Butterfly book

This is one the cutest books I have ever seen...

Ellen, a gal in our stamp group always gets her hands on some really cute ideas... and this is one of the many during the past year that she has brought to group.. so here are the directions...
Below in the next blog you will find one of the ones that I did for my Mothers 90th birthday... wow can you image 90 years old... and still running around doing all kinds of things... playing bells, doing as much artsy stuff as possible... she has macular degeneration... and has a very hard time seeing anything... but she does pursue this in as many ways as possible...

Okay.. on with this great little book.. Above you will see the diagram.. using a piece of paper that is 36 or 24 inches long.. I prefer the 24 inch long book.. .it makes a book that is 4 x 4 inches... and so cute.. but there are some cases where a larger one might be desired... so you could use any size your heart desires...

You need to fold the paper ... VERY CAREFULLY into sections... if you are using 24" paper... your book pages will be 4inches ... so you need to score 4 inches along the entire paper... you should have 6 sections... Then leaving the first section unscored ... and then score the next 4 sections as shown... and leave the back one unscored also...





I put this picture in here.. to show you that id doesn't matter how you score... you don't need a fancy scoring board... you just need to score the paper...












Now after the paper is all scored... I find it so much easier if you bend each score back and forth to sort of 'loosen' up the fold... so that when you go to make the pages go the way you choose they just simply move into that direction... but however you find it easiest to do... make you pages look like this...










Then .... as you can see from this picture it will easily go into this direction...

I am showing you these pictures so that you can see the book undecorated and how the pages are going to be able to move...













Then as you can see, the front section will flop down...

Now.. after all these pages are folded properly...

I have found it easier to decorate the pages at this time... knowing which ones are going to flop etc... but some have found it easier to glue the pages together and then decorate... the choice is all yours, naturally...



Glue the areas as shown in the above diagram... and you are either ready to decorate or you are finished...

I do hope that you understand these directions... if not, just leave a comment and I will try and get back to you as soon as possible... but please let me know how you did with this project... I will be waiting to hear...