{"id":5852,"date":"2013-07-26T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewholesaler.biz\/blog\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:18:21","slug":"form-meats-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewholesaler.biz\/blog\/form-meats-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Petaloo Flower Notebook – Form Meets Function"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a list maker. I am always writing things down and making lists of things to do, buy or ideas. So this also means I have loads of notebooks all around the house, in my bag, next to my bed and in the car. So naturally when I have the chance to make a cute little notebook using left-overs and pretty stuff then I jump at the chance. I also like using things that I can re-purpose into a functional item.<\/h3>\n

For my notebook I wanted to make a pretty cover using a few supplies, but mainly the pretty Petaloo flowers<\/a>. I particular favour the Jewelled Florettes and Gypsies in the range. The flowers are beautiful and delicate with amazing colour \u2013 but not too bulky for my style of scrapping. I like the fact that even when I use them on my layouts they can still comfortably fit into the page protectors without making my albums bulge at the seams.<\/p>\n

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But back to my little Petaloo flower notebook.<\/p>\n

I used an old book to create my cover. I simply tore off the existing cover from the book and used my big guillotine to cut off the spine part and also trimmed down the top and bottom edge for a slightly smaller cover.<\/p>\n

I now have 2 parts \u2013 a front and back cover. I used ordinary white cardstock<\/a> or thin paper for the inside pages. I cut them slightly smaller than the outside covers and then punched a set of holes into the pages using an ordinary office hole punch. For my cover I used the inside punched holes as a guide and drew guide circles on the inside of the covers, and then punched the holes using my crop-o-dile.<\/p>\n

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The cover was decorated using a Celebr8 oval frame that I embossed using AC Embossing Powder<\/a>. I inserted a printed vintage photo inside the frame and then finished off the bottom of the frame using a combination of the Jewelled Florettes and Jewelled Gypsies from Petaloo.<\/p>\n

These pretty flowers are indeed a basic scrapbooking necessity \u2013 they are one of those products that can turn something simple into something spectacular in a few easy steps. A must have for your basic stash and your next pretty project.<\/p>\n

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There are loads of designs and colours available in the Jewelled range \u2013 perfect for all your crafty needs.<\/h3>\n

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