How to make a diary with your own hands at home: advice and master classes from professional needlewomen

The diary is a common thing, prosaic, necessary for most, if not all adults. However, even such an obligatory object of everyday life can be beautifully decorated, turned into a real masterpiece or even made "from scratch" so that it fully meets your needs, was the most convenient to use. A diary, made with his own hand and presented as a gift, is sure to please the owner. On how to make your own diary at home with your own hands, this article.

We use the notebook

In this video, the author clearly shows how to make a diary from a notebook by oneself. To do this, it is enough to purchase a notebook on a spring and gently spill it out as you like. Well, to arrange the cover, of course, according to your taste: you can add a bookmark, divide into blocks, - anything the soul desires.

On rings

You can, as the author of the next master class, make an organizer using a folder with rings. This option is especially interesting, because it is with this method that you can very simply become the owner of a functional diary: you can place thematic blocks as it is convenient for you, add and remove already unnecessary sheets in the right place due to the fact that the cover on the rings. Also the authorshares with all interested subscribers of the channel templates for pages, it is enough to ask about it.

Interlacing

And on the turn of the video, which teaches the creation of a text block of a diary or notepad with the help of an interlacing. For this, the usual A4 sheets are used, which are doubled and sewn in a special way. They can be as completely clean, but they can also print a variety of page templates. The book press is used, but I think that not everyone has a home. A replacement may come from a pair of wooden cutting boards and a tool such as a vice. Clamp them with a book between the boards, we get an impromptu press.

We make the cover of

However, we can not confine ourselves to a single text block. And the next step is a simple leather cover for the diary. The technique is simple, it is based on a simple gluing of the material to the substrate. Therefore, having all the necessary materials and carefully performing all the actions, we will get an excellent result.

We decorate the cover of

And this master class will be text, equipped with step-by-step photos. In it we will learn how to beautifully design the cover of the diary with the help of cloth and some elements of scrapbooking. So, you will need:

• cover of the diary;
• fabric of your choice( we have 100% cotton);
• a pair of scrap paper sheets;
• pearly brads;
• satin ribbon;
• suspension;
• clasp( toggle);
• flowers for decoration;
• fleece cut;
• pictures;
• hat elastic band;
• starch;
• glue PVA;
• glue "Moment-crystal".

1. If we decorate the already prepared diary, carefully cut off the cover so as not to damage the text block.

2. Densely glaze with glue, apply fleece. When he grasps, we try to cut off excess tissue as evenly as possible.

3. We take the cut of the main fabric such that there are approximately 2 cm left from the edges.

4. We also smooth out starch.

5. On the fabric from the wrong side, put the cover with fleece down.

6. Take a thick PVA and apply at a distance of 5 mm from the edge.

7. We glue the fabric, press the corners as in the photo, making them neat.

8. Thus, our cover will be "covered" on both sides.

9. It's time to decorate. We use the printed image, putting the end of the rubber band under it, on which the part of the fastener is put on.

10. It's the same on the reverse side.

11. Considering how to decorate the cover further, show imagination. We chose flowers and pearly brads.

12. The next step is to prepare the fly-leaves. We make measurements of the block and cut out pieces of the right size from scrap-paper, adding a couple of millimeters. Fold it in half.

13. We glue them to the block.

14. Kleim "Moment" bookmark on the cover.

15. We paste the endpapers to the cover.

16. Our daily is ready.