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by Elizabeth Weaver
Here's a great idea to make for quick and easy notepads doing
something you like to to anyway - SCRAP!
Open a new image, 650 pixels wide by 1600 pixels high. This will
be a blank canvas for one notepad. Decorate it as you would any
layout and add some text. Add photos, layout thumbnails, elements,
whatever you want to look at every day! Here I've added one of
my favorite layouts and used my kits Garden
Blooms and Garden
Dreams. Leave a bit of room at the top for binding.
Now open a new image that is 11 x 8.5 inches, to represent a
page of paper. Fill the background with white or not at all. Lay
your "notepad" pages across it.
A standard size of paper will fit three to a page. I generally
do three different ones.
Now you can print these at home or run off color or black and
white copies. I usually do several color and a bunch of photocopies
as well. The elements on the right are from my "Backstage
Guitars" kit.
Cut your paper into thirds and trim to the design if you wish.
A sharp paper cutter is recommended to keep the edges as straight
as possible. When I make these for myself, I just staple the top
of the stacks in two or three places. But you can get fancy for
gifts by hole punching two holes at the top and threading ribbon
or colored string through. For the latter, attach it to a piece
of sturdy cardboard, or thin painted wood cut just larger than
the notepad sheets. (drill the holes in the wood, too)
On the example on the left in the picture below, I made a "pocket"
for the looseleaf sheets of notepaper, and put magnet strips on
the back. This was for a gift. I ran a scrapped image for the
front through my Xyron so that it would stick to the pocket.
I've used the kit "Magic
Spell" by Lauren Bavin, "Magic"
word art by Tina Chambers, and "Basic"
page kit by Meryl Bartho, as well as a doodle or two of my own.
These were great fun to make!
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