How to make a waterfall for a personal diary?

Today, a fashion trend among teenage schoolchildren is the maintenance of a personal diary - a notebook or notebook, in which one usually writes his own thoughts on this or that occasion. Often, adults also resort to similar records, trying to understand themselves or fix in memory some events and their attitude towards them. By the way, the tradition of keeping a diary is far from new, it was widely spread among the higher layers of society hundreds of years ago.

If you want the diary to be not just a notebook with handwritten text, but a real work of art, try to decorate it using scrapbooking techniques. For this, various small elements will help, which can decorate each page of the notebook and, of course, its cover.

One of the ideas for decorating a personal diary, which has a practical benefit, is a paper waterfall. How it looks and what it is used for, you will now find out.

How to make a paper waterfall for a personal diary (in stages)?

Armed with the necessary materials and get to work:

You will need a blank sheet of paper, a ruler and a simple pencil. Note that the denser the paper, the more beautiful and strong your product will be. And for the subsequent creation of a decor it is possible to use color pencils, gel pens, felt-tip pens.

Draw a rectangle with sides of 5 and 25 cm on the sheet of paper. Of course, it is best to place it in one of the corners of the sheet to make the figure smooth, or use a measuring ruler for this.

Next draw another rectangle, smaller. Its dimensions are 1x8 cm, and it is more like a paper strip.

On the remainder of the paper, draw 4 squares with a side of 5 cm. If desired, you can not execute this item by using square sheets of stickers of different bright colors.

Cut out all the elements listed in the previous paragraphs.

The main element for work, the frame of the entire design of the waterfall from paper for a personal diary is an element No. 1, which measures 5x25 cm. At the edges of this strip, we place pencils on the edges, measuring from the top:

5 cm;
7 cm;
9 cm;
11 cm.

It is advisable to make these marks on both sides to then draw smooth lines along them. They should also be four.

Now, on the lines drawn, we bend our strip of paper in one direction (from ourselves).

For each bend, we paste one square element or sticker (see point 4).

Now we have to fix a paper waterfall in your personal diary. To do this, stick a narrow strip of paper 1x8 cm (see point 3) to a blank sheet of a notebook or notebook, which you plan to use as a diary for entries. Be careful: glue the strip only at the edges, applying literally two drops of glue from both sides.

Take the paper blank for the future waterfall and wind it under the strip in the diary. And then the last, the lowest square, glue the bottom side of the strip on top. To do this, glue the strip with glue, and apply a square on top, as if leveling it horizontally.

Now when you move the squares down (just gently pull the very last one), the entire paper structure will move down, leafing through the sheet behind the sheet. Try it yourself!

Such a waterfall is good for recording on the fields or as a scrap decoration.

For convenience, on the bottom of a long paper box you can glue a small "tail", pulling which you can flip through your paper waterfall.

By the way, the number of squares of the waterfall does not have to be 4 and be the size of 5x5. They can be a little less - so you can increase the number of stickers for entries. And if you are going to use a large format notebook as a diary, use your own layout.

How to make a paper waterfall for a personal diary (in stages)?

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