I used my Bind It All for the first time today to make this "Smash Book"!!! ;)
I made the cover using the cardboard from paper packs. I cut 2 ~ 6X4" pieces, one for the front cover and one for the back cover. The cardstock is from DCWV "The Blossoms & Butterflies Stack" and is also 6X4". The ribbon is Offray 3/8" blue grosgrain ribbon. The butterflies and words were cut out with the Cricut. I used plain white Georgia Pacific Cardstock for the letters and some scrap (not sure what brand) blue textured cardstock for the butterflies. The words were cut out with Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge at 3/4". The butterflies were cut out with Create A Critter Cricut cartridge, the bigger one was cut out at 1" and the two smaller ones were cut out at 3/4". I used Silver Stickles to embellish the butterflies. I used 1/2" O Wire for the binding and of course, as started above, bound the book using the Bind It All...which was so easy and fun. I did adhere my cardstock onto the front and back of both covers with my ATG Gun before I punched the holes and before I bound the book. All the other decorations and embellishing were done after the book was bound.
Here is the back of the front cover (above). The cardstock is from the same DCWV pack as the front of the cover...and the front of the back cover (below) is the same paper...so that way it will coordinate. ;) For the inside paper I used plain Georgia Pacific White Cardstock cut down to 5 3/4 X 3 3/4"...so that it would be just a tad smaller than the covers.
Here is the back of the book (below). This is scrap (not sure what brand...from Hobby Lobby...so probably Paper Studio) piece of brown textured cardstock. I tried to put my stamp on it, but it didn't turn out to well. I didn't stamp it until the book was already put together, so I'm not sure if that was because when I turned the book over to stamp it, if it wasn't level, or because the textured cardstock didn't take the ink very well. Anyway, I'm sure I'll end up redoing that part of the book! ;)
