The Finished Project...
You can really use this with anything but I used it with my agenda which conveniently comes with slot on the front cover to stick papers in like a binder does.
The first thing you are going to want to do is cut your paper to the size of your binder or notebook however you could do this on a notebook or the normal cover of an agenda (without paper if you wanted).
And then you can do whatever you want to decorate the cover of the notebook. You find find how I made this here. I jusrt mixed some dark blue with dark purple and light purple.
And then using these colors I spray painted which you can also find the steps too in the above link.
And on the bottom quite discretely I wrote a quote which says "Life is too important a thing to ever talk seriously about."
And because my agenda has the pocket I just slipped some cute tumblr photos on the front however you could also glue these done or add some pictures of your families or friends.
However you want to customize it.