Cheap, quick and easy to do, Moleskine-like notebook with Clairefontaine paper

Step 3 Prepare the outside sheet and cut it

now that you have traced the outline of the notebook on the inside of the cover sheet, you can:

-make holes for the pen holder. be sure to make the holes at the same height for the same elastic band. 2 elastic bands work best with me, but you may prefer to start with only one, or without a pen holder (an example of the same notebook without a pen holder is in the pictures below.

- make holes for the closure elastic band. be sure to make them apart enough that you can glue the elastic band on the sheet.

- make two vertical cuts on the top and bottom of the center, where the cover sheet will be folded on itself later. make those cuts at 1mm from the edges of the spine, so that you have more space to fold the margins inside the notebook.

- cut the corners so that you can fold them on the inside of the notebook. if the corners of the notebook are not sharp but at 45°, like in this case, two zones will be cut out: look at the hatched zones on the corners of the sheet on the first picture below.