Hello! It's Jennifer from Sea Lemon
I need to make myself a new notebook
that will help me organize and archive the projects in my current notebook
and I talked about how I use the disk binding system
to help me organize all my projects all in this video
you can watch it to learn how I keep one notebook for my notes and sketches
and I keep another notebook to archive all of those pages for the year
It's sort of my own custom system that helps me organize
and since I am in the process of making a new notebook
I thought I'd bring you along with me and show you how I make it
Disc binding is pretty versatile and once you have the disk and the punch
you can make pretty much any size notebook you want
and placemats make great DIY covers
you can find the vinyl ones almost anywhere
they're inexpensive, they're durable, they're flexible
and they can come in some pretty nice patterns
If you're not into this style of binding
you can also use placemats for covers
for spiral binding or coptic stitch binding
which I have a tutorial for
I'll put that link along with all of the supplies I use in this video
in the video description below
and let's get into it!
So here's my current notebook
and it's starting to get full of pages that are of projects
I've already completed
and I'd like to keep the disk and the cover on
so what I'm going to do is take those completed pages out
and put them in a new notebook
I got two placemats for the cover of this new notebook
and I got these from Ikea
First I trace a page from the notebook to measure out the size of the cover
then I measure out a centimeter below that
so it covers the DIY dividers that I'm going to make
that will be sticking out in the notebook
Here's the divider that I made for my other notebook
and you could just use this as a template as well
I cut the cover out of the placemat with a utility knife and a ruler
and then to make the corners a bit less sharp I use a round corner punch
I do this on all four corners
and then I use that front cover as a template
to make the back cover on the other placemat
I do the same process to the back cover
I trim it out and punch all four corners
to make them round
Now I want to make a new divider for this notebook
and I showed you how to make this paper one
in this video right here
it's all about DIY disc bound covers and dividers
It will show you a few different ideas you can try with different materials
for a small size notebook and a large one
so go check it out, I will also link it down below
To make this paper divider I'm tracing one of the covers
onto a piece of 12 by 12 inch cardstock
and I'm using a bone folder along the bottom
to score a line, which I'm going to fold over
I put some glue stick along that area
and then fold over that little flap of paper
and then press the bone folder along that fold to smooth it out
This extra fold is just going to make a thicker tab for the divider
then I trim off any excess paper
and I use the corner punch to round the bottom of the divider
but I leave the top corners just the way they are
I use a piece of tape along the top
and I just put it halfway
Because I'm going to fold over the other half
on the other side of the divider
This tape will make the punched holes fray a little bit less
if I'm going to be taking the divider in and out of the notebook
and then I trim off any excess tape along the edges
and pop this divider in to the hole punch to make the holes
You could also round the top corners of this divider
but I just leave them the way they are
Now I need to punch the holes on the top and bottom cover
and for each I sandwich them in between two pieces of paper
Because this is thick vinyl material
this will help your punch make cleaner holes
and prevent anything from getting stuck in your punch
and if you're using a different punch
I recommend doing a test first
to see if it will punch through thick material
because some of them are stronger than others
and I will link the one that I'm using down below
Now with everything punched
I'm going to put these happy planner expander rings on
now you can use any kind of disc or ring that you want
I'm going with these really large ones because I will have a lot of paper to put in this notebook
then I can fill it up with all my pages
and pop in my front cover
Now when my everyday notebook fills up with completed projects
I can move those pages over to my new notebook to archive them
That way I can start with clean pages in my everyday notebook
and I'll have less distractions when I'm working on my current projects
As the year goes by this notebook will fill up all the way
and then I'll have an archive notebook with all of my projects in order
Here's the notebook I filled up last year, in 2017
so you can see it's all filled up
all really organized
and it's nice to have someplace to reference old projects
and just flip through the pages if I need to
I hope this gives you some inspiration
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Bye!