lomography | Little Button Diaries

I really like writing on brown paper, and graph paper and square paper. There… I’ve admitted it! I discovered a brown paper notepad I bought in Paris years ago and it gave me the idea – for our second Nap Time Crafts – to make some of my own.

I began by gathering together craft materials left over from other projects, and got experimenting. My list of materials was:

Coloured card
Tracing paper
Brown paper
Old Lomography photos
Postcards
Bakers twine
Embroidery thread
Stickers
Washi tape
Paint and paintbrush

As you can probably tell, anything will work, and it’s a good way to recycle scraps.

I started by cutting the paper and card to the size I wanted the notepad to be when it was opened out. Next I chose two photos to form the cover. If you’re using two photos for the cover, fix them together using washi tape.

To bind the pages, I tried two methods. I used thread to stitch the pages together from the middle of the book to the spine of the cover. I then used a running stitch up the length of the book and back down to my starting point. I tied the ends together to finish off.

The second method was using washi tape to stick individual sheets to each other to form the spine.