It is difficult for a modern person to do without a diary. This notebook allows you to plan your day, write down reminders of important meetings and events, phone numbers and addresses. Therefore, if you choose a gift for one of your friends or work colleagues, then you will never be mistaken if you present it with a diary. You can add a set of good pens to the kit. And so that such a gift does not seem ordinary and simple, we suggest you make a diary with your own hands. In the article we will present you with tips and tricks for its implementation. Following them, each of you can easily make such a notebook for recordings.
Do it yourself diary. Where to begin?
The first thing to do is to determine the size and shape of the product. As a rule, these are rectangular notebooks of medium thickness with the number of sheets up to four hundred (so that there is enough for each day a sheet). But female representatives will like a diary in the form of a heart, a flower or just a curly shape.
Next, decide which sheets you will fill the inside of the notebook. They can be simply white, with a marking, from newsprint or offset. You can also make a diary with your own hands from a notebook into a cage or line.
The process of making a personal notebook for notes
Make two parts for the cover from thick cardboard. For the same sizes (or a little less), cut the desired number of double sheets. Connect them with a stapler according to the principle of manufacturing notebooks of 10-15 pieces. Next, fold these blocks of notebooks on top of each other, stacking cardboard cover details on top and bottom, and fasten them with a thin wire or fishing line through the staples. Then glue them all together with the butt end to the section of the bandage with Dragon or Titan glue.
Cover for a diary: we create an exclusive thing with our own hands
For men, a diary with a crust of leather or its substitute, felt of dark colors, paper in seasoned tones is more suitable. Women will like bright soft covers from plush, felt, lace more. A notebook, framed in a cover made of an embroidered napkin, looks very stylish and original.
How to sew a cover for a diary? Spread on the table the material from which you plan to execute it. On it, put the diary in expanded form. Mark its dimensions, adding allowances for inversion on both sides, and cut the workpiece. If the diary cover for your diary is made of felt or leather with your own hands, then inversion can be stitched from the front side manually with a seam “over the edge”. Slices of these materials will not crumble. Other fabrics can be sewn from the wrong side and then turned out.
Product Decoration Stage
It is possible to decorate the cover of a diary for a lady in different ways: rhinestones, sequins, painting with acrylic paints, decorative buttons, bows, braid, lace. The male version of the notebook will be enough to issue a metal initial letter of the name or animal figure. Such decorative items are sold in needlework stores.
As you can see for yourself, making a diary with your own hands is not difficult at all. Approach this process with imagination, and you will get an exclusive and very beautiful gift.