December Daily Altered Book Cover

Hi everyone!!! I've always wanted to create a December Daily Journal but to be honest it has always been kinda overwhelming. One thing that stopped me dead was the thought, do you have to take a photo everyday and what if you don't have anything to share for that day??? What to do??? Well, after scouring the internet...Pinterest especially...blogs, YouTube, kicking ideas around with a group on Facebook and my son paying for a December Daily online class to take...YAH!!! So I'm creating one for this year!!! :-)

The December Daily I'm going to create is actually an old cookbook for teenagers dating back to 1969. 

The spine was intact and I could cut out the pages with no problem whatsoever.

  

After cutting the pages out this is what the inside looks like. Next I gessoed the outside cover twice and around the inside edges of the book too. 

Let dry and then paint all gessoed areas with Sea Breeze Americana Acrylic paint. Do two coats and once dry seal with Satin Mod Podge. 

I used a couple of scraps of cardstock I had leftover from other projects to decorate the cover along with Red Glitter Stripe cardstock, Lakeside Dew Drops  and Teal Mini Dew Drops and all this came from the Robin's Nest online store.

The banners are printable from Ephemera's Vintage Garden. It's a simply adorable kit.

I cut scrapbook paper to fit the inside and then adhered. Next click on the Ring Binder link and this will take you to a past project I created showing how to attach the ring binder to the book spine. Be sure to use mod podge and I used binder clips to hold everything in place while it dries. I added book corners protectors to keep the edges of the book from being bent. Next I cut pockets from Red Glitter Stripe cardstock and adhered on three sides to the inside cover.

Next I used two #10 size tags which I cut 1 1/2" off the bottom and decorated with Cindy Lou Dot Glitter , AquaMarine Glitter and Eggs Glitter Cardstock on the tags below. I finished with diecuts, punches, paper doilies, glimmer mist and embossing folder. I also inked all the edges of my tags with Stem Green Chalk ink.

Now all I have to do is add pages which I can't wait to do! :-)

Supplies Used:

Red Glitter Stripe cardstock

Lakeside Dew Drops

Teal Mini Dew Drops 

Cindy Lou Dot Glitter Cardstock

AquaMarine Glitter Cardstock

Eggs Glitter Cardstock 

Doilies

Sizzix Snowball Embossing Folder

Sizzix Snowflake Diecut

Tim Holtz Ring Binder and Book Corner Protectors

Seal Punch

Stampin Up Tab punch

Tattered Angel Mantis Chalkboard Glimmer Mist

Sea Breeze Americana Acrylic paint 

Ephemera's Vintage Garden

Ric Rac

Round and Snowflake Sequins

Wooden Snowflake

Book Plate

Mod Podge

Gesso

Chalk Ink

Also be sure to stop by the Robin's Nest and check out all their Christmas cardstock and embellishments. Thanks for stopping by, hope your Saturday is wonderful and enjoy creating!!!