Supplies Needed:

Tammy De Young's "Girl Talk"

• "Girl Talk Clip Art Basket" by Tammy DeYoung 
• "Girl Talk Paper Basket"
• “Girl Talk Word Art Basket”

• Color printer and software program such as DIP, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and a Word Processing program such as Word
• Paper: Front Cover-heavy cardstock, Back Cover-heavy cardstock or chipboard (if you have the ability to cut and put the holes in it), standard printer paper for the inside pages
• Laminator-optional I used the Xyron, if you don’t have one you could use clear contact paper.
• Binding Machine-You can use the Bind it All, a comb binder or if you do not have a binder you can take it to an office supply store for them to bind it.
• Corner rounder cutter (optional)

Step 1:Front Cover in a Word Processing Program

• In your software program open up a one of Tammy’s “Girl Talk Paper Basket” background papers.
• Resize it to 8.5” (US) to match the exact width of your paper.  (UK adapt accordingly)
• Open a new document the exact size of the paper you will be printing to.  (US 8.5x11) Copy and past your resized picture onto the new document placing it at the top and leaving a blank space at the bottom.
  

• Select the white layer of the document and fill with a complimentary color.  Use the bottom space to personalize with a name etc.             &nb sp;                         &nb sp;                   

Step 1: Optional Front Cover in a Word Processing Program

• Open up a new document and set the page margin to zero. 
• Insert a background paper from Tammy’s “Girl Talk Paper Basket.”  It will be too large so grab the corner handles and resize it to fit the width of the page.  There will be white space left over at the bottom.
• In the Page Layout/Setup choose a complimentary color for the page color 
• Use the bottom space to personalize with a name etc

Step 2: Print the front cover

• Print the front cover onto heavy cardstock-if your printer has the appropriate settings print it borderless.

Step 3: Optional: Laminate

• Using your laminator laminate the front cover and a plain piece of heavy cardstock for the back cover.  This provides added stability to the paper.  (If you have it available you could use chipboard for the back cover.)  Remember when laminating that heat laminators require an outer edge to stay together-do you want that edge on it?  Cold laminators and contact paper you can trim to the edge of the paper. 

Step 4: Inside pages using a word processor

I use a word processor for the inside pages because it is easy to use a table to set up the lines.  You could also use a graphics program and use guides to line up the lines evenly.Don't like working with tables?  Download the journal pages template here.

• Open a new document and choose a paper size to match your front cover.
• Centered at the top of the page insert a word art graphic from “Girl Talk Word Art Basket.”  Size to a good size.
• Insert a table with 3 columns and approximately 37 rows (this will vary with the size of your word art and paper.  If the rows go onto a second page you can resize the word art or delete rows.  If necessary you can also add rows.    If necessary adjust the height of the rows so they are as wide or as narrow as you desire.  This can be done in the table settings or by highlighting the table and changing the font size.  Remember if you are making this for a younger girl she may need wider lines to write on.            &nb sp;             &nb sp;                         &nb sp;           

• Highlight, copy and paste the table onto a second page.

• On the bottom left of page 1 merge 10 rows into one cell and insert a graphic from Tammy’s "Girl Talk Clip Art Basket"  Move the left column line as close to the graphic as possible.

• Highlight the entire table and go into borders and remove left, center, and right lines so there are no vertical lines just horizontal ones.

• Repeat the last two steps for the second page putting the graphic at the bottom right.            &nb sp;                         &nb sp;         
  

Step 5: Print the inside pages

• Print as many copies of page 1 as you want in your journal.

• Turn the printed pages so that they will go through again printing page 2 on the back side in the same direction.  You may need to experiment as each printer is different.

Step 6: Assemble

• Decide if you want the graphics on the inner or outer edge of the paper and lay them out. 

• Put the front and back covers in place and prepare for binding.

Step 7: Bind the journal

• Punch holes in the left edge of the paper and fasten together.  I only have a comb binder so to get a spiral binding I took mine to Office Max.  I like the ability to fold the pages completely around instead of having to keep the book open like with a comb binding.

Step 8: Optional-Corner round

·         If you desire use a corner round cutter to round the outer corners so they are not sharp.  I have done both with and without rounding and prefer when they are rounded.

Step 9: Embellish

·         These notebooks can be used for journals or school spiral notebooks.  You might want to add some embellishments such as ribbon to them.  Consider adding a ribbon place marker-especially if your purpose is a journal.  Attach the ribbon to the binding and make it long enough to go down between pages.

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