I enjoy decorating notebooks and memo pads to send as customer thank you gifts after a purchase. I recently made two:
Aren't they cute? And here is the inside:
I happened to have the mini pens, one blue and one a copper color, and chose the cardstock colors to match - Azure Afternoon and Copper Clay, with Fresh as a Daisy Designer Series Paper for one and the Stargazing DSP with Tahitian Tide for the other.
These are easy to make - just measure the length and width of your pad, and include how thick it is. Then cut your cardstock slightly longer than the length measurement, and twice as wide - be sure to add in the thickness of your pad (times two) to score in the center of your cardstock.
Before adhering the pad to the inside, add a little piece of looped cardstock or ribbon to hold your pen/pencil, then glue the pad on top of it.
This pad got a Copper Clay cover, with a layer of Azure Afternoon. Then I cut a piece of the Fresh as a Daisy DSP for the top layer and added a little label. Easy!
For this pad I used the Stargazing DSP along with Tahitian Tide cardstock. As this DSP didn't have flowers on any of the pages, I cut some daisies with the Cheerful Daisies dies, adding a spot of color with a Sponge Dauber to the centers.
Of course, since these were gifts, I had to wrap them:
I always have a stash of pretty packaging on hand, and found these two now-retired gift bags. So I just dressed them up with matching tags:
I used a slightly-less-than 2" piece of cardstock and punched the top with a now-retired tag topper punch. Adding a piece of coordinating DSP and a tag was all that was needed to dress up these pretty bags.
A simple and sweet gift that can be made quickly, but packs a punch when gifted to a lucky recipient!
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