Inspiration Journal

Looking for new paper craft ideas? Make an Inspiration Journal! Use old paper bags to create a meaningful upcycled crafts that you'll cherish forever.


 

Materials:

• 1 Unibind 8.5 x 11 Landscape Photobook Creator Book
• The Unibind Photobook Creator
• Brenda’s Pretty Flower Dies
• Mini Brads
• Aleen’s Original Tacky Glue
• 1 Starbucks Bag
• 1 Lowe’s Lawn and Garden Bag
• 1 random 12x12 brown bag that I got from the LSS when I bought some real paper
• Core’dinations Card Stock
• Plaid Apple Barrell Indoor/Outdoor Black Paint
• Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink Mocha
• Min Wax Cherry Wood Stain (marker)
• Silver Sharpie
• Yellow Sharpie
• My trusty Ryobi Power Drill

Instructions:

1. The Unibind Photobook Creator helps me make sure all the random brown paper pages are bound neatly, and stay securely in place.
    
2. Inside I bound about 20 pages of brown bag paper for ideas and sketches. I didn’t keep all the pages the same size…creative minds are rarely tidy, so this didn’t bother me.
    
3. I use Sizzix Flower Dies anytime I can and I loved altering and distressing Brenda’s pretty new flowers. I left the Starbucks logo on the book quite on purpose as I often stop in for a cup of inspiration in the afternoon, and I’ll love using my Starbucks book while I’m sipping my afternoon coffee.

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