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Step 4The pages
While your covers are drying, you may continue with the pages. They need to be completely dry though.
Take your bone folder and fold the pages in half length-wise and use the bone folder to press the crease flat. Do this for all of the pages. Once done You need to make your signatures. A signature is several pages folded inside each other. Since your card stock is so heavy I recommend a signature to be 2 folded pages total but I wouldn't go more than 3. Mark about 1/4 inch line in pencil on the front and back of each signature, these will be glued together later. Don't write or draw past that line.
Go through the story and mark out where you want an illustration. When writing the story leave a space or do it then. I do the illustrations last so that I have time to think more about what I want to do. You also want to refrain from cleaning up the grammar and punctuation of the story.
Now, this is the fun part. I take one signature at a time and number the pages. The beginning of the story doesn't need to start at the beginning of the signature, so give yourself a couple of blank pages to add the title, illustrations, etc. I started the Frog Prince in the middle of the first signature and then numbered the rest. After this I then doodled with my sharpie around the pages. This part you have to figure out for yourself. I drew flowers and leaves and vines and lots of other things. If you want you can draw these out with a pencil first but I change my mind a lot when drawing sometimes so to make sure I finish a page I use the sharpie, there's no hesitation allowed.
Depending on the length of your story, do a couple of signatures this way. If you want to be cautious complete one at a time and then write out the story up to the end of the signature. This way you won't have extra leftover.
Start on the story. When I first did this I wrote it out in pencil and then wrote over it with the sharpie. My arms were killing me from all the erasing and I found myself messing up about as much as without the pencil lines to guide me. It's really up to you, but it does help to have nice handwriting. This is something you can practice and develop on your own. Once your pages are filled you want to erase the pencil lines you drew on the front and back of each signature.
I will be painting the illustrations so if I mess those up I can cover them with paint. If you mess up the story you can either redo the whole entire page or fix it. This depends on your mistake. I have a few examples of mistakes. On one, I misnumbered the page. I carefully covered the number with paint, let it dry and then wrote in the correct number. Another page while writing it out I skipped a whole paragraph. Doh! I can't paint over that, I get to redo the whole page, making sure to match the beginning and ending together so that it flows with the other pages. I find it easier to not mess up in the first place.
Take your bone folder and fold the pages in half length-wise and use the bone folder to press the crease flat. Do this for all of the pages. Once done You need to make your signatures. A signature is several pages folded inside each other. Since your card stock is so heavy I recommend a signature to be 2 folded pages total but I wouldn't go more than 3. Mark about 1/4 inch line in pencil on the front and back of each signature, these will be glued together later. Don't write or draw past that line.
Go through the story and mark out where you want an illustration. When writing the story leave a space or do it then. I do the illustrations last so that I have time to think more about what I want to do. You also want to refrain from cleaning up the grammar and punctuation of the story.
Now, this is the fun part. I take one signature at a time and number the pages. The beginning of the story doesn't need to start at the beginning of the signature, so give yourself a couple of blank pages to add the title, illustrations, etc. I started the Frog Prince in the middle of the first signature and then numbered the rest. After this I then doodled with my sharpie around the pages. This part you have to figure out for yourself. I drew flowers and leaves and vines and lots of other things. If you want you can draw these out with a pencil first but I change my mind a lot when drawing sometimes so to make sure I finish a page I use the sharpie, there's no hesitation allowed.
Depending on the length of your story, do a couple of signatures this way. If you want to be cautious complete one at a time and then write out the story up to the end of the signature. This way you won't have extra leftover.
Start on the story. When I first did this I wrote it out in pencil and then wrote over it with the sharpie. My arms were killing me from all the erasing and I found myself messing up about as much as without the pencil lines to guide me. It's really up to you, but it does help to have nice handwriting. This is something you can practice and develop on your own. Once your pages are filled you want to erase the pencil lines you drew on the front and back of each signature.
I will be painting the illustrations so if I mess those up I can cover them with paint. If you mess up the story you can either redo the whole entire page or fix it. This depends on your mistake. I have a few examples of mistakes. On one, I misnumbered the page. I carefully covered the number with paint, let it dry and then wrote in the correct number. Another page while writing it out I skipped a whole paragraph. Doh! I can't paint over that, I get to redo the whole page, making sure to match the beginning and ending together so that it flows with the other pages. I find it easier to not mess up in the first place.
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