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7. Your finished journal!
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6. Glue in your text block and place under a heavy weight and wait for the journal to dry over night.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF98ofZo7_bDpj62_V6ConPHld4zgNbkO9ZyeARBMNgn-V1joV6595k38DqSiTqMcVcZ1WNL1kUbPKHZSZSZg0vYpP6ios6vH46UZul1UEfa0zguuWjTR0GRmwh97X3FLIOLegtjlnDrA6/s200/DSCF5644.jpg)
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5. Glue all the flaps and fold over onto the binders board.
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4. Make sure not to cut right up next to the corner of the binders board.
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3. Using scissors or an xacto knife, trim out triangles.
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2. PVA glue (along with an xacto knife, scissors, a right angle triangle, a straight edge, and a paint brush)
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Clearly this is not my first adventure in art, but it's my first entry so there you go!
I thought I'd put up a photo demonstration of how to make one of my journals... The order is backwards, but I think you'll get the idea.