Attaching Your Bound Pages to a Hard Cover - Bookbinding

This post was created to be the next step in the book binding process: Joining the bound pages to the Hard Cover. 

For information on how to make a hard cover Click Here to see my previous post. 

This will be my second attempt at bookbinding. My last attempt at putting all these elements together did not work out perfectly. There was a gap when I closed the book. To see more about my first attempt at bookbinding as a whole, Click Here. 

DIY Pillow Box - Step by Step Tutorial using Cricut Explore

For this project, I created this pillow box to hold a bracelet that I was giving as a gift. In this post I will go through how to make the actual box. I will then make a separate post on how to create the design and bow.

For the pillow box alone, you will just need standard cardstock in the color you would like. Along with you Cricut machine and Scoring Stylus.

Pillow Box Template:

I found this FREE SVG File/Template by Bird's Cards. You can upload it straight to your Cricut Design Space. It even turns the dashed lines into a separate cut layer. You can easily change that layer to a 'score' line under attributes. Make sure to attached the two layers as well, otherwise they will be seen as two different elements and the score lines will not match the cut lines.

Creating a Hard Cover - For Binding a Book

Creating a Hard Cover:

After my first attempt, I thought out my approach to creating my cover. I'm actually really pleased with the results. :D