I love making things and am especially drawn to things with a purpose, which is why I love notebooks and journals. I took a bookbinding class my senior year of undergraduate (Interesting Fact: The University of Alabama has one of only a very small handful of Book Arts programs in the country!) and fell in love. These tutorials are all inspiring me to create something new to jot down my ideas!!!
via Fossil Blog
I love these teensy little matchbook-inspired guys. How cute would they be for a little note tucked into your sweetie’s pocket?!
via Tinkering Monkey
You aren’t going to believe what these perfectly simple little, palm-sized journals are decorated with. Seriously, let me know if you guessed right!!!
via Sculpted Light
Here’s another one. What do you think she used to cover this hefty notebook? Hint: “Fabric” is not a specific enough answer here!
via Packagery
This one is fun because not only does she show you how to make this cute little booklet, but she also sells the library catalog cards in her Etsy shop!!!
Do you guys have any bookmaking tutorials or fun handmade books to link me to? I’m a bookmark fiend these days!!!
Love these! The tiny library card books are awesome. Makes me want to find random scraps of paper and start making journals! Excited. Thanks for sharing 🙂
xo
Melyssa
http://thenectarcollective.com
Check out Elizabeth Abernathy. She makes books out of everything – playing cards, old envelopes, you name it.
http://www.elizabethabernathy.com/
These are so cute! I’m so in love with handmade journals right now! I actually took my first bookbinding class this weekend and I loved it SO much! I have photos up on my blog :o)
Bookbinding is so fun! I like to make sketchbooks out of used books that are falling apart–seriously one of my favorite hobbies (haven’t been able to do it as much in the Bay Area, though, because used books are like 10 bucks ((in Utah I got them for a dollar)) )
http://thisisnotacraft.blogspot.com/2010/04/bookbinding-binding-new-paper-on-old.html