Tutorial - How to Make a Handmade Journal

Love them! They'd make great little gifts!

Handmade Journal Tutorial at Two Succulent Sisters
"I’ve been making these journals for years and thought I would do a quick tutorial on how to make them…. SO SO EASY. It’s basically – put papers together, fold in half, stitch. FINISHED. I love easy and quick projects that yield wonderful results, don’t you?..." Read more

Tutorial - How to Get Paper Ready to Make Signatures for a Handbound Book

So interesting! I've wondered how book makers get those pages so darn perfect.

Get Paper Ready to Make Signatures for a Handbound Book Tutorial at So Anyway
"The first step in making a hand bound book (outside of getting text together and breaking it up into page sized bits) is getting your signatures (or in my case; a signature) ready. A signature is a group of folded pages that make up a booklet which is then sewn together and attached to the hard cover of your book.

Today I'll show you how to find the grain in your sheet of paper so that you can cut your paper to make a signature for a hand bound book..." Read more

Be sure to check out part 2 - How to Score and Fold to Make Signatures

Tutorial - How to Make Scrap Fabric Headbands

Excellent use of that fabric! Very cute and very easy! Make a bunch!

Scrap Fabric Headband Tutorial at Mine for the Making
"I am not big on wasting. This includes wasting time, wasting money, wasting food....even wasting fabric. I love fabric...and I will not waste it. I have been trying to figure out what to do with my "scrap" fabric. Even though I didn't throw it away, it still remains purposeless...pretty much "wasting" away. And then I came up with it...why not make headbands out of that scrap fabric, Kara! Great idea : )..." Read more

Tutorial - How to Make a Handbound Jotter Book

I've always wanted to try my hand at book binding. There's just nothing like a handmade book, huh? Love this!

Handbound Jotter Book Tutorial at Sandy's Space
I did this tutorial for LCOM. It's a hand-bound jotter book that recycles leftover school supplies."At the end of each school term, kids often have unused pages in their exercise books.... I gathered these pages and bound them between decorated covers using a Japanese stab binding technique..." Read more

Tutorial - How to Make an Art Journal

I absolutely love this idea! It's so much less intimidating with the colorful pages and being free to add your own art. Wouldn't this be fabulous for kids too?

Art Journal Tutorial at Bloom, Bake & Create
"I’ve had this nagging desire to find out what all the hoopla was about art journals. Why is everyone so excited? I took an online class Life Made By Hand with Kelly Kilmer to get started in this medium. I enjoyed it, but I really needed another push. I wanted to create an art journal similar to a regular journal in that I would write every day about my feelings and what was going on. However, I would add art to the page. So I decided for the month of October I’d complete a page a day..." Read more