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How to make the root for notepad from plywood. How to make a notepad with a wooden cover? Notepad do it yourself: Tools and materials

This master class will show how easy it is to make an unusual notebook. Sheets for the notebook will be manually. To work, we will need such tools and materials:

  • plywood 5 mm thick;
  • the sandpaper is coarse and the thinnest;
  • drill;
  • opening rings for albums;
  • paper for the A4 printer;
  • natural coffe ;
  • a device for burning ;
  • transparent water solublelacquer without smell;
  • brush;
  • broad bowl;
  • iron;
  • pencil or ballpoint pen;
  • line;
  • copy paper ;
  • single hole punch.


Cut out for the cover two pieces of plywood format A5. We clean the fane with coarse emery paper.



Then we processed the Panener the most shallow emery paper.



Corners and ends of plywood when processing sandpaper smoothed.



Drill drill holes for rings. The thickness of the drill must be slightly more than the thickness of the metal metal.



On the Internet we find an interesting monochrome pattern. We format it to the size we need and print it.



With the help of the copy, we translate the drawing to one sheet of plywood.



The burning device forgive the contours of the plywood pattern.



We cover the sheets of plywood cover with a transparent water-soluble lacquer without smell.


Brew strong coffee. To do this, in a standard cup, we put 4-5 teaspoons of natural ground coffee and boiling water.


While coffee cools, prepare sheets.

Under the line of Narquen office paper of the desired size. So that the sheets are not overwhelmed by the edges of the cover, we make them less 1 cm less on top and bottom. And 1 cm is less from the side.

Fix in a bowl of coffee.



We wash each sheet in coffee.


Wet and already fragrant sheets decide to dry on clean old towels.

Finally, we finish the sheets in the oven at a temperature of not more than 50 degrees Celsius.



As a result, they turned out firing, slightly brown and with divorces Sheets with a light aroma of coffee.



You can leave it, but it is better to try.




We put the stack of sheets between the sheets of plywood cover and plan on the place of holes on paper.

We make holes in paper with a single hole.



Collect the notebook on the rings.




The result was a unique notebook or notepad.


Unusual design and handmade notebook will emphasize your individuality.
A properly chosen pattern and a light aroma of coffee can make a similar book by an excellent personalized gift for any holiday.
In addition, the opening rings will be able to replace the sheets to new ones. And this notebook will serve for a long time.

It often happens that a gift is needed, and there is nothing suitable in stores. Or a person already has everything that the soul may wish. And he can have a favorite hobby, and you have a desire to give something unusual.

This can be combined and make a gift on your own. In this case, I will tell you how to make a notepad in the leather binding for fans of the game "Tanks", however, the drawing on the cover can be completely different if you master technical techniques, there will be no restrictions for your imagination.

Notepad do it yourself: Tools and materials

  • genuine leather (can be taken and artificial, or dense one-photon smooth cloth), about 30 × 45cm
  • paper, the size of A4 - 52 sheets (it is better to take a few more sheets about the supply). Common White Printer Paper Suitable
  • lovely cardboard for mousets and root
  • tight thick Cardboard for the cover
  • 2 Fabric strips are not thick, 3 × 15 cm
  • glue "Moment Crystal" (1 small tube on 30 ml is held on the notebook)
  • black threads (not so dirty) or beige. Better synthetic, No. 40-50
  • ruler, handle, scissors, timer
  • fire or feet
  • tassel thin for acrylic paints
  • acrylic fabric paints
  • instant coffee
  • newspapers

Printout drawings is performed at will

To make a notebook more individual and interesting on pages you can on the usual laser printer (ink from the matrix printer will be spread) print a variety of drawings.

In our case, screenshots and wallpapers for the desktop from the game "World of Tanks", why not?

Drawings can be inserted into Word or any graphic editor, set them the desired size or slightly remove the brightness. The location of the sheet should be album at the same time.

If you want to make a white paper notepad this stage can skip

First you need to prepare a "solution" of coffee. On 1 l of water, add 5-6 tablespoons of coffee. The more coffee, the darker there will be sheets. It is necessary to take into account that when drying, the sheets are bright on a couple of tones. Therefore, it is not worth a solution to breed with water, if it seemed that the paper was too dark.

Coffee solution pour into a baking sheet with high sides or a basin of the desired size.

Each sheet is soaked separately, dipped it into coffee from two sides. Paper should be blocked evenly and paint.

Let's "Stop" 10-15 minutes. During this time, you drive all unnecessary households, pets and everyone who can turn the beauty from the territory and lay out the newspaper, for the future drying of paper. Places need quite a lot. Therefore, if it is not enough, it is not enough to soak not all sheets at once, but with parts of 10-15 sheets at a time.

Carefully, not to break, lay out the sheets on the prepared newspapers, while we give fluids to drain well in the baking sheet so that the paper is faster than dried.

After that, you load a new batch of paper into the baking sheet. The operation repeat several times until all paper (50 sheets for notepad and 2 sheets per bellows) will not make up and will not acquire a pleasant hint. Newspapers can be better changed so that the paper will dry faster.

Dry paper, usually takes from several hours to days, depending on the environment. Therefore, this stage is better to do for the night looking so that by the morning everything has managed to dry.

Formation of paper sheets

When the paper is dried, proceed to stitching sheets in a notebook. To do this, we collect 5 sheets (watches the drawings are correctly located) and bend in half into the notebook. The edges should be folded as much as possible relative to each other.

Total will be 10 notebooks for 5 sheets.

We fold the stack of notebooks together, align and laid under the press. You can pre-fix them with clips for paper, putting something dense from two sides (cardboard) so that there are no traces left on paper.





Under the press you can withstand up to several hours, as far as the patience is enough, however, at least 30 minutes so that the sheets should be restarted.

Then, we pull out our block from under the press, remove the clamps, align the unit and pushed back on both sides again, laying the cardboard. It is necessary in order to do the holes for the needle, under the seams. You can, of course, do it with a seboard or pierced with a needle immediately, but it will be much longer and not so carefully and even.

On the cardboard there are 7 divisions of 3 cm each, as shown in the photo.

Then, opposite the strokes we make an inscriptions with a file, a depth of about 3-4 mm. Near the pack of paper, squeeze your fingers so that the sheets do not diverge and inscribed was even.

We disassemble the unit and start sewing sheets with each other.

We begin to sew on the left, from the bottom notebook (the rest will be superimposed on top, it is necessary to take into account if the order of the drawings inside is important.

Take a needle to the holes and move right. Do not forget at the very beginning to leave the tip of the thread 10-15 cm, to fix the upper notebooks.

On the third and 5 gaps between the holes we impose in advance the prepared strips of the fabric. They serve to better fasten the notepad block and to fix it to the boots.











When we get along the fabric, spend the thread over it.

Thus, we flash the first notebook to the end, we put the second on top and continue to sew in the opposite direction. Do not forget the thread well tighten at every stage (but without fanatism, not to break the paper).

Only now, when we get along the fabric, the cross will turn the thread over it.

When you dried to the right edge, you need to link the working thread and left at the beginning of the tip to secure notebooks. Previously, the threads thoroughly pull and tie a few dense nodules.

We put the third notebook and flash to the left edge.

Now, you need to consolidate the thread and from this side. Prettyly stretch well and do a needle between two lower notebooks, clinging the thread in the loop. We repeat several times.







Thus, sew all 10 notebooks in the block.

To block the unit, it needs to be glued, so that there is no free space between the notebooks.

Glue in the root area. The unit must be aligned as far as possible and secure.

The glue is evenly smearing all over the root so that there is no surplus, but it was not not the wrapped parts left.

We leave the glue blocking the unit to push (you can again put under the press for better gluing).

The inner block is ready, it remains only.

Hello, my darlings!

And what I prepared for you!))) Remember, I asked you, what kind of MK did you want to see from me? So, among the wishes it was and this is to make a master - a class on creating a wooden cover. Well, and here the man said - the man did promised - I did it) I made a long time ago, I can only now).
Yesterday you could see this MK in the Fantasy blog, for which he was written. Now I share here). And notepad itself can be considered more

There are many options for creating imitation of wooden surfaces. You can use masks, stencils, crane - varnishes, you can make scratches with knitting needles and other pricks. I will show you one of the options for creating such a surface (it is also not new and do not come to me).

In addition to the fact that such covers look spectacularly and can be performed for different works. Such covers are perfectly suitable for culinary books (they are practical, they can be wiped with a wet cloth), for thematic albums (for example, for a pirated topic). Pirate I have already shown you, details

The plank made in this way can be used in New Year's projects (tags, postcards), options mass. I repeat, as always - fantasize!)) And I will reveal the secret - on the joint venture Pop-Up Album Graphic45 I am preparing you something similar, and for what and why do you know))

I like such covers with the fact that you can make them literally from the remnants of binding cardboard. He usually stays from pages for albums, from cardboard projects, etc. You can also approach the cardboard from the albums from Kraft - paper, there are covers from such a cardboard).

To create the cover we will need:

- Binding cardboard
- burlap (small piece)
- stationery knife + rug + metal ruler
- Glue
- Acrylic Soil (Black)
- Acrylic Paints: Neapolitan Orange, Dark - Brown, Black, Orange
- Candle
- Brushes
- Sponge for dishes (new)

To make the cover we will need:

Chipboard with vegetable elements
- Powder for Embossing (suitable for color design)
- adhesive cushion for embossing
- machine for cutting and embossing
- Flower Soft.
- Glossy Accent.

Let's start?)

1. Prepare details from binding cardboard. Because The size of my notebook is 10 cm * 7.5 cm, I prepared the details of the following size:
2 pieces - 10.5 cm * 7.5 cm
1 piece - 10, 5 cm * 3, 2 cm (for root).

Sketch I chopped from remnants of cardboard from the previous project). Chopped them in different thickness, so they will look more natural.

2 . Details. Which will be "skimming", give even more natural and slightly shabby look. Because My idea is that the tree looks "seeing views", then I "overshoot" every plate with a stationery knife. Create irregularities. The degree of these irregularities depends on what object your boards. More rougher fit for men's work, for a pirated topic. For more gentle works, the spreadsheet is better to stir without fanaticism))).

Size of my skulls for 2-3 mm less cover details

3. On the prepared piece of burlap glue our billets, at a distance of about 5 mm from each other

Forms I also grease with glue ...

And I spend on bending - furoades with a big row. I give dry the workpiece. I prefer it to dry naturally.

4. On the dried workpiece glue the junction

The ends will also be "wooden", two jams I fit here and here)

5. Cover the cover with black acrylic soil

Please note that inside the edge of the cover is also covered with soil. At this stage, you can use the hairdryer for embossing and dry the cover. I dried naturally.

6. Now proceed to the most interesting). We will create a layer of layer on the layer. We take a piece of candle and rub our skimming over the entire surface. Do not forget to process the edges of the skull, the edges of the entire cover and the root. We also process the hollows between the boards.

7. Extra grapple of wax will be removed. I do it with the help of a brush (I have separate for such work). Strongly do not try, only slightly wrap over. The wax should not lie pieces.

8. Apply a paint layer of another color. I chose Neapolitan orange for contrast.

Applying the first layer of paint, without giving it to dry, wean the second layer. The photo shows the difference: on the right - paint in one layer, on the left - already in two.

Inside also cover paint

9. At this stage, I recommend driving the workpiece only by naturally. From the hair dryer, the wax is heated and begins to bubble (along with paint). Subsequently, this can affect the quality of paint powder. Duration of drying depends on the colors you choose (usually the instructions indicate the time). I have a blank slowed about 1.5 hours.

10. Now we take the usual household sponge for dishes and rigidly rub our skidding. We do it carefully, so as not to lure up cardboard holes)).

11. We smash the residues of the paint to the back side of the sponge and proceed to the next stage. We again process the entire surface of the cover of the candle, we make surplus and paint the black soil (you can replace black paint). Let me dry by naturally and re-remove the paint layer with a sponge. That's what I get

12. Because I selected the autumn palette for the mini, the final version of the color of the skullfield will be autumn, warm. I make the last strokes - I treat the surface with a candle, wept again Neapolitan orange paint, I sink with a sponge. We nano wax and cover the cover of dark-brown paint. After rubbing the sponge I get this surface

13. Because There will be no Brads on my cover, I'm sticking at this stage at this stage

14. Start decoking the cover. At first I glued a lace tape. Then decorate chipboard and cutting down. From the reverse side, part of the ribbon will have a chipboard from a paper set.