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Sharon Kay

Sharon Kay

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Jen...please write me! I'm buying this paper template...and I am buying Libby's kit as well...I would love some "tips" to make it easier.

It looks like your book is thicker than the template...and I'd love to make this! I would like to get it made in the next week or two at the most! I couldn't get a PM to go through to you. I want to do this soooooooooooooo bad!!! ...but would like it to be adapted to look like yours!

Please!
 
Hey Sharon Kay! I just now saw this. Sorry!!! I'm going to PM you now. But for those of you who are curious...my box is no thicker than Lauren's template! I printed out the templates (there are 2 "parts" - 1 for the "cover" and 1 for the "pockets") on plain white cardstock and cut them out to make a pattern. For this project, I just used black cardstock for my "book" cover, cutting and scoring as instructed in the templates. I printed out the polka dot papers for the pockets to cover an entire 8.5x11 sheet, then traced my pattern, cut out, and assembled. I glued a ribbon down to the inside of the cover before adhering my pockets. Using my finished pockets as a guide for size, I cut a front and back cover for the notebook and then just cut out about 25 sheets of plain copy paper for the inside pages. I used my bind-it-all to bind the notebook.

The cover of the notebook and the outside of the whole thing I designed digitally in PSE, sizing my document so it fit the fronts of each, then printed and glued down. That's it!! The crayons fit inside the pocket PERFECTLY!!! (they're the large toddler crayons). The only thing I wish I would have done differently is somehow figured out a way to put a top or flap on the crayon pocket. As it is, when you close it up, if you lift up that left side first, the crayons want to slide out as you close it....so you have to be careful to close it the opposite way (not sure if this makes sense, but you'll see what I mean when you're done).

I'm still not sure how practical this is for my 2-yr-old (ha!), but I think it would make the CUTEST gift and for a slightly older child would be GREAT!!!
 
I LOVE this project!! I SO wish I would've made something like this for Kendra when she was younger (and I was more crafty. LOL!)
 
Libby Weifenbach said:
I LOVE this project!! I SO wish I would've made something like this for Kendra when she was younger (and I was more crafty. LOL!)
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Ummmm Libby....you lost your craftiness when your daughter got older?! You could have fooled us! I love your kit...and I can't wait to get started on this project...AND...be ready to scrap with it as soon as I have some Disney pictures here in 3 weeks!!!
 
JenTapler said:
Hey Sharon Kay! I just now saw this. Sorry!!! I'm going to PM you now. But for those of you who are curious...my box is no thicker than Lauren's template! I printed out the templates (there are 2 "parts" - 1 for the "cover" and 1 for the "pockets") on plain white cardstock and cut them out to make a pattern. For this project, I just used black cardstock for my "book" cover, cutting and scoring as instructed in the templates. I printed out the polka dot papers for the pockets to cover an entire 8.5x11 sheet, then traced my pattern, cut out, and assembled. I glued a ribbon down to the inside of the cover before adhering my pockets. Using my finished pockets as a guide for size, I cut a front and back cover for the notebook and then just cut out about 25 sheets of plain copy paper for the inside pages. I used my bind-it-all to bind the notebook.

The cover of the notebook and the outside of the whole thing I designed digitally in PSE, sizing my document so it fit the fronts of each, then printed and glued down. That's it!! The crayons fit inside the pocket PERFECTLY!!! (they're the large toddler crayons). The only thing I wish I would have done differently is somehow figured out a way to put a top or flap on the crayon pocket. As it is, when you close it up, if you lift up that left side first, the crayons want to slide out as you close it....so you have to be careful to close it the opposite way (not sure if this makes sense, but you'll see what I mean when you're done).

I'm still not sure how practical this is for my 2-yr-old (ha!), but I think it would make the CUTEST gift and for a slightly older child would be GREAT!!!
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Thank you for writing back Jen! This is going to be for my teenaged anti-mickey anti-princess boys that I am taking to WDW...hoping to have them journal each night after we go to one of the parks...write down their favorite rides and what they did each day. ... so no crayons...but maybe colored pencils if they so decide...but guessing we will just end up putting a notebook in each side with a couple of pens. I'll see what develops! lol Thanks so much for writing back.

What size RING did you use on your book?

Congrats on the DST Hybrid Chick award! You truly deserve it...and I can't wait to sit down and get all inspired from your gallery!!
 
If you want to make a flap for one of the pockets, just make 3 pockets, and cut off the side parts on one of them. You can trim down the length of the flap that's left, or just adhere the whole thing to the back of the pocket. The flap should slide right in the pocket, or you could use small magnets to keep it closed.
 
BrodoNY0123 said:
If you want to make a flap for one of the pockets, just make 3 pockets, and cut off the side parts on one of them. You can trim down the length of the flap that's left, or just adhere the whole thing to the back of the pocket. The flap should slide right in the pocket, or you could use small magnets to keep it closed.
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Good idea! You could use the Velcro adhesive dots to close it too! Thanks for adding this info before I did the project! lol
 
I used the 5/8 inch rings for this and I don't know for sure how many pages are in that notebook - I just kept cutting and stacking pages until it looked like the right thickness!!! Real technical! ha!!

You could easily do a pen loop in the middle or something, or make one that hangs.

And great idea Col on the extra flap! I didn't even think about needing a "cover" for that pocket until I was done, and then kicking myself for not thinking of it. Oh well!!! Next time!
 
JenTapler said:
I used the 5/8 inch rings for this and I don't know for sure how many pages are in that notebook - I just kept cutting and stacking pages until it looked like the right thickness!!! Real technical! ha!!

You could easily do a pen loop in the middle or something, or make one that hangs.

And great idea Col on the extra flap! I didn't even think about needing a "cover" for that pocket until I was done, and then kicking myself for not thinking of it. Oh well!!! Next time!
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Jen, I bet if you followed what I said earlier, you could glue the extra flap inside the already made pocket just as easily. :)
 
ok now I have bought both Disney inspired kits here...and that template...got one page designed and printed out (with my son's name on it)...and he says "hmmm why did you use that paper on my page?"...sigh. Then he gets into it...wants this this way and that that way...but doesn't want to do the work himself. LOL So now page #2 for the cover is printed and he has cut out the pockets and folded them. Will be interesting to see how it turns out with his directions. lol
 
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