How to Decorate a Marble Composition Notebook
Marble composition notebooks are durable and versatile, making them an ideal canvas to decorate. The techniques used for creating beautiful scrapbook pages can also be utilized to decorate these functional notebooks. You can choose to embellish your notebook in any color or theme, such as with cool-colored sea horses, black and white photography, or richly hued western elements. Decorated composition notebooks make great gifts, and can be used as journals for recording thoughts and quotes, or even the exciting events of a vacation.
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Things You'll Need
- Marble composition notebook
- Paper adhesive of your choice
- Scissors
- Design embellishments
- Photo or stamped paper for center piece
- Large piece of colored paper
- Paper in coordinated colors
Instructions
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Choose the color scheme you'd like to use when decorating your marble composition notebook.
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Gather any design elements you wish to include on your notebook that match your color scheme.
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Put adhesive on the front and back covers of the notebook, as well as along the spine. Pay special attention to the edges of the covers.
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Lay the front of your notebook on a large sheet of colored paper, lining the edges of the cover up with the left side of the paper.
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Fold the paper around to the back of your notebook and press it down firmly to be sure it adheres to the front and back, as well as to the spine of the book.
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Cut off any excess paper from the cover of your book.
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Mount a photo or stamped paper on paper of a complementing color. This will be your centerpiece, which you will then adhere to the front of your notebook.
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Add any embellishments to the cover, such as jewels, stickers or ribbons.
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Use a calligraphy pen or marker to label the front of your marble composition notebook.
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- Photo Credit autumn leaf scrapbook image by robert mobley from Fotolia.com
