Recycle cardstock to make sweet little books!

I´ve been thinking about these for a while, they can be good for many things,

I could use them for storage in the studio somehow, I´ll think about it, hehehe!

Today i used them for making sweet books, they could be a cute present or

for art journaling miniatures!  Next I´ll show you how I made them super easy!

You will need:

Recycled cardstock

Gummed paper

(Mine is made in Mexico 

and has an organic glue!)

heavy gel medium or glue

beautiful papers

bone folder 

Scissors  

Studio helper ;)

Instructions:

Cut the cardboard to fit your desired size

Attach the pieces with the tape

and form your book, mine is made of six

pages each but you can try adding more

Add three pieces of the gummed tape

embracing the book as shown bellow

you,ve made a book!

Now it´s time to embellish it how you like best,

I used scrapbook papers for the cover and back

first added a matching ribbon so I could close them

and glued it with medium as well as the papers

Voila! A finished cute little book to give away

perhaps even sell them!  You can make larger ones too!

Check the bonus recycling tutorial bellow! :)

Bonus little recycling idea!

These little chips bottles are so cute I always felt it was a shame 

to throw them away but not anymore!  This very easy way to 

transform them will make you save them too!  Simple wrap 

around decorated tape around it and it´s ready to use in your

home or studio or to use them to bring food to work or school

transpor art supplies, etc., 

I hope you enjoy recycling and making wonders with the

materials once were thought as waste, save money, help the planet

and enjoy of creativity while it, everybody wins! 

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I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. 

It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface 

creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, 

junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to 

bring new players into the ball game?

                                                                                                               Peter Senge

Thank you for being here! 

Everyday ephimera journal book

This book has been made out of everyday ephemera,

I simply have a paper bag over my studio and throw in there

just about anything paper that could be turned into a page 

in this kind of  journals!  

This is a lot of fun to make! You should try it!

You will be making a unique book to journal in

and you will be recycling a lot of stuff that we

 usually call trash and throw away!

Simply get some papers from your everyday life 

that you usually throw away like:

Paper bags

tickets

cloth tags

old envelopes

fun catalogs

junk mail

postcards

food packages

I use a guillotine to cut the papers that can`t be folded in to the 

chosen size of my book but I let some pages be smaller or larger 

to make it even more fun!

Some papers can be really beautiful!  I choose the best

to make interesting pages, they can be guessoed anyway

but colors are always fun wouldn`t you agree?

You can also add good papers in between for a great

day like a watercolor paper or scraapbook papers

and I think this would be a great gift to someone

who likes to journal!

I make my signatures small and clip them with a cloth pin

while they wait to be sewed, then I use a regular embroidery 

white thread but it can also be of great colors to add more interest!

Now this pages are ready for some journaling, this format

makes me wanna go super loosen and not worrying 

about being a perfect page every time, I can simply

go for it and the pages are so small, they are perfect

for those days I just don`t have much time

or feel a little tired to make a large piece!

 Ephemera is fun, use it to make something with it!

Recycling feels good and it saves money!

Inspiration!