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DIY String Closure for your Traveler’s Notebook | Tutorial

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If you like layers and stuffing your projects, making your own string closure may very well come in handy.

Here’s what you need to make a cute string closure for your notebooks, mini albums and so on:

  • Notebook
  • Cardstock
  • Circle punch
  • String or twine
  • 2 eyelets
  • Eyelet setting tool

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1. Punch a cardstock circle with your circle punch. My punch is a little bit small for this at .5 inch. A .75 inch punch would be perfect – or you can just trace and hand-cut a circle. Easy peasy.

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2. Punch a hole near the middle of the notebook front cover edge, like pictured above. My trusty Crop-A-Dile (eyelet setting tool) does that in a pinch.

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3. Punch a hole in the middle of the punched cardstock circle too.

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4. Attach the cardstock circle to the front of the notebook with an eyelet.

That’s the front all done.

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5. Punch a hole near the middle of the notebook back cover edge.

6. Feed some string or twine through the hole.

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7. Secure the string/twine to the back by setting an eyelet in the back cover hole.

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8. Trim the end off the string/twine in the inside of the back cover.

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9. And voila – you’re done! Now you can fasten the string/twine around the closure in the front and keep all your fluffy layers and bits secure in your notebook.

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The notebook used in this tutorial is a new digital release of mine: The Dailies Notebook – a super elegant day to day planner with room for sketching, your three most important to dos and a list of anything you like. Perfect for daily challenges.

Have fun making little closures for your notebooks and albums. And thanks so much for stopping by!

xo Nina

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  1. Caylee says

    July 1, 2015 at 16:02

    BRILLIANT.

    Reply
  2. louise says

    August 4, 2015 at 18:35

    cool!

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