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Making Recycled Paper Mini Notebooks

Cute Mini Notebooks - glued
Having a mini notebook that you can slip into your purse or bag can come in really handy. Don't buy them, follow the steps in this page to make your own using recycled paper, and save money. This is a page about making recycled paper mini notebooks.
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December 7, 2017

Cute Mini Notebooks - closeup of finished booksI found this craft somewhere on the internet and I'm trying to make my own. The difference is that I'm using recycled paper. One side is printed and the other is left blank, so I was thinking this can still be used for this kind of brilliant idea.

Supplies:

  • colored cardboard paper
  • long sized bond paper or any white soft type of paper
  • glue
  • correction pen
  • black marking pen
  • scissors
Cute Mini Notebooks - supplies
 

Steps:

  1. Get a piece of white paper, fold into 4 equal parts in a landscape position.
  2. Cute Mini Notebooks - fold paper lengthwise into fourths
     
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  3. Cut along the folds. You now have 4 pieces of paper strips in equal sizes.
  4. Cute Mini Notebooks- cut along the folds
     
  5. Get one strip and fold in half. Then fold again twice, equally.
  6. Cute Mini Notebooks - fold a strip in half
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks - fold in half again
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks - again
     
  7. Do the same with the 3 other strips.
  8. Cute Mini Notebooks - repeat with the three other strips
     
  9. Now, fold in alternate directions so it looks like an accordion.
  10. Cute Mini Notebooks - now alternate the folds like an accordian
     
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  11. Flip the paper to show the back portion or the printed portion. (The clean side will face down.)
  12. Stick each strip tip to tip to forming a long strip of accordion like paper.
  13. Cute Mini Notebooks - stick the sections together to form one long accordian
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks - long folded paper
     
  14. Then apply glue on to the entire back portion.
  15. Cute Mini Notebooks - apply glue to the entire back (printed) portion
     
  16. Close the accordion fold to stick and finally form the pages. (See photo)
  17. Cute Mini Notebooks - press folds together
     
  18. Get the colored paper and cut into half in the landscape position.
  19. Cute Mini Notebooks - cut colored paper in half lengthwise, cut
     
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  20. Fold the edges following the length of the pages.
  21. Cute Mini Notebooks - fold the edges in toward the center
     
  22. When you find it too long or too big, adjust or cut the paper in half. This will be the cover.
  23. Fold both sides of the cover vertically based on the width of the pages.
  24. Cute Mini Notebooks - fold ends in to fit size of paper
     
  25. As you can see there's an opening on the folded ends. Insert the last pages of both sides of the accordion folded paper, into the opening. Secure with glue.
  26. Cute Mini Notebooks - opening in cover
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks - insert ends of folded pages into the cover and glue in place
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks - glued
     
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  27. Design the front cover using the marker.
  28. Cute Mini Notebooks - create a design on the cover
     
    Cute Mini Notebooks
     
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December 7, 20171 found this helpful

SOOO cute

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