Prettified Journals

We had a BIT of snow here this weekend….so after shoveling and plowing…

sledding with the kiddos

cocoa makin

and cookie bakin

image: martha stewart

We did some crafting…..

I ended up making some

DECORATED EMBELLISHED BEAUTIFIED JOURNALS

 

Here’s the back to this one:

Here’s how…

Taking some inexpensive notebooks (a la Target – some picked up after back to school for only 12 cents each!)

cut scrapbook paper to framecover the front

round the corners

punch holes through the front and back cover

string pretty ribbon through the hole and knot in the front to make the ‘handles’

Embellish…

Embellish….

Embellish….

(here’s the back of this one)

Another journal:

 

check out the ‘handles’

   

do you like how the journal traveled all around the house to for its photoshoot?

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and another version (brighter and more colorful!)

 

I’m making a bunch for the kids teachers – great personalized teacher gifts!

I’m also gonna  make more for the kids to keep their own journals during the winter break ahead

and

some for me {just cuz they’re pretty and fun to keep you to-do lists in!}

Chat soon -
NORTHERN COTTAGE

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