Making Your Own, Free Sketchpad

by taylor179

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Intro: Making Your Own, Free Sketchpad

In this instructable, i will show you how to make your own sketchpad with household stuff!!!

STEP 1: Gather All the Materials

You will need:
two pieces of cardboard, the size of a paper
a hot glue gun
paper(20-30 sheets)
extra piece of cardboard, as long as a piece of paper but only about 2 inches wide that will be the hinge
several sharpies

STEP 2: Hot Glue the Top of the Paper

hot glue the top of the stack of paper

STEP 3: The "hinge"

now, glue the hinge on to the piece of cardboard

STEP 4: Finish the Gluing

glue the other side of the hinge to the back piece of cardboard and glue the last piece of paper to that same piece
here is what the back should look like

STEP 5: Now to Decorate It

take a few sharpies and modify it to what you want

STEP 6: My Addon

i added on this extra sharpie holder but i didn't get any pics of the process but heres the pic of it finished

12 Comments

DarrenG48 5 years ago

I hope that everyone has a Hobby Lobby store located near them. It is my favorite hobby and craft store. I don't intend this to be spam... just my own personal recommendation for art supplies.

taylor179 16 years ago

well, yah i guess anyway, do you think i made the instructions very clear? this is my first instructable

DarrenG48 5 years ago

Overall, I think you did a good job. The cover you made looks cool. The only thing you skipped was gluing the individual sheets together, to make the stack.

erikap 14 years ago

I don't understand how the stack of paper stays together. Did I miss a step?

DarrenG48 5 years ago

It may be time consuming and require alot of patience, but you are expected to glue the individual sheets together at the top edges and then glue them to the folded hinge. It is easier to show, then to explain literally. I am attempting to make a pre printed storyboard pad with an added duct tape as the hinge for adhesive binding... similar to a store bought pad. I also bought a paper perforator at Hobby Lobby to make a perforated stack of pages . Maybe I could make a better thorough tutorial to upload to to instructables.com, for all to use.

mrdepo96 14 years ago

 good ible! the instructions are clear but sometimes hard to read because of the lack of punctuation. 4/5 stars

Chefboy6382 16 years ago

So its only free if you take the stuff from someone else. so wouldn't the proper title be "making your own, Stolen sketchpad?"

lauraincleveland 15 years ago

It is free, assuming that you already have the materials on hand. I don't see anyone advocating stealing supplies.

XaiofDren 15 years ago

How did you make the pen-holder?

kaatryn 15 years ago

Recycled junk mail, flyers, letters, etc. would be free... I think it's great! It's clear too. Y

rististien 15 years ago

you know I have a ton of extra paper laying around and was trying to think of a simple way to make a notepad like this... I knew glue was involved but my mind naturally wanted to over complicate things. Well done.

gamer4maker 15 years ago

I bought a sketchpad with extra strength paper (122 pages) for only $2.50 AUS, so it's allot cheaper to buy one.