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Supplies needed:
- Pocket Calendar (duh)
- Patterned scrapbook paper (one large enough to cover the whole outside, plus a little extra so that it can be folded around the edges)
- Paper trimmer
- Glue
- Ribbon
- Clear nail polish to finish ribbon
- Optional: other materials, like flowers and rhinestones to embellish
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First, remove the plastic cover of the planner. If you plan on decorating with several layers of paper, trim the outside edges of the original planner cover a tiny little bit. This will give you more room to work with, and makes it easier to slip the cover back on.
Then, cut a piece of paper the same height as your planner. Lay the planner open as pictured, and make sure you cut the width a little larger than the planner, so that you can fold the edges around the original cover.
After that, take a piece of ribbon, about 1.5 times the height of the planner. Glue it to the paper you will use as the cover as shown in the picture.
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Then, glue the paper around the cover.
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Finish the end of the ribbon with some clear nail polish to keep it from fraying.
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Use other papers and embellishments to decorate your planner.
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3 comments:
Hopping over from CraftGossip, Love the papers you chose for your pocket calendar! Very nice!
{Rebekah}
I absolutely love this! I think I'm just going to have to re-do my pocket planner, too. Love the colors!
Debbie J
Thanks for this. I am in charge of a pocket calendar decor activity for mops this week so I googled and found you. I didn't even think about a ribbon bookmarker but we have TONS of ribbon in our MOPS craft closet...good call. I will be looking over here for more ideas. thanks.
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