A New Book Art Project: Cloth-Covered Journal

 As promised. I have been developing a new Book Art project.  I have to give a shout-out to my talented niece, Krysta Snow, who first taught me how to do rebinds of books.  I have modified and simplified what she taught me to make a craft that can be done in a hour but produces a lovely result. I use some basic materials--a craft covered journal (available on Amazon), cloth, glue, and scrapbook paper--to make a lovely cloth-covered journal that you can then decorate in a variety of ways.  Here is a video tutorial that shows how to cover the journal.  This is a picture of the book I covered in the tutorial.  It is a blank journal and has a cloth covering and decorative paper endpapers. I have been having such fun with this the past few weeks. 

Of course, this is only the foundation for many possible decorations.  The first I did was an iron-on.  It was super simple to make.  I checked out a cricut machine from my local library (Did you know many libraries have them for check out?), found a free "note" cut to make, and then ironed it straight onto the cover. 

Over the next couple of weeks I will share other ways I have decorated my cloth covered journals. 

Do you get it? It's a "note" book.