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This tutorial demonstrates how to make a glue bound paper back book using a hot glue gun and EVA glue. This creates a "perfect binding" paperback book.

Tools Required: - Bookbinding Jig - Exacto Knife - Bone Folder - Heavy Duty Hot Glue Gun - Straight Edge Metal Ruler - Metal Spreader or Putty Knife - Pencil - Card Stock for Cover - Paper for Book Block

Nifty. Looks fairly straightforward, useful for small gifts. Would need stiff-ish paper, or cardstock, and wouldn't survive squashing, but it does look nice.

Watercolour/Dye/Food-colouring + Epsom Salt + Table Salt + water + paper = pretty! Basically. adding Epsom salt and table salt to watercolour painting means that the salt crystalizes as the paint dries, adding a shimmery surface. Since both Epsom salt and table salt dissolve in warm water, no need for boiling water. Though on the downside, this also means that unless the painting is sealed, the crystals might dissolve away from the painting if it gets wet or humid.

This is part 1 of a tutorial in making faux books that open up as drawers. (There are links to the other parts by following the "next post" link on each page) This tutorial does it from scratch, from chip-board, which is rather daunting. But it also has ideas about decorating the resultant faux book, which is good.

Tutorial for decorating a faux book. This one solves the _pages_ problem by using adhesive caulk and texturing it with a plastic fork. I wonder if this would work with air-dry clay?

Melted crayon craft, taking advantage of the fact that a blow-drier \blows\; an original variation on the _drippy_ kind of melted crayon art. (Originally found this on Pinterest, but the pin didn't point to the original blog at all)