Bookmarks and Notebook - Gift Ideas | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone!

It's Sue Plumb here to share my latest design team project with you. As we head into the festive season, I thought it would be a good time to share a couple of simple appreciation gift ideas with you. There are always people in our lives that deserve a small token of our thanks - whether that be teachers, neighbours, friends, the mailman, or even the staff at the local store. So I decided to whip up some simple stamped bookmarks and notebooks featuring some of my fave Banksy stamps to give out.

For the notebook, I started with a plain, kraft cover notebook (purchased from Kmart). I used Dina Wakley acrylic paints, applied with a brayer and layered randomly to add some colour. I then took the recently released Victorian Flower Background and used it to stamp a border around 3 sides of the cover.

Next, I chose the fabulous Banksy Wall Singer for my feature image on the cover, before I also stamped the Banksy Life is Beautiful as the accompanying text. I love how it turned out! I paired it with a pen before wrapping it up.

After I created the notebook, I decided to re-visit a project I have created previously and shared here - bookmarks. (You can find my original watercolour bookmark post HERE) This time however, I wanted to use a more minimalist style to showcase some cool Banksy stamps. 

I started by cutting some smooth white cardstock into strips measuring 2x8.5". I then stamped a focal Banksy image onto each one, and an accompanying quote as well. 

Here is a list of all the stamps I used on the bookmarks (as shown from left to right above):

- Banksy Man on Bicycle and You Only Live Once

- Banksy Frida Kahlo and Banksy Just Because

- Banksy Spray Can Cop and The Unicorns Made Me

- Banksy Einstein Protestor and Banksy Love is the Answer

- Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons and She Was a Dreamer

- Banksy Ladder Painter and Banksy Life is Beautiful

- Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl and Where is My Mind?

- Banksy Child Sitting and I Hope You Know

- Banksy Swing Girl and She Spread Her Wings

I also stamped the back of each bookmark with the Banksy stamp.

Once they were all stamped, I used Faber-Castell gelatos to add a splash of colour to each one. I wanted to keep them simple, so I only used a single colour on each one and left the focal images uncoloured.

I then took all the bookmarks and laminated them, trimming off the excess laminate with a trimmer.

I then punched a hole into each bookmark and added a variety of twine, tassels and a metal charm to decorate them.

I am so happy with how these turned out and cannot wait to gift them to their new owners! Thanks so much for stopping by so I could share this with you. I hope I have inspired you to create some special handmade appreciation gifts for the people in your lives too. 

Stamps used:
- Victorian Flower Background
- Banksy Wall Singer 
- Banksy Life is Beautiful
- Banksy Man on Bicycle 
- You Only Live Once
- Banksy Frida Kahlo 
- Banksy Just Because
- Banksy Spray Can Cop 
- The Unicorns Made Me
- Banksy Einstein Protestor 
- Banksy Love is the Answer
- Banksy Girl Floating with Balloons 
- She Was a Dreamer
- Banksy Ladder Painter
- Banksy Gas Mask Flower Girl 
- Where is My Mind?
- Banksy Child Sitting 
- I Hope You Know
- Banksy Swing Girl 
- She Spread Her Wings
- Banksy

Other materials:
- Plain notebook
- White cardstock
- Tsukineko StazOn ink
- Faber-Castell Gelatos
- Dina Wakley acrylic paints
- Laminating sheets
- Assorted twines, tassels and charm

"You had the power" notebook

Hi, hi, hi)))

It's Maria Potapovich (melpellmell) and a little notebook here for you today))

As you know, I love to do notebooks "from scratch"))

And I love do just fabric covers for notebooks.
This means that the stamps that I'm going to use to decorate the cover should beapart from anything else very clear to imprint has not lost its distinctiveness due to the fabric's rough.

Let's see whether today's stamps coped with this work?

I've used

You Had the Power/Glinda 1 / 3 1/4 stamp

Weathered Tree 3 x 4 1/4

Flock of Geese 1 3/4 x 3

What do you think? Do they coped? ;)

Double door notebook

Hi))

I want to share with you my new little notebook.

Yesterday I received a parcel from DeeDee. 

There were stamps and cute little bird flamingos!

 All evening I looked stamps, not daring to do anything with them. Only segodyan evening, almost night, I made ​​this little double door notebook. 

The stamp on the cover  (Whimsical Diver) is very self-sufficient - it creates a mood!

 Last time I like to do things as if someone had carried in his pocket a month or two ...

 

 This stamp was too clear and detailed, so I had to try to give it a bit of vintage.

To start, I took the black distress ink, then I made the hot embosing using transparent powder. I think the result was just my desired effect!

Notebook is made very simple and unpretentious, but for some reason he is very cute to me))

Thank you all so much for joining me at this post))

Good Year.

Hello, Natasha is here :)

Thank you all for the nice words in my address in the intro post :)

Today I will show you a diary, which I made ​​as a gift to my sister, a great lover of horses.

I took the ready diary and gave him a new cover. With horse :)

Cover has turned out very textured...and shiny - because I used pearl powder :)

Horse this is the transfer image, what I the little painted with acrylic paints. On the mane I added star stamp. I did transfer on the surface with cracks - I love this effect :)

And this is the back cover, where more visible the texture.

For everyone I have made a small step by step video.

Enjoy watching!

My VLVS!:

Washi Grid Background 1 1/4 x 5 1/2

Stars 2 x 2 1/4

French Writing Background 2 1/2 x 3 3/4