I always enjoy reading Denis Yuen’s blog, Cai Lun. En route to filing something else, I came across a saved bookmark to his tutorial on making a card case, or, as he calls it, a namecard holder. To a book artist who is guilty of carrying her cards in a rubberband, this seemed like a good project for today! Although his example places the side flaps on the bottom section of the structure, I placed mine on the center section.
I was pleased with the overall result, although I imagine that the only way to avoid stupid mistakes in construction is to make the structures often enough and enough times that I don’t have to stop and think about where to make the cuts.
Dennis’s instructions say to make the lining flaps a little larger than the cover flaps — and this is sound advice since it allows the trimming of the flaps after the lining and cover flaps are pasted together. But I found this problematic if too much leeway is allowed for, because there is that awkward intersection of center section and adjacent hinge and flap.
I used a green moire book cloth that is fairly unforgiving of paste-y fingers. The book cloth was left over from my final project last semester in photography class. And now I realize I never posted anything about that. Maybe I’ll post photos of that soon.
This is great Beth. I will have to try to make one too. I certainly could use one.
I’ve had it in my purse for a few days now, and it’s nice to encounter it when I’m rummaging in there for my keys.