A Handmade Fairytale

This instructable will teach you how to write out, illustrate and bind your own fairytale book.

These make great baby shower gifts or you can start your own collection. Either way I bet very few people out there has these books.

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Step 1Supplies

I have listed alternatives that are cheaper and easier to find but you really want to go with my recommendations.

Cardstock (or watercolor paper - something heavy)
Mist spray bottles (to age the pages)
An extra sheet of cardstock to be used as the awl hole guide
Acrylic Craft Paint
Various paint brushes
Something to mix the paint in (palette or plastic lid)
Sharpies (a heavy line permanent marker)
Book board or chip board (for the book cover and back)
Bookbinder's thread (I have used upholstery thread before and it works fine)
A bookbinder's needle (you can use embroidery needles but the thread is very heavy)
A utility knife with extra blades (don't use this with dull blades or you'll cut your finger off)
A metal ruler
A self healing mat (for cutting the book board)
An awl (to poke holes in the pages)
PVA Glue (you can cheap out and use white glue but it breaks when dry where the PVA bends)
An inch paint brush for the glue
Book press (or 2 flat pieces of board that can be clipped together with a vise clip or held together with a weight)
Binder clips
Paper towels
A large stencil (big enough to fill the card stock)
Paper for the covers and inside (scrapbook paper works well)
A bone folder
Crop-o-Dile or hole puncher strong enough to punch through bookboard
Wax paper
A pencil
A small thin tipped bottle (for skinny lines of glue)
A fairytale (www.wikipedia.com - not a long one, you are about to write it out by hand...)

AND a knowledge of coptic stitch bookbinding, though I have added links to good youtube video of it being done. The very ones I used to learn it in fact.

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Mar 7, 2009. 12:05 AMRavenelle says:

Wow! This looks amazing. This will be my immediate project!

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Mar 10, 2009. 2:37 AMRavenelle says:

My boyfriend and I are going to do a few of these, but we chose to cut our own stencil which is proving to take a long time! I'll be sure to post pictures when we finish them!

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