My daughter enjoyed decorating this journal.  It comes with a tube of puffy paste "frosting"  with a decorative rosette tip. It also has very detailed instructions on how to pipe the puffy paste into rosettes or shells and how to apply the charms.  I suggest practicing on a piece of cardboard to get the technique down before decorating the journal.  We had a few mishaps and had to wipe the journal off and start over.  Once applied, there are a multitude of stickers, jewels and charms that can be pressed into the wet frosting.  The puffy paste dries firm, but just to be safe, she displays her journal on a stand so it doesn't get damaged. She's eleven, and she ended up with the  paste everywhere and it's not water soluble.  A magic eraser took it right off  though.  In hindsight, putting down newspaper would have been a good idea.