Vintage Notebook by Maria Lillepruun-Scraps n Pieces

Hello dear friends and welcome back to Scraps N Pieces-The Blog!

A new challenge starts today, and this time it’s all about the magical world of books!Old and new, big or small, novels, fairy tales, historical, romantic, fascinating…just think of how many adjectives you can use to describe them. Well, that alone tells us how glorious books are!

Come along in this mystical journey and let books be your source of inspiration! Today our wonderful mixed media designer, Maria Lillepruun, is presenting us a fabulous vintage notebook that she created from scratch. I’m sure you’ll LOVE IT!

Maria
Hello friends!I was totally inspired by this new mood board, and decided to create something vintage and mystical, at the same time, using the color scheme and the elements from the board. The notebook is in size A5 and the cover is made from scratch. This time I played it hard and used tons of mixed media materials :) It took me several days to create the notebook because I just couldn't stop until I was completely satisfied with it. But it was a very pleasing creative process.

As a base for the cover I used pieces of cardstock. First, I applied black gesso, and then a combination of texture paste, sand paste,crackle texture paste. To color it, I used acrylic paints,alcohol inks and crackle varnish. I also did some stamping. The front cover is decorated withpatternedpaper, metallic embellishments, chipboard, beads, brads, and textile hydrangea flowers.

The inside covers are decorated with patterned paper by 7 Dots Studio. Their "Garden Party" collection suits our mood board 100 % :) Plus, I did some stamping and used a single 19th Century biology book page that I had kept on my shelf for ages.