The Finished Product...
The Inspiration....
I honestly don't know where this came from.
However this is really easy and is basically a patterned piece of paper with a design I drew on it.
So I used this design idea to put this in my binder which h as a clear plastic sleeve but you could also do this to a notebook.
I started off with a patterned piece of paper. You can find out how I made this here.
As for the design I found this one here, copied and pasted it into a word document and printed it out. You could also freehand your design but you don't have to.
One tip for printing off something you are going to use a stencil only and not actually what you printed out is to use the transparency slider in Word to make the ink gray and not black. This uses less ink and as long as you can still see the design....
And taking some wax paper I ripped off a piece that would fit over the design.
And using some clear tape taped it onto the paper.
Then taking a Sharpie I traced the design. Pencil and pen may not work for this. And the ultra fine ones are always better for details.
And then taking a pen I etched out the design. You could also use an exacto knife, but I don't own one so...
Then using the same clear tape I removed the wax paper from the paper and put it onto the ombre paper that I was going to put into my binder.
Then using a Sharpie again I traced the design. I actually didn't use the lettering provided I just wrote it on my own with a normal fine Sharpie. You could also you paint I think put I don't know how clean the lines would be.
And that is the finished project...
I think this is such a good idea to customize your school supplies because cute school supplies can be really expensive. And this is totally customizable with the pattern you do and the design you put on the front. You also print out your subject in a cool font. I always like to to not put my subject on my binder cover designs because I never really know until the first day of school what I am going to use it for. And even after that it always seems to change as the school year goes on.
I am now going to start posting regularly again (Sundays and Thursdays). Yesterday was just to make up for Thursday. I hope this inspired some of you to diy some of your own school supplies. I am thinking of making a master list of all my diyed school supplies so you could always reference that and click to what you wanted to know how to do....
Enough of my blabbering... I should go...
