The Finished Product...
The Inspiration...
It was not this photo in particular but an idea/concept and I don't know where I got it. But if you have ever scene thosw notebooks where you tape a crazy design, paint the blocks and then take the tape off. That was my inspiration. However I wanted the lines to be a cool pattern and the blocks to be photos.
I found this picture here.
There are two parts of this diy. Theres the patterned paper and theres the creating of the photo blocks. I used this diy to put in a binder so I did it one piece of paper the size of the front of my binder that would fit into the clear plastic. If you want to do this on a notebook you can just put the pattern on the notebook cover or glue the paper on.
You are going to want to start with your piece of paper. If your paper is too small for your binder feel free to glue/tape two together. You are going to want to paint your paper (if you would like). I did not have yellow paint but I used yellow paper. This is an option if you don't want to paint the whole piece of paper.
Then for this design (you don't have to do this design if you just want the picture block part of this diy) you are going to want to take some paint the end of a pencil (the eraser).
And make polka dots!
Then take a small paintbrush...
And fill in the dots so that there are not gaps in the middle.
You are then going to want to lay your paper somewhere where you can get pant around it. I went in my garage and laid a magazine under the paper.
And then using some spray paint that I made and found in this post...
I spray painted the paper.
Allow it to dry before you do anything else to it...
As for the patterned block you are basically going to want to take pieces or scraps of a magazine, pictures, or any kind of paper (I used scraps of tumblr picture from an upcoming diy) and lay them on the out on the cover of your notebook or the piece of paper.
Once you like it you are going to want to glue the pieces down and then mod podge over them so that they will stay.
And you are done!!!!
I think this looks really cool and nothing is better than personalized school supplies. i hope you enjoyed this and there are many more school diys to come.
