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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

Cardstock + water + stamp + paint = faux leather. This is probably most effective when the colour of the cardstock matches that of raw leather - that beige/tan/peach sort of colour.

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?

Decorating a faux book. Really cool ideas. This references a paid tutorial... if I wanted to get all those exact effects it would be worth buying; as it is, this has simply opened my eyes to the possibilities, such as using brass stampings, old newspaper, string, etc.

Useful post about how to make custom-sized sturdy cardboard boxes for storage. I wonder if one could give them transparent windows?

Really cool. Decorative 3D polyhedra made by sliding together cut-out cardboard shapes (such as squares or triangles)