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Saturday 16 August 2014

A short while ago...

...I won some lovely goodies over at Kath Stewart's blog.

You might remember this lovely bundle...
 ...of lovely Craftwork Cards deliciousness.

Well, it has been sitting on the coffee table near the sofa 'glaring' at me since it arrived. I have picked it up a couple of times and flicked through the beautiful papers and die-cuts. I've even taken a couple of sheets of PP out of the stack...looked at them...stroked them...and put them back.

I just could not think of something to make with all this loveliness.

Then I found a small tatty looking spiral bound note book in the drawer. I'd only used a page or two but the cover looked very sorry for itself where it had just been thrown in the drawer and forgotten about.

In no time at all, the wire binding had been prized open and the covers removed...covered in PP...and returned to the note book and the wires bent back into shape.

A bit of decorating with blooms...
 ...pearls and ribbons...
 ...one of the die-cut tags with Anita's glitter letters spelling out "Notes"...
 ...a close-up of the blooms & pearls...
...and another close-up of the ribbons attached to the spine.
One handy little bag-sized note book...
...now in a condition to be used rather than discarded in a drawer.

Thank you Kath for this lovely bundle of goodies and I hope you like what I have finally managed to make with a very small amount of it....................................................................

10 comments:

Marianne's Craftroom said...

Beautiful. Fabulous win and you have made something very lovely out of something tatty. Far to nice to use of course. Enjoy your Sunday

Redanne said...

What a lovely way to use those gorgeous papers, your journal looks far too beautiful now to be tucked up in a drawer - I have those papers and you may just have inspired me to cover one of my tatty old journals too now! Anne xx

Virginia said...

Oh that's gorgeous Toni, such a pretty pretty book!

Claire said...

Oooh very pretty indeed.
Claire xx

Sandra said...

Oh it's so pretty

Allison said...

fab book
Allisonx

debby4000 said...

Beautiful cover.
luv
Debby

Nina said...

I live this! It makes me want to play with my bind it all again!

Lori said...

What a beautiful notebook! Love all the ribbons!

aussie aNNie said...

Love this note book, awesome creation.xxThe Journey is the Start