New Year Button Journal Cover

Close-up of Laura Bray's Button Journal

I can’t believe another year is winding down.  Time to make your resolutions for the new year!  It’s always easier to do it if you have a cute journal to work in.  Why not make a little felt cover, embroidered with a cute design and embellished with buttons?

Supplies:

• 5″ X 7″ Journal
• 5″ x 7″ piece of white felt
• Embroidery floss and needle
• Buttons (the ones I used are from the Citrus Splash collection)
• 1″ x 7″ piece of pink felt
• Scallop rotary cutter
• Craft glue

Instructions:

1. With a pencil, lightly draw your design onto a piece of felt.
2. Embroider over your pencil lines and stitch buttons onto your design.
3. Using scallop rotary cutters, cut a “binding” strip from the pink felt.
4. Glue your embroidered and embellished piece of white felt onto the cover of your journal.
5. Glue the scalloped binding strip along the edge of the journal cover.
6. Start writing your resolutions!

Button Journal by Laura Bray