How to make a comfortable and beautiful diary yourself

Modern man can not do without a diary. This notebook allows you to schedule your day, record reminders of important meetings and events, phone numbers and addresses. Therefore, if you choose a gift for someone from friends or co-workers, you will never be mistaken if you are presenting a diary. A set of good pens can be added to it. And that such a gift does not seem ordinary and simple, we suggest that you make a diary yourself. In this article, we will bring to your attention advice and recommendations for its implementation. Following them, each of you can easily make such a notebook for records.

We make a diary with our own hands. Where to begin?

The first thing to do is determine the size and shape of the product. As a rule, these are rectangular notepads of medium thickness with the number of sheets up to four hundred (enough for each day on the sheet). But female representatives will like the diary in the form of a heart, a flower or just a figurative shape.

Next, decide what sheets you will fill the inside of the notebook. They can be just white, with markings, from newsprint or offset. You can also make a diary with your hands from a notebook to a cage or a line.

The process of making a personal notebook for entries

Make two pieces for the cover from the cardboard. For the same dimensions (or slightly less), cut out the required number of double sheets. Connect them with a stapler on the principle of making a notebook of 10-15 pieces. Further, these blocks from the notebooks stack on top of each other, from above and from below, inserting the cardboard details of the cover, and fasten them through the clamps with a thin wire or a fishing line. Then glue them all together with the end face to the piece of bandage glue "Dragon" or "Titan".

Cover for a diary: we create an exclusive thing with our own hands

Men are more suited to a diary with a crust of leather or its substitute, felt of dark colors, paper in consistent colors. Women will more like bright soft covers of plush, felt, lace. Very stylish and original looks notebook, framed in the cover, made of embroidered napkins.

How to sew a cover for a diary? Spread the material on the table, from which you plan its execution. On it, put the diary in its unfolded form. Mark its dimensions, adding allowances for curls on both sides, and cut out the workpiece. If the cover on the diary itself is made of felt or leather, then the curls can be sewn from the front side manually with a seam "over the edge". Sections of these materials will not crumble. Other fabrics can be sewn from the wrong side, and then unscrew.

Stage of decorating the product

Decorate the cover of the diary for the lady can be in different ways: rhinestones, pawns, painting with acrylic paints, decorative buttons, bows, braid, lace. A man's version of the notebook will be enough to issue a metal letter-the initial name or a figure of the animal. Such decorative elements are sold in the goods stores for needlework.

As you could see for yourself, it's not difficult to make a diary with your own hands. Approach this process with imagination, and you will get an exclusive and very beautiful gift.