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Make a mini-journal to fill with notes-to-self, doodles, or your deepest, darkest secrets. Its wee size makes it perfect for purses, so you can record your brilliant thoughts on the go.
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The Bust DIY Guide to Life by Debbie Stoller
Published by Abrams
Whether it’s sewing clothes, making cheese, or growing a garden, the modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowerin...
© 2013 Debbie Stoller / Abrams · Reproduced with permission.Instructions
You Will Need
- 5" by 4" piece of Cardboard or heavy card stock
- 6" by 5" piece of Fabric
- Hot Glue Gun and glue
- Scissors
- Short stack of Paper , such as recycled printer paper, vellum, or watercolor paper
- Pinking Shears
- Stapler
- Origami Paper or additional fabric
- Project Cost
- Cheap
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Fold the 5" by 4" piece of cardboard or card stock in half (like a card).
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Affix your fabric to the outside of the cardboard by hot-gluing around the edges of the flattened cardboard and centering your piece of fabric on top. Then fold the cover to make sure you didn’t adhere it too tightly.
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Once dry, make diagonal cuts in the corners of the fabric that sticks out, so you can fold the excess fabric to the inside.
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Hot-glue a thin line around the inside edges of the cardboard, then fold the fabric and affix to the inside
cover. You may need additional glue where the fabric overlaps. -
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For your journal’s pages, cut a short stack of paper about 41?2" by 31?2". Cut with pinking shears if you want your pages to have zigzag edges. Fold the stack in half (like a card) and staple twice in the crease to hold the pages together. Be sure not to use too much paper or the cover won’t close.
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Hot-glue a line down the inside center of the card- board. Align the edge of your folded-paper pile with the crease; hold till dry. Further secure the pages by gluing
the first and last to the cardboard. -
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Make the inside covers pretty by gluing origami paper or additional fabric over them.
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