A little while back, a Facebook group I belong to had their one year birthday! We signed up to participate in a birthday exchange, and I received the name of a lady that wanted a sketch book and loved Vintage.
     At first, I was going to have my daughter draw something on the first page, because trust me, I can not draw or sketch anything! I may be creative, but somewhere along the line, that part skipped me. The more I thought about it, looking at this sketchbook, I thought, well, I can always decorate the front of it.
    I found the Vintage type images online. I sprayed them with a mist to make them look aged, I hand made the flowers and just played around with where I wanted everything to go before I glued it all down. I think it turned out very well, considering I hadn't ever done any thing like this before.
     I did realize that in doing this sketchbook cover that I love vintage! It doesn't have to be my design for every thing I do, but I do find myself going towards vintage more and more, it really makes me happy to create something like this sketchbook cover. I felt like it was finished, most things I keep looking at and thinking, what can I add to make this look better. The lady that received this loved it, and I was so grateful that she did. Sometimes, what we think will be a treasure turns out to be someone else's trash because they just don't care for it.
     Oh, and in case you are wondering, I never did have my daughter put a drawing on the first page of this book, to me, it was perfect just the way it was.