Monday, July 13, 2009

Altered composition book



Materials used:
Butterfly from The Angel Company’s Bug me anytime set
Brown ink
1 3/8” square punch
1 sheet of tan cardstock
2 sheets of 12x12 paisley paper
2 sheets of 12x12 light brown paper
1 sheet of light pink (blush) cardstock
6 silver eyelets
6 bronze eyelets
sand paper
composition book
Crop-a-Dile

Directions:
Using a pencil, trace the front and back outside cover of the composition book on the backside of both pieces of paisley paper. Do the same thing with the light brown paper only trace the inside of the covers. Cut out the outlines you made of the covers. Using your choice of adhesive, attach the 2 inside covers to the composition book. Next take the outside covers and line them up against the black binding then attach. Take the sand paper and smooth around the corners of the composition book. It makes the book look better and gives the pages a nice aged look. Using the tearing ruler, tear off a piece of the blush cardstock. Make sure you tear it on the other side too. Cut to size to cover the black binding on the composition book. Before adhering the blush cardstock, attach the eyelets. I put 2 right together and then spaced the next group 1.5 inches from the first one. After you have all the eyelets in, attach the blush binding to the book. Be sure to just use adhesive on the edges of the blush binding not the middle. If you adhere the middle, the book will not open right. Using the square punch, cut 3 blush squares out and then 3 tan squares. Use the brown ink, stamp the butterfly on the blush squares. Adhere the tan squares so they look like diamonds. Then adhere the blush squares over the tan.

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