Hello crafty friends, we are celebrating a new Alex Syberia Designs release with a blog hop and giveaways.
The release is loaded with cute images and clever tools for papercraft.
For today, I wanted to share super easy ideas to get crafty with some of the goodies in the release.
No colouring involved, no ink blending. All is just plain simple and super duper easy to achieve.
As I have been hooked on bookmaking and binding, I made a personalized notebook cover for Emma, my 9 years old daughter.
I’ll be sharing cardmaking ideas using goodies in this release on an Instagram Hop in a couple of days so stay tuned.
Notebook Cover Recipe
From the new Alex Syberia release I used:
- Giraffe-ic Stamp Set
- Giraffe-ic Friends Die Set
- Spring Garden Stamp Set ( flower at the background and gold heat embossed sentiment)
- Spring Garden Die Set
- Classic Foliage Die Set
Other Goodies Used
- Zutter Bind It All Machine in SALE (50% off)
- Stacking Hearts die set
- Be Bold Uppercase Alpahbeth
- Gold Rich Wow Embossing Powder.
****Find the complete supplies list at the bottom of the post
The Book Making Process
This book cover measure 6 x 8.5 inches.
The paper for the covering measures 1-1/8″ more than the greyboard for the book cover ( 7 – 1/8″ x 9-5/8″). Then socred at 1/2″ inches all around the edges.
The scoring allow perfect centering and nice finished corners.
- So first, I made the notebook covers ( I’ll be sharing how to make them soon)
- Then, I stamped the large floral image from the Spring Garden Stamp Set on the front cover using Simon Says Stamp black ink and the Misti.
- I also stamped the Giraffes from the Giraffe-ic Stamp Set over a piece of scrapbook paper and I die-cut them using Giraffe-ic Friends coordinating dies.
- To add contrast on this very subtle composition, I gold heat embossed a sentiment from the Spring Garden Stamp Set on black. Then I die-cut it using a cordinating dies from the Spring Garden Die Set.
- Using dies from the Classic Foliage Die Set I also die-cut some deocrative leave for this project.
- I also used the larger heart dies form the Stacking Hearts die set . This are very large as tall as the giraffes.
- Next, I assembled the book and I just layered the die cuts over the cover
- To adhere everything, I used foam squares and Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.
Notebook Cover
These are super easy and affordable to make ( I’ll be sharing how to make them in a next post.. soon)
You need a soft or a hard cover, inner pages, binding wires, and a binding machine.
You can get creative and punch the cover diefferently.
Oh!! and of course, to do the binding I also used the Zutter Bind It All Machine that has been in the market for over 10 years.
So the machine is not new but is new to me and I thinkis fantastic.
I’ll be writting ab log post about it shortly + video to show you how to use it.
You can find the Bind It All Machine in Amazon UK here or at USA Scrapbook.com here they have the machine is clearance for only $63 ( down from $128)!!!!!
You will also find online different binding wires. For this note cover I used 1/2″ wire but I would usually use 1″ or 3/4″ wires that are big just for decoration.
Blog Hop
Giveaway
Alex Syberia Designs is giving away the full release bundle, valued at £280 ($340) in total, and giving away a £15 gift card to 2 lucky winners!
A winner will be announced on the ASD Release Blog Hop post on February 20th.
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Happy Crafting.
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Bibi
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GREAT IDEA! I love the journal cover! Darling giraffes!
Thank you for the very informative instructions! I love your darling giraffe page! So cute!
This is so creative. My mind doesn’t think like that. so cute. I love it.
What a lucky girl to have such a wonderful notebook from her mama! Your work is beautiful Bibi.
I dearly love notebooks, and I love that you created your own cover. And with those giraffes that I am in love with!! I can’t love this notebook cover enough. Thank you for sharing and I’m looking forward to notebook cover tutorial.
Wow! This is incredible!!! I can’t wait for you post about doing the notebook binding, it looks so fun!
what a wonderful idea. this looks so lovely on the front of the notebook.
what a wonderful idea. this looks so lovely on the front of the notebook. I love giraffes
So sweet! 😊🦒💕
So sweet!
I am in love with the giraffes. And what a cute way to decorate a notebook. Great job
Love your notebook page!
So clever! I love that you did a notebook cover!
What a sweet and fun idea!! Love how you made the giraffes so elegant looking on the book cover. So pretty.
What a wonderful idea. Simply adorable. Thank you for sharing.
This is darling! Your daughter will love the book. Such a great idea to use the two different sets to complete this project, and I love the simplicity of the black and white color.
Love this idea, so awesome!
What a positive sentiment to put on the front of a 9-year old’s journal. School can be very tough at this age. I have just made a card for my 7 years old grandson and struggled to find a stamp set in my stash suitable for younger kids. This is perfect.
I bet your daughter was tickled pink to get this notebook that you personalized for her!
love your creativity – so fun
Very cute journal page.
Love this wonderful book cover using these giraffes! Thank you for sharing!
Great idea! The giraffes are so cute and so much personality!
What a great way to use your stash creatively and create something wonderful to give away or keep! Love the clever mix of florals, hearts and the cute giraffe along with the personalised name. Love it!
Such a beautiful notebook cover. I’m sure Emma absolutely loves it!
Terrific idea to get the most out of your supplies. I love the simplicity of you project
This is absolutely darling! Love the design!
That page is gorgeous! You made those adorable giraffes look downright elegant!
Fabulous notebook project! I love the adorable giraffes!
What a great use of these stamp sets!
Very fun use of the giraffes. I really like the background and the way you have designed this sample.
Such a fun idea as a notebook cover and I love the unique idea of using neutrals for it.
What a wonderful book cover… I adore those giraffes!