COMPOSITION NOTEBOOKS or JOURNALS

Another excellent way to use retired Designer Paper is to cover Composition Books to be used as special notebooks or journals.  Here are three that use a combination of retired and current products.  I know that you can adapt any of them to the use of current products and hope these may give you an idea or two. For the back and the insides of the covers, I use either Designer Paper or plain card stock, depending on what I have and want to use. These three all have DP of different designs from the front cover but from the same package so that they coordinate well. That's what I like so much about Stampin' Up!  Coordinating colors and designs are so easy and look great.



PRAYER DIARY

I needed a new Prayer Diary where I keep my prayer lists and follow-ups along with notes about cards sent and other communications that apply.  This is an altered Composition book using Rose Red Designer Series paper from a year or two ago.  The alphabet is the retired Brushstroke Alphabet.  The ribbon looks that looks white in the photo is actually Pretty in Pink 1/4" grosgrain. The darker ribbon is Rose Red.

If I use this template to make another covered journal, I will make the panels a little larger to show off the variety of designs in the papers.  My original thought was to leave the larger space and sprinkle small hearts on it, but when the rest was assembled, they made it look way too busy, at least for my taste.

The back cover is plain Rose Red CS while on the inside covers, I used the additional patterns of the designer papers.  Now that I've used most of the retired Rose Red DSP, it is time to order the current one. I can't believe that I will actually order some more DSP - I have way too much in my stash.  You'll be seeing more of it as I continue to use it up. 

Happy Stampin'