New pages and paper clip embellishment (1)

I designed some pages for my new journal, I wanted the images just be background images so I faded them a little. It seemed a good idea at the time, but now I'm not so sure :) I gave some of the pages lines for journaling.

After watching a couple of tutorials on paper clip embellishments I thought I would have a go. I had quite a few mulberry paper circles that I has had for ages. I decided to cover them with fabric using the sewing machine and discovered I do not have good sewing machine skills :( My lines were very much off, so much so that I binned all of them! The tutorial I saw used hot glue guns, but I used doubled sided tape. I lay double sided tape on strips of paper a little wider than the paperclip. Taking the double sided tape back just a little, I pushed the paper under the paperclip (1), folded it over and up the other side (2). Then I got a second piece of paper, again with just a little tape peeled back and pushed this under the other side of the paperclip (3). Fold this over and up the other side and trim a little short of the top (4). Take the top piece over and slightly overlap the bottom piece. The paperclip is now completely covered, it clips over a page (5) and is now ready to decorate to match your page colours or theme. The paper provides a good surface to embellish.