Confession Of A Hoarder

Like many crafters, I hoard not only regular supplies, but office supplies as well. Come school shopping time I load up on ten cent folders and quarter pencil sharpeners like I actually have a use for them. Then the 'drives' happen and everything I bought from last year goes into a bin outside the store I am re-loading up at. One such supply addiction is post it notes. I had learned a few years back to make a very cute, clever holder that fits into your purse, but immediately found myself upgrading the design to fit my needs. My much larger needs. See, when I use a post-it note, I tend to use somewhere between three and thirty. Even my notes are rambling. Oy!
So I rehabbed the design and made it Tracy friendly, to fit a useful size note. These are often available at the dollar stores in multi packs. they are rarely actually sticky so you have to 'stickify' it yourself. Perhaps with super red tape. The supplies you will need are:

2- cardboard pieces sized 6 1/2 x 4 3/4
2- pretty papers, 7 x 5 1/4

velvet, leather, suede, or other magical papers:
1- 2 x 6 3/4 piece

1- 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 piece

1- 1 1/2 x 3 piece

one Velcro sticky dot

paper pad
decoupauge glue

any gems or glitter you may need to 'fancify' the cover

The first step to this fabulous folder/holder is to decoupage those cardboard pieces with your chosen pretty paper. Feel free to add stamped images, photos, or zany sayings. when you have your paper in place fold in the excess, this will keep the look professional, rather than snipping right along the edge.
While those are drying fold your 1 1/2 x 3 inch piece of magical paper so it is now 3/4 by three, with whatever beauty it holds showing both front and back.
Use your 2 x 6 3/4 inch piece of magical paper to join the cardboard pieces, leaving a half in between them. Your magic paper will overlap both cardboard pieces and secure a 1/2 inch space between them. This is necessary to accommodate the notepad. Use glue only on the backside, so as not to ruin the beauty of your spine.
Flip this over. You should be looking at the 'ugly' side of the cardboard and a 1/2 gap of the back side of the magic paper. Halfway down the right edge you will glue the small strip about 1/2 inch in. Smother he wrong side of the magic paper with decoupage glue. Seal in all that ugliness with this beautiful paper. 

Secure your notebook in place by whatever means necessary. Add a Velcro dot to the end of the flap and remove the adhesive backing. Close the cover and allow the Velcro to place itself where necessary! Add bling, with gems, stickers, glitter, whatever!