How to decorate your notebook?

A notebook is a universal gift for yourself and your loved ones. However, in order for it to become special, it needs to be decorated. From the material in this article, you will learn how this can be done and what ideas are suitable for people with different hobbies.

When choosing a design, age, the interests of the person to whom the notebook is intended are taken into account.

Most interesting topics:

• traveler's notes;
• a sketch for creating fanfiction;
• improvised recipe book;
• a glider of a creative person;
• stylish magazine for a girlfriend;
• a collection of modern aphorisms;
• miniature personal diary (questionnaire);
• a collection of his own poems;
• planner of desires;
• calendar of achievements;
• watercolor album.

The original idea is to create a notebook-organizer for storing small flat-shaped gizmos. You can arrange a notebook in the style of a diary for recording funny sayings of children, special memories.

You can decorate the product outside and inside. At the same time, the decor style should be uniform.

The external design of the notebook can be very diverse. To make it look professional, it's best to remove the cover.

If this is not possible, the cover can be made like a cover. To do this, measure the length, width of the front, back side, thickness. Then small seam allowances are made and covers for notebooks are sewn.

Felt, natural, artificial leather are used as materials. Covers made of cotton, calico, satin, velor, microfiber, velvet look beautiful.Leather or textile cover can be supplemented with bookmarks, elastic bands, clasps.

If your notebooks have thin covers, you can decorate them with homemade covers. To do this, use textiles with a filler, cardboard, colorful colored paper, glue (pencil, PVA, thermo).

Finishing paper (textiles) are glued to cardboard blanks, cut to fit the size of the notebook. For ease of use, the cover is decorated with strings.

Woven and leather covers, decorated with ribbons, ornaments in the kanzashi style, look beautiful. In addition, buttons, knitted flowers, braid, centimeter tapes and even decor for doll wardrobes can become decorations for covers.

For example, it can be tiny shoes, hangers from the Barbie wardrobe. They also use lace to decorate a notebook with their own hands.

The original decor option is polymer clay covers.

They can be simple and unconventional. For example, you can prepare a laconic cover with a modest pattern. If you have sculpting skills, you can decorate the cover with stucco molding. The theme of the drawing depends on the design idea.

Flowers and butterflies made of foamiran (porous rubber) can become a spectacular volumetric decoration of the cover. Glued brooches, chains, sequins look no less impressive on the covers of notebooks.

Also, the surface of the front cover can be decorated with voluminous and flat decor for scrapbooking. In addition, an ordinary newspaper and clippings from glossy magazines are used for decoration. The applique technique can be classic or volumetric.

The decoration of the inner content of the notebook-album depends on the chosen idea. The easiest way to do this is with special stickers for albums and notebooks. Today they are presented in a huge assortment.

Thanks to this, the possibilities of design topics are increased. The stickers are small in size and in general style. They can be glued to paper in a specific pattern.

For example, they are able to decorate a profile notebook or complement the design of a personal diary.

If you have some drawing skills, you can decorate some of the pages by setting the desired mood.

Don't forget about the design of the first page. Usually, sketchbooks or notebooks with special paper are used for such ideas.

If the sheets are fastened on split rings, you can do otherwise. It is enough to cut out beautiful pictures from magazines or print, then hem them to common pages.

Crepe paper pages inserted into a notebook look spectacular. It can be blank or patterned.

Pages with anti-stress coloring pages look no less impressive in homemade notebooks. They set a certain mood, make the craft special. Small inserted cardboard pages are also original.

Pages with tasks, cut elements look cool in homemade diaries.

Depending on the size, small files are inserted into the notebook, which can be adapted for photographs. File pockets can also be textile ones with stitching along the edges.

You can decorate individual pages inside with ordinary colored pencils or felt-tip pens. For example, this way you can decorate not only the first page, but also some others. Drawing ideas can be the most unexpected.

This can be a plan of desires or ideas for the next month. Alternatively, you can draw a table of to-dos and notes, in each cell, sign the motto of the day.

The original project is a fun diary. It may contain surprise pages. For example, colorful envelopes are added to the notebook, you can store surprises or secrets in them, write down your vivid emotions so that you can read them in the future.

We suggest referring to the photo gallery, which demonstrates a lot of possibilities for decorating notebooks.

• Decorating with polymer clay makes the gift special.

• Examples of internal content using different pages and colored paper.

• A way of decorating a laconic diary with a polymer clay owlet.

• Homemade notebook on rings with envelopes and craft paper inserts.

• A spectacular cover option for creating a collection of traveler's notes.

• The idea of ​​decorating the internal space of pages in the form of a colorful calendar.

• Example of a textile cover using traditional sewing decor.

• An example of a spectacular decor painted in a uniform color after gluing.

• A laconic model of a cover-cover with decoration of the front side with textile flowers.

• The idea of ​​collage pages for special notes, the use of stitched pages and stamps.

• Two-color stucco pattern for the front side, made of polymer clay.

• Interior decoration of a notebook using flat applique technique.

• An example of choosing stickers for decorating thematic diaries on rings.

• Design of a notebook with antistress coloring pages, separate coated sheets, event planning.

• An example of decorating pages with colored self-adhesive paper, creating thematic applications.