I’ve been having a blast playing with kl’s fabulous October kits…ooh la la, you will love them! The project kit came with a great vintage book. I decided that I wanted to use the cover to create a book with new pages…here’s what I did.

1. I took a sharp exacto knife and I cut out the pages from the book. You just need to make two cuts…one in the inside of the front cover, and one in the inside of the back cover. In the picture below, I had just separated the pages from the front cover.

2. Once the pages are removed, you have a sweet book cover to use for a project!

3. Next I needed to put my own pages into the cover.  I cut down some paper to the correct size and made two signatures. A signature is a group of folded pages–each signature I used had 6 pages. I used my sewing machine to sew the signatures into the spine (quick & easy!). You could poke holes with a stylus and hand sew the pages, too.

5. Once I was done sewing, I had a book with fresh new pages, all ready to alter! I used the kit supplies to cover the book…I’m not going to show it to you now. You’ll have to wait until the kit reveal!

I hope you try this fun technique for putting your own pages into a vintage book cover. Be sure to keep the vintage pages you take out of the book–I used them on many of my layouts this month.

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