Notebook Decorating

You know those big ol' books of patterned paper at the craft stores? People use 'em for scrapbooking, mostly, I guess as backgrounds. But recently I've gotten into decoupaging, which is, I guess, the term for sticking stuff to other stuff. You've probably seen some previous examples on my blog. like this board that comes in handy when you have carpet and you want to set your cup on the floor.

Anyway, being the cheapskate that I am, I never let myself actually buy one of those huge pattern packs though I knew I'd use it for things like making cards. For example, these two graduation-type cards from before the summer that I somehow never got around to posting. (there were two others at least but I think I forgot to photograph them)

The theme is exploration and finding your way. n_n

The quote is pretty random.

Anyway, for those I just used wrapping paper, a map, cut out or printed random pictures... just used whatever I had, and mod-podged it all together.

But a few weeks ago, I got my weekly coupons from Hobby Lobby, and wouldn't you know it, scrapbooking paper was half off. Was I going to take advantage of this deal? HECK TO THE YES!

So I got my brother to pick me up and drive me to hobby lobby (and to chipotle) and I got this:

as you can see, it used to be 20 dollars but I got it for 10

It took a while to find one of the sale brands and become confused why 180 sheets was usually only 5 dollars more than 80 sheets, like who would only buy 80 in that case?
Anyway, the only project I've done with it so far is to decorate an old notebook for use in my philosophy class, as I had a notebook with only a few pages used, and I needed a notebook for school.
Here's the results! I like the way the patterns work together.

The front

and the back.

Detail on the lettering, which is admittedly pretty bad.

Well, there's my latest non-drawing project! What creative stuff have you been up to?