Inspiration Journal

By: Ken Oliver

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:

The Unibind Photobook Creator helps me make sure all the random brown paper pages are bound neatly, and stay securely in place.
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.
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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redcatartbeads 291 9228

Dec 24, 2015

thank you for sharing the project is very creative very inspirational and I'm really sorry I can't use it and give the author credit I agree with michelle and I am a very experienced crafter not only nearly years of experience yeah I'm including the school years - but I am a craft instructor for over years now There's so many ways to bind pages - which one was used here and why Are the pages double or single Is the cover wood cardboard something else - the drill on the materials list seem to suggest wood what is the crinkle effect on the cover some kind of paste rice paper are the pages inside also decorated The flowers on the cover look handmade was colored paper used or where they colored with one or more of the dyes in the materials list were they even purchased and only look handmade…Read More true that I can make up answers to all these questions and make my own design and then i can hardly say that mine was inspired by this one

michelledelis

Sep 15, 2012

I really love this project but for someone like me that dont have the gift of creativity and knowledge of crafts. It would have been nice to see this project step by step. You didnt really explain what was used where. Im sure a crafter would figure it out but for me? Nope, lol. I'm going to try this anyway because I love it. Thank you