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I'll be showing you have to create these books from scratch.
If you are rebinding your Sketchbook Project book, you can practice on other materials or go straight for the rebind.
If you are rebinding your Sketchbook Project book, you can practice on other materials or go straight for the rebind.
Cutting info for my demo projects
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From Chipboard
Covers: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm) |
From Paper - Canson Mixed Media
Pages: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm) |
Here are Tee's tips for cutting materials for this book
To Rebind the Sketchbook Project Book
Gently open the staples inside the book and remove them
If you are a sketcher and don't intend to use wet media.. you can go immediately to Stitching in Pages - Single Signature
If you are using wet media... I highly recommend you cut new paper for your book. You have two choices:
1. Use five or so pages of heavier paper (watercolor paper is recommended) and stitch them into the cover. If that's for you then go to:
2. Use more pages divided into multiple signatures and alter the cover so that it can hold them. If this works better for you then go to:
- Sometimes it's the covering materials that determine the size of my books (is the chipboard large enough or is the paper large enough to cover it, etc.).
- Sometimes it's the size of the paper you want to make the pages out of that determines the size to make the covers.
- Cut the covers first.
- Cut pages to the same height as the cover. This is really important in an art journal that you want to stand up for drying.
- Cut 5 to 10 pages for each signature. (a signature is a set of folded pages) Fewer for thick paper and more for thin paper.
To Rebind the Sketchbook Project Book
Gently open the staples inside the book and remove them
If you are a sketcher and don't intend to use wet media.. you can go immediately to Stitching in Pages - Single Signature
If you are using wet media... I highly recommend you cut new paper for your book. You have two choices:
1. Use five or so pages of heavier paper (watercolor paper is recommended) and stitch them into the cover. If that's for you then go to:
- Preparing Pages
- Stitching in Pages - Single Signature
2. Use more pages divided into multiple signatures and alter the cover so that it can hold them. If this works better for you then go to:
- Preparing Pages
- Expanding the Cover
- Stitching in Pages - Multiple Signatures
Making the Covers
You don't have to be a square
You'll need to stick with a rectangle for the Sketchbook Project - but why not make some for fun and gifts too? The only limits here are your imagination! Any shape that you can fold in half can be used to create these book! Your book can take on a whole new shape...
Preparing Pages
Remember if you don't have a piercing tool, you can use a push pin~
Stitching in Pages - Single Signature
- You can decorate the cover as if it were a journal page
- Print some of your art that you already completed and adhere it to the cover
- Try collage, painting, image transfer, doodles, zentangle or any of your favorite background techniques
- Cover it with decorative paper
- Try fabric to cover the chipboard
That's all well and good Tee, but what if I want more pages?
I'm so glad you asked. This next section uses the same stitching technique (called the pamphlet stitch) to put in three signatures. You can put in as many as you want!
Expanding the Cover
Stitching in Pages - Multiple Signatures
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Thread - What thread are you using to stitch the books together?
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