Such a thing as a notebook is necessary for everyone. Agree, no one can do without this accessory. We usually buy notebooks from the office departments. But you can make it with your own hands, or at least make a cover for a standard purchased notebook, replacing the "native" one with the author's one. How to make a cover for a notebook with your own hands? Such a product can be made from paper quite quickly and without special financial costs.
Such an exclusive decoration will give you a lot of pleasure and make you proud of your own craftsmanship. It is possible that it will even be a pity to use the received non-standard notebook for ordinary notes, in which case you can make it as a wonderful gift for a loved one. It will look especially cute if each page of your author's product contains a pleasant and not banal wish.
How to make a notebook cover with your own hands?
Let's consider several options. For example, the flyleaf of your future product can be decorated in a suitable color. It will take about 50 centimeters to take such material, but in general, its amount depends on the format of the diary. A set of auxiliary tools consists of a thread with a needle, a ruler, scissors, as well as any set of decorative items that you can get. Small elegant buttons, beads and even rhinestones are suitable. In this case, everything depends only on your imagination. At the first stage of the needlework process, you should carefully measure the notebook to be decorated. Then we cut out a cover from felt on it according to the measurements taken, not forgetting about allowances.
Decoration options
How to decorate the cover of a notebook with your own hands? Such an elegant felt case can be equipped with a small pocket, pen or pencil holder. To do this, we mark the places of its attachment to the cover, cut the felt in this place and thread the holder there. For reliability, it should be stitched with a machine seam.
You can decorate the felt cover by sewing on elegant buttons. If you chose, for example, rhinestones to decorate your product, then they are attached to glue (you can use the most common "Moment"). We first fix the edges of the cover with safety pins, then they should be sheathed with decorative thick threads, selected in a suitable color scheme.
Textile cover
If you don’t have felt at hand, or you don’t like this material, you can make a cover for a notebook with your own hands from fabric, and almost any. In this case, you need to provide for a satin ribbon and the same fabric should be taken in a single color for the inside and a decorative one with an elegant pattern for the cover itself.
A pair of inner pockets in the shape of a rectangle is also cut out from the same fabric. The details of the future cover cut out taking into account the allowances should be carefully ironed and sewn into the pocket on the inside of the auxiliary (that is, plain) fabric. Then we fold the side parts facing each other, grind them on a typewriter. We put our notebook into the resulting case, and that's it - smart clothes are ready for him!
DIY notebook cover: scrapbooking ideas
The technique called scrapbooking is especially popular in our time. Products made with her help always look stylish and somehow especially sincere. Using this technique, you can also decorate the cover of a finished notebook or even an album, or you can make an entire notebook.
In this case, the notes block will serve as sheets of paper. In addition to it, you should purchase beautiful scrap paper, the choice of which is now huge in specialized stores, ready-made elegant postcards or print your favorite images on a color printer. And, of course, stationery for auxiliary work.
At the first stage of creating a product, we tint the ends of the block, as well as our future cover cut out of paper. Then it is attached to the endpaper with double-sided tape. And in the blocks, as well as in the cover itself, you can insert metal eyelets. As a result, we will get small holes through which you can stretch a bright decorative ribbon and tie it beautifully on top. The resulting cover is usually supplemented with an original three-dimensional application, for example, miniature flowers, ready-made or made from any auxiliary materials.
And again about fabrics
How to make a do-it-yourself notebook cover for someone whose hobby is sewing? If you are a lover of textiles, and you have a certain amount of bright unusual fabric in stock, then you can decorate with it not only a notebook, but almost any book, a personal diary, an album for drawings - everything, up to a passport.
Even when there is no sewing machine, it does not matter, small pieces of matter can be sewn together perfectly by hand. The fabric for the wrong side of the product can be taken simpler, for the front - more elegant and expensive. At hand, of course, you should have pins, needles, threads and scissors, without which not a single textile product will work.
In the manufacturing process, we cut the fabric, getting two rectangles of the same size. The smaller side of each should match the height of the notebook, adding a couple of centimeters for allowances and about 5 millimeters for a loose fit. The long side of the rectangle is equal to twice the width of the notebook, to which its thickness is added, five centimeters on each side for folds and one centimeter for seam allowances.
Further work technology
Both rectangles are folded right sides inward along the short sides, stitched a centimeter from the edge, turned inside out, folded evenly and ironed. Then the blank is applied to the notebook itself, the lapels are inserted between the endpapers and adjusted until an equal length is reached. Four corners are chipped off with pins without affecting the front side. The workpiece is turned inside out, stitched along the long sides, also with an indent of 1 cm, and you should not forget to leave an unstitched section five centimeters long for subsequent eversion.
For reliability, the edge can be stitched with a zigzag. Then, through the left hole, the cover is turned inside out, and the gap itself is sewn up with a hidden seam. The corners are straightened and carefully ironed. If necessary, decorations and decorative elements are sewn on top according to the principles described above. DIY notebook cover!
Let's move on to the skin
Sometimes you want to present a gift to a person that looks expensive and prestigious, but at the same time it will be made by yourself. A leather-bound notebook is perfect for such purposes. It will definitely come in handy for daily recordings. A do-it-yourself notebook cover can be decorated with a pattern (for example, based on the game of tanks or any other - of your choice). The techniques used in this case are the same.
It’s good if you have a piece of genuine leather in stock, the dimensions of which are 30 x 45 cm, but you can also get by with high-quality leatherette. If you plan to make sheets of the future notebook yourself, then stock up on a pack of A4 paper (about 50 sheets + 2 for endpapers), some more of them should be put aside in reserve. The quality is quite suitable for the most ordinary white paper, which is used in printers. Cardboard will go to the endpapers and spine, you can take not the densest, but thick and hard for the cover.
What else is needed
You will also need a couple of strips of not too thick fabric about 15 centimeters long and about three wide, a 30-mm tube of Moment glue and beige or black synthetic threads. Tools and materials will be a needle file or file, an awl, a ruler with scissors, a pen, as well as acrylic paints for painting on fabric and a thin brush for working with them. Also, instant coffee. With it, paper can be aged. But if you prefer white sheets, we omit this procedure. For aging, we will make a coffee solution: add five tablespoons of instant coffee to a liter of water. The more it is, the darker our sheets will turn out. Do not forget that, when dried, they will inevitably brighten by a couple of tones.
How to color paper
The resulting solution should be poured into a suitable container of the desired size (basin or rectangular baking sheet with high sides). We soak the sheets each separately, dipping them in coffee and turning them over for even coloring. While they remain in the solution (this is about a quarter of an hour), we lay out newspapers on the floor and then lay out our sheets on them to dry. We repeat the procedure, loading new portions of paper into the container, until all sheets take on a pleasant light brown tint. Newspapers will often have to be changed, and it is better to lay out the sheets to dry overnight - by morning they are usually quite dry.
Then they should be sewn into a notebook, collecting 5 sheets each and bending each pack in half. Don't forget to check the evenness of the edges. Thus, we get 10 small notebooks. All of them should be stacked, aligned and pressed with a press. You can keep them like this from half an hour to several hours. We take it out from under the press, align it, clamp it again, placing cardboard boxes from below to make holes for the needle. However, you can pierce the sheets with an awl or a thick needle, but it’s not a fact that everything will turn out very smoothly and accurately.
How to make a binding
We mark the cardboard with divisions of 3 centimeters, near each we make notches of small depth. It turns out that we saw through the entire pack of our paper at the same time. In this case, the work must be done fairly accurately. Then the sheets are sewn together with a needle and a strong thread. At each step, the thread is properly tensioned, while being careful not to tear the paper pages. In the middle we lay pieces of fabric to attach the block to the endpaper. Having sewn all the notebooks into a single block, we glue it in the area of \u200b\u200bthe spine, for this we align it again, fix it with clamps and carefully smear glue on the spine without excess and dry, non-smeared places. When the block dries, only the leather cover remains. For a notebook with your own hands, it will not be difficult to make it.
Getting to the cover
If you do not agree to work with other material, you will need some experience. In addition, conventional fabric tools are indispensable here. Having at your disposal pieces of leather and suede, as well as the right size pattern, a couple of sheets of cardboard, glue and the right tools, you can get to work. We measure the flyleaf of the future notebook and cut the skin according to the size obtained with a mandatory allowance of one and a half centimeters. If you do not plan to transfer the finished drawing to the surface (and this is done using a laser printer), there is another decor option.
On thick cardboard we draw and carefully cut out figures stylized, for example, as flowers, hearts or any other three-dimensional shapes. We paste a cardboard flower or something else on the cover, and on top of it - another leather or suede fragment. We take a blunt knife and push the contour of our flower with force, then we can carefully cut the junction of two leather parts (upper and lower) in the form of a fringe. There is no need to use glue.
How to decorate it
A do-it-yourself leather notebook cover is decorated by cutting a hole in it and attaching it with small leather tendril strips made of suede, leather, flowers or other decorative elements. The antennae should be carefully inserted into the hole and fixed with glue on the wrong side. Having finished decorating the outer part of the cover, we will fold in the allowances, make and attach the lining and, if necessary, make pockets that can fit business cards. You can connect the parts of the cover to each other with leather straps.
Recently, leather-covered notebooks have become very popular, only now they are very expensive. Especially handmade. One such notebook can cost as much as 10 regular ones. What to do if you really want to get such beauty, but frankly feel sorry for the money? You can make it yourself to your taste and with all the wishes, or you can sell it and earn decent money. especially if you establish regular production and build up a clientele! Why not a business idea? And so what we need:
- any notebook / diary / diary
- cardboard
- leather (can be artificial)
- decor (we have cabochon and beads)
- beaded needle
- glue "Moment crystal"
- paper of different textures
Then we cut out a piece of skin the size of both of our covers + 3-4 centimeters for fidelity. Take the skin of your choice. It is easier to embroider on natural than on artificial. 
We designate the place where we will perform embroidery. To do this, you can try on the skin on the diary and determine the center of the cover (front cover). If the eye lets you down a little, we have a couple of centimeters in reserve just for this case - we will move the skin so that the pattern sits in the right place. In our case, we circle the cabochon with a silver liner and draw algae around it, along the contour of which we will embroider with beads. 
Then we stretch our material into the hoop and proceed to embroidery. 
You can see how to bead a cabochon in ours. When the pattern is ready, we collect the diary as shown in the photo. To do this, we glue the first cover in such a way that the pattern is located in the center, then glue the spine relative to it, after the spine - the second cover. We cut off the excess skin at the edges, leaving 2 cm on the sides. 
At the corners, we cut off the skin almost completely if we work in natural thick leather, or leave 5 millimeters if the skin is thin or artificial. 
We bend the edges and glue to the cardboard. The cover is ready. Now you can paste a diary block into it. 
You can do this, or you can go further and ennoble the work. Paste the flysheet. We take colored paper or any beautiful one we find. Well, you never know, where the designer's was lying around ... We also cut it to the size of the notebook and glue it to the cover. 
who will share with you - how she makes a cover for her notebooks!
Hey! I will tell beginner needlewomen how to make a paperback,
to cover it with leather and how to reunite the page block and cover into a single whole.
I hope this MK will be useful for needlewomen with experience)
Let's start :)
1. You can make a notepad block yourself. But if you do not have enough experience in this matter or do not have time for this at all, then I advise buy READY BLOCK in the FANTASY store.
- In order to make a cover for our notebook, you need to measure the height, width and thickness of the block (in my case it is 21cm * 14.5cm * 3cm).
- Now it is necessary to add 0.5 cm to the height and width, and only 2-3 mm (0.2-0.3 cm) to the thickness. As a result, we must cut out 3 parts from cardboard:
The left side of the cover - 21.5*15cm;
Spine - 21.5*3.3cm
The right side is 21.5*15cm.
- We place our parts in parallel at a distance of 0.3-0.4 cm from each other and glue them together using strips of plain paper and glue.
2. Now you need to cut a piece of synthetic winterizer 1-2 cm larger on each side than our cover and sew it along the edge with a machine stitch. After the line is laid, you can cut off the excess synthetic winterizer exactly along the edge of the cardboard.
3. The faux leather piece should be 2-3 cm larger on each side than our prepared cover. We turn the skin face down, put the cover on top with the synthetic winterizer down and place it in the center of the skin. Spread the top of the cover with glue (3 cm from the edge). We bend and glue 2-3 cm of skin on the cover. Then we smear the lower part of the cover with glue and stretching a little (!) the skin, glue it to the cover.
- Now it is necessary to arrange the corners: we cut off the skin folded onto the cover along the cardboard almost to the end, not reaching 0.2 cm to the corner. We cut off the excess skin at an angle, preferably 45 degrees, leaving a small "tail" as in the photo. We glue the "tail" to the end of the cover - I use the "super moment GEL" (it does not flow and it is very convenient to work with it).
T Now smearing the end of the cover with super glue and bend the edges of the skin.
5. Cut out the endpapers exactly according to the size of the page block. As I wrote above - my block is 21cm * 14.5cm, so I cut out a rectangle 21 * 29cm and bend it in half - this will be our flyleaf, we need 2 of them. For endpapers, I advise you to take thick paper (!) - at least 180g / sq.m.
- The edge of the flyleaf, which will be adjacent to the block, is lubricated with glue (or other paste over with double-sided tape), the width of the adhesive strip is 1-1.5 cm - no more. Glue the flyleaf to the block. We also act with the 2nd flyleaf.
6. The roots of the blocks are always glued with gauze, so now we need to put it into action :) We put a sheet of ordinary office paper under the flyleaf (in order not to stain the block with glue) and completely coat the side of the flyleaf (which will be adjacent to the cover) with glue. The edges of the gauze, bend on the flyleaf and glue.
- Now we put the block into the cover so that the inner edge of the cover coincides with the edge of the spine of the block and glue the endpaper. We pay attention to the fact that the distance from the top and bottom (from the cover to the block) is the same.
- We do the same with another flyleaf - we put a sheet, grease it with glue, bend the gauze onto the flyleaf and coat it with glue too, then just close the cover. Let's dry. Notepad is ready :)
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The colors were also chosen: ivory, ocher and brown shades. Polish paper set Wihte rose bought from the store FANTASY perfect for this order! The paper is very, very beautiful :) :) :)
In this master class, we will show you a variety of techniques for decorating a notebook cover, because almost everyone needs a notebook. You might think that a beginner would not be able to handle all these patterns with their own hands, that it is very difficult. This is not true!
Agree, a handmade thing brings a lot of joy to its creator. You may feel sorry for using such a notebook for work or study, but it can be a wonderful spiritual gift for a loved one. Especially if you fill the pages of the notebook with pleasant wishes. Such a cover will keep your everyday assistant neat and add originality to it.
We make a cover for a notebook with our own hands from felt in a master class
To make a flyleaf from felt, we need the following materials:
- about 50 cm of felt (depending on the size of your diary);
needle and thread;
any decor available to you (it can be rhinestones, beads, buttons);
scissors and ruler.
Let's start making a cover for a notebook quickly and easily with your own hands:
1) The first step is to accurately measure the notebook that you are going to decorate.
2) We take the felt and cut out the future cover in accordance with the size of the diary, leaving allowances.
3) If you wish, you can make a holder for a pen, for this you need to mark the place where it will be attached to our case.
4) Now we cut the felt in the marked place and thread the holder into the resulting cut.
5) The holder must be stitched with a sewing machine.
6) For decor, I chose buttons, you may have something else. We sew on buttons, and rhinestones, for example, can be glued with an ordinary “Moment”.
7) We fix the edges of the cover with safety pins and sheathe them with thick threads, which are combined with the color scheme of the product.
In such a simple way, you can make any felt case.
You can make a cover for a notebook out of fabric with your own hands, for this you will need:
- sewing accessories;
- the cloth;
- satin ribbon.
Let's start our step-by-step master class:
- From a plain fabric, it is necessary to cut out the inner sides of the cover. We will need fabric with a pattern to cut out the cover itself and 2 rectangular inside pockets. Leave allowances and iron the fabric.
- Then we sew 2 pockets on the inside of the cover and grind the side parts from a plain fabric (I have white) with a colored fabric face to face.
- That's all! The notebook is ready and will serve you longer.
To make a leather notebook cover, of course, you need to have experience with this material, and ordinary tools will not work for this purpose. This master class will help you get acquainted with the technology of manufacturing leather products. If you already have an idea how to cut out the necessary fragments from the skin, then this lesson is for you.
Cover materials:
- leather and suede;
- pattern;
- cardboard;
- glue;
- tools.
Let's start a step-by-step guide on how to make a cover for a notebook quickly and easily with your own hands:
1) We cut out pieces of leather according to the size of the flyleaf of your notebook (I have removable panels). Be sure to leave an allowance of 1.5 cm.
2) We need cardboard to cut out shapes stylized as a pansy flower. You can choose another volumetric shape
3) Glue the flower to the cover of the notebook, and glue a piece of leather (suede) on top. With a blunt knife, it is necessary to push the flower along the contour.
We cut the joint of leather parts into a fringe, which does not need to be smeared with glue.
4) We cut out flowers of any shape and size from leather and suede, leaving "antennae" for fasteners. We make holes in the cover, insert the antennae and glue them on the wrong side.
5) Finishing touches - allowances need to be folded under the cardboard cover of the notebook, make a lining, cut out pockets for business cards.
6) We connect the cover with leather straps-rings. Smart diary is ready!
Scrapbook notebooks are especially sincere and stylish. For its manufacture, we do not use a ready-made notebook, but a block for notes, everything else will be done by hand! This master class will help you make a scrapbook paper notebook from scratch.
We will need:
- block for records;
- scrap paper;
- printed pictures or ready-made postcards;
- office.
Let's start creating a cover for a notebook:
1) It is necessary to tint the edges of the block for records.
2) We cut out the future cover from paper and also tint it.
3) Glue to the endpaper using double-sided tape.
4) We insert metal eyelets into the end of the cover and the cover itself.
5) We stretch the ribbon through the resulting holes and tie it.
6) That's it! The cover can be supplemented with any voluminous application (I attached miniature roses).
Video on the topic of the article
We conclude our lesson with visual materials to inspire you to create even more creative things around you. Happy viewing!
In this master class, we suggest you make a completely ordinary item that every creative or business person, schoolchild and student needs. This is a notepad. We will make it completely from scratch: from binding to genuine leather cover.
materials
To make your own leather notebook, you will need:
- a piece of genuine leather;
- thick white carbon paper;
- a needle with a large eye;
- tailor's chalk or pencil;
- strong thread;
- awl;
- sharp knife;
- ruler.
Step 1. You will need to fold the sheets of carbon paper in half. Take your time, make the folds neat so that the halves of the sheet are identical to each other and in the future do not look beyond the edges of the main row.
Determine the number of sheets, starting from the desired thickness of the notebook. It is not necessary to cut the blanks.
Step 2. Fold the prepared sheets in a pile and press down with heavy books. The latter will play the role of the press. In order for the sheets to lay down as needed, it will take about an hour to hold them in this position.
Step 3. Take a tailor's marker and a prepared stack of pages for a future notebook. Attach the sheets to a piece of leather laid out on the table. Circle them, not forgetting the allowance for the spine of the notebook.
Step 4. Cut out the cover according to the outlined lines from the leather.
Step 5. Take an awl and pierce the sheets in places where you will skip the binding threads. When making punctures, be sure to compare the elements with each other. The holes must be located strictly at the same distance from the edge.
Step 6. Thread the needle through the thread and sew the sheets together. You can see the alternate sequence of stitches in the photos of the process.
Step 7. Now you will need to take the prepared leather cover and make punctures in it. To do this, also use an awl and observe the distance between the holes.
Step 8. Sew the cover to the existing binding. The threads should initially be taken such that they match in tone with the original leather material or are combined with it.
At the end of the process, carefully tie the thread and cut off the excess so that they do not stick out anywhere.
