to just about anything, and today I’m sharing how I made these sweet little felt initial notebooks. Use pretty Spring colors to create an Easter gift that perfect for any age! This is a fun project to do with a group of children or adults with just a few supplies. Here’s how it’s done… You’ll need: NotebooksWool FeltEmbroidery FlossStick PinsSharp ScissorsGlue StickNeedlePrinted Initial. Scripture/book cover tutorial. I love Thursdays.
Husband works Monday-Thursday every week (4 10's) and so in my mind Thursday marks the beginning of my weekend. In light of that little bit of randomness, Happy Thursday!! Let's rewind back one and a half months. So I get this email from a very nice lady saying she digs the scripture cover on the ol' blog. Okay, yes you need to do some simple math. Recycled magazine coasters. My latest after-dinner-while-watching-TV project: woven coasters made from magazine pages.
To make a coaster like the green one above: 1. Tear out 6 magazine pages. Cut off the ragged edge on each, then cut each page in half lengthwise. I stacked them and cut them all at once with an X-acto knife and ruler. 2. 3. Photo Tile Coasters. Last Christmas I almost had a breakdown...
How to make colorful coasters. Bookworm Gift Basket. Once upon a time there was someone searching for the perfect gift.
They traveled far and wide throughout Blogland looking for the gift that would be perfect for their one true love. Suddenly, they stumbled across a blog with magical powers. Within that blog they found what they had been searching long and hard for, the perfect gift. Delighted they presented their gift to their one true love and all of Blogland rejoiced. And they lived happily ever! The End For the bookworm in your life, whether they are your one true love or not, this is a gift sure to please! Not a Scrapbook.
Scrap-booking (is there such a verb?)
Seems so forced, and well, last-century. Next time you have a lot of pictures to work with, why not make a little booklet? This makes a nice souvenir of a special day or trip, and is a wonderful, small gift. Heres how: In your favorite page layout program, divide the page into quarters. Layout the pictures following the guidelines shown above. Print out the first page of your booklet, and put the page back into your printer to print on the backside.
Fold your double-sided page in both directions, as shown. You can continue to add pages, but you must add them in sequences of eight. All the photographs in this tutorial are courtesy of the talented photographer Jack_G, and are available through a Creative Commons license. Book Cover. Welcome to The Southern Institute, I'm so glad you're here!
Make sure you stay in the know... subscribe to our newsletter! Today is going to be fun! Cute Notebook. Just a notebook but it's all hopped up on cuteness. simple fun notebooks from wal-mart....with many many ribbons tied to the side. that's it. this is the mysterious crayon project!
Using old crayons...i made new ones. (you can make ice or bake in them too.) first break the crayons up and put the pieces into the shapes on the trays. set the silicone trays on a cookie sheet for stability. preheat your oven to 250-ish. put sheet of trays into the warm oven and check at 10 minutes. when all the crayons pieces have become liquid....they are done! Remove the sheet from the oven and let cool for at least an hour...or 3 or 4. the liquid wax was beautiful! Walls Notebook. Vintage Map Notebook. Along with the straight up Washi tape peel and stick style notebook covers which need no instruction, I also whipped up this pretty one and thought I'd share the how to with you, I love the look of woven anything and paper?
Well it just looks so cute using maps. You'll need two pieces of a Map/Atlas etc that have a mix of watery and land mass areas to give a mix of colours. I chose one piece with solely land and the other was mostly water. Mark up strips on the opposite side you want to use to avoid ugly black marks. So that you can read the name places you'll want one map piece to have horizontal strips and one to have vertical strips my strips measure 1/2 inch wide and long enough to wrap around a mini composition book from top to bottom (vertical pieces obv) and front to back (horizontal pieces)leaving an inch around all sides. Next I weighted the bottom of the Vertical pieces down with some cans and started weaving. Handmade Books. The last couple weeks I have been learning how to make books as part of my internship at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory.
One of the most basic sewn bookbinding structures is called Japanese Stab Binding. It involves lining up the pages and covers of the soon-to-be book, making a series of holes, and sewing along the edge of the stack. These books are all made using scraps of leftover and recycled paper. The covers include handmade papers, maps from an old atlas, and an old field guide for identifying trees. The smaller books are made using lined notebook paper, pieces of scrapbook paper leftover from making cards, and empty Kleenex boxes.