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Sunday 5 December 2021

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Nigezza Creates aka Gez, Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator 


Thank you for visiting my blog, I really do appreciate it. Yesterday on our Facebook group Come Crafting With Jill & Gez, Jill & I we did our monthly live crafting session. We do this on the first Saturday of the month. We set a monthly challenge and this is drawn in the live and we send a small prize to the winner. Why not join us next time. 

This month the theme was Neutrals. This is my favourite colour family but not Jill's! i was really interested in seeing what she came up with. Her cards are just stunning so do remember to check it out. I have made a notebook from scratch for you. You could also cover a pre-made notebook but what is the fun in that?! I love making little books myself. 

We had loads of technical difficulties with this live and thankfully everyone stuck with us despite have to re start about 4 times! There seems to be a few changes and one is that the second person joining cannot turn their camera. So my crafting is in the mirror image! Makes for interesting viewing! 



Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Measurements and Materials

  • I used an old A4 narrow lined exercise book with no margin
    • You could use different paper to start with or even plain copier paper
  • I removed the staples from the book to give me large folded sheets
    • This would not be necessary if your paper pad is not in book form or using copier paper
  • I cut the fold section off the pages all together 
    • This gave me the seperate sheets - I used 3 double sheets
  • I trimmed the length to 11"
  • I then cut @ 5 1/2" on the long side
    • This gave me 12 sheets but I only used 10 sheets
    • This I felt was the optimum size of notebook 
    • This gives 40 sheets back and front or 20 pages
  • I grouped the pages together and trimmed off the overhang with my craft knife and ruler
    • This made the pages 4" wide
  • For the cover I used Early Espresso cardstock
    • 8 1/4" x 5 5/8"
    • Score on the long side @ 4 1/16" & 4 3/16"
    • This gives a very small spine to the notebook
  • I used a long arm stapler to attach the pages to the book
    • They could easily be sewn in as well using the 3 hole pamphlet stitch which I have demonstrated many times in my Junk Journal videos
  • To decorate the cover I used the Blackberry beauty DSP on the front and a sheet of Gray Granite from the 6" x 6" DSP pack
    • 3 7/8" x 5 7/16"
  • To finish off I stamped 'Don't Forget" on some Gray Granite 1/2" wide
    • Just a note would have been better but I didnlt have a current stamp set with that on it!
    • I used the Treasured Tag Pick A Punch to punch the ends
    • I layered this on 3/4" strip of Gold foil also punched with thsi punch
    • I layered this onto Early Espresso
    • I stuck the plain Gray Granite on the back cover
  • To finish off each page was stamped with the flower from Dragonfly Garden with Early Espresso


Now watch the video tutorial to see how this was made :-) 

Video Tutorial

Time for the closeups!

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Jill's cards


Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch

Come Crafting With Jill & Gez Facebook Live Replay: Making A Notebook From Scratch



I hope you like this project and will give it a try. To make sure you don't miss any of my projects why not subscribe to my YouTube channel and subscribe to my newsletter and click the button to follow my blog :-) 




I will be back tomorrow, until then ...

Happy Crafting!

Gez xxx 



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