CASKET FROM THE BOOK

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On the eve of such a family holiday as the anniversary of my beloved mother, I had a serious question for a gift. The fact is that mom does not like expensive and pathos things. Even a standard bouquet of roses is a waste of money for her. She considers particularly valuable things done by her own hands, even if it will be a banal paper card.
Especially for such an event, I decided to make a box for her, the basis for which was an old unnecessary book. So, for the manufacture of such a box I needed:
book;
stationery knife;
ruler;
a simple pencil.

The first step is to carefully separate the first leaf of the book from the bulk of the pages. As a rule, this is a solid large sheet, which serves as both a page and a sheet glued to the crust of the book.

You just need to attach it to the crust, it will play a role later. On the bulk of the pages, we mark with the ruler and pencil the boundaries of the future walls of the box. I decided to postpone 2 centimeters from each edge.

Now gently with a clerical knife we cut out all the unnecessary leaves. Get ready for the fact that this process will take a lot of time, strength and nerves. On my personal account, two corns and three cuts. Particular attention will require corners. The hardest to cut through. It is also worth periodically re-drawing the frame on entire pages, since due to the thickness of the book, the outlined contours get lost, and the walls can become very uneven.

After the titanic work is completed, we begin to strengthen. To do this, we need a brush, two white sheets, A4 format and PVA glue.

Approximately in the center, so that the same ends remain, under the pages we put one sheet to the back wall of the book.

Now thoroughly glue all the leaves with glue.

It is best to immediately lubricate and inside. The main thing is not to spare the glue.

After the painting, we cover all the missed pages with another A4 sheet, close the book and put it under a good press. The best time to dry is night, but you can limit yourself to 3-4 hours. After drying, the glue will turn colorless. The top piece of white paper comes off very easily. We remove it and put it aside if it wasn’t injured.

Now we will deal with the very first sheet of our book, which we did not stick. It needs to be trimmed and glued to the page monolith under tension in this way.

This procedure is being done so that the lid of our future box rests confidently on the book, and does not dangle when it is opened.
We begin to decorate the outer part. For this, I decided to use the easiest way. Namely, a regular sheet of paper for an A4 printer (you can even use the same sheet that we put on the top of the pages), and crumpled it into a small lump.

When I turned it around, I got just such a seemingly inconspicuous little thing.

Now abundantly smear the back of the book cover with glue, but not the spine.

We attach our rumpled sheet to the plated cover so that the paper covers and the spine, and there are still allowances at the edges, in a word, the book is in the center of the sheet.

We make cuts at the root. We wrap the edges inside the book and glue it to the cover.

As a decoration, I decided to make the so-called podium for future decoration. To make it, I needed a rhombus from an ordinary corrugated cardboard. I stuck it in the center of the front side of the cover.

Now we glue the second part of the cover with glue and glue the second wrinkled sheet of paper, similar to the first, only carefully showing the contour of the podium and spine.

The edges are likewise tucked into the inside of the book and glued. The turn of the spine comes. It should also be generously lubricated with glue and alternately glue the remaining parts of the paper to it. First, it is better to glue the bottom of the sheet, and already the top lap on it, so as not to spoil the overall impression of the work. We hide the remains of the wrinkled paper at the edges under the spine of the book and glue it.

And again, we return to the inside of the casket. The left book sheet is glued to the back of the book to hide the fragments that we tucked. On top of all this, or rather along the contour of the cover, apply glue.

I decided that my casket would have two ties made of satin ribbons. If you support my idea, then now is the time to attach the bottom. We simply lay it on the center of the cover and press the pages to the crust smeared with glue. I used the same wrinkled paper to decorate the inside of the book. I pasted it with the inside of the box and the edges of the pages from the inside.

The most crucial moment comes. Proceed to painting the future cover. For this, I used acrylic paint, a brush and a piece of foam sponge.

Using brush strokes, paint the sponge with a brush and, barely touching, paint over the protrusions of the paper.

I dyed the spine of the book with the usual stamping movements.

Now glue the top tie. We also mount it on PVA. From above, I decided to stick a plain sheet of paper. Using the same glue, I put scraps of napkins on it using decoupage varnish.

The basic decor. I used satin ribbons and beads to decorate the box cover. At first, I decorated the space around the podium with ribbons, folding them with a simple pattern, and glued it to superglue.