Posts Tagged ‘Repurposed Book’

From the outside, this book looks pretty unassuming. But to my sister Arica and her friend, the title and the contents it will hold mean everything.

Arica’s dear friend is headed off to flight school and Arica is going to miss her terribly. When trying to come up with a good parting gift, Arica found this [...]

A while back, Kendra, an old co-worker, found several books that she wanted turned into journals. They all had such awesome titles, so I was excited to redo them for her.

Here’s a photo montage of each title and its inside facing pages. My main goal was to match colors and, if possible, theme.

This last one [...]

My mother-in-love found this old hymnal at a thrift store and immediately knew I could use it to make a repurposed journal.

Old books are so awesome because the covers feature different variations of embossing or debossing. So neat!

Since this was an old hymnal, I used sheet music scrapbook paper for the inside paste pages.

I also [...]

Now THAT’S quite the title for a book, isn’t it, ladies?! I can tell you that since marrying Andrew last May, my life has certainly felt like an adventure! And I wouldn’t trade a minute of it for the world!
My friend Alison found this book at an estate sale and asked me to convert it [...]

Back when I was in college, I bought this book at a thrift store in Savannah, GA:

At first, I was drawn to the retro illustrations and the analogous color scheme.

Equally as amazing as the dust cover illustrations were the illustrations that had been stamped (or done on a letterpress, perhaps) into the hard cover.

And though [...]