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Paper Crafts for Summer and All Occasions - Altered Memo-Pad in Natural Look
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Altering items can be so much fun and addicting. Nothing around your home will be safe again once you start. This item was once an ordinary Post-It™ memo-block. By creating a cover for it, it becomes an attractive vintage holder for your memo blocks. You can use scrap papers and decorative elements to make each holder a unique designer piece. By creating a few of them, you can also use them as small gifts.
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For this project you will need:
- small memo-pad
- tan corrugated cardboard
- small piece of pack paper
- old vintage stamps or vintage papers with travel motifs
- tan colored feather
- brown packing paper
- white cardstock
- tan colored jute ribbon
- natural and tan colored mulberry paper
- 2 bronze eyelets
- hole puncher
- craft glue
- 2-sided strong self-adhesive sticky tape
- motif puncher with heart or desired motif
- ruler
- stick glue
- package twine
- scissors
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Instructions:
1. Measure your corrugated cardboard to a size that is twice the height of your memo-pad plus 1-2 cm allowance and the exact width of your memo-pad. Cut the cardboard out and fold in half matching the short sides.
2. Place a piece of 2-sided sticky tape to the backside of the memo-pad and stick it inside of the cut out cover.
3. Punch a hole at the bottom of both open edges of the cover and attach an eyelet.
4. Glue a small piece of packing paper onto the white cardstock. Cut out 2 same sized triangles and glue these then to the bottom right and left corners of the cover. See picture.
5. Tear a piece of mulberry paper and glue it to the center of the cover.
6. Cut out 2 vintage motifs and glue them to either corrugated cardboard or to a piece of tan cardstock (or leftover cardstock from step 4). Cut a border around the motifs.
7. Glue these motifs now onto the cover. Insert the feather under one of the motifs for an extra effect.
8. Punch out a shape and use 3-D pads to stick it onto the cover.
9. Insert the twine through the eyelets and tie together.
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