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Flag Book Tutorial

Crazy Book Tutorial

Caitlyn Agro

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Flag Book Tutorial

Crazy Book Tutorial

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Crazy Book Tutorial

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Crazy Book Tutorial

Materials:

Scissors

Gluestick

Piece of Ribbon (approx. 12in)

Bone Folder

Cutting Mat

Sheet of Paper 8.5×11in

Two cardboard squares (2×2.5ish)

Patterned paper for cover

Image of materials used to complete

Step 1:

Place the blank sheet vertically
Fold in half so the corners line up at the top.
Use a bone folder to smooth during each folding step.
Next, fold the bottom half up to meet in the middle.
Repeat with the top section.
Now you have 4 even sections.

Step 2:

Turn the paper horizontally
Fold in half so the corners line up at the top.
Use a bone folder to smooth during each folding step.
Next, fold the bottom half up to meet in the middle.
Repeat with the top section
Now you have 4 even sections.

Fold to make two rectangles

Fold upward to match up corners and make 8 boxes

Fold two more times to create 4 rectangles

Should have 16 boxes (will be pages of book)

Step 3:

Place paper vertically
Use a pencil to mark where you are going to cut so the book will fold up nicely later on.
In the image, you will see a spiral-marked outline to follow.
Cut along the lines starting with the outside

Step 4:

Take patterned paper out
Place your two cardboard cover panels on the paper
Create an inch border between the panels and the borders of the patterned paper.

Outline with pencil

After cutting

Two panels placed on patterned paper

Step 5:

Cut down the middle to separate your two cover panels.
One at a time, take each corner of the paper and fold it up till it presses into the corner of the cover panel.
Use a bone folder to crease each side
Crease the side against the panel as well.

Step 6:

Fold each side inward onto the cover panel so that you crease the paper the way it will be glued down in the next step.
Once you do so, unfold the paper back out to look like the start of step 5.

Corners folded

After each fold has been made, make sure to unfold

Cover panels

after folding

Close-up of the cover after being unfolded

Step 7:

Now fold the corners back in one by one.
Glue those corners down and smooth with a bone folder.
Repeat the folding process and glue each section down
Use a bone folder to smooth over the sides.

Step 8:

Take time to figure out which cover you want to be the front and the back.
Take the back cover and center your ribbon in the middle of the cover, with the same amount of ribbon on both sides of the cover.
Glue it down

Glued down corners

The ribbon is centered and glued down to the back cover

Each section has been glued and smoothed with a bone folder

Step 9:

Now, take the larger piece of paper that we cut.
Fold it up by flipping the pages back and forth till you get to the middle.
Take the top flap of paper and glue it to the cover of your book.
Next, find the last flap and glue it to the back cover.

Step 10:

Close the book up
Take both sides of the ribbon and tie them to create a bow on top of the book.
Now your crazy book is complete! Fill it up with whatever you want.
Great job!

The book's paper flaps have been folded to create the pages of the book

Book sandwiched

Flaps have been glued to put the book together

FINISHED CRAZY

BOOK!!

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