Fabric covered composition notebook - part II ~

I find that I take a notebook pretty much everywhere that I go!  So I wanted to have something that catches your eye! 

I had a chance to finish up the set of composition notebooks that I had started yesterday.  These have fabric permanently attached to the covers.  

Then I decided that I wanted to jazz them up a little bit.  So I added bright ribbons and buttons!

I am thinking that maybe these would make good gifts for some little holiday!

I have 3 lovely ladies in our lives that would probably like to get one of these!!

My 13 year old daughter tried to confiscate this *toadstool* one - but didn't succeed!!!  It's my FAVORITE!  I thought of you LISA when I added the rainbow buttons to this one!!!

So maybe, just maybe these will get wrapped up for gifts - or maybe I will just hog them for myself!!

Happy crafting
Steph

Fabric covered composition notebook~

Well with this coupon craze in full swing - my purse is seamingly unorganized with coupons clipped together along with shopping lists for each of the 25 stores I shop at! (not really 25!  But that's what my husband thinks!)  I started carrying a notebook in my purse so that I can work on my shopping lists while waiting in line at the bank or sitting at the bus stop! 

Let's admit it - the cover of a composition notebook is about as attractive as a wart on the end of your nose!  Most of them have some type of cow print on them in some dark color or another!  So I decided I was going to cover it!  I search many sites and found lots of tutorials for permanently applying fabric with pod podge.  However I can see myself always having a notebook in my purse from now on - and I do not want to have to cover another one everytime I put a new one in my purse!  I opted to make a removable one so that I can swap it out when the notebook is all used up!

I used 1 fat quarter - then I lined the back side with a contrasting color - (you don't see this when the cover is on the notebook - only when the cover is off)  Next I sewed a complimenting ribbon vertically up and down the long edge of the front.  I used a ponny tail elastic as a closure!  I sewed buttons on the front to wrap the ponytail around to keep the notebook closed when it is not in use!!

these are views of the front and back covers - I tucked the pages in so that you could see.  Now I can remove this off of here and put it on a new one when this note book is full!!!

I also made 5 of the permanently afixed fabric!  But I want to embellish them before I post!!

Happy crafting!
Steph