Make your own album, memo pad, pen case, CD jacket, bookmarker, tote bag, and more with Self-made Stationery! Stationery and other paper products have become not only valuable necessities, but also fashionable goods for artists, designers, students and all enthusiasts who love paper. Self-made Stationery presents a wonderful array of unique and attractive design ideas for creating your own stationery and paper products while using basic materials and accessories like cardboard, colored paper, seals, and stamps. Filled with full-color photographs and step-by-step illustrations, this inspiring book will guide you in making your stationery craft. You will be surprised by how your creative skills can be enhanced!
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Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1970, Kazumi Udagawa graduated from Musashino Art University, Tokyo. As a designer, she has worked for a sundry goods maker, and focused on product planning and development to start up a goods store. Currently, she is a freelance designer for various home products, supplies, and design projects. She also creates illustrations for books and magazines.
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By A. Borloz
Format:Paperback
This practical book shows different and clever ways to improvise your own stationery items from supermarket/food packaging, discarded travel ephemera, tickets, junk mail envelopes, and loose paper. There are only four chapters on how the following items can be created from scratch: notebook, memo accessories, files, folders, cases, small stationery items, and decorative gift items. This may not sound much, however each chapter is loaded with many different ideas, demos, and examples.
In the first chapter, she customized her store bought organizers by using the coffer filter as a ticket or card holder; by inserting small mini booklets; and by adhering small maps or clippings next to the notes on the pages. In this same chapter, she shows how you can create your own tear off memo board with the perforated sheets of paper.
In other chapters, she also showed different methods for organizing and storing the small paper pieces, and ephemera. For example, instead of putting them in boxes, she used plastic page sheets for business cards to store her personal "knickknack" collection of small paper pieces - packaging logos, postal & parcel items, travel items, character items.
I have created my own travel notebooks with storage for the receipts, but the book gave me more ideas to make the travel notebook more interesting and effective.
The last two chapters are focused on creating the small stationery and decorative gift items with recycled/repurposed materials. At the end of the book are fourteen (14) pages of templates - corner bookmarks, message tags and greeting card pictures.
It is a great reference book for those who want to reuse/recycle junk mail, catalogs, discarded food wrappers and paper goods.... Read more ›
In the first chapter, she customized her store bought organizers by using the coffer filter as a ticket or card holder; by inserting small mini booklets; and by adhering small maps or clippings next to the notes on the pages. In this same chapter, she shows how you can create your own tear off memo board with the perforated sheets of paper.
In other chapters, she also showed different methods for organizing and storing the small paper pieces, and ephemera. For example, instead of putting them in boxes, she used plastic page sheets for business cards to store her personal "knickknack" collection of small paper pieces - packaging logos, postal & parcel items, travel items, character items.
I have created my own travel notebooks with storage for the receipts, but the book gave me more ideas to make the travel notebook more interesting and effective.
The last two chapters are focused on creating the small stationery and decorative gift items with recycled/repurposed materials. At the end of the book are fourteen (14) pages of templates - corner bookmarks, message tags and greeting card pictures.
It is a great reference book for those who want to reuse/recycle junk mail, catalogs, discarded food wrappers and paper goods.... Read more ›
By S. Barton
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This has lots of ideas that are different than your traditional U.S. ideas. Would highly recommend for any any paper crafter.
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