As promised, here's the project I mentioned earlier this week. I've already got a diary all ready for 2012! I am not normally ready with a diary this far ahead of the new year (although, did you realise how close we are to Christmas already?!) but I found this diary in my local stationery store and couldn't resist it! It had clear covers and came with some pre-printed inserts so you can select the patterns you want for the front and back covers. But since I like to have original one-of-a-kind diaries (check out the ones I decorated last year, here) I decided I needed my own, exclusive Stampin' Up! inserts!
You know I love the Cheerful Treat DSP, and I thought about using that. But I also love the Mocha Morning Specialty papers, and have been drooling over them since I got them. Two of the patterns have a gorgeous flocked design on them and I know I'm not the only crafter who loves to run her fingers over those and feel the luxurious texture! I have the goal to USE everything that I buy from Stampin' Up! in the new catalogue though, because I've got that habit of buying and drooling and not using... (does that sound familiar to any of you?). So I decided that I had to use the paper to decorate my diary a few weeks ago, and here it is!
At first I was just going to use one sheet of the paper for the front and back covers, but I couldn't decide which one to use. They are all so fabulous! So then I had the idea to use strips of the paper to show off all 10 of the patterns (the two flocked papers are single sided). After that it was a simple matter of die cutting the numbers using the Timeless Type Sizzlit dies, gluing them to the paper with a 2-way glue pen, and I was done!
I'm one step closer to being organised...
Have a fabulous weekend!
1 comments:
That looks lovely Rachael. I'm not quite as organised as you yet.
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