Casket from the book

Often in the house for many years lies the heavyweight volume of the classics of Marxism or some old thick reference book with a solid hard cover. Throw it away - the hand does not rise, but nobody is going to read it. We suggest you make a casket from an old book with your own hands. How to make a casket from the book, we will consistently tell in this article.

Master-class: a box from the book

You will need:

Making a casket from a book

  1. Open the book, draw a rectangle in the center, leaving the border 2.5 cm wide along the entire perimeter. Carefully cut out the central part with a knife, conducting precisely along the lines drawn. Since all the pages can not be cut at once, then cut out layer by layer, opening up several dozen pages at a time. Once one layer is cut, we move to the next. It is important not to move the pages.
  2. After the central part is cut out on all layers of pages, we blur the remaining parts of the pages, firmly gluing them together. Be sure to check the quality of the gluing! As necessary, we correct our work.
  3. We begin to decorate the cover - the future cover of the box. The idea of ​​decorating can be different and to some extent depend on the texture of the material from which the binding is made and its colors. For decoration, metal buckles can be used; figurines, cut from cardboard, felt, leather or imitation leather, ready-made elements of applique, etc. In our case, for decoration, white artificial daffodils made of fabric were used, which look very touchingly on a smooth cover of coffee and milk color. We glue the flowers, tightly pressing for a few seconds.
  4. Our original casket for knickknacks is ready! We give a good glue, and we can put our treasures in it.

Also an unusual casket can be made from newspapers .