How to make a notepad with their own hands - tips on choosing the type, material, design

Different types of notepads and their main features

Any notepad is easy to make on a common and uncomplicated technology, but first it is important to understand the types of these products. They can differ in design and decor, internal filling and size, and each will have its own purpose and intended use.

Travel Book

The general idea of a travelbook (notebook for travel) is similar to photo albums, but has its own nuances:

• under the photo from a vacation or trip you can write your own thoughts and observations;
• you can paste memorable tickets and labels, notes and wishes into the travelbook;
• free sheets are used for planning future trips and vacations.

This gift is great for those who value their freedom and love tourism in all its forms, from trips out of town, to tours to exotic countries.

Art Book

The art book, which is how the name of such notebooks is translated, is most often given as a gift to creative individuals who can not live a day without drawing. For registration of such a gift to yourself or a friend any interesting theme related to hobbies and a favorite occupation of the future owner is chosen.

For the convenience of drawing such notebooks are usually with a hard cover or cardboard foundation and flip sheets. Often they are designed as a small album of high quality and thick paper on which it is good to draw with markers and glitters, paints or pencils.

Smashbook

The smashbook got its name from the English word, which literally translates as "to destroy", which defines its specificity. Such personal diaries can be kept for a year, writing down your meanings, dreams and experiences, and then destroying them and starting a new diary.

What other types of notebooks are there according to their purpose

Using their creative skills and inspiration can be made various paper products with original design:

• Junk-book, such a product is very interesting to make together with children, junk-book is a colorful and motley creation from scraps of colored paper and labels, leftover colored paper and postcards, magazine sheets and other small things;
• Cookbook, such notebooks combine a picture of dishes with a recipe, and the pictures can be cut out from magazines or drawn by hand, a self-made cookbook is a great gift for fans of cooking;
• Dream-book, a notebook for dreamers and those who like to immerse themselves in the stream of their minds, such crafts have no restrictions on the style of design and if you use improvised means its cost will be zero, but the pleasure will be maximum.

For everyday use the simplest mini notepads are made which can have no cover, and white paper is replaced by colored sheets.

External design and construction of notepads

A notepad is not a day planner, even if it is used to express your own feelings and take notes on your thoughts. The external aesthetics of the design is limited only by the creative flight of fancy of the craftsman, the materials available and the chosen sketch, which helps to embody different ideas:

• Notepads in a hard cover with different thematic and design decorations;
• products with a thick cardboard base and a different number of sheets;
• The sheets can be connected by gluing or stitching.

The notepads use tear-off technology to make them simple and fast, making them easy to tear off. Tear-off notebooks are often used for everyday writing and can include work tasks or reminders, shopping lists and interesting information.

What materials can be used for the notepad

To make even a small in size and modest in design notepad will need not only paper. Based on the presence of certain components of this product are determined and used materials, different in composition and with their intended purpose:

• For the base or cover you can use thick cardboard, it is covered with fabric, artificial or natural leather is decorated in different techniques;
• Glue or thread and needles can be used for binding, and not infrequently the sheets of notebooks are strung on special spirals of colored and sturdy wire;
• The interior filling of the notebook is made from ordinary office or newsprint, you can use ruled sheets of notebooks in a cell or a line.

Increase the practicality of the craft, and emphasize its originality will help special inserts between the sheets. Such dividers can be made of colored cardboard or cut halyards (thin, colored or transparent plastic).

Making a tear-off notepad for notes on the fridge - a master class

An interesting and simple master class will help create a notepad for notes on the fridge for the production of which it will take a minimum of time. As consumables are used a magnetic base (you can from an old notepad), several sheets of office paper, PVA glue and large paper clips, scissors and a pencil with a ruler:

• Sheets of office paper are marked and cut into equal pieces, 4-5 sheets are enough for the job, they are cut into 10 equal pieces;
• The end, where the sheets will be fastened with glue, carefully aligned and fixed by means of clips or ordinary large paper clips;
• the secured surface of the end face is covered with a thin layer of PVA, after the glue dries completely, the procedure of applying the adhesive composition can be repeated 2-3 times;
• After the joined sheets of the notepad have dried completely, the last sheet is thoroughly glued to the cardboard substrate, and then it can be used.

The size of the future notepad can be adjusted at your discretion, adjusting the length and width to the dimensions of the magnetic base. For the convenience of using the notepad, a pencil can be attached to it with string, pencils write at any angle, unlike a ballpoint pen.

Differing in exterior and interior design notebooks are used at work and at home as notebooks and useful accessories. It is not necessary to buy templates and standard products, because with a minimum of effort and spending a little time you can create with your own hands real masterpieces.

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