Foldy Zine and Small Booklet

I was very excited to start making my own sketchbooks. I have tried this before a bit, just using a simple binding technique, so was very keen to try out different types of binding and different sizes of sketchbooks using different papers.

I decided to use some art prints I had made that turned out to be the wrong size so I couldn't use them for my art business but I could cut them up and use them for pretty covers.

I first made the foldy zine, I hadn't made one before but found it fairly easy using the instructions given.

Small Booklet with simple binding:

Close Up of Binding:

I found that I had lot's of scraps left over so I made more sketchbooks of various sizes:

I used various papers for this one, including tan and grey papers and held them altogether with a bull dog clip.

This was an ultra mini sketchbook using up scraps from the other books.

Lastly, I made a large sketchbook using Strathmore mixed media paper and used a Japanese flat binding technique, using this video:

It was fun trying a different binding technique, although I did struggle a big because I used thick paper and didn't intially make the holes big enough to thread the wax thread through, so it was a bit of a struggle but I got there in the end.

I am really pleased with the end result and have started to sketch in this one already.

Over the years I have collected various sketchbook types with lot's of different types of paper in and so I was able to use these to make sketchbooks with a varied amount of papers in.

These are the ones I used:

• Winsor and Newton Bockingford watercolour paper 300gsm
• Winsor and Newton Smooth surface cartridge pad, heavy weight (A5) 220gsm
• Daler Rowney Earthbound recycled sketchbook, Tan. (A5) 110 gsm
• A4 square grid paper
• Daler Rowney Smooth cartridge paper (A4) 150gsm
• Strathmore Toned Grey (5.5 x 8.5") 118gsm
• Canson XL marker paper (A4) 70gsm
• Winsor and Newton Medium surface cartridge pad (A4) 130gsm