Give your composition notebook a makeover! This DIY tutorial shows you how to create a stylish, personalized cover—great for back-to-school or for fun. Do you love pretty notebooks too? I ...

Composition notebooks are not great notebooks. Their covers fray, ink bleeds through their whisper-thin pages, and it’s next to impossible to get them to lie flat. But designers and artists love ...

Photo by lilblueboo.com. Lil Blue Boo has a fantastic tutorial on turning an old composition notebook (or new one for about $2.99 if you want it all slick and shiny) into an iPad cover.

When that cover design caught on, it became easy for people looking for composition notebooks to spot one on a shelf. In a way, marbling became a way to “brand” this type of blank paper.