Paper Garden Projects Birthday Notebook with a Bookmark

This little ensemble was a gift for my sweet Aunt Kat's birthday. It's a homemade notebook with a bookmark that slides behind the image. The "Zinnias" flower stamp is one of the new ones in at Paper Garden Projects & the paper is good ol' basic grey. They remind me of Kat: bright and cheerful and beauteous! Love you Kitty Kat! Hippo Birdy to You!

1...how to make the zinnias image & the vellum sentiment

2...make the stitched bookmark

3...make a stitched notebook (& assemble the works) :o)

-1-

...make the image & sentiment
(zinnias in glass vases)

shiny! heeheehee

• Zinnas Cling Stamp
• Black ink & clear embossing powder
• Marrakech paper pack (Basic Grey)
  
• Paper piercer
• Turquoise & orange thread and a needle
• Double-sided tape
• Vellum cardstock
• White opaque marker (CTMH)
• Crystal Lacquer
• Copic markers
• Corner rounder

To create the image:

A) Stamp "Zinnias" & colour (these were embossed on gesso cardstock
B) Round top corners of the image
C) Colour. These were coloured with Copic markers: Apple Green G14 &  Moss YG67,  & Night Blue B97 with Aqua BG15 & Cadmium Yellow Y15 with Cadmium Orange YR07 & Lipstick Red R29.  The table was shaded with Cool Gray NO3  C-3  & blended with a colourless blender)
D) Cover vases with Crystal Lacquer & let dry
E) Mat on pieces of paper (these are from the Marrakech Basic Grey 6x6 pack & they have their corners rounded too) :O)



To make the sentiment:
(that cheating way to make it look like you stuck little letter bits on) ;o)

Step 1} print sentiment on vellum cardstock (using a font you love. This was a typewriter font with round keys)
Step 2} Emboss the printer ink with clear embossing powder & heat set
Step 3} Cut between the letters to make them look separate
Step 4} Colour the letters & distress the vellum with a white marker...



Step 5} Adhere the sentiment to the back of your image & mat; then pierce (to stitch) if you like

Step 6} Stitch away

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...make the stitched bookmark

• Vibrant teal Prism cardstock
  
• Marrakech paper pack (Basic Grey)
  
• Paper piercer
  
• White & orange thread & needle
  
• Double-sided tape
  
• Tombow Monomulti
  

Step 1} To create a little Vellum Window for the top of the bookmark

A) Fold a piece of cardstock in half & punch with a keyhole punch (SU)
B) Sandwich vellum cardstock in the middle



Step 2} Pierce & stitch it (hiding stitches at bottom.)



Step 3} Add two strips of patterned paper on either side. This is Marrakech (Basic Grey 6x6 pack)



Step 4} Stitch all the way through the bookmark for double stitching (that will show nicely on either side. Just make sure your thread is long enough so you can....



Step 5} Hide the thread ends: tuck the end of the stitch under the patterned paper & hide by adhering (i love that tombow monomulti)



Step 6} Create a decorative panel for it & pierce it



Step 7} Highlight edges with a white opaque marker (CTMH)



Step 8} Stitch the decorative panel & Adhere it to the bookmark



Step 9} Glue on a matching flower.

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...make a stitched notebook
(& put it all together)

• Vibrant teal Prism cardstock
  
• White cardstock (note paper)
  
• Scor-pal
• Paper piercer
  
• Turquoise thread & needle
  
• Marrakech paper pack (Basic Grey)
  
• Foam mounting tape or dimensionals...
• Scallop punch
  
• Key hole punch (SU) or any shape you like

Step 1} Cut Vibrant Teal cardstock (to measure 11 by 6 inches)
& Score and fold notebook cover & Adhere scallops onto ends



Step 2} Cut, score, fold & scallop the ends of white note-papers (I used 4 sheets cut to measure 11 by 6 inches & folded in half.) In hindsight, I should have rounded the corners, by the spine, too. I'll have to do that when I refill it for her. :O)



Step 3} Open note-papers to the middle (centerfold) and line up inside the notebook cover



Step 4} Pierce for stitching (or Sew on a machine, if you like)



Step 5} Remove the note-papers from book cover for a moment to start off your stitch knot it & adhere end



Step 6} Stitch the spine (of course you could use a sewing machine, if it can handle the layers. I am clueless in that department, so I stick to this.) :O)



Step 7} Hide thread ends after the final stitch

Step 8} Adhere a decorated panel to the front of the notebook. This is that BG Marrakech and some more stitchin' 



Step 9} Dry fit the decorative bits-Line up the bookmark behind your image to see where to put foam tape



Step 10} Add foam tape to the back of your image (or dimensionals) with the bookmark in place.  [I went a little nutso boingo here, hey?But Kat's worth at least a hundred and seventy three foam bits.] :o)



Step 11} Adhere the image (after removing the bookmark) 

Step 12} Slide the bookmark under the image

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