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Note: Delphi Rubber Stamp Links have been removed as the tutorial pages are down.
This page has been updated 1/09 — lots of sites closed down including AMRSC (A Monthly Rubber Stamp Club).
–> Click on Edit –> Find on this Page and type the type of mini book tutorial you wish to find.
Accordion/Concertina Books
Accordion/Concertina Book — extremely 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)
Chap Book
Chap Books Tutorial — NEW! old link died so I wrote my own tutorial.
Circle Squash Book
Circle Squash Book
Coffee Filter Books
Coffee Filter Book — a book with pockets for goodies! Tutorial by Chia.
Coffee Sleeve Book — very clever book made out of coffee sleeves, cut up paper bag and twistie ties, all found materials. Very cute size also, only 2 inches by 2 inches!
Envelope Books
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
Updated! Explosion, Exploding, Etui Boxes, Scrapbook in a Box
Flag Books
Flag Book — pdf file. Nice photo and great diagrams.
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.
Japanese Stab Binding Book Ideas
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.
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.
Matchbook/Matchbox
DIYNetwork -SCB502 - several here including one made with an Altoid Tin box.
One Sheet of Paper
Square Mini Album with holders — 12 pages and only one 17 by 22 inch paper needed! from DIY/SCB 412
One Piece of Paper Book — create a 16 page maze/meander book by clever cutting one sheet of paper.
One Piece of Paper Book — One piece of paper Minibook with 8 pages (I use scrap paper flyers blank on one side for these and put them in my purse.)
One sheet book — at SpeechTX, nice easy diagram.
One Sheet, one cut — includes a printing template if you wish to print out words on your puter.
Origami Books
Liz Plummer’s Concentina Book but really a squash book made with the origami flower fold.
Squash book with chipboard covers. Nice tutorial to print out.
Folding photo Album — or a squash book — nice photo layout and great instructions. PDF file
Folded Book with many pockets — from HGTV Carol Duvall Show
Squash Book — 3 inches by 3 inches Origami flower fold mini-scrapbooks. Great photo tutorial.
Folding Book Necklace — a wearable mini mini book again using the Origami flower fold.
Diamond Fold Book — great picture tutorial
Pamphlet Books
Single signature Pamphlet Book — very easy.
Paperbag Books
Note: In general paperbag paper is not archival but the books are fun.
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
Paper Bag Album Instructions — at Creating Keepsakes.
Janine’s/Mama2Twins book — nice sample to view.
One Sheet, One Cut — simple! Easy diagram to follow.
More samples of completed books!!
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.
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
Patriotic Star Book by Becky Stratton
Star Card Book — all you need to learn or know is the Origami flower fold for this one.
Star Book — by Rebecca
Moments Star Book and Paris Star Book — by Ingrid and Annette. Very Artsy.
Tag Books
Accordion Tag Album Create an accordion pocket and put tags inside.
Tim Holtz Distressed Tag Book/Journal — type in CDS1703 in the search box. (HGTV changes URLs frequently due to bandwidth theft.)
Coin Envelope and Tag Book — a cool and artsy project.
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.
My Little Handmade Album — Easy and great for kids from DIY/SCB 412
Mini Scrapbooks and Gift Albums — Instructions and nice samples.
Janine Anderson Piano hinged book, one page passport portfolio, inspiration book pendant.
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
Reference Page: — Syracuse University Book Arts — advanced bookmaking and samples links
ScrapsAhoy — tutorials for Envelope (die cut), Tag (excellent samples), Mini books (one 12×12 page, fold and cut once) and journals.
Gallery of Inspiration — at scrapbook.com
Karen Thomas’s Gallery of Books — she also has a gallery of swap books too.
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!
Making Memories MiniBook Idea Gallery a few here.
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 information about 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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