For the past couple of weeks, I have been pasting, and printing, drawing and writing random stuff into a composition notebook I bought from Dollarama (a local dollar store). In fact most of the stuff I've "smashed" into this book has been from this store lol. While it doesn't exactly look like much has been "smashed" into this book, I still think I've come a good fair way in regards to making this book. (You can click on the pictures below to have a closer look)
These three pictures below are the cover of my "composition" book. I took some black and white scrapbook paper and pasted it to the cover, then added some contrast with darker pink scrapbook paper. I really like this cover, but I think it needs something more...maybe a title or some embellishments. Keeping it semi-closed is embroidery thread...I may upgrade this to ribbon later on, as the embroidery thread likes to tangle.
This is the inside cover and first page of my book...while I think more needs to be added, I think it looks good. Naturally because it's a smash book, I can come back later and pin, stick, and glue whatever I want to add to this. I think this book may be a never ending process lol.
(Left) This is a random "challenge" page. The challenge said "Weather Today". It was April 25, sunny, and 7C (44F).
(Right) I thought this page just looked nice...I haven't put anything on it yet...not sure if I'm even going to...I like the swirl in the middle.
(Left) This was an inspired page. I saw a version of it on Pinterest so I thought I would do something similar. It's a page on the animals that live in my neighborhood. I have a lot more animals that live in my neighborhood than the ones I've put on this page, but these were the ones that I could remember at the time lol.
(Right) A quotes page. Looking at the smaller picture now, the corner curls kind of look like Quotation marks...this was totally random, I didn't notice this until just now lol. Anyways, it includes a quote from The Lord of the Rings in which Gandalf is trying to comfort Pippin when discussing the afterlife. I think it's a beautiful quote. The second quote is from Homer. I've always found this one to be quite funny lol.
(Left) This is a junk envelope. I have one thing so far that I want to put into it...the brochure for the Speedway just down the road from where I live. We only started going last year, and had such a blast that I can't wait for this season. I'll store the brochure for the starting schedule here.
(Right) Another Pinterest inspiration, I tried to make a 3D image of my hand...I kind of smudged it a bit while gluing pages together, but the idea is there lol.
I really like how this one turned out. I spread this one out over two pages. It's more or less a description on how to smash your book. Kinda in the middle of the book, but I didn't think of this until this point. I'm looking forward to actually "smashing" stuff into this book :)
(Left) This is a random page on what my Tuesday consisted of. Another inspired page. It took me a few hours to do (I'd say the whole day, but I had errands to do that day). I can remember what I was doing when I made almost each design/comment of this page: the border I was watching Dr. Phil lol, the "Tuesday" I was watching "Kitchen Nightmares" lol, etc
(Right) Again found on Pinterest (omg I love this site), I found journal prompt pages. I printed one out and filled in the blanks. I LOVE this idea...I have such a hard time writing in journals, and these "fill in the blank" journal prompts are fun :)
This is my May calendar. I originally wanted to make a date book out of this Composition book, but discovered there weren't enough pages for what I wanted to do, and because the calendar was already drawn in, I figured I'd create a section on May. Not really intended but a nice addition. I can maybe pin some examples from the tasks I've done this month here.
I have a LOT more to do...so I'll update this as things go along, instead of making hundreds of separate posts. Be sure to come back to this post in the future to see what I've added. :)
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