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Finished DIY planner booklet with a soft printed cover and bookmark ribbon
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DIY Planner Booklet: How to Make a PVA-Bound Booklet with Soft Cover

Folded signatures, three coats of PVA on the spine and a soft wraparound cover — a planner booklet with a smooth spine that opens flat.

5 min read
Finished DIY magnetic fridge notepad with meal planner and grocery list stuck to a fridge door
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DIY Magnetic Fridge Notepad: Meal Planner and Grocery List for Your Fridge

A folding chipboard pad with a meal planner on one half and a tear-off grocery list on the other, held to the fridge door by two strips of magnetic sheet.

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Finished DIY meal plan corner notepad standing on a folded chipboard base
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DIY Meal Plan Corner Notepad: How to Make a Notepad with Trimmed Corners

Two notepads — a weekly meal plan and a grocery list — with 45° trimmed corners, mounted on a scored chipboard base that folds into a corner of the kitchen counter.

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Finished DIY triangular notepad with a Regency-print chipboard cover held open
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DIY Triangular Notepad: How to Make a Unique Desk Notepad

Cut one printed sheet corner to corner and you get two triangular tear-off pads, mounted back to back inside a folding chipboard cover.

6 min read
Finished DIY perforated notepad with tear-off pages
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DIY Perforated Notepad: How to Make a Tear-Off Notepad at Home

Add clean tear-off lines to a handmade notepad using a perforating cutter and PVA glue binding — one extra step that makes it look shop-bought.

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A handmade folding memo notepad made from printed and folded pages
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How to make a Folding Memo Notepad

Four glue-bound memo pads mounted inside one folding chipboard cover — with the full cutting plan, panel measurements and binding steps.

6 min read
A handmade Sudoku puzzle notepad from a DIY paper craft project
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DIY Sudoku Notepad: How to Make a Puzzle Pad at Home

Print a hundred sudoku puzzles, trim them to a 100mm square and pad-bind the stack onto a chipboard back with PVA glue — a pocket puzzle pad you tear a fresh grid from.

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