Description
Whether you are about to embark on a new adventure or just getting back from a trip, learn how to make a travel journal for preserving those precious moments and mementos. Book artist Erin Zamrzla will teach you how to make a book with a handmade cover using a pamphlet binding. This book making project will teach you how to make pockets, attach custom photo corners, flags, and widows to house ticket stubs, brochures and more. Finish the journal with a button and string closure and your memories and mementos will last a lifetime.
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About Erin Zamrzla
Erin Zamrzla is a bookbinder, designer, teacher, and author of At Home with Handmade Books and Handmade Books forEveryday Adventures. She loves to make things from paper and has been binding books for more than ten years. She works from her home in Los Angeles, California.
Materials
•Cutting mat, small and large
• Craft knife
• Cork-backed metal ruler
• Bone folder
• Circle cutter or ¾" circle punch
• Japanese drill punch or hole punch
• Eyelets or rivets and setter
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Awl
• Tapestry needle
• Chip board, two 6 1/8 " x 9¼” pieces
• Book cloth, 2½" x 10¼" and 2½" x 9"
• Wax paper
• Glue stick
• Aluminum foil
•Studio Tac® dry adhesive and smoothing sheet
•Buttons, two ¾"
•Waxed linen thread or string
•Clasp envelopes, two 9" x 12"
•File folders, 2
•Ephemera: envelopes, tickets, packaging, etc.
•Washi tape
•Plastic sheet or glassine
•Paper embellishments: coin envelope, library pocket, large manila tag
•Tape, double-sided
•Shape punches
OPTIONAL
•Book cradle
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