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- 04/15/2010
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- Kellie
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Baby Shower: Favor Bag Contents
I bet you have all been on pins and needles just waiting for me to reveal what was in the favor bags, right?! Well, you are in luck! I will now show you what you would have found had you opened one of these bad boys up.
Each person received a gray and white striped pencil, a bag of Mike & Ike’s, a mini notebook, and three patterned sheets of paper that we used for the games we played.
Whenever I assemble favor bags I always like to include a cute pen or pencil that matches the theme so that it makes it easier to play games. I had been on the hunt for something that matched and scored when I found these pencils at Michaels in their $1 bins (8 for $1). I also always like to include a little treat for them to take home and the tropical Mike & Ike’s were the perfect colors (thanks to my Mom for informing me of this). And, I always want to include a little gift of some sort and that’s where the mini notebooks come in.
I think they are so cute when they are all lined up! I made 18 little books to go in the bags and I once again used the patterns from my Reprodepot Pattern Book. Here are the steps to making a mini notebook for yourself.
First of all, decide what size you want it to be. I made mine 3” x 2.5” when folded so when it’s flat the cover is 3” x 5”. That way, if you use an 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper, you can get 5 out of one sheet. Print and then cut your cover to size. I used cardstock for the cover.
For the pages I used regular computer paper but you could also use graph paper (I later made another one with graph paper) and it is so cute! I just didn’t have enough graph paper on hand to make all the books I needed so I used plain white. You could also used a mixture of papers as long as they are all light weight. Cut the plain paper to the same size (3” x 5”).
Fold all of your sheets of paper and your cover in half. You can already see it looking like a little book. I used 10 sheets of paper per book. My sewing machine couldn’t handle any more than that!
For the ribbon place holder, put a small piece of double sided tape onto the top of the inside fold of the cover and place one end of the ribbon onto it. Then assemble the book again. I cut my ribbon to 4”.
Flatten out your book making sure that everything is lined up correctly and sew a straight stitch along the fold down the center. I used a contrasting thread for fun.
Fold your book again and ta-da! You are done! Aren’t they so cute? I love to carry a little notebook with me in my purse and these are just the right size.
Have fun trying it out for yourself!
Comments
Precious! I think I will make these for my little house church girls. Hmm, guess I will give the boys mustaches:0 thanks for that BTW. Confession, I am obsessed with Amy Atlas, Bethany too. She has a HUGE crafting list for the summer now.
nice! i have made lots of books like these, but not with the ribbon placeholder—genius!
I will try this out… This is really nice…
Oh, so cute! I think I’ll be whipping some of these up soon :)
These will be perfect for my daughter’s back to school party this fall!
Girls just love pretty little things like this….love love love it!
It’s great that it can be made quickly and with few supplies, even scraps from my scrapbooking scrap stash. Thanks for the tutorial.
absolutely simple -yet stunning and practical. now i know what to do with my leftover paper :)
ohh, really cute!
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I just made a few of these and they turned out adorable…super easy too once you get going. My Kindy girl is going to LOVE making up her own stories in them. Thank so much for the tutorial!
Love these little homemade notebooks, great idea for a DIY :)
Oh, I love them! :) I’m going to make so many, it will blow my own mind. I <3 notebooks!
Stumbled across this post at Pinterest and made some for my daughter, they’re fabulous! I blogged about it at http://pienkel.blogspot.nl/2013/09/mini-notebooks-weekly-pin-project-4.html
Thanx for the inspiration!
Hello!
I Look your blog linked from other blogs and I love it! It’s very elegant .I invited you to enter the mine, is in Spanish, but I have a translator.
I love the integrated bookmark and the colors you’ve chosen. I’ll be featuring this on The Crafty Crow!
hi ladies,
I dont sew so my question is about the needle needed for this. Does it have to be a special type of needle?
HSOL