I have something very important I’m supposed to be working on this week (more about that on Sunday)… so last night I decided to make a mini-book instead. All you need to do the same is one sheet of paper, something to draw/design with, and an idea – mine was a little book of blog challenges for Lola.
Here’s the incredibly simple process (mine was done in Photoshop so had been printed before I folded or cut anything; these instructions assume you’re hand drawing and therefore working with a blank sheet of paper for the first two steps):
- Concertina a sheet of paper into four equal sized sections; it’s easiest but not compulsory to divide it along the longest side:
- Unfold the concertina, then fold the same piece of paper back on itself it along the other side:
- Write/draw/glue your content. With the paper sitting landscape-style in front of you, the top left rectangle is the front cover; the other pages work round anti-clockwise from there. Pages 1-4 will be right way up; pages 5-7 will be upside-down as you look a it:
- Cut or tear horizontally between the centre four pages:
- Then you fold the paper up along the creases you made earlier; it will fold into a basic cross pattern. Fold the arms of the cross around until they make a little book like this one:
If, like me, you want to design your book in Photoshop, simply measure your paper beforehand and create guides in your image file to divide it up into eight equal-sized rectangles. Design your book, bearing in mind which images need to be right way up and which upside-down, then print, fold, cut and you’re done!
Lola loved her little book of things that she must do!! but is currently procrastinating very well on things she is also supposed to be doing…
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