{Junk Mail Revamp}

I had a piece of a cereal box that I cut up this morning that I wanted to use but the edges were a bit rough, not to mention I did a horrible cutting job and it was all crooked. Looking for a straight edge so draw a line and cut it evenly (that’s right, I’m old school too lazy to go upstairs and dig out a ruler, I found an old piece of mail. While it was sitting on the counter, I said to the Mr. “Don’t throw that out. I’m going to use it”. So of course he said, “But it has writing on it”. Silly man. Silly, silly man, I thought. lol I then told him I was going to repurpose it to which he just shook his head. Thankfully, he puts up with my nonsense and lets me do what I want. 🙂

The first thing I did was take my junk mail and wrap the scrapbook paper around it, like I was wrapping a present. I probably should add that the reason I wanted to use junk mail (or the cereal box) was to make this project sturdy.

When it was time to wrap the ends over, I cut the paper off the side where i had folded and taped down the scrapbook paper so that it was not too bulky and so that I only had one layer of paper to fold over. Does that make sense?

Next I opened up my Paint Shop Pro and created my list of phone numbers that I wanted to display. I’m sure you could use MS Word or another program like that but I’m horrible at margins and this was easier for me. I measured my covered mail to see how big it was and then created a list that was a bit smaller.

Once I printed my list out on card stock, I took my distressed ink stamp pads and distressed it. I also distressed my scrapbook covered junk mail for an added touch. Using double sided tape, I taped my list on.

The last thing I did was add magnets on the back at the top and bottom and that’s it.
Here it is, in all its glory. Doing it’s job. 🙂