Cute ..... but not so fast ......

Had seen these smaller notebooks/journals shown on videos on YouTube made with the cute holiday movie playing cards from the Dollar Tree....  Finding them??? Not so easy..... but I was able to finally locate them at a Dollar Tree I do not shop often at so happy I found them. There was a full box with lots of different movie cards in there but for today I will show the cards I used:

The video I followed for the most part with directions was made by Deborah on her YouTube channel "Daisy Deb Crafts".  Her video is easy to follow and these go together quickly. For my notebooks/journals I used a piece of card board between the two cards for the front and back covers to make the covers more sturdy. I do not have a thinner chipboard in the stash so that is why I used card board. I picked out two cards for the front cover and glued one of those to both the front and back of the card board and did the same for the back cover.

For my lined pages I used the package of large size JOT index cards at the Dollar Tree and I cut them down to size to fit behind the cards:

Here is a photo of some of the notebooks/journals I made:

I have duplicates so this photo only shows four of them. To begin with I picked out the cards I wanted to use for each one I made. So of them I have different card on the backside of the cover to show more of the cards in the decks:

I cut my cardboard pieces to the size I needed for the front and back covers. I used liquid glue and put the cards on the front and back of the cardboard. Set these aside to dry. Cut my index cards to the size for the inside of the notebook/journal. Used a corner rounder punch and I punched the outside edge of my index card pieces. Using my old Cinch machine (the one that says Heidi Swapp on it... ) and I punched holes in all the index cards. Then punched holes in the front and back cover pieces. Used wire cutters and cut my black coil for binding to the 6 loop size. Put all this on the Cinch machine and then pressed my coils closed and the notebook/journal was done. 

I am putting these notebooks/journals in with the Thanksgiving treat bag I made so people can use it for a little book for notes for Christmas or if they attend a holiday concert/parade/show they can write notes about it in the notebook/journal or put their ticket stubs in there and add a photo or whatever they want for the holiday memory of that event.  Thanks to Deborah for this easy project to assemble and they are all so cute.