Making Recycled Paper Mini Notebooks

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Craft: Cute Mini Notebooks

katrine2706
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December 7, 2017

Cute Mini Notebooks - closeup of finished books I found this craft somewhere on the internet and I'm trying to make my own. The difference is that I'm using recycled paper. One side is printed and the other is left blank, so I was thinking this can still be used for this kind of brilliant idea.

Supplies:

colored cardboard paper
long sized bond paper or any white soft type of paper
glue
correction pen
black marking pen
scissors

Steps:

Get a piece of white paper, fold into 4 equal parts in a landscape position.

Cute Mini Notebooks - fold paper lengthwise into fourths

Cut along the folds. You now have 4 pieces of paper strips in equal sizes.

Cute Mini Notebooks- cut along the folds

Get one strip and fold in half. Then fold again twice, equally.

Cute Mini Notebooks - fold a strip in half

Cute Mini Notebooks - fold in half again

Do the same with the 3 other strips.

Cute Mini Notebooks - repeat with the three other strips

Now, fold in alternate directions so it looks like an accordion.

Cute Mini Notebooks - now alternate the folds like an accordian

Flip the paper to show the back portion or the printed portion. (The clean side will face down.)
Stick each strip tip to tip to forming a long strip of accordion like paper.

Cute Mini Notebooks - stick the sections together to form one long accordian

Then apply glue on to the entire back portion.

Cute Mini Notebooks - apply glue to the entire back (printed) portion

Close the accordion fold to stick and finally form the pages. (See photo)

Cute Mini Notebooks - press folds together

Get the colored paper and cut into half in the landscape position.

Cute Mini Notebooks - cut colored paper in half lengthwise, cut

Fold the edges following the length of the pages.

Cute Mini Notebooks - fold the edges in toward the center

When you find it too long or too big, adjust or cut the paper in half. This will be the cover.
Fold both sides of the cover vertically based on the width of the pages.

Cute Mini Notebooks - fold ends in to fit size of paper

As you can see there's an opening on the folded ends. Insert the last pages of both sides of the accordion folded paper, into the opening. Secure with glue.

Cute Mini Notebooks - insert ends of folded pages into the cover and glue in place

Design the front cover using the marker.

Cute Mini Notebooks - create a design on the cover

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attosa
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December 7, 20171 found this helpful

SOOO cute

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