Comments on: Crafty Reuse: Making Recycled Books from Trash

By: sandra de roubaix

sandra de roubaix — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:16:00 +0000

I make journals from ordinary cardboard box and cover them with the tissue wrapper from toilet paper. Scrunch up the paper and apply to a glued journal cover. It can be painted to resemble leather or whatever. I live near to the Kruger Park on a game farm and use the technique to create journals resembling elephant hide or rhino skin. Lovely for dry-brushing with copper or gold .

By: sandra de roubaix

sandra de roubaix — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:10:00 +0000

I make journals from ordinary cardboard box and cover them with the tissue wrapper from toilet paper. Scrunch up the paper after covering your card with glue, then put the scrunched paper onto the glued card. Can be made to look like leather ,or whatever! I live on a game farm near Kruger Park and make journals to resemble animal skins like rhino and elephant.

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By: Simone, Craft Critique

Simone, Craft Critique — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:30:14 +0000

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By: Sinclair

Sinclair — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:53:20 +0000

I have been making my own journals for years, but just began saving all packaging for this purpose about two years ago. I have been studying binding stitches, and often use the coptic stitch or the stab stitch in my notebooks. It is a fun and easy way to save trash from the landfill while offering something useful in its place. Great post!

Here is a notebook from Sponge Bob Band-Aids that I made for my teen:
http://naturewithme.blogspot.com/2008/11/remaining-useful.html

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:51:22 +0000

Hey Karen! Fancy seeing you here.

Maybe you could gluestick two pieces of cardboard together, brown side out? Then, you could still reuse the boxes, just decorate them yourself, and the branding would be hidden!

Such great ideas! Keep ‘em coming!

By: karen

karen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:09:39 +0000

Hi Becky,
Great to find you here!
I made some journals for sale on my shop recently and it was really fun to make them. I used up left over notebook pages from my kids stash. And used up fabric scraps to embellish the covers.

I made a few with covers from Girls Scout Cookies but I read from Etsy forums that using cereal boxes and cookie boxes are against the copyrights if you sell the journals. It’s OK for personal use but you can’t sell them….although I see a ton of journals on Etsy using commercial boxes.

This was a great article though. I love using up papers to make pretty journals and notepads.

By: Crafty Green poet

Crafty Green poet — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:00:45 +0000

I love making recycled notebooks like this. I’ve made one recently using last years pocket appointment diary with all the pages torn out and replaced with office waste paper offcuts and the cover wrapped in reused giftwrap. I’m thinking of making a whole load of mini poetry collections in a similar way on a larger scale and adding in rejected poetry manuscrips….

By: Suzanne McNeill

Suzanne McNeill — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:31:36 +0000

Using old junk mail is a really good idea, you could use old envelopes and do some zentangle drawing on them.