Blue Science Notebook

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Blue Science Notebook. :o)

When my friend saw a notebook I made for myself in May this year (here), she wanted me to make a similar notebook for her boyfriend. Same theme, same image, same size, only two requests were a blue color, as that is his favorite color, and to be finished prior September. :o)

How I made this notebook...

To make this notebook I used stamps from two Your Next Stamp stamp sets: 'Perfect Chemistry' and 'Periodically Nerdy'. :o)

I colored a professor during Kathy's Racoosin 13th 30 day coloring challenge (a preview of all my coloring here).

I stamped the professor on a watercolor paper and colored him in a watercolor technique using Distress Inks. First I colored his tongue in pink, but I didn't like it, so I recolored it with a Tea Dye Distress Ink, same color I used for the skin. After drying, I fussy cut the professor and traced edges with black marker.

I left the image aside until I got a clear idea on how the notebook will look like (ehmmm, two months).

I made notebook covers using a white cardstock paper and a blue cardstock paper. When covers were completely dry, I punched holes on the cover spine and glued magnets on covers.

I selected letters from Periodic Table of Elements which form word 'Notebook', stamped them on a printed patterned paper, fussy cut letters and glued them directly on the notebook front cover.

Then I stamped the professor again, this time on the white cardstock paper, fussy cut him, colored with a grey marker, traced edges with the black marker and glued watercolored professor over him. I did this to make the image thicker. Then I glued the professor on the front cover.

Next up was a pocket. I managed to smear a glue inside of covers and I needed something to cover that up and not to start all over again. I made a simple pocket and glued it inside of the notebook, over the ugly glue stain. :o)

Lastly, I placed binding rings into punched holes on the cover spine, filled the notebook with grid papers and the notebook was finished.

Covers measurements: 
length: 6 3/4" + 3/4" + 6 3/4" + 5/8" + 2"
height: 3 1/2"

List of supplies:

• Your Next Stamp 'Perfect Chemistry' stamp set
• Your Next Stamp 'Periodically Nerdy' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• blue cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• grid paper
• printed patterned paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:

• Spun Sugar
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Tea Dye
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Light Grey 68/94
• magnet
• two steel binding rings
• UHU liquid glue
• hole puncher, medium size
• hammer
• Xcut self healing working mat
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• the largest circle die from Sizzix Big Shot starter kit
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• water
• paper towels
• scissors
• ruler
• pencil
• eraser

Although the binding didn't turned out as I planed and pages are not flipping very well, I love how the notebook turned out. My friends also loved it, which made me very happy. :o) Here is a short video....

Music:
"Marty Gots a Plan" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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I'm linking my notebook to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge (if any) is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #357 - Make Your Mark
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 36 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Stamp It

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) Your Next Stamp, Fun Friday Challenge #121 - Anything But a Card

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka