Parents what do you do with this portfolio? Do you have them somewhere collecting dust somewhere on a book shelve? Do you throw them away after you run out of shelves?
If you love scrapbook but don't have a budget for fancy paper, pages of portfolio are excellent for scrapbook pages for your child. It's personal, it's one of a kind, and it's earth-friendly. If your child doesn't have a portfolio save worksheets, drawings, doodles, artworks, pages from notebooks, letters from school etc.
You need:
Pages from portfolio
An Awl
A piece of cardboard
Needle craft
Wax/craft Thread
Graph paper
Pencil
Steps:
- Fold a group of papers in half. In bookbinding terms this is called signature.
- Continue folding until you have some signatures.
- For the cover choose your favorite page, cut in half & have them laminated.
- Mark 6 points on a graph paper about 3 cm apart. Open a signature, place the graph paper in the middle. Put a cardboard underneath. Use an awl to punch a hole through the signature on each point on the graph paper. Repeat for all signatures. For the cover leave a space about 1cm from the edge.
- Use coptic stitch technique to bind the book. Click here to watch a tutorial from Jim Escalante
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMBl1UNGaIL2Y5DfdE-rhKSat-gVIU6ot2FK66PKC7RXlPhxRsdR3iAHwEQt1GTNAgCLL1M6HxLc4Ea6QAojwXYiqIj760LTdAbj_TkS3kV2BnMHRQ5qEs9Ezx9BlafyHa4Z_7pdwVAfc/s640/portfolio4.gif)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRA_9YyJe1XF5jdBi2AxQeNQ14uFurHD7SFamPOmmxSyYz_BrjElJKiJs9lw79a4oiQdDsC8dfbBbDRkhsZZUenwnMjPYJOkqbAVMcUx5RRZUIqtDz2-MCdrPZctzSxHx1eG33u1axwK0/s640/portfolio1.gif)