I love making my own leather bound customized journals and the possibilities are always unlimited.
Making a leather bound journal.
Love the rough edges paper and rustic styling of these books.
I ve made ones simply by covering cheap composition notebooks with fabric book cover style using paint pens to draw cool designs on the cover plastering with stickers stenciling my initials and even pressing dried and pressed flowers into the inside cover for a really unique flair.
Link to matt karl s first attempts at journal making.
The inspiration for this project came from the huge waste of paper at my office.
I have been wanting to make a leather journal just like this one.
I made this journal for about 6 including the leather and the awl which i got from amazon so there s no excuse not to give this a try.
Hi the journal it can be as big as you want using the same steps.
I show you the process that i go through to make a complete leather journal.
The stitching techniques used are long stitching.
There are certain processes our system goes through that result in printing off pieces of paper with only a small amount of useless text at the top.