And this is how it looks from the front:


And some close- ups to the front embellishments cluster.
I made it with Papericious chipboards and paper cuts and tried to stay as flat as possible as this is a notebook to use, not the canvas for wall decoration.
The only things that are non Papericious are those metal handle and the key hole.



Step by step tutorial:
1. This is a cheap notebook with hard cover I used for this project.
You can get them in each and every office shop.


2. Cut the inside with craft knife and cover the hard cover with natural canvas. I had two 12*12'' pieces of canvas that couldn't cover the whole notebook. So I covered one side and added the second piece from the back and made this pocket that can be used to keep  some notes or a pen.




3. Cut a piece of thin chipboard that  fits the cover  size and paint it with black gesso.


4. Paint  white gesso layer over the black one.


5. Cut a wood grain pink cardstock to the cover side and glue it over another piece of thin chipboard.


6. Cut the glued cardstock into strips.
Make the frame with first 4 thin strips over the basic painted chipboard as shown.


7. Add more gesso inside the frame making it as a wood texture.I found that the best tool to make it is an old tooth brush  where you cut out each second row.



8.Mist the wet gesso with Crushed Shells mist to get this " kind of the old" look.
 Let it totally dry!


9. Cut more cardstock over chipboard strips and arrange the door as shown.Don't try to make it perfect: this is an " old" hand made door; kind of add any wood piece you have one.

10. Add the metal handle and the key hole.
Secure the upper vertical strip with two small brads.

11. Hand cut the cardstock pieces you want to add to your embellishment cluster.


 12. Glue the cardstock piece inside the notebook - one side over the cover and second side over the notebook pages that were cut out before we wrapped the cover.

14. Make the embellishment cluster with chipboards that were painted with black and gold acrylics.
Arrange the chipboards and the cardstock pieces as shown.
Mist the " REMEBER" title with the same mist used over gesso.Glue the " door" piece over the canvas cover with good fabric to paper glue.
Enjoy your embellished notebook!


Papericious Products used :
Blush collection


Chipboard - Heart Collage

Theme Chipboard- Moments

Chipboard- Bubble


Chipboard-Moroccan Lattice


 See you around in about two weeks!

Hello and Namastey friends,

This is, Aastha Jain, feeling immense happiness in writing this time's post, because its the launch post of our BIRTHDAY MONTH. I really wanted to make this birthday month very special so I launched an absolutely new line of products. This is a long post so please bear with me a little.

Lets start with this time's paper packs.

We have THREE paper packs this time.

1) LETS GO : Many people demanded a TRAVEL theme paper pack from us and here we came up with the answer. The pack has fresh color combo, has 30 sheets of 10 designs and has a cut and create sheet as well. Available in 12x12 and 6x6 size. MRP 520/-

Time to reveal this month's CHIPPIES :

ART MEDIUMS