Jeannine Stein, author of Re-Bound and Adventures In Bookbinding, has put together super cute kits for making this recycled postcard book.
The following are the directions on how to make a recycled postcard accordion fold book so you can make your own. But if you buy either of her books on Qbookshop, Re-Bound or Adventures In Bookbinding (which you can pre-order), then you get a free kit! Just write "POSTCARD BOOK GIVEAWAY" in the "How Did You Hear About Us?" section of the Qbookshop order form, and we'll send you your kit. The fine print is we have 15 to give away - the first 15 buyers or pre-orders get them!
Want to make this cute little postcard book and from your own stash of postcards? Well, here is how to make a back-to-back postcard book:
Click on the images to enlarge and tread the postcard bookmaking tutorial.
I can't wait for this book to be released!
Adventures In Bookbinding:
Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books
by
Jeannine Stein
Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding technique, easy enough for a beginner to master.
Each project also features two other versions with the same binding geared to those with more or less experience. The novice version is for those who have no knowledge of the craft and want shortcuts, but love the look. For the quilter's book, for example, vintage quilt pieces become the covers so all that's needing in the binding. Or if you're interested in wool felting use an old sweater. This offers great opportunities for upcycling.
The expert version is for those who have a great deal of knowledge and proficiency of a certain craft - the master art quilter, for example. For this version, an expert guest artist has created the cover and the author has created the binding. This offers yet another creative opportunity - the collaborative project. Since crafters often get involved with round-robins and other shared endeavors, this will show them yet another way to combine their skills.
No other craft book offers the possibilities and challenges that Adventures in Bookbinding does. Readers will return to it again and again to find inspiration and ideas.
Jeannine Stein has been making books for more than fifteen years, exploring bindings, mediums, and techniques. In addition to teaching book-binding, she is an award-winning journalist, and she has written extensively about paper crafts-artists' books, scrapbooking, rubber stamping, and letterpress. She is the author of Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books with Recycled and Repurposed Materials, (Quarry Books, 2009).
And more on her other amazing book:
Re-Bound
Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials
By
Jeannine Stein
Re-Bound shows readers how to take every day materials from around the house, flea markets and thrift stores, and hardware and office supply stores, and turn them into fabulous books. Instead of saying, What can I make a book out of, readers will be thinking, What can't I make a book out of? In Re-Bound, a vintage souvenir wallet becomes a photo album. Last year's trendy sweater becomes a takealong journal. Even potato chip bags get a second life as a handy pocket notebook. This fun pursuit is economical as well as ecological. A variety of attractive, uncomplicated bindings, how-to instructions, and step-outs bring each project to life.
