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DIY Traveler’s Notebook Folder | Tutorial

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If you’re one of those peeps who actually travel with your traveler’s notebook, here’s a tutorial for you. Or if you just like making and having neat things, this is also for you.

Let’s make a super easy non-die-cut-machine folder for our traveler’s notebook!

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You’ll need

  • 12×12 sheet of patterned paper or cardstock
  • paper trimmer (or xacto knife and ruler)
  • scoring tool
  • adhesive
  • optional: scissors
  • optional: corner rounder

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Step 1. Cut the paper down to 12 x 10.5 inches / 30,5 x 27 cm.

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Step 2. Score down the center.

Step 3. Score down each side at 1.5 inches / 3,8 cm in from each side.

Step 4. Score along the bottom at 2.12 inches / 5,5 cm in from the bottom.

Step 5. Cut away sections of the sides and bottom as shown in the photo. Note: It doesn’t matter how far down you cut the side sections – it’s just a matter of preference and taste. You don’t even have to cut the sides down, if you don’t wanna.

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Step 6. Turn paper over and fold the sides and bottom in, scoring with the scoring tool.

Step 7. Adhere the side flaps to the bottom flaps.

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Optional step 8. Round the corners with a corner rounding punch.

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Step 9. Slide it in your traveler’s notebook and enjoy!

So how cool is this, huh! Now you can bring your fave stickers, prints, sticky notes and lists with you everywhere you take your traveler’s notebook. And you didn’t even need to plug your die-cut machine in.

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Hope you like it – and have fun making beautiful folders!

xo Nina

PS. My colorful folder is wrapped around my lovely Dailies journal. The berry sticky notes are by Kikki K. and the word cut out sheet is a free printable.

Products Mentioned & Used

Fiskars Paper Trimmer
Bone Folder
American Crafts This To That Glue Runner in Solid
We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper (1/2 and 1/4 inch)

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  1. louise says

    August 4, 2015 at 18:34

    i love all the plastic folders in note books. Shall have to try making a paper one. Yours looks lovely x

    Reply
  2. Sarah anne says

    July 10, 2016 at 10:17

    Every nice… I like this.. I won’t to try.. Can’t ??

    Reply
  3. Marie says

    July 21, 2016 at 20:46

    Do you have an overlay on your paper trimmer for sizes? That is so cool!

    Reply
  4. Ruth says

    March 2, 2018 at 23:16

    Lovely, Nina! I just set this post to share on our Chic Sparrow twitter next week.

    Thank you for the tutorial!

    -Ruth H.

    Reply
    • Nina Christensen says

      March 10, 2018 at 20:33

      Wow, thank you, Ruth! <3 I appreciate it. :) I hope your readers will love the tutorial.

      Reply

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