Last month I ran some workshops and one of the things we made were some simple note books and I thought I would share this tutorial for making them. They’re easy peasy to make and can be customised in lots of ways.

Equipment & materials

Scissors

Hole punch

Glue

Plain white paper (or whatever paper you want for the notebook pages)

Plain coloured paper for the note book cover

Patterned paper for decoration

Pens

Yarn or string to tie the notebook

Technique

Select your plain paper (not too many sheets as it needs to fit in the hole punch) and one sheet of coloured paper. It doesn’t matter what size paper you use to make the notebook as long as all the pieces are the same size, I used A4 paper.

Place the coloured paper at the back of the pile of paper and making sure the paper is aligned fold in half and punch a hole on the fold at the top and bottom.

Thread a length of yarn through the holes and tie in a bow along the spine of the book.

You could decorate the cover with a mix of writing and glued on paper decorations.

Or you could use cut-out letters.