Crafty CardMakers Recycle an Element

 I am hosting the challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers this week and I chose the theme of using a recycled element in your project.  For a friend I created this notebook using part of a cereal box for the core of the book.

I cut all of the pages, cover and core etc with a large round die cut .  For the cover of the notebook I  decorated it with Lavinia fairy stamps along with some other stamps from my collection. I used Distress Inks for the background along with gel pens, posta pens, Pentart glitter and Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Once I had created my cover I added some scrapbook paper from my stash on the back cover, the next step was to decide where to place my hinges on the from and then cut the front cover to allow the book to open.  I did not have the right colour of hinges so I painted the hinges with gesso and then with the purple colour to match the cover. 

For the pages for the book I used regular typing paper and glued them at the top of the page and then glued them to the top of the back cover.  I decorated the pages with some few small fairies. 

Added glue above the line to all of my pages and glued the pages into my notebook.

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