Hello!
For today's AALL & Create project I have made a dust jacket to pop over the little memo books that I use. I decided to use some of Tracy Evans' beautiful nature inspired stamp sets along with background stamps and stencils from Autour de Mwa and Janet Klein.
I use many little notebooks throughout the year and often buy cheap memo books. I decided to make a pretty, nature inspired jacket to wrap around the memo books. The back flap can be used as a page marker. The jacket can be reused time and again and is even reversable in case I feel like a change.
This is what it looks like. It has two flaps that fold inside the book. The back one can be used as a bookmark.
This is what it looks like on the memo book. I added bull dog clips to secure the jacket, but it could easily be secured with reposition tape as well.
I added some elastic string as a closure. Inside the cover, the spine is strengthened with red tape and washi tape.
The front:
The back:
How it was made:
I started with a piece of A4 300gsm card and trimmed it to the length of the memo book. I smooshed Distress Oxides to replicate sky and land, then used stencils to stamp patterns.
Next I added some background stamping
Elements from Papaver Poppies were stamped, coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The bird stamps from Pinecone and Wire Birds were stamped and fussy cut, but left uncoloured. The birds and their backgrounds were stamped onto the book jacket and the small foliage stamps from Papaver Poppies filled the ground between the poppy flowers and seed heads.
White paint splatters were applied over the cover.
The back of the book jacket is decorated too, but more plainly. This makes the cover reversible.:
Stamps used:
#389 Pinecone - Tracy Evans
#394 Wire Birds - Tracy Evans
#395 Papaver Poppies - Tracy Evans
#399 Framework Elements - Tracy Evans
#294 Tile Pile Autour de Mwa
Sencils used:
#59 Weathered Tiles Autour de Mwa
#116 Tres Fiori Kanet Klein
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That's all for now.
Thanks for stopping by today.
xoxo
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