notepad holder - now complete

Hi all ...

having the honour to be part of the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Program I thought it's high time I'd share another project I made with a bunch of their yummie products I wouldn't for the life of me miss from my craft supplies.


When I was a child I used to be fascinated by a desktop calender my general practitioner used to keep on his desk.
These days I came by a similar thing when I browsed the internet and made a little research on where I could by it... but the items I found were way too expensive for a wood panel and some ring binding. But that's why we are crafters for: I decided to make something similar myself.

supplies used:

Americana Decor Chalky Finish paint

relic and yesteryear

Americana Decor finish cream wax brown

Decoart Media crackle glaze 

Decoart antiquing cream green patina, burnt umber and carbon black

The wood panel was quite inexpensive at the local hardware store :-)

I sanded it, painted it with chalky finish paint and instead of cream wax I covered it w ith antiquing creams carbon black and burnt umber, Everything was sealed. Then I added crackle glaze in some spots and when dry I rubbed antiquing cream into the cracks. The skull tower and the skull images (all stamps from De Stempelwinkel) were stamped with stazon jet black.
I used a ring binder and mounted it onto the wood panel.
The small sheets of notepaper are recycled too. We have quite some used exercise books the children only filled partly. I took the remaining pages and cut them to fit. Finally I stamped some images onto them, too.

Thanks so much for visiting and having a look.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx