Beyond the Garden and Greenhouse Gala Composition Notebooks

This is an inexpensive (well...relatively anyhow!) composition notebook.  I paid $3.80 each for my notebooks and keep reading how people bought theirs for $1.00 each.  I sure hope to find them for $1.00 somewhere!

My final classes for the year included this project.  There is so much you could add to the cover of these notebooks, but the paper I chose didn't seem to call for anymore embellishments.  The paper design does all the work for you.  Dazzling Diamonds is added to the centre of the flowers in the photo above.

This second photo was made with Greenhouse Gala DSP.  The flower was embossed with Iridescent Ice.

Supplies:

Paper:  Beyond the Garden DSP, Pacific Point/Greenhouse Gala DSP, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzaz

Ink:  Pacific Point (for sponging edges)/Pear Pizzaz

Accessories:  Whisper White Satin Ribbon, Whisper White 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Pear Pizzaz Poly Ribbon, glue stick, exacto knife, sticky strip, dazzling diamonds, iridescent ice.

Stamp Set:  Friends Never Fade

Family Card Box

The box is Dollarama $1.50.  I should have bought more than just one! 

  I CASED (Copy and Selectively Edit) the idea from Nathasha Zandbergen at Splitcoast Stampers.  She had done a 12 X 12 framed piece that is really beautiful.  I just sized it down and added a little more to cover the top of the box.  I would have changed the papers in order to make it look different, but I have tons of this Garden Greenhouse DSP, so stuck with these colors.

A strip of co-ordinating paper is added  to the box base to tie them together.  So there you have it - a sweet little box to house an assortment of cards either for yourself or as a gift.

A lot of different supplies used here!

Paper:  Greenhouse Gala, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso
Punches:  1 1/4" and 1 3/8" square, three hearts,
Dies:  Little Leaves, Swirly, Butterflies, Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge
Stamp Sets:  Itty Bitty, I {heaart} Hearts,
Ink:  Baja Breeze and Early Espresso to distress the white box
plus more!

Thanks for looking - hope you are enjoying your Labour Day weekend!

Cindy