Altered Notepads
A few days ago Debbie Olsen had a cute pattern for her Notebook with a Purpose. I loved the way her template has pockets so that you can hold loose paper on one side and you can just slip your notebook in the other!
I thought this would be the perfect project for our church ladies group's craft night tonight. Debbie was nice enough to let me know that she got her notebooks at Walmart in a 3 pack but I didn't have time to get to the store so . . . .
I thought I'd see if I could alter Debbie's template to work with these cut in 1/2 Jr. Legal pads - remember those?! It was easy enough to do and still only uses one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock! (If anyone wants the dimensions, please let me know!)
I made 2 different designs, to suit different tastes and to make sharing supplies a bit easier in a large group.
The notebooks are so great for lots of things, shopping lists, wish lists, prayer lists, lists of lists - lol! I hope the ladies love making these tonight! I'm going to have them all precut and scored to save time, so I need to go get working on that! Thanks Debbie for the great template!Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, WW, Lovely Lilac, Certainly Celery, Flowers for You dp, Bali Breezes dp, Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate, Stamps: True Friend, Sprinkles, Time Well Spent, Inks: Stazon Black, Tempting Turquoise, Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive (marker), Accessories: Circle punch, Scalloped Circle Punch, Watercolor Wonder crayons, Aquapainters, Brads, Purple grosgrain, Pomegranate stitched ribbon, Accents & Elements Felt Flowers, Dimentionals, Corner rounder punch, Word Window Punch, Glaze pen, White gel pen
Fabulous projects Julie!!
ReplyDeleteThese are great, love the different designs.
ReplyDeleteThese are awesome - adore both designs! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love both designs. They are awesome.. I love lists!!!
ReplyDeleteReally cute Julie - love both of them! What a great way to keep your notes! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
ReplyDeleteOh I love this!!! I have tons of those pads and nothing to do with them....I just couldn't resist cheap lists. LOL Thanks for sharing, this is perfect!!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteYour project came out really nice, love the second one =)
ReplyDeleteyou make beautiful work!! :)
ReplyDeleteThese notebooks are a great idea!! Just found your blog and it is fabulous - love your banner - and your work is amazing!!
ReplyDeleteI'll bet your ladies loved these! Both are so pretty, they probably took half the evening deciding which to make. At least that's how I would be. LOL.
ReplyDeleteThese are just beautiful, Julie! Great job! (Good thing you went with a different size too--a lot of people have written me that they can't find the mini legal pads.)
ReplyDeleteAll of the ladies had a great time, even the ones that don't enjoy doing crafts.(I speak from first hand knowledge as one of the ladies there last night.)Hey, Julie- you didn't let on that you were the one who did the designing too! Thanks again for such a fun evening and letting a few of us get creative w/your supplies.
ReplyDeleteWow Julie!! I love these, they are so fabulous!!!
ReplyDeletethese are fantastic! I know they loved them
ReplyDeleteJulie,
ReplyDeleteThese are great, as usual. Can you send me the dimensions? This would be a great project for my mom's group, I'll just have to scout out pad sizes since they are all different here.
They are adorable, Julie! I'll bet the ladies LOVED them! I would!
ReplyDeleteBoth of these are fabulous, and sooo pretty!! Great job with them!!
ReplyDeleteThese are fab!!!
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