I’m not sure about you, but I’m ALWAYS on the hunt for cute, colorful notebooks. They’re one of those things that I have an obsession with… and when I see a new one, I get it. If we’re being honest, can you REALLY have too many notebooks?!

This “tutorial” is more for inspiration- so you can see just how easy it is to turn something that was once plain into something more your style… so, let’s get INSPIRED!

What you’ll need:

• Any plain notebook
• watercolor paint
• paint brushes
• lettering stencil
• one sheet of watercolor paper
• washi tape
• mod podge

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The very first thing to do is to rip a piece of watercolor paper to fit the cover of your journal! Ripping it gives it the jagged edges- which is the look I was going for!

Once you have it the right size, you can use a foam brush (or any brush) to mod podge it on!

The next step involves these stencils! You can find lots of different stencils at any craft store- but this specific one came from Michaels!

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All I did was cut out the letters I wanted to use- in this case, I was spelling out “you are enough”.

I decided to use watercolor paints, but feel free to use acrylic paint, markers… anything!

After you stencil out your letters, it’s time for you to get creative!!! I wanted to add a few little embellishments here and there… what you see here is a strip of fabric I ripped to size, and just mod podged on!

Up in the corner, I just added a few little strips of washi tape! You can also see where I just splattered some paint around the paper, and outlined my letters with my posca paint pens.

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Here’s what I came up with!!! It was fun to just get creative with it- so I hope this has inspired you to GET CREATIVE!

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MAKE SURE TO PIN!

Last Updated on April 28, 2021