Supplies: stamps (Coffee House Alphabet by Inkadinkado); paper (Making Memories?, recycled Kinkade image); ribbon (Michaels $1 bin); composition notebook.
Here's another guest book that I made to send as an encouragement gift to a fellow pastor's wife. I love this image. It's perfect for my purposes, since it uses a church image.
Enjoy!
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ReplyDeleteI love the guest books... my daughters always use the composition books for daily journals so we want to pretty some up!
Will you part with a trade secret and tell your preferred method(s) of adhering the papers to the book? I like xyron because it gives full coverage and no buckling or warping, but it can be cost prohibitive to use on such large surfaces.
Hi Shirley,
ReplyDeleteI love Xyron, too, but I agree about the cost. I've been using my pink ATG gun (with non-gold adhesive) for these, and I love it!
I put a full line of tape on each of the four sides, and I haven't had any trouble with it coming up. The adhesive is quite inexpensive, especially when you buy it with a coupon. That's allowed me to not skimp on adhesive and still feel good about it. :)
If you don't have the gun, you could get by just using the rolls until you save up for the gun (it was around $30 w/o a coupon the last I saw). It's not as fast or easy, but I did it with a roll that was wound wrong (so it wouldn't work in my gun), and it worked just fine.
The only thing I'm not sure it will do is cover the spine. I haven't done that since I bought my ATG, so I can't say how it would turn out.
If you try it, be sure to do the spine first, then sandwich the front and back covers over the top of it just a little ... and then let me know how it holds up. :)
HTH!
Lovely book... I am a new fan following you from the hop via blogger, GFC, and facebook. Thank you for sharing the guest book.
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