The diary is, probably, the girl's most personal thing, no one touches him, most likely no one even knows about his existence. And, like the most personal thing, it should be perfect for everything, because it is to him that we trust our innermost thoughts and feelings. With the article, we show you a very original way how you can make a personal diary yourself.
How to make your personal diary?
First, we need to determine exactly what our personal diary will be, and only then select the materials and proceed with the design with our own hands. Also, we strongly do not recommend making a diary for a gift, even if it's your daughter (unless she herself asked about it), because, most likely, your heartfelt gift will become an ordinary notebook, because your personal diary should be chosen or made by your own hands .
Now we can proceed. For work we need this:
- a lot of colorful paper, you can even have a different format;
- multi-colored felt;
- dense cardboard;
- thick paper for flyby;
- glue "Moment-crystal" (transparent).
We make a diary by ourselves:
- Prepare the paper. Ideally, we make all the leaves in A5 format, but you can make different sizes. We stack colored leaves in random order and make holes with a punch.
- Let's tie our leaves together so that they do not move.
- On this the main block can be considered ready, we'll cover for the time being the cover. It can be done in two ways: the first way is easier - take a thick colored cardboard, then just decorate a personal diary to your taste. We will consider the variant more complicated. So, take the felt, cardboard and paper for work.
- From a thick cardboard, we cut two covers 1-1.5 cm larger on each side than the page format.
- Next, cut out the felt according to the format of the cover with an allowance of 1-1.5 cm. Lubricate the edges with glue and tighten the cardboard with them, gently prying the edges. Let's give the product a couple of minutes to dry. Then gently trim the formed corners of felt.
- Using the punch hole, make holes in the cover. Carefully ensure that they are necessarily concentric with the holes on the main diary block, otherwise our product will get very untidy.
- Now on the contour we impose a cover on the sewing machine by the most common seam. This will be both a frame for our page, and a more reliable fastening of felt.
- It remains to make the binding of our personal diary, and it is ready. You can transform it from within, making it more convenient than we do. Very convenient to use pockets on the dense pages of the diary, in them you can put notes with reminders, photos and stuff. Pockets we will make of a dense film for binding, which can be found in any stationery store. It will be safer to sew pockets, as we did. But if necessary, you can do with glue.
- Now we will decorate the cover for the diary with our own hands. Here it is certainly possible to give vent to your imagination and creative abilities: buttons, appliqués, rhinestones, ribbons, beads, flowers ... We decided not to complicate our task and made a simple applique from a scrapbook with a picture and flowers in the style of scrapbooking.
- The last thing we do is work out the holes from the hole punch, otherwise our diary will very quickly lose its presentable appearance. We sew them manually with the same thread, which was made with a finishing line. For completeness of the species, we put on the cover metal corners. Now our cover is ready.
- And finally, we need something to hold the diary together. Here, too, there are many options, as it can be done - buttons, ropes, special fasteners with locks and stuff. We tied the usual elastic band, which is tied to a bow.
- After making the diary itself, you can decorate its pages with stickers, paper tape or clippings from magazines.
- And finally, advice: the first page is best made from a booklet film. It is very convenient to write a marker on the upcoming important event, and then easily remove the inscription with the help of any alcohol-containing liquid. Significant savings in paper!
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Finally, a personal diary made by myself is ready. With pleasure we share with him our most intimate thoughts and reasonings. And also we can adapt it and for practical needs: to keep a diary of weight loss or training .