Office Scrap Paper Project

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Each week in my job I end up with a stack of outdated script pages, old schedules and useless fax paper cover notes.

This continues week in week out until 5 or 6 months down the line when the Project is over, it's time to box up the Paperwork and ship it off to Storage, which you wish would looks a little like that final scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". You know, the lines and lines of spacious corridors but actually it looks kind of more like Monica's secret closet in "Friends".

So you have to be ruthless and go through everything that's not neccessary and dispose of it. No Problem. But now you are left with a "6 month" stack of outdated script pages, old schedules and useless fax paper cover notes.

So, Toss them in the Recycling Bin? Of Course.

OR maybe you could try out this simple idea to make some Retro looking notebooks. Use them as Scribbling Books for the Kids, Storing Recipes, or keep it at your desk for day to day notes.

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The Materials:
1: Scrap paper (from faxes, printing mishaps and mail)
2: Bull clips (about 1 Euro from any stationary shop)
3: Scraps of cardboard cut into 1” inch strips
4: Craft glue, pva glue or Mod Podge (around 1 Euro from any craft shop)
5: Paint brush
6: Decorative scrap paper (I used old maps and one of our old wedding invitations)
7: Masking tape and/or coloured tape. (about 1 Euro from a DIY shop)

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Cost: 0 Euro - That's if you have the craft items from previous projects, otherwise - around 3 Euro.

Time: About 2 Hours (this takes in the drying time for the glue)


Instructions:
Step 1. Fold 40 sheets of scrap paper in half. Be sure to be very precise and then stack them on top of each other.

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Step 2. Keeping the pages evenly lined up, place a strip of cardboard slightly below the top edge of the cut edges. Attach the bull clips.

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Step 3. Paste glue along the cut edges and use the paint brush to even it along the top edge. Maybe use a third bull clip in the center of the book to keep the pages together.

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Step 4. Let dry and repeat 4 or 5 times, until you have a coat of clear glue that holds the edges together. Once the glue has dried for the last time, remove the bull clips-the pages should be secured together.

Step 5. Attach your decorative paper by gluing it across the top of the notebook.

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Step 6. Secure with bull clips to hold in place and let dry.

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Step 7. Attach the tape carefully along the spine of your notebook.

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Step 8. (Optional) Decorate with stickers, labels or anything else!

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