A Handmade Fairytale

Step 3 Prepare the front and back covers

This depends on the overall size of your bookboard. I buy it in large sheets and cut it down to size. For 8 1/2" X 11" card stock, I make the covers 9" X 6". I place the scrapbook paper under the bookboard and cut it around giving about and inch or two margin.

Using your inch paintbrush, paint the glue into the book board and then lay it on the paper and smooth out the scrapbook side with your bone folder. Paint glue onto the corners and fold over carefully. You can clip these down if you want or are slow (ha!) but I just keep going. Corners, then sides glued and carefully folded over. I then have the inside of the cover to glue. I paint the glue onto the paper and then carefully lay it onto the book board cover.

Yay you're done (with the front cover and the back cover). The glue has warped the board though. Wrap both in wax paper and put into your book press or your Macgyver book press (two flat boards and a weight or vise clips). Let it dry completely. Don't keep checking it, leave it alone. Give it an hour or two and it's magically flat. Carefully peel off the wax paper.