Speaking yesterday with a friend about wedding gifts, I remembered that back in 2009, I made a couple of diaries for two children making their First Communion. The idea was to make, plus a gift of economic value and a more personal gift, something that remained over time.
I have not many pictures of the process, but I can tell you the process.
MATERIALS:
2mm cardboard
Decorative paper
Metal spiral
A5 sheet of heavyweight paper
Spray adhesive
Adhesive paper
Padlock with key
printer
Wood, hinges and metal shutters, adhesive felt and white glue (for the box).
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| Boy diary |
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| Girl diary |
The process was as follows:
COVERS: First cut hard cardboard covers in A5 size, apply spray adhesive and glue the decorative paper.
INTERIOR COVERS: For the inside covers, composed on a background color (orange for the child, and red for the girl), I wrote a personalized dedication
To compose pages, texts and photographs I used drawing software (Autocad)
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| Interior cover and first page |
FIRST PAGE: In the first page I put a picture of each child, his name, and of course the date of his First Communion.
INTERIOR JOURNAL: Each page had his name printed on the top and lined paper to facilitate writing.
I wrote three types of pages that were alternated throughout the diary ... one with space for writing and drawings to color (10 different), another with space for write only and the third one with space to write and a photograph of a representative place of the world (65 different) indicating where place was and the country in which they can found it.
Some of these places were: A port in Denmark, Angkor Wat (Cambodia), the Acropolis of Athens (Greece), a view of Bergen (Norway), a view of Antarctica, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao view, a square of Brussels, ... and so on, 65 different places.
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| Alguna de las fotografías |
ASSEMBLY: Once all pages and covers were composed, drill the covers and place a metal spiral.
Then I put de padlock in the cover.
BOX: For the girl's diary I made a wooden box, I cut the different parts in a carpentry and I sticked them with white glue. I covered the inside with red adhesive felt and with the same decorative paper used for the cover of the diary. Finally, I put the hinges and the metal shutters in the box, also with white glue.
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| Montaje estuche |
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| Finished box |
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| Wrapping |
This was the "making of" of two gifts that I did with all my enthusiasm and love for two little people very special to me.
