Happy notebook | Happy Days Collection | Anna Komenda

Hello crafty Friends. It’s Anna here with my second June post. This one is related to the first post, where I shared with you four cards for the teachers of my daughter. I also made matching notebook to go with one of the cards, using the same colorful and pretty “Happy days” collection.

As always I made it from scratch, starting with the covers, through all the pages and connected everything with a transparent, plastic spring. My covers are cut from the white cardboard and wrapped with blue cardstock. You can use pattern papers for this purpose too but it would require using up two the same ones from my precious pile and I wasn’t ready to say good bye to them. That’s why I chose blue cardstock.

Covers are decorated with beautiful rainbow pattern called “Lollipops”, both on the front and on the back. I added this fun texture of stitches using jagger. You can but it very cheap in sewing stores or departments. As this notebook will be used frequently, I couldn’t add too many embellishments to the cover. They would fall out easily and it would be hard to write on the left sides of paper. I picked few pieces from Ephemera Pack and few flowers from Floral Ephemera Pack and glued them down.

Inner covers are decorated with filled with words “Definituve” paper. Back cover also got a useful pocket for any loose pieces of paper or keepsakes. Notebook carry 120 sheets of checkered paper and few decorative dividers. Those dividers are made with A5 Paper Stack as they are just a perfect size!

Each one is also decorated with ephemera pieces and stickers from 6*12 Sticker Sheet. I even added stickers to some of the pages to make them prettier. First divider could be a little bit bulkier so I also added “My days” wording with Chipboard Titles.

With all the elements ready, I could use my old but still good Cinch machine to bind everything together. I could use metal wire but I chose plastic spring instead. They are both equally good. I just liked the transparent look better.

I hope my little gift will bring joy to my kid’s favorite teacher. Now it’s time for two months long vacation! Summer is in full swing and we can’t wait to soak up the sun.

Thank you so much for spending your precious time with me. Sending you lot’s of hugs.

Anna