Eileen Hull Inspiration Team - The Great Outdoors

 

This month over at Eileen Hull Designs  we are featuring "The Great Outdoors".  I love this time of year, the leaves are changing colour and there are always lots of jobs to do in the garden before winter arrives. So I thought why now make a Garden Journal and documents the Great Otdoors!

I used Easy Cut Adhesive to adhere the gorgeous Belagio Cork fabric onto my mat Board. I love this fabric it reminds me so much of the bark of a Silver Birch Tree, so perfect for this theme.

Once the fabice was in place I finally decided to use the Passport Die for my Journal.

I love this die as it has a spine, cover and also page that fit in the completed book. I didn't want to waste anything, so I cut out two cover and two spines, so I have a spine cut out ready to use in another book.

I always use a wet glue to attach my spines to my front and back covers, and I'm loving the iCraft Ultra Bond glue, it;s perfect for the job. As you can see I have all the mod cons to hold my journal together whilst it dries.

As you know I hate waste and recycle is my middle name, so it's no surprise to anyone that most of my signatures involve brown paper packaging in them. It makes great textured pages, and it's free.

I found this gorgeous paper pad in my stash from Paper Artsy, it's called Chatsworth, I'm not sure if it's still available as I've had it a while.

The papers co ordinate beatifully with the brown paper, and I alternated sheets before cutting them with the Passport die. As you can see it even cuts the holes ready for the signatures to be stitched together.

I used waxed linen thread to sew the signatures directly into the Journal, tying a knot on the outside of the spine at different heights for each signature. It just add's a little extra detail and it saved my elastic for another journal.

A couple of the pages have secret hiding places for tags.

So there you have it my finished journal all waiting to be decorated on the inside, using the fun Autumnal stickers from Paper House. Now to find my gardening gloves!

Happy Crafting,

Elizabeth x

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Pocket Notebook Cover with Belagio Cork Fabric

O do I love this fabric, it's fabulous!

I found a tiny notebook that belonged to my Mum, (she was a stationery addict, who do I take after you ask). I have it on my desk next to me so I can write idea's in, but it's so small I keep loosing it inbetween things, so I decided to make a cover for it.

The cork fabric is just gorgeous, and that hint of gold makes it stand out on the desk so I can see it! I hid a ribbon underneath the frame, so it could be tied closed. And of course I couldn't help but add a little more bling with gold wax.

I kept things simple by covering a piece of Matboard with the fabric and cutting the notebook, making sure it was right upto the edge of the board, so it would leave me a piece leftover that would be big enough to die cut the Trinket Box Frame from.
I tied a piece of brown ribbon around the spine to hold my little book (and a tissue).

I used Rangers rose gold card to cut out the inside covers, and trimmed them down to keep the spine clear, so it would fold.

Just look how tiny my book is, no wonder I kept loosing it, and I love the tiny rusty staples so cute.

So where can you find Belagio cork fabric?

• Hobby Lobby carries packaged cork in 18" x 15" pieces in 9 different patterns in the notions department.
• There are two types - a natural and a natural with gold at Walmart stores that have fabric departments. It is sold by the yard.
• As for the entire collection, many quilt and craft shops around the country carry it by the yard and in packaged 18" x 15" pieces.
• Online the Belagio cork fabric is available on Walmart.com and Amazon.com.

Happy Crafting

Elizabeth x 

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