Patrick Troughton 500 Twelvemonth Diary Mini Leather Book--2Nd Solar Daytime Of Dr. Who!

On the 2nd Day of Doctor Who, my truthful beloved gave to me...

 Patrick Troughton--Doctor issue 2!
He's catching upwards on his life amongst his 500 twelvemonth diary!
You could e'er merely purchase a lilliputian notebook, a magazine or something...
but mini things merely melt my hearts!

If yous missed yesterday, I persuasion it would hold upwards fun to produce a Doctor Who Day countdown!

Like the "12 Days of Christmas"...but for Doctor Who!
(Because yous together with I both know that nosotros are truly counting downward for the Christmas episode!)

Come dorsum every 24-hour interval for the newest project!

The 500 Year Diary!
This is an awesome project...but it may experience intimidating.
This is a existent majority binding tutorial!

Here's what yous volition need:
Scrap leather (3 1/2 past times two inches)
twenty sheets Light weight newspaper (2 7/8 past times 1 3/4 inches)
two sheets Cardstock (2 7/8 past times 1 3/4 inches)
Cutting mat
Either a rotary cutter or hobby knife
Ruler
Needle together with heavy thread
Metal poker or awl
 leather groover tool
Hot glue/gun
Glue stick
Rubber cement
Piece of ribbon (1 1/2 past times two inches)

 First cutting your leather to size above.
Cut off the corners to brand rounded edges.
Mark the optic trouble amongst a pencil.
Then score it 1/4" on each side of the optic line.
Repeat on the bottom edge
Score the trouble amongst the awl together with the ruler.

 Next role the groove making tool together with carefully carve out lilliputian ruts along that same line.
If yous don't receive got a groove tool...carefully role the hobby knife or the awl a few times to instruct a groove therefore the majority volition plication over.  Don't cutting all the agency through the leather.
Then cutting your newspaper to size together with plication each canvas inwards half.

 Stack v sheets of newspaper together together with trouble them upwards on your rulers edge.
Mark the newspaper 3/8 of an inch on each side.
Then stick your awl within the stack of newspaper together with force it through at the marks.
It's pretty slowly to instruct it through the correct spot.
Next thread that needle together with start sewing those pages together.
Start from the exterior together with force the needle through i of the holes,
Run the thread through the within page together with out the other hole.
Tie it off.

 Once it's tied,
Get the side past times side packet of two hole poked papers together with instruct inwards i hole together with out the other.
Then necktie it off to the starting fourth dimension one, keeping them lined up.
Repeat for each stack of newspaper (in our instance iv times)
Essentially, yous could brand the majority every bit big every bit yous want!
Tie it off together with clip the thread.

 Make certain the pages are lined upwards together with mash them together amongst around clothespins.
Run a sparse layer of hot gum along the spine.
Next, plication your two cardstock sheets inwards half.
Apply gum stick all over one-half of the paper...making certain to brand it all the corners.
These are going to gum to the starting fourth dimension pages of the majority yous merely made.

 Oops, here's the gum pic again!
(I blame the whole waking upwards at 5:00 this morning)
Oh well...
So gum the cardstock to the majority pages...
Then accept the slice of ribbon (burn the edges slightly therefore at that topographic point is no fraying)
And hot gum it to the spine together with over the border of the cardstock.

Perfect!  The majority is close done!

Now yous volition ask the condom cement.

Apply condom cement to the exterior pages...ribbon together with all...but non along the spine.

And on the leather...just where the pages volition trouble up...not on the spine.

Let the condom cement dry out completely...then stick the pages to the cover.

There volition hold upwards a gap where the spine is therefore the majority tin truly closed completely.

Just stick on page at a fourth dimension together with brand certain it tin close.

Phew!  Are yous exhausted?

It mightiness seem daunting, but it is a really uncomplicated majority binding together with looks 

awesome on a tiny lilliputian book!

You tin instruct out it every bit is...just a cool rugged leather book...

or instruct a Pilot Gold Marker together with add together the hold off of guilding!

 I did around spine stripes...and border...and went ahead together with wrote 

500 Year Diary!

 I wishing yous could encounter how adorable together with small-scale it is!
Pictures merely don't demonstrate the actual size...nor does this miniature brick background!

 It's merely a lilliputian taller than this Tardis inwards a Bottle Necklace I did concluding year.

 So cute!  You could poke a lilliputian hole inwards the spine together with attach it to a chain
for an adorable necklace if yous wanted to!

What produce yous think?  Would yous endeavour around mini majority binding???

I am posting these instantly to give yous fourth dimension to produce this yourself.  

Start on Dec 13th together with brand a really geeky somebody inwards your life extremely happy!

(if yous do...please country me inwards the comments--I'll hold upwards your best friend!)

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