Gallery Assistant Asiya Hussain shows you how to make a concertina book

hi guys my name is asi hussein and i am a gallery assistant from impressions gallery so today i'm going to show you how to make a concertina book which is also known as an accordion book and it has eight pages and is double sided for you to make it into a sketchbook or a photo album or whatever you want to be really so this little tutorial is inspired by liz orton as she has made a book herself for her part of the exhibition in seedscapes so what you're going to need first is a piece of a3 paper so it's going to be 42 centimeters wide and 29.5 centimeters long so first step you're going to fold it in half make sure your lines meet up and press down on the crease open it up and now we're going to cut along the crease mark now we have two pieces of paper we're going to line them up like this because we're going to want them to be quite long i'm going to join them together so what you're going to need to do is measure out four centimeters and then just dot it along so you have your space now you're going to glue down the area and stick the other piece on so that looks quite sturdy so now you're going to fold your piece of paper in half and press down on the crease open it up again using this crease mark as your guiding point you're going to fold this piece into it press down and the same with the other side then you're going to unfold it so now you should have one two three crease marks flip it over starting with the first flap fold it over to the first crease mark press down and then with this side fold it to the first crease mark press down and then this section we're going to fold it over like this towards the center crease mark press down and then we're going to do it again so bring the paper up and then down and then last touch fold it in together so it's here and we're folding it in and here is your new book now what you can do to add that little bit extra finesse you can add some decorated paper for your covers so look like this now you can use either cardstock decorated paper or paper you've decorated yourself it's entirely up to you and now that your book is done you can be as creative if you want use as a sketchbook a photo album or whatever and be creative with the sizes it doesn't have to be one size it could be smaller a little bit larger are very large and very long it's all up to you to experiment with the different size paper you have be as creative as you want and just see how it goes thank you guys for watching and i hope this tutorial has helped you you

Channel: Impressions Gallery

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Length: 5min 38sec (338 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 07 2020