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Accordion/Concertina Books
Accordion Pocket with Tags — one sheet of 12 x 12 paper. — extremely easy!
Accordion/Concertina Book — Very easy. That’s Clever! Episode HCLVR122
Folding Book and an Accordion Album — again, the Origami flower fold used in the star book is here only you lay the book out flat.
Accordions and Pocket Books — a very neat triangle accordion book here.
Accordion Fold Mini-Album — pdf file, instructions by Donna Bobbie. The instructions show the five page overlays of the origami flower fold in color, which helps with construction.
five and a half — pictures of adding a hardcover to your accordion
Altered Board Book
Altered Board Book –great for a beginner with only a few simple tools to get started. (Video and text tutorial)
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets – tall skinny book mark notebooks for jotting down the important details. Fast and easy.
Chap Book (aka Pamphlet Book)
Chap Books Tutorial — Easy, fast and quick.
Circle Squash Book
Circle Squash Book — with video tutorial
Coffee Filter Books
Coffee Filter Book — a book with pockets for goodies! Tutorial by Chia.
Envelope Books
Envelope Book 1 — fast and simple — recycle a cereal box and envelopes.
Envelope Book 2 — Make a quick pocket envelope book with 2 junk mail envelopes.
Envelope Book 3 — Six pockets, accordion fold.
Mini Envelope Book (there are also two other tutorials: accordion fold envelope book and a stick bound envelope book)
Great Pictures of envelope books
Explosion Boxes
Explosion, Exploding, Etui Boxes, Scrapbook in a Box
Flag Books
Flag Book — pdf file. Nice photo and great diagrams.
Flag Book — super easy one.
Flag Book – downloadable instructions.
Flip Books
Animated Flip Books — four you can download and print then assemble and watch the animations morph.
I put this here because it is a great rainy day project for the kids. Also to identify a Flip Book as such as some people call flip books flag books by mistake.
Japanese Stab Binding
Japanese Stab Binding — easy to follow tutorial with pictures at the Strange Little Girl site. Other interesting book making information on this site.
Stab Binding Tutorial — easy to do.
Book Binding Tutorial by Laurel — very easy.
Japanese Stab Binding — A great tutorial with pictures. You can also repair your own real books.
Japanese Stab Binding — by Gary Miller. Great visual tutorial.
Junk Journal, Junque Journal
Junk Journal — go green — use recyclable materials, super easy.
Library Pocket Books
AnimaDesigns – very easy – picture tutorial.
A Cherry On Top – library pockets in a matchbook type album — easy.
Kerri’s Library Pocket Mini Album — huge scans, may take a while to download if you are on dialup.
Scrapbook Crazy — many other tutorials here also.
One Sheet of Paper
One Piece of Paper Book — create a 16 page maze/meander book by clever cutting one sheet of paper.
One Piece of Paper Book — Cut and fold to make a 6 page book out of any sized paper. Pictures and diagrams, other ideas of use. Great insert for a lapbook.
One Piece of Paper Book – sometimes called an origami fold book or a zine.
One Piece of Paper Book — One piece of paper Minibook with 8 pages
One sheet book — at SpeechTX, nice easy diagram.
Origami Books
Folding photo Album — or a squash book — nice photo layout and great instructions. PDF file
Liz Plummer’s Concentina Book but really a squash book made with the origami flower fold.
Diamond Fold Book — great picture tutorial
Pamphlet Books
Single signature Pamphlet Book — very easy.
Paperbag Books
Paper Bag Album at Pages of the Heart. More instructions for minibooks. Nice site to checkout also.
Paper Bag Scrapbooks — Unique MiniScrapbooks You Can Make Yourself — Article by Darcy Baldwin. Excellent photo tutorial.
Valentine Paperbag Book!! — Check it out! Luscious!
February paper Bag Booklet Album
Pop Up Books
PopUp Tutorial with Joan Irvine
PopUps — simple, photo illustrated.
Toy and Movable Books — Basically for teachers but if you scroll down the page, they share a variety of types of books you can create easily.
Post It Notebook
Ribbon Binding
Ribbon Binding — a pictorial tutorial and text, written with beginners in mind.
Shaped Books
Purse Book — other minibook tutorials on this site also.
Star Books
Tunnel of Love Star Card HGTV CDS 1564
Star Book Tutorial by Chia — a bit different, more like a squash book.
Patriotic Triple Star Book by Arlene Stump
Tag Books
Accordion Tag Album Create an accordion pocket and put tags inside.
Mini Tag Books — very very easy to create.
Tunnel Books
Tunnel Book — create a 3D scene, nice diagrams. pdf file
Tunnel Book — instructions by Robert Sabuda a author of many pop up specialty books. Photo instructions.
Other
Artistic Books — PopUps, flutters and flag book instructions here as well as others. Scroll down the page to find the downloadable files to print out.
Fiskars — offers many tutorials on various types of mini books or mini albums
Video Tutorials — new page – Great for those who have the need for visual cues.
References or Galleries
Gallery of Inspiration — at scrapbook.com
Stampsmith Gallery — My friends at Stampsmith’s artsy creations! Samples include: Happy Birthday Flag Book, Coffee filter book, matchbox book and more. Page takes a while to download. Thanks Estelle for the great site!
Books on Bookmaking — my Amazon booklist
Dog Eared Magazine
A magazine devoted to creative book making by hand. They are NOT going out of business.
More info on Dog Eared Magazine
Carol Duvall Bookmaking Projects
Here is a list (click on above title) and chart I created of shows Carol had guests on creating a variety of mini-books of some shape or form. The list is done in numerical order of the shows over the years. Some book instructions you will find are accordion, coin books, books in containers, tag books, altered books, and more.
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