Book shaped card tutorial and template

Book Shaped Card

I guess like most people I am fascinated by shaped cards.This card was fun and fairly easy to make so I whipped up 2! Sharing how to make this book shaped card
Materials Required
Card stock - I used an A 4 size card you can use whatever size you fancy
Scoring tool or ball point pen [which has been used up and is without ink]
How to make a Book shaped card

Book Shaped Card

1. Fold the Card stock in half
2.Make the spine of the book: On the front half of your folded card, score a vertical line [from the backside] so as to give a raised border.My card front measures a little less than 15cm and I scored the spine border 3cm from the central fold crease.For a good looking book card make the spine 1/5 th the width of your book!

Book Shaped Card

3. On the front half, draw a curve from the top of the folded edge to meet the spine about 2 cm down from the top.I didn’t do any measuring and this “2 cm” is just a guide to help the more mathematically inclined folks out there!
4. Draw a horizontal from the point where the curve meets the spine to the edge of the card
5. Cut out this marked out portion of the front half of the card

Book Shaped Card

6. Use the curved part of your cut out to serve as a template to draw a curve at the top right corner of the back half of your card.

Book Shaped Card

7. Cut out this curved area from the back half
8. Use the same curved cutout as template to mark a curve along the lower left corner of your card. Cut this curved area from both the front and back panels
Your Book shaped card is ready!

Book Shaped Card

Embellish and add details as you wish highlighting the book shape of the card.
For crafters who love templates right click and save the Book Shaped Card template

Book Shaped Card Template

To make the "pages like" look
There are several ideas to make the pages like look at the top of your book card
1. Use border stickers:I used some gorgeous shiny border stickers from Pie Lane to create a “pages” look for the book card.

Book Shaped Card Tutorial

2.Score lines on card stock
3.Draw lines with a gel pen or pencil
Highlight the spine of your Book card :I Used Pie Lane border stickers on the spine and the cover of the book card to highlight the outline of the book.

Book Shaped Card

Embellish the Cover of your book
As the focal image I used an  embroidered flowers iron on fabric! Added some handmade punchcraft flowers all around it.

Book Shaped Card

I had fun using glitter balls [from Pie Lane]. Handling tiny glitter balls is tough and I had quite a few incidents of bouncing balls, runaway balls and “god knows where it is” balls!

Book Shaped Card

Sharing a clumsy person’s tips to handle tiny glitter balls/beads
1.To put a single glitter ball on your project -use a forceps to dip it into glue and then stick it ..I found this technique  faster and cleaner.
2.To make glitter ball flowers like I did on the punch craft flower centers I added a blob of glue at the flower center, counted out 7 glitter balls and let them all drop onto the glue.

Book Shaped Card

Maybe due to viscosity or some other magical “physics” the 7 balls would easily move into a flower pattern if you give it a nudge or two with a pin!
Using this crazy technique, making the glitter ball flowers was much quicker than making the golden glitter ball antennae for the butterflies in the red book!

Book Shaped Card

I used different sizes of Pie Lane borders, butterflies and glitter balls on the red card.The gorgeous golden rose plant was gifted by Khalindi to my daughter for winning her challenge[ Thank You Khalindi!]
Hope you liked my book cards .The possibilities with this type of card are endless...you can make the book into maybe a “Bible” , a Diary, a Fairy tale book or whatever suits the theme you have in mind
Do tell me how you liked this.
Edited: This card came top 4 at For Love of Crafting
Do pop over to my friend Avni's blog to see a beautiful card she made using this tutorial