Do-it-yourself notebook cover made of paper, fabric or leather

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Such a thing as a notebook is necessary for everyone. Agree, no one can do without this accessory. We usually buy notebooks from the office departments. But you can make it with your own hands, or at least make a cover for a standard purchased notebook, replacing the "native" one with the author's one. How to make a cover for a notebook with your own hands? Such a product can be made from paper quite quickly and without special financial costs.

This exclusive jewelry will give you a lot of pleasure and make you proud of your own craftsmanship. It is possible that it will even be a pity to use the received non-standard notebook for ordinary notes, in which case you can make it as a wonderful gift for a loved one. It will look especially cute if each page of your author's product contains a pleasant and not banal wish.

How to make a notebook cover with your own hands?

Let's consider several options. For example, the flyleaf of your futureproducts can be designed from a sheet of felt of a suitable color. It will take about 50 centimeters to take such material, but in general, its amount depends on the format of the diary. A set of auxiliary tools consists of a thread with a needle, a ruler, scissors, as well as any set of decorative items that you can get. Small elegant buttons, beads and even rhinestones are suitable. In this case, everything depends only on your imagination. At the first stage of the needlework process, you should carefully measure the notebook to be decorated. Then we cut out a cover from felt on it according to the measurements taken, not forgetting about allowances.

Decoration Options

How to decorate the cover of a notebook with your own hands? Such an elegant felt case can be equipped with a small pocket, pen or pencil holder. To do this, we mark the places of its attachment to the cover, cut the felt in this place and thread the holder there. For reliability, it should be sewn with a machine seam.

You can decorate the felt cover by sewing on fancy buttons. If you chose, for example, rhinestones to decorate your product, then they are attached to glue (you can use the most common "Moment"). We first fix the edges of the cover with safety pins, then they should be sheathed with decorative thick threads, selected in a suitable color scheme.

Textile cover

If you don’t have felt at hand, or you don’t like this material, you can make a cover for a notebook with your own hands fromfabrics, and almost any. In this case, you need to provide another satin ribbon and the same sewing accessories. The fabric should be monochromatic for the inside and decorative with an elegant pattern for the cover itself.

A pair of rectangle-shaped inner pockets is also cut out from the same fabric. The details of the future cover cut out taking into account the allowances should be carefully ironed and sewn into the pocket on the inside of the auxiliary (that is, plain) fabric. Then we fold the side parts facing each other, grind them on a typewriter. We put our notebook into the resulting case, and that's it - smart clothes are ready for him!

DIY Notebook Cover: Scrapbooking Ideas

The technique called scrapbooking is especially popular nowadays. Products made with her help always look stylish and somehow especially sincere. Using this technique, you can also decorate the cover of a finished notebook or even an album, or you can make an entire notebook.

In this case, the notes block will serve as sheets of paper. In addition to it, you should purchase beautiful scrap paper, the choice of which is now huge in specialized stores, ready-made elegant postcards or print your favorite images on a color printer. And, of course, stationery for auxiliary work.

At the first stage of creating a product, we tint the ends of the block, as well as our future cover cut out of paper. Then it is attached to the endpaper with double-sided tape. And inblocks, as well as in the cover itself, you can insert metal eyelets. As a result, we will get small holes through which you can stretch a bright decorative ribbon and tie it beautifully on top. The resulting cover is usually supplemented with an original three-dimensional application, such as miniature flowers, ready-made or made from any auxiliary materials.

And again about fabrics

How to make a DIY notebook cover for someone whose hobby is sewing? If you are a lover of textiles and have some bright unusual fabric in stock, then you can decorate with it not only a notebook, but almost any book, a personal diary, an album for drawings - everything, up to a passport.

Even when there is no sewing machine - it does not matter, small pieces of matter are perfectly sewn by hand. The fabric for the wrong side of the product can be taken simpler, for the front - more elegant and expensive. On hand, of course, you should have pins, needles, threads and scissors, without which not a single textile product will work.

During the manufacturing process, we cut the fabric, getting two rectangles of the same size. The smaller side of each should match the height of the notebook, adding a couple of centimeters for allowances and about 5 millimeters for a loose fit. The long side of the rectangle is twice the width of the notebook plus its thickness, five centimeters on each side for folds and one centimeter for seam allowances.

Further technologywork

Both rectangles are folded right sides inward along the short sides, stitched a centimeter from the edge, turned inside out, folded evenly and ironed. Then the blank is applied to the notebook itself, the lapels are inserted between the endpapers and adjusted until an equal length is reached. Four corners are chipped off with pins without affecting the front side. The workpiece is turned inside out, stitched along the long sides also with an indent of 1 cm, and you should not forget to leave an unstitched section five centimeters long for subsequent eversion.

For reliability, the edge can be stitched with a zigzag. Then, through the left hole, the cover is turned inside out, and the gap itself is sewn up with a blind seam. The corners are straightened and carefully ironed. If necessary, decorations and decorative elements are sewn on top according to the principles described above. DIY notebook cover made!

Let's move on to the skin

Sometimes you want to present a gift to a person that looks expensive and prestigious, but at the same time it will be made by yourself. A leather-bound notebook is perfect for such purposes. It will definitely come in handy for daily recordings. A do-it-yourself notebook cover can be decorated with a pattern (for example, based on the game of tanks or any other - of your choice). The techniques in this case are the same.

It's good if you have a piece of genuine leather in stock, the dimensions of which are30 x 45 cm, but you can get by with high-quality leatherette. If you plan to make sheets of the future notebook yourself, then stock up on a pack of A4 paper (about 50 sheets + 2 for endpapers), some more of them should be put aside in reserve. The quality is quite suitable for the most ordinary white paper, which is used in printers. Cardboard will go to the endpapers and the spine, you can take not the densest, but thick and hard cardboard for the cover.

What else do you need

You will also need a couple of strips of not too thick fabric about 15 centimeters long and about three wide, a 30 mm Moment glue tube and beige or black synthetic threads. Tools and materials will be a needle file or file, an awl, a ruler with scissors, a pen, as well as acrylic paints for painting on fabric and a thin brush for working with them. Also, instant coffee. With it, paper can be aged. But if you prefer white sheets, we omit this procedure. For aging, we will make a coffee solution: add five tablespoons of instant coffee to a liter of water. The more it is, the darker our sheets will turn out. Do not forget that when they dry, they will inevitably brighten by a couple of tones.

How to color paper

The resulting solution should be poured into a suitable container of the desired size (basin or rectangular baking sheet with high sides). We soak the sheets each separately, dipping them in coffee and turning them over for even coloring. While they remain in the solution (this is about a quarter of an hour), we lay out newspapers on the floor and then lay out our sheets on them fordrying. We repeat the procedure, loading new portions of paper into the container, until all sheets take on a pleasant light brown tint. Newspapers will need to be changed frequently, and it is best to lay out the sheets to dry overnight - they are usually quite dry by morning.

Then they should be sewn into a notebook, collecting 5 sheets and bending each pack in half. Don't forget to check the evenness of the edges. Thus, we get 10 small notebooks. All of them should be stacked, aligned and pressed with a press. You can keep them like this from half an hour to several hours. We take it out from under the press, align it, clamp it again, placing cardboard boxes from below to make holes for the needle. However, you can pierce the sheets with an awl or a thick needle, but it’s not a fact that everything will turn out very smoothly and accurately.

How to make a binding

We mark the cardboard with divisions of 3 centimeters, near each we make notches of small depth. It turns out that we saw through the entire pack of our paper at the same time. In this case, the work must be done fairly accurately. Then the sheets are sewn together with a needle and a strong thread. At each step, the thread is properly tensioned, while being careful not to tear the paper pages. In the middle we lay pieces of fabric to attach the block to the endpaper. Having sewn all the notebooks into a single block, we glue it in the area of \u200b\u200bthe spine, for this we align it again, fix it with clamps and carefully smear glue on the spine without excess and dry, non-smeared places. Whenthe block dries up, leaving only the leather cover. For a notebook with your own hands, it will not be difficult to make it.

Starting the cover

If you do not agree to work with other material, you will need some experience. In addition, conventional fabric tools are indispensable here. Having at your disposal pieces of leather and suede, as well as the right size pattern, a couple of sheets of cardboard, glue and the right tools, you can get to work. We measure the flyleaf of the future notebook and cut the skin according to the size obtained with a mandatory allowance of one and a half centimeters. If you do not plan to transfer the finished drawing to the surface (and this is done using a laser printer), there is another decor option.

On thick cardboard, draw and carefully cut out figures stylized, for example, as flowers, hearts or any other three-dimensional shapes. We paste a cardboard flower or something else on the cover, and on top of it - another leather or suede fragment. We take a blunt knife and push the contour of our flower with force, then we can carefully cut the junction of two leather parts (upper and lower) in the form of a fringe. You do not need to use glue.

How to decorate it

Do-it-yourself leather notebook cover is decorated by cutting a hole in it and attaching with small leather tendril strips made of suede, leather, flowers or other decorative elements. The antennae should be carefully inserted into the hole and fixed with glue on the wrong side. Having finisheddecorate the outer part of the cover, fold in the allowances, make and attach the lining and, if necessary, make pockets that can fit business cards. You can connect the parts of the cover to each other with leather straps.