Book tutorial

What??? Tutorials! Tutorials are everywhere! Artists in Blogland has a monthly "Techniques on Tuesday" tutorial going on. The challenge over at Inspiration Avenue this week is to share a tutorial. Every Tuesday, Kristin Dudish has been doing a tutorial try-out and inviting others to try it too and link up. Carolyn Dube's Gelli Plate class is up and running with lots of great tutorials. So, I decided to do one as well. I love books! As you know, lately I've been loving altering old books…

Instead of spending money buying a journal you can make one using paper and ribbon. This activity is a simple, fun activity to do with children or by yourself. Take a good amount of paper (20-30 pages, or more, depends how thick you want...

In today's drawing tutorial, we will learn to draw a book with pencil step-by-step. How to draw an open book with a pencil step-by-step drawing tutorial. Step 1. Outline the contours of the book. Step 2. Add the curves for the pages to our book drawing. Step 3. Continue adding lines to show book binding and cover. Step 4. Continue adding details to the book drawing. Step 5. Draw the pages to our book and start adding shading. Step 6. Finalizing the drawing of the book.

This step-by-step tutorial shows you exactly how to bind your own journal and create a leather wrap-around cover. You can achieve a professional finish with this project, even as a complete beginner!

As promised, I would like to share how I covered my old well-loved books to give my bookcase a cleaner and more uniform look. (Read all abo...

Do you like to make your own mini albums from scratch? If you’re looking for some new ways to make books, check out this comprehensive listing of over 10 book binding techniques. You’ll…

This project allows students to make their own mini printable book via a do-it-yourself process. The book is focused on what animals are the, Most, of their kind. Children can assemble this book a

Each printed cell is folded, stitched together with a thread or wire, cutIt is called book binding (booklet) to attach a cover to it and make it into a book.The effort to make a beautiful and robust book is as old as the history of the book.I put it in…