Waterfall Book

Video Waterfall Book: Materials

Materials

To make this book will need…

·         Cutting mat, knife, scissors

·         Bone Folder

·         Double sided tape, glue

·         Optional: eyelet and punch, ribbon

·         Paper

o   Cover

o   2 pieces of 4 ½″ x 8 ½“ cardboard for your cover front and back.

o   1 piece of ½” x 8 ½” cardboard for the spine.

o   2 pieces of 6”x 10“ patterned or plain paper to decorate the covers.

o   2 pieces of 4 ¼ “x 8 ¼“decorative paper for endpapers

o   2 strips of 3” x 9 ½” paper for the spine in a complementary colour to the decorative cover paper.  (the inside piece will be cut to exact size needed)

 

o   Mechanism

o   2 pieces of 3 ½ “x 8″ cardstock for the pully part of the card to reinforce it.

o   1 piece 3 ½ ″ x 12″  for your mechanism. Score along the longest side at 4 ¾“ and then every ¼″ up to 8 ¼“.

o   1 piece 3 3/4“ x 10” in same colour cardstock as mechanism (this is mechanism holder)

o   1 piece of 1 ½” x 3 ½“ eco dyed paper to trim end of pully mechanism.

 

o   Waterfall Pages

o   14 pieces of 3 ¾” x 3 ¾″ cardstock for your pages in a colour complementary to your eco-dyed paper to mat your pages.

o   15 pieces of 3 ½” x 3 ½“ eco-dyed paper.

 

Video: Mechanism Step 1

Video: Mechanism Step 2

Video: Mechanism Step 3

 Assembly

Waterfall Mechanism

1.   To begin, cut the 3 ½” x 12” piece of paper in your base colour needed for your mechanism.  Measure 4 ¾ “ along the long edge of the paper and begin scoring every ¼“ until 8 ¼” .  That should be 15 score lines.

 

2.   Fold on the score lines. They will all be mountain folds.

 

3.   Apply adhesive to the space between the score lines.  Do not impede the fold line. You can use glue, but I use double sided tape.  The fold must be able to move freely.

 

4.   Attach the mat (the cardstock that is in your base colour) to the mechanism strip.  Begin at the bottom section and make sure that you have the slightly larger piece of cardstock, 3 ¾” x 3 ¾“, centered evenly on the 3 ½“ width of paper, leaving a slight overhang on each side. When you attach the mat, make sure that the mat does not cover the fold line but is just a hair beneath it.

 

5.   Once again, starting from the bottom, attach your prints to the mat.  Your prints are 3 ½” x 3 ½“ and will have a small border around them. 

 

6.    As you attach each print, use your folding tool or finger to reinforce each fold.

 

7.   When your last print has been attached, fold the longer piece of paper at the top down the back.  It’s now time to add the 2 pieces of 3 ½” x 8” cardstock to the mechanism to complete the pulley.

 

8.   Line one piece of cardstock up on each side of the paper you folded down the back.  They should nestle in just under the fold line. Adhere them securely to the paper and each other.  When complete, the back (the pulley) will be longer than the front (the waterfall) – this is exactly as expected.

 

9.    At this stage I added a decorative trim to the bottom of my pulley, a 1 ½“ wide strip of eco print but that is completely optional.  I also used a paper punch and eyelet so that I had a ribbon pull.  Once again, that is optional but now would be the time to do something like that, before you begin putting the piece together and can’t manipulate them anymore.  I also rounded the corners of my pulley piece.

 

10.  For the pulley holder, take the 10” strip of paper and score at 4”, 4 1/8”, 8 1/8”,  and 8 ¼”. This makes a wraparound band to which we can attach the mechanism, and which can be attached to the back cover to allow the pulley to move freely.

 

11.  Position the waterfall so that the last mat and print is folded up and only the short end of the remaining paper under the fold line is showing.  This is the area that will be attached to the pulley holder.  Apply adhesive to this area.  Line this up with the holder area between the 4 1/8” and 8 1/8” score marks and try to center it to the best of your ability. You don’t want to impede the fold line, but you want to bring it up as close as you can to the line for a nice clean look.  You don’t want adhesive anywhere but on the short piece of paper and where it touched the pulley holder.

 

12.  The 15^th piece of 3 ½” x 3 ½” print paper is for decorating the front of the pulley holder.  It is an optional step, and you may choose to put something else – text perhaps, in its place.

 

13.  At this point you can see how the waterfall mechanism works.  You could close the back of the pulley holder at this point or wait until you have the covers ready.  If you close the back now, make sure that the adhesive is only on the paper of the pulley holder itself – just join the edges of the paper together.  The pulley must be able to move freely and not catch on anything.

 

 

 Video: Making the Covers

 Covers

1.   Take the pieces of 4 ½” by 8 ½” cardboard and use your choice of decorative paper to cover them.

 

 

 

 

2.   You can use decorative paper or decorative tape to cover your spine.  The spine is ½” wide to allow for the thickness of the prints.  If your waterfall is thicker, you will need to make a thicker spine piece and adjust accordingly.  Place one cover, your spine piece, and then your second cover.  You will need to leave approximately two thicknesses of the cardboard that you are using between the cover and the spine pieces.  Once you have that distance determined.  You can add adhesive to the decorative paper, covering your spine piece and lay out your pieces again.