DIY Decoupage Notebook

Wow, it has been a while since I last wrote hasn't it? Well to make up for it, I come bearing gifts... that you can make for yourself yay!!! I promised to put up some of my DIY projects so I'll start off with an easy one. This is a good trick for poor college students like me, in out lives we buy lots of notebooks but do any of them express who we truly are? No. That would be impossible, but we can take it upon ourselves to create a notebook that says here I am. So here we go, this is so simple I don't know why I  didn't think of this years ago.

Alright, three simple steps and a few simple supplies:

Here is what you will need:

• Magazines {or what ever you want your notebook to feature, I had some old Life magazines from the 60's that I've been wanting to use for some time (because I am a huge nerd for old ads)}
• Notebook
• Scissors 
• Mod Podge
• Paint brush

How to:

• First gather your supplies
• Cut out what you wish your notebook to feature
• (Tip: I like to lay out my cut outs on the notebook arrange and rearrange until I'm sure that is the pattern I want before I do the next step)
• Spread mod podge evenly on surface of notebook (avoid getting mod podge in three hole punch your pages will stick together)
• Take your cut out and spread flatly over wet mod podge (gently smooth over air bubbles with your finger)
• Let sit until first layer of mod podge is dry
• Gently spread mod podge over the surface of your cut outs make sure all of the cut outs that over lap are glued down, you wouldn't want to accidentally rip all the hard work you just did while you're using it at school  (mod podge may smear ink)
• Let dry 
• Show it off

I use mine at school and I get compliments on it all the time, they wont believe you made it yourself!

Enjoy your notebooks everyone keep checking in every so often for more DIY projects!

XOXO AshLEIGH