Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #10: Dream Book

Hello crafty friends!  Well, another month down and before you know it, we'll be busy with the holiday season.  UGH!  Right now, I'm enjoying the beautiful weather.  Working outside has been very nice, even though it's rather warm at times, but I like it hot.   I have been working on some projects inside and outside.  This is going to be a 2 part blog post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog.

I'm working on a journal/sketch book for a young lady.  Every girl needs something to write, doodle and/or just put pics of their dreams, hopes and desires.  (It just so happens, she looks like some of the Saturated Canary images.)

I'm creating a journal/sketch book this month.   I've look high and low for a book that has blank pages and line pages contained in one book....no luck.  So, I bought 2, one blank page sketch book and one lined journal book.  My idea is to take some of the line pages out and use spray adhesive to attach to some blank pages.  I have all these ideas in my head and hope they work out, that's why there will be a part 2 of this post with what I'll do with the inside.

Here's the outside of the book.  I used the sketch book because it has a hardcover and I wanted more blank pages.  I wrapped the whole outside of the book with cardstock.  Picked out some designer papers that seemed fitting.  The metal corner pieces are from China and I used rub and dub paints to distress and antique them.  As you know Saturated Canary closed her store, but Krista has re-opened it and sells images in set of 5, but will never sell her subscription images from this past year and upcoming year.  I'm not sure if this was a store image or a subscription image, but it's called Ellie Awesome Sauce.

For the spine of the book, I used 2 ribbons.  The bottom ribbon is a burlap with lace on the edges.  The top ribbon is a blue cotton with burlap edges.

Since the book didn't have a bookmark or ribbon marker, I made one, using a leather cord, some beads and a charm.

I decided to fold the cardstock over the edges of the book and it looked unfinished inside.  To give it a clean look, I put some dp on the front and back inside covers.  This is the front cover.

This is the back cover.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Hopefully I'll have more for you next month!

I would like to enter my project in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create: #196 Anything Goes/optional Anything Spring
• Addicted to Stamps: #147 Flowers and Butterflies
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge: #14 Anything Goes
• Crafting From the Heart: #157 Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends Challenge: #56 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge: #21 Anything Goes

stamps: Saturated Canary: Ellie Awesome Sauce
paper: Recollections: light blue & mustaches, K& Company: Que Sera Sera dp
embellishments: Celebrate It: ribbon, YNS: gumdrops, lace hearts (from stash), metal corner pieces, Prima: flowers, leather cord, beads, Charmalong: charm